Mobility moving through space

What variables influence your mobility?

Urban structure

EconomicsGender

Race

Class

Citizenship

Health & Wellness

Culture

Law

Climate

infrastructure & accessUrban & Rural

Railroads are an important part of early Canadian mobility--connecting the nation, building trading posts, hotels, and cities.

Our mobility in cities is dictated by the built environment (left), cars, busses, streets, and transportation infrastructure (right). Of course, not all modes of mobility have the same low barriers to access.

How does access to information promote or inhibit mobility?

How does technologies of knowledge production change the way we see space as open, available, scalable?

Information

How do cultural practices, discourses, geography, make a mobile space where we feel most comfortable, most ‘at home’?

Making home

Do we all move through political spaces in a similar fashion?How does race change the way we are seen, heard, and move?

Do spaces take on exclusionary practices? How are spaces racialized?

Race and Identity

In what ways does money, and our access to it, change the way we move through space? Money

Economic conditions may determine how you physically get around: by highway, by bike, or by plane...

...or the jobs we take and places we work.

How are borders embodied or corporealized? How do we move through space uniquely as gendered subjects?

Gender & Sexuality

4.2%of Fortune 500 CEOs are female.

24.4%Women holdof seats in the current House of Commons.

29%of working age women do work outside the labour market.

18.1%Women holdof seats in the current U.S. House of Congress.

Our movement in/through space is determined not simply by gender, but by our subject position as parents--namely, mothers. Strollers that are clunky on transit, washrooms without adequate spaces to change diapers, or stores set off highways amidst expansive parking lots all have effects on how parents access space.

Gender & Parenting

In what ways does accessing space presume or privilege those in good health? Health & Wellness

10%of Canada’s GDP goes to public health services.

7Canadians lose

working days a year to illness.

How does immigrant ‘illegality’ render spaces--hospitals, schools, daycare centres, police stations--as off limits?Immigrant Exclusion

How does mobility studies presume and highlight the ways in which people are excluded/included?Inclusion & Exclusion

Inclusion & Exclusion And championship HOCKEY

What kind of space? Transnational, local, cultural,

religious, economic, artistic...