Organizer:     Associate Professor Claus Lassen, Institute of Planning & Development, Aalborg University , email: claus@plan.aau.dk
Lecturers:     Professor, Mimi Sheller, mCenter, Drexel University
Associate Professor Claus Lassen and Professor Ole B. Jensen
ECTS:     3
Time:     May 8-10, 2012
Place: [...]]]> PhD Course Mobillity & Mobile Methods      

Organizer:     Associate Professor Claus Lassen, Institute of Planning & Development, Aalborg University , email: claus@plan.aau.dk
Lecturers:     Professor, Mimi Sheller, mCenter, Drexel University
Associate Professor Claus Lassen and Professor Ole B. Jensen
ECTS:     3
Time:     May 8-10, 2012
Place:     Institute of Architecture, Design & Media Technology, Østerågade 6, Aalborg
Deadline:     16-04-2012

Description:

Description: The aim of the first part of the course is for the doctoral student to reach understanding of theories surrounding the new mobilities paradigm formulated by Hannam, Urry and Sheller. In the book Mobilities (by Urry 2007) it is argued that social science is undergoing a mobility turn and that mobility research should not confined to social science but be multidisciplinary reaching into other fields of research such as transport planning, geography, architecture, urban design and planning, ethnography and anthropology etc. This course seeks to unfold the multitude of ways (im)mobility is enabling and disabling us. Mobility is intertwined into our lives and the network society we inhabit. From the flows of people, goods and information across the globe to the local everyday mobility that holds our daily life together to the non-representational theories of the embodied mobility, feelings and kinaesthetic notion of being on the move. The course wishes to engage in understanding the powerful capacity of mobilities to carry and mediate meaning, ideas, prestige, value, culture, stigma, objects etc. The second part of the course presents the PhD students to various methodologies in ethnographic mobilities research studies touching upon mainly qualitative, but also quantitative, research methods. There is a need to compose research practices and mobile methods that are specially tuned to observe, capture and represent the complexity of (im)mobility. Advancements in technology such as the use of GPS, mobile phones and the Internet can potentially add more depth, triangulation and new theoretical perspectives into the methodological development but also needs to be challenged and applied with care. The course will be based on lectures and student’s project presentations in a mixed setting aiming at creating an open and creative research dialogue. The course participants are expected to actively participate in the course activities presented during the course and through a 20 minutes slideshow present their PhD project´s methodology. Because of the multidisciplinary scope of the course PhD students from other fields of research are encouraged to join.

Max. no. of participants: 20

You can find the course description and registration at:

http://phdcourse.aau.dk/index.php?list=29580

ICOT 23rd – 26th May 2012,

Archanes, Crete

Special session at “Setting the Agenda for Special Interest Tourism: Past, Present and Future”

This session explores the intersection between various kinds of tourism mobilities. It focuses especially on two fields which shape tourism mobilities, namely technology and the senses. [...]]]> TOURISM MOBILITIES: Examining Tourism at Different Speeds

ICOT 23rd – 26th May 2012,

Archanes, Crete

Special session at “Setting the Agenda for Special Interest Tourism: Past, Present and Future”

This session explores the intersection between various kinds of tourism mobilities. It focuses especially on two fields which shape tourism mobilities, namely technology and the senses. It is interested in highlighting the way in which both technology and the senses encourage and promote different speeds at which tourism is imagined, performed, and consumed. The aim will be to address the agencies of such speeds and examine the degrees to which different speeds intermingle, converge or by contrast diverge. The session then evaluates the relationship between technology and senses in tourism practices. It is hoped that perspectives gained from the dynamics of speeds in tourism processes provide invaluable insights and solutions to the evolution of tourism at a time when environmental, financial, and political strains and crises keep affecting both its practices and discourses.

