Sustainable Mobility in the Mobile Risk Society—Designing Innovative Mobility Solutions in Copenhagen

Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen, Freja Friis, Malene Rudolf Lindberg and Thomas Skou Grindsted
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Malene Freudendal-Pedersen: Department of Planning, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Katrine Hartmann-Petersen: Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
Freja Friis: Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, 2400 Copenhagen SV, Denmark
Malene Rudolf Lindberg: Department of Planning, Aalborg University, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Thomas Skou Grindsted: Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 17, 1-16

Abstract: The issue of creating more sustainable mobility systems has been revisited during the past 50 years. So far, we are still waiting for an innovative systemic change that is not simply an iteration of existing technologies. This standstill is to a large degree due to the hegemonic mobility paradigm, working under a “predict and provide”-driven approach, with little attention being paid to environmental and social externalities. This paper calls for a new understanding of mobility transition interlinked with the cultural values of modern societies, deeply rooted in the mobile risk society. To create sustainable mobility practices we need robust, socially coherent, and inclusive mobility systems that are more than just transportation systems and connections. The empirical starting point is a visionary workshop on designing “Sustainable Innovative Mobility Solutions” in three urban areas in Copenhagen. The workshop created a cross-disciplinary space for actors to meet across dominant silos and acknowledge the need for intervention framings to focus on innovation as a matter of interlinking sustainable mobilities practices within everyday living in a mobile risk society.

Keywords: mobility; mobile risk society; innovation; iteration; visionary workshop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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