Short talk on the systemic challenge of innovation in mobility systems, decarbonising mobility systems, introducing the concept of societal readiness levels that we are developing in the UK EPSRC funded DecarboN8 project.
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Hi, Thank you very much for the invitation.
But when I'm delighted to be part of this on
my tokens on changing Mobility's Halcon, lessons from the real
World inform design policy and social change.
And so what lessons are we learning from the real
world? In his book entitled The Great Transformation.
Carpal Any of You that human nature is not accurately
captured by market metaphors, market ideologies make us think that
human nature is essentially rational, driven by done on exact
change. Exchange on this logic has become naturalized today, but
observing the gathering momentum off new liberal market ideologies in
1944 Melanie argued that this would be extremely destructive.
He was right.
Growing inequality within and across countries, migration policies that allow
thousands to drown in the Mediterranean and record levels of
homelessness. Drive that lesson home.
The 2018 i p.
C. C.
Special reports teach us another lesson, raising five reasons for
concern about the planet.
Ecosystems are being destroyed.
Climate change is causing extreme weather everywhere.
Whole human habitats are disappearing as some economies and deletes
right. There are large, abrupt, singular events, such as the
disintegration off the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet, and we're
doing no one near enough to address this.
The gap between where we should be heading for a
1.5 degree cup on global heating and where we are
headed with all current policies is must've.
We're currently heading towards 3.2 degrees.
And what that means in terms of conditions for human
survival is unimaginable.
Millions off people are ready for change.
Millions are on the streets demanding action.
Have we learned enough?
Finally, from science have we reached a cultural tipping point?
I'm not sure.
When Melanie wrote that humanity is not defined by market
logics, he examined the values that people hold and he
is still writes about it.
In this survey by the Common Course Foundation, researchers found
that 74% off people hold compassionate while use like solidarity,
a desire for equality.
However, at the same time, 77% of people think that
although people pulled selfish values, think about status and their
own game first would not help another in need.
This is neo liberal market ideology in operation, and it
is still destructive.
Those who hold these beliefs about others by less likely
to act on environmental concerns, engage in civic causes and
they feel cultural estrangement.
This is the reality we perform in our everyday interactions.
These values our normative on dhe performative.
We make a self destructive world day in, day out
and to act differently.
At this critical time, we need to be a lot
more creative.
Social science shows us why it is so difficult.
New liberalism is all about choice, but in reality people
have very little choice.
Antony Raya, civil society campaigner, said in a panel on
de carbonized society recently that we are imprisoned by our
mobility systems.
Donnelly highlighted how the very design off the car or
effective relationship off desire, safety and status with the car
and the economic and infrastructural systems we feel around it.
Suburbia, the out of town supermarket, my plot, often ultra
mobility system.
That system has effectively shut us into a metal prison
individually and out off the street as pedestrians and citizens.
We accept this if we even notice it.
That's dysfunctional because we actually have very little choice to
change or practices within that system.
We need to change the system, but we're not doing
that with some off.
The innovations were driving.
We are leaving ourselves feel mulch, No choice, tweaking aspect
off the system but ultimately leaving it as it is.
But the magnitude off the challenge is becoming clear, and
the magnitude off the uprising is making transformative change conceivable.
People are rejecting systemic limitations off their being.
They are changing the system from within reason.
Images off International Parking Day, where communities transform car parking
spaces into parks for people temporarily reclaiming the streets.
And this is a cool by extinction rebellion in the
UK to make all political parties put the ecological crisis
at the top of their agenda.
These are pre speculative, um, utopian practices that analyzed the
systemic rungs off our societies than was normative performative priest.
Negative momentum towards building alternatives and common ing mobility's is
an example.
It conceives off mobility not just as a service but
as a common unlimited resorts.
That makes it possible to think about rationing in ways
that support mobility, justice and ecological sustainability and coming supports
communal decision making.
It juxtaposes the right to mobility with a rightto immobility,
or why not to be displaced from the street from
the pavement from once human habitat and it supports mobility.
Justice. The great mobility's transformation would have the following cornerstones
acknowledgment that our survival as a species depends on change.
Rapid and massive change is necessary.
Solutions need to be multiple and multimodal, less travel unless
speed of good and important components off this and change
needs to be sensitive toe unintended consequences.
We don't want to destroy the social goods that high
carbon mobility's have helped us achieve like cosmopolitanism, cultural and
intellectual exchange like this.
Onda approaches must be co created.
And so we're stuck in a rut with very little
rule toe act.
We need good socio technical systemic innovation.
How do we do that?
So, design policy and social change Inspired by technology readiness
levels originally made by a NASA, we are developing a
concept off societal readiness levels.
How can we make innovations good for society?
How can we assess the systemic value off innovations and
the practicability for people?
Um, I will be organizing workshops in 2020 and 21
in the d carbonite.
Where I would love to discuss is ideas further with
you. Either in person is what Trump's pull through correspondence.