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MOSPUS open lecture: Mobility Injustice by Design

Ole B. Jensen (Aalborg University) will give an open lecture on ‘Mobility Injustice by Design: Reflections on Design as an Agent of Power and Social Change ’, addressing how injustice in relation to mobility can be the intended result of design and policy decisions as well as unintentional consequences of design.
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  • Mobility, Space, Place and Urban Studies (MOSPUS) (Research Group)
    • Thursday
    24
    September
    Start:12:15
    End:13:15
    Place: Building 03, room 03.1-s21 Audi B, Roskilde University, Universitetsvej 1, 4000 Roskilde

    Drawing on his new book 'Mobility Injustice by Design’ (Routledge, 2026) and current work-in-progress, Ole B. Jensen's lecture focuses on mobility injustice in the areas of aging populations, unhoused and disability. The theoretical framework connects design, bodies, and injustice to the overarching theme of mobility. The presentation critically discusses the role of design in everyday life and offers a tentative theory of design as something ontologically manifest in everyday life via the notion of ‘the made’ as well as it discusses design’s potential as agent for social change via re-thinking it as something that can be ‘re-made’ and even ‘un-made’.

    Ole B. Jensen is Professor of Urban Theory and Urban Design at Aalborg University, and he has been very influential in writing about mobilities, mobilities design, urban studies and infrastructure architectures. Among his previous books are Staging Mobilities (2013) and Designing Mobilities (2014). His recent research includes a project in collaboration with Projekt Udenfor and others that focused on exclusion by design, especially in relation urban public spaces and forms of exclusionary architecture aimed at  unhoused citizens.

    Registration:
    All welcome, no registration required. For more information, please write to dpinder@ruc.dk 

    The seminar is organised by MOSPUS, a research group in the Department of People and Technology that focuses on Mobility, Space, Place and Urban Studies.