Context:
Mobilities are the movements, the changes, the mutations, the adaptations and the re-creations of people, information, technologies, landscapes, moneys and life in general. They are continually forming and re-forming the environments we live in whether it is new forms of communication, interactions or movement. Mobilities include:

• Travel and communication
• Migration, diasporas & families
• Tourism and business travel
• Mobile risk (Northern Rock…)
• New social networks
• Transportation & communication technologies
• Mobilities and new social exclusions
• The ageing process

Landscape architecture has always worked with mobilities, be it; in the movement and flux of natural processes—water, land, air—that shape and change the world; the human interactions with the landscape, other people and histories of a place; and with the fluctuation of economic status of the place, region or country. Landscape architecture has always been affected by and effective of change in the environment. In this rapidly changing world landscape architecture and urban design is advantageously placed to understand and integrate these changing worlds in to the human environments that we exist in.

Aims:
The aims of this project are therefore:
• To look at/perceive/immerse oneself in the small town along the western coast of the North Sea;
• To understand the location from a temporary resident of that town;
• To understand the location from a locals (of all ages) perspective;
• To create links and associations with the local organisations and derive crucial local information;
• To understand and describe the mobilities that are influencing this town and other small towns on the coast;
• To understand the impact on this town;
• To develop a broad and in-depth knowledge of the town;
• To incorporate that knowledge into a proposal for the town; and
• To expose the ideas and proposals to the local community and gather feedback
• To expose the ideas and proposals to the transnational community.

Brief :

Develop a theoretical framework for the question/manifesto/concept through exploring the topic/s and building a library of relevant references and documents that will inform your research and proposal development and brief.

Understand the relevant issues around mobilities including: sustainability (in all its forms), tourism,
cultural shifts and economies.

Visit the town as a tourist. Document your experience as a tourist.

Research local community groups, local tourist information sources, NGOs, national, regional and local government. Contact local representatives and organise meetings and or attendance at the meetings of the groups. Understand the town from a locals perspective and understand their motivations and agendas.

As a group develop a collective manifesto for Whitby and the concept of Mobilities

Final Submission:

This project is to be produced, documented and presented in a comprehensive, in-depth but concise digital and printed document that covers the extent of the work completed and developed during the 6 week project.

The submission will need to describe a coherent story of the direction of the project, the questions that the project asked, the analysis undertaken and the results, the connections with the local groups and the developed proposal, and its validity with respect to the analysis.

As a group develop a coherent form for the dissemination of the content, analysis and proposals to both a local and an international audience. Develop this form to allow for both a collective and individual communication of the content, that can be read individually and as a whole.

Abstract: In addition produce, on one A4 sheet, a diagrammatic, image or text based distillation of the project proposal and analysis, which provides an exciting insight into your project and gets people wanting to know more.

Final presentation will be in a form that is agreed upon during the first two weeks.
All digital information should be submitted in pdf or .mov format that can be easily accessed from any computer.