20210210 Day Zero workshop on just urban mobility transitions in Bergen
Channel: Cities in Climate and Energy Transformations
Date: 10/02/2021

Just Urban Mobility Transitions: Co-creation Workshop

Part of the National SDG Conference Bergen Day Zero (see https://www.uib.no/en/sdgconference/138845/day-zero-wednesday-10-february#just-urban-mobility-transitions-co-creation-workshop)

Bergen is undergoing rapid changes in its urban mobility solutions. A new phase of the light rail is in progress. Electric scooters on the street have stirred up controversy. The public bicycle scheme has been expanded. Car sharing solutions are more popular than ever, and smart charging of electric cars and bicycles is becoming the norm. The debate over toll charges continues.

How do such rapid changes in mobility impact social justice? To what extent are the interests of those in the city centre and those in the suburbs taken into account? How do technological developments shift the nature of mobility in the city for those in different income classes? Are we witnessing a low-carbon transition; if so, is it a just transition? How can it become one?

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on this theme, the workshop engaged participants in exploring these questions. We used interesting qualitative methods of participatory reflection through live action role play to collectively explore challenges and solutions.

Participants were introduced to and offered a chance to join a new project funded by JPI Climate and the Research Council of Norway's Klimaforsk programme: Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies.

This event had direct relevance to SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

For more on our project Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies, see https://www.uib.no/en/cet/141350/twin-transition-digitisation-and-low-carbon-energy-transitions and https://roles.w.uib.no