Sustainable mobility resource
Created by N.E.S.T. Hub – one of the TEH thematic hubs – together with TEH102 Camp Meeting host BASIS Vinschgau Venosta and Trans Europe Halles, this guide was created to work as a practical framework to support more informed and coherent mobility decisions across the Trans Europe Halles network and beyond.
Sustainable mobility is not only a technical matter of choosing one mode of transport over another. For a cultural network such as Trans Europe Halles, mobility is also a cultural, organisational, and relational practice. It shapes who can participate, how people encounter one another, how time is allocated, which territories become connected, and how ecological responsibility is translated into everyday decisions.
Cultural centres are not travel agencies, but they can shape the conditions that influence how people travel, gather, and relate to places. By providing clear mobility information, encouraging shared journeys, recognising barriers related to time, cost and accessibility, and designing programmes that support slower travel, they can make lower-impact choices more visible and achievable.
This guide was developed to work as a practical framework to support more informed and coherent mobility decisions across the Trans Europe Halles network and beyond. Rather than prescribing a single way of travelling, it brings together common criteria, practical tools and shared learning that can be adapted to different local contexts. The guide is targeted to hosts and participants of the TEH Conference and Camp Meetings, for TEH Coordination Office itself, and for anyone within the TEH network and beyond who is organising events and meetings in their local contexts.
The guide should be understood as the starting point for a shared TEH sustainability resource: a living resource that can evolve through successive meetings, helping the network progressively align ecological responsibility, accessibility and meaningful participation. As an example, in this guide we have applied this framework to TEH Camp Meeting 102 in BASIS Vinschgau Venosta in Silandro, Italy.
Questions?
If you have a questions or comments, please reach out to TEH Coordination Office.