The session builds on the understanding of ‘social as mobility’ introduced by the New Mobilities Paradigm and embraces its pivotal role in highlighting the ‘social’ as core in shaping (as well as being shaped by) diverse mobilities such as corporeal, imaginative and virtual travel, circulating objects, goods, money, images, waste etc. Of importance for tourism studies is the way in which the New Mobilities Paradigm and other theoretical approaches supporting a mobile logic keep contributing to unpacking and unlocking engrained static and sedentary perspectives. In this respect then the session faces the challenge of locating different speeds of technologies and senses beyond, below, and in-between opposites such as movement and stasis or distance and proximity.

1. MEDIATING TOURISM MOBILITIES

‘Mediating Tourism Mobilities’ investigates the role and consequences of technologies, materialities and networks in tourist experiences and practices. Tourism inevitably involves diverse systems and networks, comprised of material, technological and human parts. On the one hand, tourism is enabled by ‘scapes’ or enduring networks of machines, technologies and organisations that enable flows of people, images, texts and information. The unevenly distributed flows at varying speeds not only claim some places and leave others on the margin, but also affect the way places are imagined, planned for and experienced. On the other hand, tourist bodies become interwoven with objects and technologies constituting hybrid assemblages of human and material parts that assist movement and experience of the world. Systems and networks (also social networks) thus enable and mediate the speed and rhythms through which places are imagined, performed and remembered. The session asks: in what way are systems and technologies shaping tourist experiences and what is the role of trust in technologically mediated relations? How are tourists forming, shaping and creating (social) networks in order to enhance their experiences? What is the role of different objects and materials in imagining, performing and remembering places?

2. SENSUOUS MOBILITIES

The senses are crucial in tourism mobilities and play a lasting part in both attachment to as well as estrangement from certain places while also ever modelling experiences and practices. ‘Sensuous mobilities’ evaluates the ways in which different speeds are mediated and shaped by embodied experiences and practices of place. It situates the role of the senses within flows of technology, materialities, networks, people and places. It further examines consequences and possible conflicts or clashes which different speeds may incur upon such flows. In this way the session critically addresses the dynamic forces that perform and imagine mobilities into transformative processes of cultural change. It asks: In what ways do sensuous embodied articulations of places inform (and perhaps re-form) relations and practices in and of place? To what extent do sensuous relations and practices enact/translate ‘green’ understandings and doings in and of place?

Methodologically the session seeks ethnographic and other qualitative contributions to unpacking various tourism mobilities. Taking either a contemporary or historical approach, papers are invited on the following themes but not restricted to it:

- Networks and networking in tourism
- Technology and systems
- Materiality and objects in tourism
- Senses, the body, pleasure, the ludic
- Rhythms of places and practices
- Hospitality and sociality
- Immobilities; stillness; slowness; fasteness

Abstracts of no more than 350 words should be submitted electronically by March 1st to Dr Dana Bentia (d.bentia@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:d.bentia@lancaster.ac.uk>).
For further inquiries regarding this session contact session organizer Dr Dana Bentia (email as above). For enquiries regarding conference fees, conference programme, recommended accommodation, maps/instructions, and registration forms, please visit the web address at http://www.iatour.net/icot2012/.

Edited by Mari Hvattum and Janike Kampevold Larsen, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway and Brita Brenna and Beate Elvebakk, University of Oslo, Norway

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and [...]]]> Routes, Roads and Landscapes

Edited by Mari Hvattum and Janike Kampevold Larsen, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway and Brita Brenna and Beate Elvebakk, University of Oslo, Norway

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions. Bringing together outstanding scholars from cultural history, geography, philosophy, and a host of other disciplines, this collection examines the complex entanglement between routes and landscapes. It traces the changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present day, looking at how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented and how such movement, in turn, has conditioned understandings of the landscape. A particular focus is on the modern transportation landscape as it came into being with the canal, the railway, and the automobile. These modes of transport have had a profound impact on the perception and conceptualization of the modern landscape, a relationship investigated in detail by authors such as Gernot Böhme, Sarah Bonnemaison, Tim Cresswell, Finola O’Kane, Charlotte Klonk, Peter Merriman, Christine Macy, David Nye, Vittoria Di Palma, Charles Withers, and Thomas Zeller.

