On the one hand, mobile subjects have captured the attention of various disciplines, including social sciences, humanities, and anthropology. The "mobilities turn" in these fields, along with the "humanities turn" and "ethnographic sensitivity" in mobility studies, emphasize the importance of a more nuanced understanding of mobile practices. On the other hand, our current engineering-based urban mobility system is deeply shaped by concepts such as utility, efficiency, speed, and cost-effectiveness. This focus has led to numerous crises for human life both locally and globally (Te Brömmelstroet et al., 2022).
Our pressing question is how critical interdisciplinary thinking from the humanities, social sciences, and anthropology can lead to a narrative turn in urban mobility through understanding, challenging, and transforming the status quo into a human-centered future. We argue that challenging the underlying worldviews and narratives is necessary for mobility transition, and the humanities, social sciences, and anthropology are well-equipped to lead this effort.

This proposal aims to practice collective conceptual leniency to foster genuine interdisciplinary dialogue and identify new narratives for radical change and meaningful mobility transition. By prioritizing human experiences and values, we can use the lenses of social sciences, humanities, and anthropology to understand, challenge, and change the dominant mobility paradigm, placing "human" rather than "machine" at its center.

• Pre-Workshop: The first phase involves online and in-person interviews with mobility researchers from social sciences, humanities, and anthropological perspectives. These discussions will address the potential and challenges of interdisciplinary contributions to rethinking urban mobility. This process aims to introduce an initial interdisciplinary conceptual framework.

• Workshop: The second phase consists of a focus group to modify, develop, and specify this framework, with a particular focus on placing the bicycle at its center. Participants with diverse cycling research backgrounds will engage in interactive collaboration to raise new questions about the role of the bicycle in this framework as a lens for understanding human experiences, a tool for challenging the dominant paradigm, and a catalyst for transformative and positive change.