ABSTRACT
Having reflected on how the machinery of the mobile technology of neoliberal capitalism captures governance, planning, and publics alike, allowing “planning to fail” and propping up deadly business-as-usual auto-, aero-, and cargo-mobility systems, we discuss strategies to enable change in this chapter. Recognising that we cannot wholesale design alternative mobility systems a la Buckminster Fuller, because they must be grown organically through collective action, we explore what we can do to create conditions for such growth. We draw on a groundswell of flourishing innovative initiatives, many of them driven by the refusal of neoliberal, patriarchal, colonial logics, solidarity, study, and confluence by a mobile undercommons. As routes towards better certainties, social and climate justice, and mobilities of buen vivir emerge from this multitude of initiatives, this chapter delineates two methods we are developing to strategically support them and grow radical change – societal readiness assessment and adaptive experimentation. We delineate what difference such mobile methods could make, specifically by supporting imagination through agonistic democracy.
