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The event was part of the Liveable Cities Project<\/a> and contributed to\u00a0the Mobile Utopia Project<\/a>, led by the Centre for Mobilities Research and the Institute for Social Futures<\/a> (ISF) at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ. It was led by Monika B\u00fcscher<\/a> and facilitated by Jamie O\u2019Brien<\/a> and Zofia Bednarowska.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We started with emerging into the topic of mobile utopia while listening to introduction by Monika B\u00fcscher on Mobile Utopia 1851-2051<\/em>. It helped us to merge thinking about urban space, mobilities, movement, affordances together with utopian perspective.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Zofia Bednarowska invited us into the world of mobile consumption, helping to realize that we are mobile consumers as we make every day consumer journeys, both online and offline. We use different types of shopping venues, have particular shopping schemes but altogether we are part of the mobile consumption systems. Since all consumer journeys may be reflected on the maps, showing mobility of consumers, stopovers and trajectories, participants took part in an interactive game Utopia as method<\/em>. Participants were making their own mobile consumption maps, using printed out maps of Lancaster and Lancashire. Actually, some participants decided to draw their own maps from the scratch. We were delighted with their creativity and final results.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since all consumer journeys may be reflected on the maps, showing mobility of consumers, stopovers and trajectories, participants took part in an interactive game Utopia as method.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Zofia delivered introduction on different types of spatial analysis. A few urban projects using spatial analysis that refer to mobile utopia were shown.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n