Key results of the project are the project Toolbox, with each of the Toolkits within it making its own important contribution, the Annotated Bibliography, project Website, Exhibition, Booklet, Video, Children’s Book, and several academic publications.
The MobileWorlds Toolbox provides a Workshop Toolkit, a Mobile Interview Toolkit, a Spatial Analysis Toolkit, and a Festival Toolkit. The Workshop Toolkit is designed to enable workshop participants and hosts to access creative responses to persistent challenges through a reflective and hands-on participatory process inspired by third cultures. It can be applied in contexts of research, planning practice, and public participation, and includes specific reflections for three categories of participants: All-Ages, Planners, and Academics. The Mobile Interview Toolkit facilitates in-depth access to individual third culture perspectives, and can shed light on context specific ways third cultures could help identify points of intervention to address local challenges. It can be applied in research and practice (e.g. as a form of field research before an intervention in a given space). The Spatial Analysis Toolkit provides a proposal for how wayfinding / routing can be provided catering to specific groups and preferences, rooted in varied cultural backgrounds, to identify pull-factors that could help motivate the use of more sustainable modes such as walking or cycling. This could be tested by municipalities or commercial providers, or serve as inspiration for further investigation by researchers. The Festival Toolkit is designed to be applicable by anyone interested in furthering the debate around third cultures in artistic and playful ways, with the possibility to pick and choose from the different elements available, including individual and group work, recommendations for identifying and guiding speakers and/or photographers for exhibitions, and a Zine-making workshop.
The annotated bibliography provides a relevant overview of how the third cultures concept has been applied in popular and academic contexts thus far, and hints at where the MobileWorlds project is taking this. Further application to the context of mobilities is provided through a submitted academic article on Third Cultures of Mobilities, and a similarly titled Special Issue inviting other authors to contribute to this debate. Similarly, academic publications pointing to unconventional ways of thinking about cultures, arts-based engagement with various age groups, and mobilities related subjects (on streets and on cultures of water), as well as about the role of planning and change (book on Conversations in Planning), have further contributed to the dissemination of third cultures forms of thinking in the academic context.
The project website is replete with materials, including the Toolbox and all its Toolkits, as well as a continuously updated library, a summary of the project, a blog and events page relating the project’s various activities over time, and its several results, including a video of the online artistic performance from the Festival, the quantitative survey results, and more. The photographic exhibition held during the Festival held real inspirational power for all speakers and participants, as well as for the involved photographers, and the project Booklet was disseminated broadly during the Festival, while also being available in digital form on the project website. The project Video brings the project’s essence and key results to a broader audience in a short and accessible format, and the Children’s book addresses yet another audience.
Overall, the project has contributed through these results to furthering the state of the art academically in the fields of arts-based research, creative methods, sustainable transport and mobilities, cultural studies, and to the field of planning broadly speaking. It also contributes to furthering, and in some ways challenging, the state of the art in the practice of planning and participation, as it offers new ways to achieve key impactful imaginaries for a more sustainable and inclusive future.