The Recursive Narratives of Velomobility
10/09/2025 , De Brug Area 1

Discussion of mobility narratives is frequently narrowly framed and siloed off into echo-chambers where the same discourses over the same visions dominate. By taking an interdisciplinary and quasifractal-recursive view of mobility narratives as multidimensional constellations of mobility stories and story fragments representing both social and material realities, we can gain a holistic and interdisciplinary look into what sustains our current (auto)mobility system - and how we might move towards novel systems of (velo)mobility.

Lindsay is an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, working towards a thesis project exploring narrarives of automobility and velomobility in the Dutch context. In their free time, Lindsay builds strange bicycles and collects plush trains from around the world.