This document discusses how a variety of social, political, and economic factors influence individuals' mobility and access to space. It examines how mobility is shaped by one's health, gender, class, race, citizenship status, and access to economic resources. Infrastructure, transportation systems, and the built environment also play a role in dictating how people can move through and access both urban and rural areas. The document explores how information technologies can promote or inhibit mobility and how cultural practices influence individuals' sense of belonging and comfort in different spaces.

1. Mobility moving through space

2. What variables influence your mobility?

3. Health & Wellness
Law
Race
Class
Gender
Economics Climate
Citizenship
Urban structure
Culture

4. Urban & Rural infrastructure & access

5. Railroads are an important part of early Canadian mobility--connecting the nation, building trading posts,
hotels, and cities.

6. Our mobility in cities is dictated by the built environment (left), cars, busses, streets, and transportation
infrastructure (right). Of course, not all modes of mobility have the same low barriers to access.

7. Information
How does access to information promote or inhibit
mobility?
How does technologies of knowledge production
change the way we see space as open, available,
scalable?

8. Making home How do cultural practices, discourses, geography, make a mobile space
where we feel most comfortable, most ‘at home’?

9. Race and Identity
Do we all move through political spaces in a similar fashion?
How does race change the way we are seen, heard, and move?
Do spaces take on exclusionary practices? How are spaces racialized?

10. Money In what ways does money, and our access to it, change the way we move through space?

11. Economic conditions may determine how you physically get around: by highway, by bike, or by plane...

12. ...or the jobs we take and places we work.

13. Gender & Sexuality How are borders embodied or corporealized? How do we move
through space uniquely as gendered subjects?

14. 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEOs are female.
Women hold
of seats in the current House of Commons. 24.4%

15. 29% of working age women do work outside the labour market.
Women hold
of seats in the current U.S. House of Congress. 18.1%

16. Gender & Parenting
Our movement in/through space is determined not simply by gender, but by our subject
position as parents--namely, mothers. Strollers that are clunky on transit, washrooms
without adequate spaces to change diapers, or stores set off highways amidst expansive
parking lots all have effects on how parents access space.

17. In what ways does accessing space presume or privilege those in
Health & Wellness good health?

18. 10% of Canada’s GDP goes to public health services.
Canadians lose
working days a year to illness. 7

19. How does immigrant ‘illegality’ render spaces--hospitals,
Immigrant Exclusion schools, daycare centres, police stations--as off limits?

20. How does mobility studies presume and highlight the ways in
Inclusion & Exclusion which people are excluded/included?

21. Inclusion & Exclusion And championship HOCKEY

22. Transnational, local, cultural,
What kind of space? religious, economic, artistic..