Imaginaries
Imagine the future of mobility for Sheffield.
What is public space for? Who is it for? Do we currently have a choice?
Do you have an artistic talent? Could you draw, paint or write, allowing us to imagine a better future.
Examples of narrowing wide, dangerous junctions in Sheffield.
What could we use the saved space for? (benches? trees? flowers? soak-aways? a small cafe? swing?...)
From Lab of Thought:
"The dominant efficiency- and speed based narrative of urban mobility limits our understanding of mobility phenomena and ultimately limits the effectiveness of our transport policy interventions and technological innovations. This narrative dates back to choices that were made in the 1920s and have since then solidified into common guidelines, models, laws and institutions, into concrete, steel and technologies, and into the limits of our imagination. Indeed, the domination of a nearly centenary narrative is most unlikely to contribute to the resolution of problems that were unthinkable when its seed was forcefully planted.
Radical change of mobility requires radical ways of thinking.
Radical ways of thinking requires new imaginaries."
A slightly dodgy AI image of what Sharrow Vale could look like.
We have a choice. Currently we choose to park cars outside our schools. Is that the right choice?