ACADEMIC
POST-CAR DIALOGS
Thought-provoking and Future-focused Concepts in Mobility
PROVIDING AN IMMERSIVE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
The Spirit
Emphasizing the concept of driving as a journey rather than a destination, with a focus on providing an immersive travel experience.
Fostering an innovative interdisciplinary vision while continuing to shape the future of mobility, better suited to contemporary modes of interaction.
Exploring technological and socio-cultural advancements and their impact on the evolution of cars and their intended use.
Examining the increasing reliance on machines as advanced technologies transform human-to-machine interfaces, fostering more human-like relationships with vehicles.
Developing a collaborative expression, synergistic scope, sensory comprehension, and emotional resonance to inspire deep reflection on new forms of mobility.
Investigating deeper relationships between users and drivers to enhance the physical and emotional connection with cars.
POST-CAR DIALOGS
Important Aspects of the Evolving Automotive Landscape
Exploring the changing life needs, mobility patterns, and technological advancements, with an emphasis on the transformative shifts within the automotive industry and technology.
Considering vehicles as interfaces for interaction between people and their environments, whether stationary or in motion.
Proposing an innovative approach to vehicle design as a method of inquiry, focusing on transportation programs that address the emergence of an entirely new, mobile subculture.
Building a bridge between private transportation demands and sustainable public systems through digital platforms that offer users a wide array of possibilities.
Developing an intermodal mobility strategy for global regions, aimed at enhancing mobility in a clean, safe, and efficient manner.
Addressing the challenge of designing mobility solutions that best serve the needs of underserved regions worldwide.
Recognizing the creativity of emerging designers and gaining valuable insights into their visions for the future of mobility and how the role of cars may evolve.
Envisioning how connectivity and digitalization will revolutionize modern car design.
Focusing on driving experiences and responding to the rise of self-driving vehicles, which have taken center stage in the automotive conversation.
Considering digital mobility and car-sharing platforms as tools to make the car a physical meeting point within digital networks.
Developing content and experiences tailored for connected cars while reimagining the role of content in the autonomous vehicle experience.
Questioning how cars will respond to the world, reshape transportation infrastructure, and alter people’s lives as a result.
Investigating how a redefined purpose for vehicles will transform their form and function, shaping new journeys and experiences.
Recognizing that new cars are increasingly feature-focused, with consumers becoming more aware of the benefits of smart technologies integrated into their vehicles.
Exploring the use of renewable energy sources—such as transparent solar cells, self-generated electricity, and wind power—in urban environments.
Considering apps as platforms that bring people together, serving both as information services and exchange spaces for car communities, enabling users to connect, share ideas, and swap vehicle parts.
Designing vehicles that seamlessly integrate into future users’ lives, enhancing productivity and connectivity within their cyber networks.
Carpooling systems aim to combine various solutions to reduce traffic congestion in urban areas while maintaining user privacy and enabling connectivity and productivity during commutes.
Redesigning car interiors offers the flexibility to simulate multiple driving scenarios, such as business, van, and leisure, making the space adaptable to diverse needs.
Prioritizing usability and comfort in car interiors enhances the private experience, meeting high expectations. Incorporating organic elements into the design encourages occupants to engage with their surroundings.
Proposing high-efficiency hybrid vehicles capable of operating over long durations and distances while adapting to local environmental and road conditions.
Reevaluating the modern luxury paradigm by emphasizing the value of time and its relationship to mobility.
Focusing on electric vehicle platforms, automation, and personalization to allow users extensive customization based on their preferences.
Understanding the impact of electric powertrains on vehicle architecture enables designers to create innovative connections between people, technology, and urban infrastructure.
Exploring on-demand car ownership and car-sharing models as emerging trends in mobility.
Integrating solar technology to reduce pollution and utilizing smart glass technology, envisioning cars primarily as solar-powered devices.
Envisioning a sustainable society where cars contribute to clean energy generation using renewable sources and local, self-sufficient power systems to reduce air pollution and emit clean air.
Reimagining cars as power generators within their communities, adding a new layer of purpose and utility beyond traditional transportation.
Designing cars that remain functional beyond the journey, incorporating autonomy and vehicle-to-vehicle communication for enhanced usability.
Contributing to the analysis of mobility in modern societies, exploring the car’s promises of autonomy as a dominant form of future mobility.
Highlighting the car’s role in shaping economic, social, and political dynamics, particularly its influence on transforming the time-space framework of urban and suburban living.
Proposing cars as holistic mediums for modular mobility, including concepts such as amphibious vehicles.