Further details: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409408208

by Phillip Vannini

The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and [...]]]> Ferry Tales: Mobility, Place, and Time, on Canada’s West Coast

by Phillip Vannini

The purpose of this rich and innovatively presented ethnography is to explore mobility, sense of place and time on the British Columbia coast. On the basis of almost 400 interviews with ferry passengers and over 250 ferry journeys, the author narrates and reflects on the performance of travel and on the consequences of ferry-dependence on island and coastal communities. Ferry Tales inaugurates a new series entitled Innovative Ethnographies for Routledge (innovativeethnographies.net). The purpose of this hypermedia book series is to use digital technologies to capture a richer, multimodal view of social life than was otherwise done in the classic, print-based tradition of ethnography, while maintaining the traditional strengths of classic, ethnographic analysis.

Pages: 246

Cost: US$ 29.95

See: http://www.routledge.com/articles/featured_book_ferry_tales/

And visit the book’s website at ferrytales.innovativeethnographies.net

Call for Papers: The Geographies of Leisure?

Organiser: Dr Tara Duncan (University of Otago)

Leisure has long been a topic of the geographical imagination.  Whilst leisure studies and geography may have gone in somewhat separate directions in the past, the multi-, trans- and interdisciplinary [...]]]> RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2012: 3rd to 5th July 2012, Edinburgh, UK.

Call for Papers: The Geographies of Leisure?

Organiser: Dr Tara Duncan (University of Otago)

Leisure has long been a topic of the geographical imagination.  Whilst leisure studies and geography may have gone in somewhat separate directions in the past, the multi-, trans- and interdisciplinary nature of both subjects means that convergence and synergies are (re)emerging between these two subject fields.

This session seeks to explore the ways in which leisure and geographical thought have manifested innovative and creative research.  The session aims to engage with contemporary research and knowledge production in and beyond leisure studies and in turn, to challenge Sheller and Urry’s (2006: 208) contention that the social sciences have generally neglected the significance of people’s movements for leisure, pleasure, work,  family life, politics and protest.

As such, this session seeks to highlight the intersections between leisure studies and geography and invites papers that may consider some of the following:-

- Negotiating geography and leisure
- Security, geography, leisure
- Leisure studies and methodologies
- Affective possibilities and/of leisure
- Embodiment, leisure and performance
- Gender, leisure and (im)mobility
- Fluidity, movement and leisure
- Leisure and lifestyle
- Space, place, leisure and tourism

Please submit abstracts (of no more than 250 words) to Tara Duncan (tara.duncan@otago.ac.nz) by Monday 23rd January 2011.

References
Sheller M and Urry J, 2006, ‘The new mobilities paradigm’, Environment and Planning A, vol. 38, pp. 207-226.

Freiburg, 3-6 July 2012

Bournemouth University, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Otago are proud to announce the second call for papers  (deadline February the 1st; see also  http://www.cstt.nl/freiburg2012) for an international workshop on psychological [...]]]> Psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility

Freiburg, 3-6 July 2012

Bournemouth University, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences and the University of Otago are proud to announce the second call for papers  (deadline February the 1st; see also  http://www.cstt.nl/freiburg2012) for an international workshop on psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility, to be held in the Black Forest near Freiburg, Germany from the 3rd  – 6th of July 2012.

In order to mitigate tourism’s contribution to climate change, there is the need for innovations at political, technical and individual levels. Yet, despite a growing contribution to climate change, tourist and traveller behaviour is currently not acknowledged as an important sector within the development of climate policy. Influencing individual behaviour and informing effective governance will require a sound understanding of the psychology and social factors that surround contemporary tourism and travel mobilities.

This workshop aims to explore the psychological and social factors that may contribute to and inhibit sustainable behaviour change in the context of tourist and traveller behaviour. We seek to form a stronger knowledge base and research agenda for the effective governance of tourism’s contribution to climate change.

