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The global health crisis that we are living through is an opportunity to observe the spectacular emergence of practices and behaviours that may be expected to leave lasting traces or to act as catalysts for changes that were already in gestation.
The Institut pour la ville en mouvement (IVM, City on the Move Institute) does not wish to brashly react on current events, but this paroxysmal situation offers a large-scale picture of practices, failings, and dysfunctions, but also of initiatives, that our work in recent years has sought to identify in order to offer a vision and to help develop solutions for future mobilities.
In this unprecedent context due to the Covid 19 epidemic, we wish to identify trends in the implementation of new technologies and in the development of new practices, by making links with past or current programs undertaken by IVM which, since its creation, has sought to explore mobility issues that have largely been neglected or ignored in general research. We wish to identify the alternatives to personal travel that are gradually being constructed, and the forms they take, to undertake an initial exploration (more intuitive than fully argued) of their strengths and weaknesses, and to imagine how they might continue after the crisis.
We would like to propose to the researchers and experts from from different countries with whom we have had the opportunity to work over a number of years on different questions, to share within this exchange platform, their observations of the local situation and the debates underway in their societies, and to contribute to the exploration of research or innovation questions on a series of topics.
On each of these topics, we could share:
Feedback or observations (notably through press articles)
Information on ongoing research that could prove enlightening (articles…)
An initial analysis of issues that might give rise to new questions in the future: research, solutions, organisations, practices…
Exchange topics (click to unfold)
I - Public space
The street and spaces of movement
Surveillance and digital duplication of physical space
The need for urban oases (shelters, connections, disconnection, multifunctional spaces for every kind of situation)
The new uses of parking lots and of the street
The street as a media space (information)
The digital tools of the street (sensors, data collection, drones, etc.)
Urban civilities and mobilities
The new etiquettes of coexistence
The effects of social distancing in public space and transport systems
The ceremonies of everyday life (which involve travelling/assembling in the city)
The (new) inequalities
The role of video tutorials and memes on social media, in the spread of new behaviors…
II - Mobility profesionnals
Mobile hyperplaces
Mobile healthcare work in its different forms (drive-through diagnosis or vaccination)
Mobile hospitals or medical practices
The return of drive-through movies or leisure
Businesses on wheels
Autonomous delivery vehicles (including within hospitals)
Hyperconnected but frugal, the increase in low tech or energy-efficient solutions combined with the use of digital tools
The vehicle or hyperplace as a media, receiver/transmitter of information ...
Working on the move or at a distance
Occupations that move when the whole society has come to a halt
Service and maintenance occupations: network maintenance technicians – Internet, water, energy, sewage
Supply and logistics professions
Repair technicians of all kinds (elevators, vehicles)
The security professionals (firefighters, law enforcement)
“Grey” activities, informal or even illegal occupations in which millions of people across the world make their living
How is teleworking changing work itself? A new divide between people who work in physical space and those who work in digital space
Owning, sharing, hiring, collaborating ?
Emerging models (carpooling, car sharing, free floating, etc.) are at present hindered by the fear of close contact. What is happening with what remains of such practices?
Tele-activities
Telework, telehealth, e-education... passing fad or paradigm shift?
In a cross-cutting manner, it seems essential to us that the questions of social exclusion be taken into account in our observations: the solutions implemented to give internet access in the poor or low density areas for the people on the fringes of mobilities, for those who are suffering from illectronism...
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