ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how specific design artefacts that typically lie outside the purview of mobilities studies are nonetheless active in the shaping of specific expectations, understandings and practices of mobilities. It aligns this consideration with the emergence of a wider framework of neoliberal subjectivity. In effect, this involves considering a kind of microbiopolitics of mobilities at work in which design is active. The chapter reflects on how this latter disciplining of movement continues to function and what implications it has for thinking about mobilities and design. It discusses the historical moment of the surfacing of the object-environments coincided with the intensification of flexible, capital accumulation. New gestural repertoires were being learnt elsewhere, with other object-environments that, nonetheless, engaged 'stockbroker-like' forms of anticipation and calculation. In this, the object-environment is active in the formation of neoliberal sensorium. It interfaces between different realms of movement and in that transmutation, the mobile subject is recast as calculative and accountable.
