Thank you to Riem, I came across this article by Anthony D'Andrea in the Mobilities Journal: Neo-nomadism: A Theory of Post-Identitarian Mobility in the Global Age.
Simultaneous thinking or not, it is good and flattering to see that I have fostered a field of inquiry on its own, and that the neo-nomad wording/thinking spreads, though I mainly speak about psycho-socio-cultural aspects and spaces. I look forward to read this article.
As I wrote in a reply to Bill Thompson after discovering his BBC article, In Search of the Neo-nomad, I have been working on the neo-nomad since the time I was enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1999. The title of my MIT thesis (MIT, 2001) is Embodiment: Mental and Physical Geographies of the Neo-nomad. Since, I wrote many articles about neo-nomads, some for Ubicomp conferences… I also graduated from Harvard with a Doctor of Design, which title is: Neo-nomads: Designing Environments for Living in the Age of Physical, Digital and Mental Mobilities (Harvard, 2006). I opened my research blog much later in 2005… Thanks to Jerôme Chevillat and Roger of Kaywa, my words have spread to the point of peaking to 722 visits a day for the month of June 2007!
My book, Neo-nomads, is coming soon... patience!
Anyway readers, for your information, here is a list of relevant publications, interviews and talks I gave around the world on neo-nomads:
Forthcoming publication “Environnements néo-nomades, système écologique ?” in Synergies Pays Riverains de la Baltique n° 4 (2007)
Wrote with Vaucelle, C. and Abbas, Y. 2007. Touch: sensitive apparel. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2723-2728.
Video-conference discussion: City in Flux: Eco-Mobility? with Dr. Ben Croxford, Lecturer MSc Environmental Design and Engineering; intended to students enrolled in the Master of Science Adaptive Architecture and Computation program, Digital Space and Society module taught by Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, The Bartlett, London, UK, January 22, 2007 . Event hosted by Critical Digital at Harvard GSD
Presented my up to date research on neo-nomads to students enrolled in Digital, a class taught by Michael MacPhail at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, November 1, 2006
Interviewed by Rudy de Waele for m-trends.org, Women in Mobile # 16, September 23, 2006
Wrote TAXICITY-TOXICITY in JCDecaux, Mobilités: la Clé des Villes (St-Amand-Montrond, Clerc: 2006) p. 98-99 and Interviewed William J. Mitchell on the Paris Bus Line project in collaboration with the RATP; both contributing to a prospective reflection on cities initiated by the Chronos Group, Observatory of Chronomobility . JCDecaux presented the book of trends at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, June 2006
Gave a Lecture to students enrolled in the Master of Science Adaptive Architecture and Computation program, Digital Space and Society module taught by Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, The Bartlett, London, UK, November 14, 2005
Presented and debated with Nigel Thrift and Ranjit Makkuni at Ci’Num, the Digital Civilizations Forum: Conquests and Conflicts, forum “dedicated to the future of the digital revolution and designed to evaluate its social, cultural, and economic impacts”, Bordeaux, France, October 8, 2005
Interviewed by Pierre Tillinac for Sud-Ouest, the second daily French regional newspaper with a circulation of over 300.000 readers; interview entitled “Quand Les Mobilités Changent Nos Vies” = When Mobilities Change Our Lives, published October 3, 2005
Wrote “Parasites?” (Paper presented at the “Metapolis and Urban Life” workshop, UbiComp2005 Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 10-11, 2005) and was selected to participate in the interactive 2 day workshop
Presented “Neo-nomads and the Making of Boundaries in the Age of Mobility” (Paper presented at the Mobile Geography, Presidential Choice Session, SASE2005 conference, Budapest, Hungary, July 1, 2005) . BTW, this is when and where I have met John Urry who is the mind behind the Mobilities Journal, where the article spotted above was published!
Wrote “Neo-nomads and the Nature of the Spaces of Flows” (Paper presented at the “UbiComp in the Urban Frontier” workshop, UbiComp2004 conference, Nottingham, UK, September 7, 2004) and was selected to participate in the one day workshop
Wrote “Expression of the Edge” (Paper accepted for publication, and presented at the ACSA Odysseys conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, February 22, 2002). A post MIT Thesis reflection on neo-nomads...
Image taken by Jérôme + Éléonore
