Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene

Kesselring, Sven

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In December 2013 the project Mobilities Futures &amp; the City (MFC) has been originally launched and started. In fact the discussions between the Mobile Lives Forum and the project team started much earlier, about two years before. An earlier version was discussed and been drafted into a first proposal. In this pre-version the project consisted out of a series of five workshops and a performance event based on the first four workshops.Against this background the current project needs to be considered as a scaled down version of the first proposal, which the team delivered to the Forum in summer 2012.The Mobilities Futures &amp; the City project as it finally has been realized thus elaborates on one element cut out of a bigger concept and it is focusing on the methodological aspects and potentials of a reflexive approach in urban planning. The MFC project was re-designed as a methodological experiment and a sort of proof case on how to provide a trustful, inspiring and productive framework for working on the future of sustainable mobilities in contemporary cities.MFC aims for exploring innovative ways for the transdisciplinary re-thinking of cities and their mobilities. As described in deliverable 1 MFC’s theoretical and methodological approach has been conceptualized by using different disciplines and research traditions:first, the interdisciplinary ‘new mobilities paradigm’ (Hannam, Sheller &amp; Urry 2006); second, the sociological theory of reflexive modernization and the mobile risk society (Beck, Hajer &amp; Kesselring 1999; Beck 2008; Kesselring 2008); third, the argumentativeturn in policy analysis and planning by Fischer &amp; Forrester (1993) including Hajer’s (2003) ‘argumentative discourse analysis’ and fourth, the ‘future workshop method’ by Jungk &amp; Müllert (1987).MFC takes these resources as a point of departure and forms a workshop concept that enables the participants to work – literally – in an inter- and trans-disciplinary environment. The following pages bring together the lessons learned from the differentphases of the project. This document is based on the project team’s internal evaluation of the workshops and the method, an evaluation questionnaire sent out right after the workshops and two evaluation dinners, one in Copenhagen in March 2015 and the other Mobilities, Futures and the Cities ǀ Evaluation Report phase 3 4 in Munich in May 2015. The evaluation dinners have been structured by the same ordered sequence of questions and recorded on tape. The recorded time during each dinner was about 2.5 hours (interestingly enough Copenhagen was 2.35 and Munich2.34 hours). The collected data has been transcribed and coded by following a routine developed within earlier qualitative research such as in Kesselring (2001) and Freudendal-Pedersen (2009). The data analysis applied in the evaluation goes back to Goffman’s frame analysis and uses Hajer’s pragmatic discourse analysis to extract major perceptions of the social reality discussed within the group situation of the evaluation dinner.As we wrote in deliverable 2 the heart piece of the project was the two workshops in Denmark (Lungholm) and Germany (Frauenchiemsee). But before we finalized the workshop concepts the whole project team (including the PhD student Line Thorup) had an intense working phase of discussing Jungk &amp; Müllert’s approach and redesigning it for the project’s specific needs and circumstances. We broadly detailed the modifications made on the Jungk &amp; Müllert concept in deliverable 1 and 2. The timeline on p. 63 in deliverable 1 shows that we consider the ‘Reflexive Methodology’ as part of a tradition that began with Jungk’s work in the 1950s. The following evaluation is ordered in six chapters capturing the essential methodological aspects of the project. It ends with a concluding chapter that presents some general thought on how to set up a sustainable planning and deliberation process

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Mobilities, futures and the city:Towards a reflexive methodology for urban planning in the mobile risk society

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Mobile Futures and the City:Final evaluation report report phase 3

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