Brown Bag Seminar: Linear Mobility

This afternoon, my research partner and myself delivered our third and final presentation on our research project on bicycle commuter Route 100. As a part of the Brown Bag Seminar Series run by Aalborg University's Centre for Mobilities Studies, this presentation was given primarily to PhD students and faculty with the Department of Architecture, Urban Design, and Media Technology. An abstract for this presentation is published on the C-MUS website and provides context for our project. The focus of the seminar was to briefly introduce the Linear Mobilities research framework we defined for this project and present the findings of our ethnographic research.

Packed full with charts and maps describing our quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, the presentation is provided below in it's full glory…

If you would like a copy of the presentation or are interest in entering into further dialog about the presentation or the project itself…do not hesitate to get in contact with me!

The Past

To reflect on our "past moments together"…our first presentation focused on sharing our research goals and initial ethnographic research accounts. The abstract for this presentation is posted here and my post-presentation reflection is on this previous blogpost. Then, not long ago, we took part in an event called "Bring Your Own Model, Plan, etc…" which asked presenters to give short presentations on anything related to mobilities design. I discuss the event in this previous blogpost and more information can be found here. Today's presentation leaned heavily on work done in the first two, but added a substantial amount of information on the results of our online user survey and interviews with Route 100 users.

The future

All three of our presentations were supported by the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies. Our association with this centre stems from our being hired as research interns to do a project with the final deliverable of a working paper for C-MUS. We still have much work to do to finish up our working paper, but this sure was a milestone!

Thank you to those who attended and engaged us with interesting questions, comments, and throughs for future applications for this research. And thank you to those who supported us individually we prepared the presentation and helped us see the light at the end of the tunnel. It was our largest group yet (and no, I will not share how 'huge' attendance was…) and we appreciate everyone who donated an hour of their time to listen to our ramblings. In the coming weeks, the draft of the paper should be wrapped up and today's seminar was certainly beneficial to our efforts concluding the project.