Abstract
This talk will provide reflections on the cultures that emerge in different conditions and degrees of mobility: from travel to stasis. It will be based on the experience of the Cultural Spaces project, which I witnessed as project evaluator, and will expand on thoughts that derive from my earlier work on travel, juxtaposed with the contemporary zeitgeist of increased mobility on the one hand, and voluntary stasis on the other:
What are the spaces of encounter in the contemporary world, and what role can design education play in these spaces? What happens when migrants and sedentary subjects intersect at a given site, including humans, things and other species? Can we turn these sites into Cultured Spaces, where the agency of design can mitigate conflict or allow new hybrid systems to emerge?