Abstract submissions are welcome in the following interdisciplinary areas (please see the the workshop’s website<http://www.cstt.nl/freiburg2012> for more detail):

Psychological understandings of climate change and tourism mobilities
Behavioural aspects of climate change and tourism mobilities
Governance and policies based upon psychological, behavioural and social mechanisms

All delegates are expected to present papers, as authors or co-authors. The development of research co-operations is an expected outcome of the workshop. Please bear in mind that we seek to organize tangible outcomes, including an edited book as well as a special issue of a journal. We thus encourage all participants to submit highly developed papers.

Key dates:
Abstract submission last date: 1st of February 2012
Acceptance of abstracts and registration opens: 15th of March 2012
Conference papers due: 15th of June 2012

The workshop in organized by the following people and institutions:
Stefan Gössling & Tim Freytag (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany)
Scott Cohen (Bournemouth University, UK)
James Higham (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Paul Peeters (NHTV Breda University, The Netherlands)

The scientific advisory board consists of key researchers from the fields of tourism, mobility and sustainable behaviour:
Bas Amelung (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Jillian Anable (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Jean-Paul Ceron (Limoges University, France)
Janet Dickinson (Bournemouth University, UK)
Ghislain Dubois (University of Versailles, France)
Michael Hall (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany & University of Canterbury, NZ)
Shaun Lawson (University of Lincoln, UK)
Jeroen Nawijn (NHTV CSTT, Breda, The Netherlands)
Daniel Scott (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Gert Spaargaren (Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands)
John Urry (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany & Lancaster University, UK)

For all information on the workshop, call for abstracts, venue and more, see the workshop’s website<http://www.cstt.nl/freiburg2012> and the Call Brochure<http://www.cstt.nl/userdata/file/Call%20Brochure%20Freiburg2012.pdf>.

For queries, please send an email to: Freiburg2012@gmail.com<mailto:Freiburg2012@gmail.com>

Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society

Edited by Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University, UK and John Urry, Lancaster University, UK
Series : Transport and Society

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive [...]]]> new publication

Mobilities: New Perspectives on Transport and Society

Edited by Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University, UK and John Urry, Lancaster University, UK
Series : Transport and Society

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series. Each chapter, and the volume as a whole, offers closer and richer consideration of the issues, practices and structures of multiple mobilities which shape the current world but which have typically been overlooked or minimised. What this approach seeks to do is not only draw attention to many new areas of research and investigation relating to mobile lives, but also to point to new theories and methods by which such lives have to be researched and examined. Such new theories and methods are relevant both to rethinking ‘transport’ studies as such but are also recasting ‘societal’ studies as ‘transport’ so that it comes out of the ghetto and enters mainstream social science.

Imprint: Ashgate
Illustrations: Includes 4 colour and 30 b&w illustrations
Published: January 2012
Format: 234 x 156 mm
Extent: 386 pages
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 978-1-4094-1150-5
Price : £65.00 » Website price: £58.50

see http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10038&edition_id=13471

Call for Papers

‘Mobile urban lives: continuity, evolution and security in a changing world’

Sponsored by the Transport Geography Research Group

Various forms of mobility – involving people, objects, information and ideas- are now ingrained in [...]]]> Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute for British Geographers, 3rd – 5th July 2012, Edinburgh

Call for Papers

‘Mobile urban lives: continuity, evolution and security in a changing world’

Sponsored by the Transport Geography Research Group

Various forms of mobility – involving people, objects, information and ideas- are now ingrained in the social fabric and everyday practices of urban business and social lives. Yet these practices are increasingly being unsettled by challenges including (but not limited to): straining infrastructures; by the need to lower the carbon impact of mobility; and by increasing social inequalities. In this context, the proposed session seeks to create a dialogue about two fundamental issues associated with the future of forms of urban mobility. First, we seek to further unpick the multiple ways that different forms of mobility, through their interdependencies, are ingrained in everyday business and social life in different cities and the implications of this ingraining for changes to mobility that may occur/be necessary in the future. Second, we seek to explore how alternative mobilities, whether that be modal shift to low carbon forms of transport, immobility, or the adoption of unconventional mobility practices, might be conceptualised, studied and/or achieved. Cutting across both of these themes are the inherent questions of the geographical specificity of mobility practices and futures at the level of cities and social groups. Potential topics that papers may address include:

