Movement Forum

Movement Forum responds to the increasing need for more socially and environmentally sustainable ways to think about city-making based on care in interactions of materials and flows, human and non-human bodies. Particularly, it owes an intellectual debt to the concept of mobility justice developed by Mimi Sheller, which links scales to ask not just who has the right to movement, but who has the right to be still, and what is the negative impact of global hypermobility on everyday urban dwelling. Experiments mobilising choreographic thinking within spatial design are offering new ways to understand these inequalities, and our aim is to showcase and refine these as a new field of practice able to respond to the challenges.

Through autumn 2021, Future Architecture fellows will be invited to participate in three labs taking place in Paris, London, and Lisbon. Each lab will consist of three parts: sharing existing positions and practices, mapping mobility injustices, and proposing responses to these issues. Accompanying the labs will be a programme of publishing taking place through Theatrum Mundi Editions. The publication will document the discussions, cartographies and propositions from the Movement Forum. Together, the outcomes of the project will be presented in 2022 at a major public event in partnership with the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa.