ABSTRACT
I began this work with the unremarkable observation that our lives are increasingly mobile, and noted that this trend is, nevertheless, intrinsically interesting and of instrumental worth to people working in diverse fields concerned with what it means to be in the world. In passing, I observed that mobile lives influence and, in turn, are influenced by a range of technologies, among which are iPads, apps, and the Internet. By means of such technologies, Nicholson (2011) was able to create and deliver the 0 to 100 Project, an arts initiative that sensitively interprets people’s perceptions of their place in the life-course, their varied experiences, and diversity. I acknowledged, too, that where one is located, literally and metaphorically, confounds our experiences of living, giving effect to such things as life expectancy. The 0 to 100 Project was deployed through the pages of this book as a heuristic device that has enabled me to think about our journeys over the life-course and the adventures that we have in its intervals. I used this idea of the interval (and thought of it in terms of heterotopia and heterochrony) to signify the existence of gaps, distances, and pauses—spaces in which alternatives might be thinkable, in which potential might be explored, and in which moments of radical uncertainty might not only test, but delight or dismay.