. The role of mobility in everyday life in/between cities for different social groups and the implications of uncertain mobility futures
. The experience of mobility and different transport systems and the implications for modal shift and the adoption of low carbon mobility  systems
. Theoretical conceptualisations of mobility systems and their
embedding in urban ways of being
. Mobility futures and the social and technological transitions needed in the context of current societal challenges
. The present and future governance of urban mobility and mobility transitions
. The role of technologies in negotiating or constraining everyday urban lives
. Research methodologies allowing understanding of the practices and spatialities of everyday urban mobilities

Anyone interested in presenting a paper in this session should send an abstract to the session organisers James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University) j.faulconbridge@lancaster.ac.uk, and Lesley Murray (Brighton University ) L.Murray@brighton.ac.uk by 15th January 2012

From January to March 2012, the Transport Studies Unit (TSU), School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford will host a lecture series with distinguished experts speaking on the theme of Socio-spatial Inequalities, Transport and Mobilities:

18 January – Dr Karen Lucas, University of Oxford
25 [...]]]> Sociospatial Inequalities, Transport and Mobilities lecture series

From January to March 2012, the Transport Studies Unit (TSU), School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford will host a lecture series with distinguished experts speaking on the theme of Socio-spatial Inequalities, Transport and Mobilities:

18 January – Dr Karen Lucas, University of Oxford
25 January – Dr Katharina Manderscheid, University of Lucerne
1 February – Dr Gina Porter, Durham University
8 February – Dr Susan Kenyon
15 February – Prof Tim Cresswell, Royal Holloway
22 February – Prof Rob Imrie, King’s College
29 February – Prof Gordon Walker, Lancaster University
7 March – Prof Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University
14 March – Dr Ruth Butler, University of Hull

Each speaker offering a detailed and considered perspective upon a specific issue of interest in relation to mobility and transport. Abstract can be found on the TSU website at http://www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/events/ht12_seminars/<http://www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/events/ht12_seminars/>.

All lectures will take place at 5 p.m. in the Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford (http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/contacts/).

Cell phones and communities: The use of mobile media in Brazil

Edited by:

Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University)
Isabel Froes (IT University of Copenhagen)

Important dates:
Abstracts: February 15th, 2012 (500 words).
[...]]]> Convergence: The international journal of research into new media technologies
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

Cell phones and communities: The use of mobile media in Brazil

Edited by:

Adriana de Souza e Silva (North Carolina State University)
Isabel Froes (IT University of Copenhagen)

Important dates:
Abstracts: February 15th, 2012 (500 words).
Notification of accepted abstracts: March 15th, 2012.
Full papers: June 15th, 2012 (8000/9000 words).
Notification of accepted papers: September 15th, 2012.

By the second decade of the 21st century, mobile phones have reached saturation levels in many countries in the world, surpassing the number of landlines and personal computers. Although initial scholarly interest on the social use of mobile phones focused on Europe, Asia, and the United States, the impact of mobile phone on the developing world (or Global South) is increasingly evident and perhaps much more profound. As Ling and Horst (2011) note, “the mobile phone has quietly provided people at the bottom of the income pyramid access to electronically mediated communication; often for the first time.” For many, the mobile device is the first phone, the first internet connection, the first TV set, and the first global positioning system.

