| Abstract | This presentation explores how everyday mobility depends not only on transport infrastructure, but also on small acts of care, kindness, and support that help people move, wait, and navigate vulnerability. Drawing on the JUST STREETS Horizon Europe project, it introduces the idea of mobility micro-care: situated practices such as walking someone to a bus stop, helping with bags or mobility aids, offering informal lifts, waiting with someone who feels unsafe, repairing bicycles, or helping others navigate disruption. For academic audiences, the presentation frames these practices through mobility justice, care ethics, commoning, and planning responsibility, using four analytical dimensions: recognition, reciprocity, redistribution, and repair. We ask a simple but powerful question: what would our streets and mobility systems look like if care was treated as essential infrastructure? This project is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme via the JUST STREETS (Grant agreement No 101104240) project. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. |
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