Since its creation, the Mobile Lives Forum has brought together the humanities, social sciences and the arts to explore the role of travel in lifestyles and to help shape their ecological and social transition To do this, the Forum finances research projects that are largely structured along 2 axes:

• Axis 1 : Understanding how travel shapes and transforms lifestyles across different territories and over time.
• Axis 2 : Identifying, evaluating, and proposing mobility policies that both align with contemporary aspirations and ensure ecological sustainability.

The Forum focuses on four key areas, either currently under investigation or planned for future study:

1 – Building on extensive research into work-related mobilit y (commuting and business travel), the Forum examines other types of daily travel, such as the non-work related mobility , which accounts for half of all travel time (leisure mobility, young people’s mobility, elderly people’s mobility) and imposed mobilities (e.g., for healthcare, caregiving, or administrative purposes).

2 – Investigating how movements are being restructured through a combination of factors:

• Digitalization: Activities conducted while traveling, teleworking, telehealth, etc.
• Territorial Organization : Residential mobility, evolving metropolitan dynamics, etc.
• desire to live closer to essential services and adopt a slower pace of life.

3 – Exploring alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles and assessing their systemic and non-systemic impacts. This includes walking, cycling, public transport, carpooling, lightweight vehicles, and electric vehicles.

4 – Examining long-distance mobility, specifically, the reasons for this, its ecological and social impacts, and lower-carbon alternatives. Topics include family dispersal, tourism, professional mobility, and the speed and rhythms of travel.

Mobility

For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.

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Teleworking

The remote performance of a salaried activity outside of the company’s premises, at home or in a third place during normal working hours and requiring access to telecommunication tools.

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Residential mobility

Broadly speaking, residential mobility refers to a household’s change of residence within a life basin.

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