Among developing nations, Brazil is a key site for studying the social dimension of mobile technologies. The country is part of the so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), an acronym that refers to fast-growing developing economies. Brazil is the fastest growing economy in Latin America, and has over 217 million mobile phones, which represents an average of 111 working devices per 100 inhabitants . The country has also experienced one of the fastest mobile phone growth rates in the world since 2005 (averaging 16.6% annually); is the largest mobile phone market in Latin America; and is the fifth-largest mobile market in the world in absolute numbers, with roughly 217 million subscriptions as of September 2011. However, numbers alone reveal little if not analyzed within a broader social, cultural, and economic framework. The focus on a homogeneous large-scale market leads to overly sanguine perspectives that often obscure how socioeconomic diversity causes and reflects mobile phone use. As in many developing countries, Brazil has astounding income gaps among different sectors of the population which influence and are influenced by technology development and use. For example, the use of high-end services such as mobile banking, and location-based services like Foursquare and Yelp is an intrinsic part of the daily mobile practices of the high-income population in the country. Conversely, the lower-income population in Rio de Janeiro is familiar with the diretão—a mobile phone that allows users to make clandestine calls to anywhere in the world with the use of an illegal sim card. However, Brazil has also been at the forefront of an experimental and innovative approach towards new technologies, forecasted in cultural events that focus on art, music and film festivals dedicated to new and creative uses of mobile technologies, such as the Mobilefest and Arte.mov.

Despite this cultural and socio-economic diversity, and the relevance of its marketing, the social use and development of mobile phones in Brazil is largely under theorized and poorly studied. With the goal of contributing to bridge this gap, this special edition invites essays that critically investigate the inter-relations among mobile technologies, culture, and social development within the Brazilian society.

Submitted manuscripts are encouraged (but not limited) to focus on four main areas:
(1) History of mobile phones in Brazil. Essays are encouraged to explore the development of mobile phones in Brazil, comparing them to the landline infrastructure and internet growth within the Latin America socio-economic and political framework. Authors may explore the development and use of new mobile services, such as the mobile internet, text messaging, mobile apps, etc.

(2) Social uses and appropriation of mobile phones. We welcome essays as empirical or theoretical studies dealing with the use and appropriation of technology by low-income communities. Of special interest are essays that explore how mobile and wireless technologies reconfigure the life of community dwellers and how people find new and unexpected uses for existing technologies.

(3) Mobile art and games. We invite essays that investigate mobile phones as artistic and gaming interfaces, including essays that explore uses of hybrid reality, location-aware and pervasive activities in educational contexts, media arts, and gaming.

(4) Location-based services. Submitted essays should investigate the uses and development of location-based services in Brazil, such as mobile annotation, location-based social networks, and mobile mapping.

Proposed abstracts (500 words) are due by February 15th, 2012. The authors will be notified about accepted abstracts by March 15th. Those accepted will be requested to submit full papers by June 15th, 2012. Full papers will undergo a double blind-review process. Submissions may be in the form of empirical research studies or theory-building papers and should be 8000/9000 words in English. Papers must also include a brief biography of the author(s). Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to Isabel Froes (icgf@itu.dk).
About the editors:
Adriana de Souza e Silva is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University (NCSU), affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and Interim Associate Director of the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media (CRDM) program at NCSU.Dr. de Souza e Silva’s research focuses on how mobile and locative interfaces shape people’s interactions with public spaces and create new forms of sociability. She teaches classes on mobile technologies, location-based games and internet studies. Dr. de Souza e Silva is the co-editor (with Daniel M. Sutko) of Digital Cityscapes—Merging digital and urban playspaces (Peter Lang, 2009), the co-author (with Eric Gordon) of the book Net-Locality: Why location matters in a networked world (Blackwell, 2011), and the co-author (with Jordan Frith) of Mobile interfaces in public spaces: Control, privacy, and urban sociability (Routledge, 2012).

Isabel Fróes has received her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Programme at New York University (NYU) and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, PUC-RJ in Brazil. She is a lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), where she works both as a practitioner and scholar in the fields of communication, mobility, art and design. With a focus towards valuable interactions between people and technology, her research analyzes the future implications and current uses of digital media. In her courses she taps into the value of interactive elements in every arena and explores how they could affect the ways new concepts and activities are developed in distinct fields. She has presented some of these thoughts at various events such as the AAM conference (2009), and the IXDA South America (2010). She has taught various courses at Danish institutions such as IT University of Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen and Kolding School of Design as well as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Querétaro in Mexico.

Proposals and inquiries should be sent electronically to Isabel Froes (icgf@itu.dk).