John Hopkins University - Alternative Mobility Narratives
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Alternative Mobility Narratives at Coursera Overview
Duration | 24 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Alternative Mobility Narratives at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Alternative Mobility Narratives at Coursera Course details
- Ready to imagine a radically different mobility future? This course is about the stories that we tell ourselves about why and how we move. By critically examining our current narratives, we help you think about mobility in a new way. Using systems dynamics modelling, we explore how a mobility innovation (of your choice) impacts our mobility system as a whole, for better or for worse. This course will invite you to reflect on our mainstream mobility narrative built on engineering and economics. But warning: you may end up never looking at mobility in the same way again!
- This online course is supported by the EIT Urban Mobility's Competence Hub. EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) that has been working since January 2019 to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more sustainable and liveable places.
Alternative Mobility Narratives at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1: Why Mobility Language Matters
Course Introduction with Marco te Br¶mmelstroet and George Liu
The Art of Using Mobility Language
Loopy Tutorial and Explanation of Weekly Assignments
Meet the team
Content and Aim of Alternative Narratives for Urban Mobility Futures
Keep notes to prepare for your final assignment!
Support and feedback
Block 1 content
"Interpretative flexibility" and "Discourse institutionalization"
Don't Say 'Cyclists,' Say 'People on Bikes'
What to Do if You?re Hit by a Car
Practice Quiz: "Interpretative flexibility" and "Discourse institutionalization"
Block 1 Graded Quiz
Week 2: The Dominant Narrative: Mobility as Disutility
Block 2 Intro with Milo? Mladenovi?
Block 2 content
"Current key imaginaries of mobility" and "From economic thinking to economic being"
Texas A&M Urban Mobility Report
Elon Musk's Cybertruck
Videos on the effects of the dominant narrative
Definitions of Mobility Innovations
Practice Quiz: "Current key imaginaries of mobility" and "From economic thinking to economic being"
Block 2 Graded Quiz
Week 3: Alternative 1: Mobility as Unnecessity
Block 3 Intro with Ant³nio Ferreira
Block 3 content
Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research
(Optional) The social destruction of speed
If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?
Viewpoint blog on mindful traveling
Practice Quiz: Immotility as resilience? A key consideration for transport policy and research
Block 3 Graded Quiz
Week 4: Alternative 2: Commoning Mobility
Block 4 Intro with Anna Nikolaeva
Talking Living Streets with Ghent?s Vice Mayor Filip Watteeuw
Streetfilms.org
Prompt video for forum post on COVID-19 and Commoning Mobility
Block 4 content
Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions
How this Amsterdam inventor gave bike-sharing to the world
Practice Quiz: Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions
Block 4 Graded Quiz
Week 5: Alternative 3: Mobility as Play
Block 5 Intro with Marco te Br¶mmelstroet and George Liu
Block 5 content
Have a good trip! Expanding our concepts of the quality of travel time with flow theory
Why Run? BBC Radio Four Thought episode with Adharanand Finn
Practice quiz: Have a good trip! Expanding our concepts of the quality of travel time with Flow theory
Block 5 Graded Quiz
Week 6: Alternative 4: Mobility as Interaction
Block 6 content
Travelling together alone and alone together: mobility and potential exposure to diversity
Jane Jacobs's Sidewalk Ballet
People-centered methods for cycling
Practice Quiz: Travelling together alone and alone together: mobility and potential exposure to diversity
Block 6 Graded Quiz
Week 7: Final Assignment
?Mobility as meaningful part of societies?
?Mobility as meaningful part of societies?
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