Mobility Urban Values: Framing a methodology though multiple lenses

Description

The article elaborates a vision and a method developed in the context of MUV (Mobility Urban Values), an EU Horizon 2020 project (2017-2020) that intends to start-up a movement able to foster more sustainable mobility lifestyles, enhance local development and improve urban planning policies. MUV activities are co-designed on spatial and virtual social interaction interfaces in six different European neighborhoods in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Fundao, Ghent, Helsinki, and Palermo. In this article, a framework of multiple lenses grounding on the theories about change – behavior, practice and systems – draws on a new progressive and operational transitional perspective of MUV as a change agency. The aim of this article is to frame MUV vision as a change agency that mobilises mobility urban values and reconfigures - with neighbouhood communities – the meaning of ‘mak(ing) cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’ (UN 2016a) through an urban ecosystem service. A critical scholarship angle allows to concentrate on the transformative capacity of societal discourses and their effects through participative methods of interpretation within contextualized neighbourhoods in six EU cities instead on remaining simply anchored to buzzwords. This article frames the idea of change at the base of the MUV agency for urban ecosystem service within a multi-level socio-technical perspective in which macro-and-micro levels co-evolve together through the flow of societal ‘desired values’, the dynamic of stabilization of urban practice and the potential urban governance innovation strategies. This framework focuses on the capacity to change in the operationalization of MUV agency and the requirements that this implies with impacts on individual behaviors, practice and policy. The first part of this article focuses on the MUV vision about change agency within an urban ecosystem. Efforts to value change are envisioned within potential co-creation of community building with individuals, local communities, informal groups of citizens at the neighbourhood scale against the discursive landscape of societal desired values (sustainability, resilience, safety, inclusiveness). The conclusion presents the first result of the co-creation of values with local communities with a critical consideration of discursive re-scaling of sustainability, resilience, safety and inclusiveness within the neighbourghood contexts and the focus on ecosystem service within the MUV six cities.

Period	27 Aug 2018
Event title	Trafikdage 2018
Event type	Conference
Location	Aalborg, DenmarkShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National