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The Centre for Mobility and Urban Studies (C-MUS) at Aalborg University is a trans-disciplinary research collaboration between mobility researchers from the Humanities Faculty, Social Science Faculty and the Engineering and Science Faculty at Aalborg University. In this blog you will find everything related to C-MUS - Kristian Hegner Reinau, Editor of the C-MUS Paper Series and C-MUS Blog
Conference call: Local and Mobile
24.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Conference calls
Local and Mobile Local and Mobile is the third joint international conference of the Pan-American Mobilities Networks and the Cosmobilities Network. The first mobilities conference, “Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the Americas” took place in 2010 in Victoria, British Columbia (Canada). The second instantiation of the conference, “Mobilities in Motion: New [...]
Read more...Conference Call: Urban Assemblages and Cosmopolitics
24.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Conference calls
Urban Assemblages and Cosmopolitics - Open panel at the EASST/4S Meeting, October 17-20 2012, Copenhagen Organizers: Ignacio Farias and Anders Blok Large technical urban systems have represented a major source of STS insight and innovation (e.g. Hommels 2005). However, the city, urban life, and urban politics have only recently been subjected to the relentless relationalism of ANT and post-ANT studies. In this [...]
Read more...Conference Call: CYCLING AND SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
20.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Conference calls
This might be of interest to some C-MUS members: CYCLING AND SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON MONDAY 3rd and TUESDAY 4th SEPTEMBER, 2012 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: DEADLINE 29TH FEBRUARY, 2012 The Cycling and Society Annual Symposium is an informal and interdisciplinary event. It welcomes academics, policy makers and advocates who wish to share [...]
Read more...Workshop: Learning, Mobility, Practice, Interaction
20.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • News
The “Learning, Mobility, Practice, Interaction” Local Workshop 2012 that we are organising for a small group of scholars and doctoral students will take place on Friday 10th February from 9-16 including lunch. The venue is room 2.23 on the third floor in the “e-learning lab – Center for user driven innovation, learning and design”(eLL) in [...]
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C-MUS Movies #3 & #4
20.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • C-MUS Movies
C-MUS movies 2012 is starting soon, and this year the setup had been changed a bit. The time slot has been moved forward to 19.00 – 20.30 and the team will try tofind shorter documentaries/movies. In accordance with the new start time C-MUS will provide a light dinner, snacks and drinks. The movie responsible will select the [...]
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Light Rails in the Mobility System
20.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Ph.D. projects
Mette Nielsen, who is an Business PhD student at COWI and at Department of Development and Planning AAU, as well as a member of C-MUS, is doing a really interesting PhD study. She expains the following about it: The project examines light rail systems as a phenomenon which is emerging as a trend within public [...]
Read more...Making Daily Mobility Work
20.01.2012 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Ph.D. projects
Simon Wind, who is an PhD fellow at Institute of Architecture, Design & Media Technolog, and a member of C-MUS, is doing a really interesting PhD study. He expains the following about it: The aim of this PhD study is to address the qualitative dimensions of mobility costs. The basic hypothesis is that mobility is [...]
Read more...The ACTUM Research Project
23.12.2011 • By SimonWind • ACTUM
ACTUM (Analysis of activity-based travel chains and sustainable mobility) is a cross disciplinary Strategic Research Alliance hosted by DTU, Denmark. Aalborg University is one of the main research partners and leading 2 of 7 work packages (WP1 and WP2). The project is funded from the Danish Strategic Research Council with 21.5 mil. Dkr (approx. 2.86 [...]
Read more...New links online
22.12.2011 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • News
A new collection of links is now online at the blog! http://c-mus.aau.dk/?page_id=122
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The History of Danish Airports
22.12.2011 • By Kristian Hegner Reinau • Brown Bag Seminars
Speaker: Associate Professor, Claus Lassen, Dept. of Development and Planning, claus@plan.aau.dk Abstract: International and domestic air traffic has increased dramatically after World War II. The airport is central to the creation of the global and national aeromobility system. This presentation is based on an ongoing research project that examines the historical background of the Danish [...]
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