TU Delft Mobility|Society Initiative kicks off with online workshop
The way we have designed society's mobility options are hurting us and the planet. Just look at traffic jams, pollution, and the inequality or exclusion it causes within vulnerable populations. We talk and think about mobility in a language and through a narrative that has been fixed for decades. And it’s about time we started designing a new narrative for the relationship between mobility and society.
To rethink this narrative, Delft design researchers Professor Matthijs van Dijk, Eui Young Kim and Elmer van Grondelle started the TU Delft Mobility|Society Initiative. On 8 June, they invited more than 50 mobility researchers - from Delft, the Netherlands, Europe and beyond - to join them for an online workshop. From civil engineers and designers to mobility industry anthropologists, activists, writers, and with contributions from Nynke Tromp and Lowie Vermeersch... The group used the Vision on Product (ViP) design method to share and deconstruct their current knowledge.
In the coming months, the Mobility|Society Initiative will share their findings to reshape how we think about mobility, culminating in a book and live event in 2022. Stay tuned and follow the Mobility|Society's journey via www.tudelft.nl/mobility-society
Elmer van Grondelle
- +31 (0)15 27 89488
- e.d.vangrondelle@tudelft.nl
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Room C-3-220
"I am not here to teach you. You are here for my entertainment."
