Mobility Design: Shaping Future Mobility

Climate change and increasing resource scarcity together with rising traffic volumes force us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented mobility options. In order to provide a positive mobility experience, the transition from one mobility mode to another must be managed smoothly and safely, and individual, shared or public means of transportation must become convenient and easy. Conceptual as well as existing infrastructure projects provide models for future sustainable and connected mobility. This volume focuses on the importance of design, introducing through photos, plans, and brief texts over 60 groundbreaking projects from the disciplines of product design, architecture, and urban planning. With this international overview Mobility Design portrays the current situation of sustainable mobility systems, while identifying mobility as one of the most important design tasks of the future.

Peter Eckart is a product designer, professor of integrative design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design, and a partner at the design studio unit-design with offices in Frankfurt am Main and Berne. His research interests are mobility design, system-oriented design, the mobility revolution, design and complexity, public design, and sustainability.

Kai Vöckler is an urbanist and professor of urban design at the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. His research focuses on mobility design, post-conflict city development, product language, spatial design, and ecology and design.