Kim Carlotta Von Schönfeld
Field of work
In this position, I am fulfilling my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The project is called MobileWorlds (EU website here - own project website here). I developed the project with Wendy Tan, who I will work closely with. Fieldwork will be carried out in Bergen, Norway, and Porto, Portugal.
MobileWorlds will be exploring how we as people might be able to break out of unhelpful boxes 📦 (or even identify the boxes they tend to use) and think anew about individual, group and systemic pathways for our joint futures, and those of generations to come. To do so, I will combine insights from various areas I have worked in, connecting planning with geography, art, post-growth, economics, history, psychology, children, literature and more.
I look at this in particular in the area of mobility, proximity and transport🚲 🚶♀️🦽 🏄♂️ 🚣♀️ 🧗♂️ 🧘♀️🚌 🛴 🚝 🚋 🚛 ⛵ ⛴ 🚠 🚗 🛬 ..., but hope the findings will be relevant beyond this field.
Alongside the MobileWorlds project (and always in some connection to it) I am continuing work in the area of (participatory) Cultures of Water (see e.g. the New European Bauhaus Project Minante), and in the field of post-growth, collaborative and alternative planning, with applications in the areas of:
- Tactical Urbanism
- Street Experiments
- Third Cultures
- Alternative Mobility Values
and more.
Courses taught
I am coordinating and lecturing in the MOA256 course on Scientific Theory and Methods, as well as lecturing in MOA270 on Urban Design for Sustainable Mobility, alongside Wendy Tan, and co-supervising theses (MOA300).
Research areas
- Urban and Regional Planning
- Sustainable Mobility
- Post-growth Planning
- Third Cultures
- Transdisciplinarity
- Governance / Participation
- Arts-based methods
- Planning with children
Research groups
AREAL (spatial planning and urban studies): https://www.hvl.no/en/research/group/spatial-planning-and-urban-studies/
- MOA256, Scientific theory and methods, Fall 2024
- MOA270, Urban Design for Sustainable Mobility, Fall 2024
Publications
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Shrinking Cities for Economic Growth? Insights From the Housing Sector
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On the 'impertinence of impermanence' and three other critiques: Reflections on the relationship between experimentation and lasting – or significant? – change
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Who for rather than who with - how intended audiences help determine framing dynamics in contested planning.
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(Re-)Valuing and Co-Creating Cultures of Water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage.
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Mobility values in a finite world: pathways beyond austerianism?
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Living without commuting: Experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19.
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Planning cities beyond digital colonization? Insights from the periphery.
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Urban Planning and European Innovation Policy: Achieving Sustainability, Social Inclusion, and Economic Growth?
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Endurance and implementation in small-scale bottom-up initiatives: How social learning contributes to turning points and critical junctures
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Interlacing planning and degrowth scholarship – A manifesto for an interdisciplinary alliance.
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Maladaptive Planning and the Pro-Innovation Bias: Considering the Case of Automated Vehicles
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Every-day mobility anecdotes: Addressing the blind spot of goal- and expert-oriented mobility research
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Re-evaluating the power of social learning and social innovation: an application to transport
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Unpacking social learning in planning: who learns what from whom?
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Social learning as an analytical lens for co-creative planning
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Urban streets: Epitomes of planning challenges and opportunities at the interface of public space and mobility.
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Decentralization, Participation and Deliberation in Water Governance: a case study of the implications for Guarulhos, Brazil.