Job Oberman

PhD Researcher

My PhD research will focus on how the cocreation and experience of new alternative urban imaginaries can empower urban stakeholders to foster transformative capacity in overcoming lock-in towards more sustainable alternatives. This research aims to find ways to foster transformative capacity to overcome institutional, behavioral and/or infrastructural lock-in.

A more transformative mindset could provide possible pathways to unlock car dependent urban areas. The project is situated in Almere, the Netherlands: a suburban midsized city that faces a car dependent lock-in. Within this case study it analyzes interventions on (1) the reimagination and cocreation of new futures, and (2) the experience of these imaginaries in real life experiments.