Promoting interior flexibility through advanced materials, such as self-folding, self-assembling, shape-memory, and programmable materials, emphasizing innovative form and function.
Exploring the use of revolutionary materials, investigating natural constructions, and advancing individualized 3D printing manufacturing processes.
Developing reconfigurable, flexible, and adaptive car interiors that can transform spatially—such as adding or removing seats to create a more spacious cabin.
Using cars as data hubs capable of assimilating vast amounts of data from their surroundings while simultaneously contributing information to the ecosystem.
Designing vehicles that grow with users, naturally expanding, extending, or contracting to meet their evolving needs.
Creating intelligent car exteriors with adaptive skins that change form while driving, such as air-filled hulls, light-reactive surfaces, and micro-embedded technologies for multifunctional capabilities.
Exploring how biomimicry can influence vehicle design to benefit the environment, incorporating artificial photosynthesis, bio-inspired muscles, intelligent systems, and biodegradable materials reactive to electricity, water, and temperature changes.
Developing vehicles as autonomous devices with built-in intelligence, capable of both independent actions and information-sharing.
Pioneering brain-driven vehicles and eco-tour machines powered by natural processes, leveraging magnetic levitation and advanced sensory technologies.
Leading a mobile revolution by creating systems that combine efficiency with individualized urban lifestyles, enhancing user experiences.
Reimagining additional functions for cars to contribute beyond transportation, fostering community benefits and shifting perceptions of cars from negative to positive societal assets.
Addressing inefficiencies such as the global average of 1.3 occupants per vehicle, the fact that cars are parked 95% of the time, and the 65% urban space they occupy, to propose more sustainable mobility solutions.
Transforming the concept of the car when not in use into a "Post-Car," offering new functionalities and value.
Promoting shared mobility experiences as part of the future of "moving together," while maintaining historic and traditional interactions between cars and their drivers.
Reimagining cities as utopian spaces shaped by mobility requirements rather than divided by traditional functional zones such as living, working, shopping, and leisure.
Recognizing the similarities between buildings and cars—from construction methods to energy use—and developing cars that integrate both mobile and stationary elements as a strategy for sustainability.
Creating a symbiotic energy flow between homes and cars, with cars acting as mobile energy accumulators and homes serving as both suppliers and receivers in a shared energy system.
Considering the vehicle's surface as a floating and adaptive skin, it should tailor itself to the user's requirements and driving style. The vehicle interacts with its surroundings, visibly altering its appearance in response to natural changes such as light, sound, and heat conditions.
Exploring how a vehicle can adapt its movement by observing and responding to nature, while referencing the user's requirements, and investigating the transitions of air, light, and sound from the surrounding environment.
Building a new interactive relationship between lighting systems and users, where the lighting reflects and conveys the user’s mood.
Setting new trends in car design that evoke the emotion of movement and explore how a moving object can communicate, beyond the traditional concept of designing cars to look "as if moving when standing still."
Advancing smart transportation systems based on self-driving cars that can autonomously attach and detach while in motion. Despite these technological advancements, it remains essential to consider the joy of human-driven experiences and the pleasure derived from driving.
Integrating various media into car design through the digitalization of information—such as sound, image, and text—enabling users to interact with electro-sensuous instruments through tangible interfaces, addressing both digital and tactile concerns.
Creating dualities in design through contrasting material choices, such as combining complexity with simplicity, and incorporating piezoelectric materials capable of generating energy when compressed.
Envisioning the car as an art object and sculpture that visually expresses emotions, inspires, and captivates observers with its aesthetic purity, sensuous aspirations, and sophisticated symbolic qualities.
Establishing a chain of associations with movement, motion, speed, and dynamism, crafting car designs as unique artistic creations.
Reflecting individual interpretations of sudden visual emotions observed in nature, while understanding its inherent randomness in relation to human life.
Drawing inspiration from the diversity and perfection of nature to guide the creative process without simply mimicking it, using natural structures to inform the car’s shape, strength, and solidity, as well as that of its extended components.
FUTURE MOBILITY
Seeking Intelligent Ways to Shape the Urban Mobility
The world is changing rapidly, with populations growing at an unprecedented rate. Forecasts predict that by 2030, 60 percent of the global population will live in metropolitan areas with populations exceeding eight million, primarily in Asia and South America. This workshop focuses on addressing the pressing questions arising from this trend.
In this context, the initiative should serve as an interdisciplinary forum that connects creative thinkers—architects, sociologists, urban planners, and trend researchers—across the globe. By bridging the gaps between experts from diverse disciplines, cultures, and perspectives, the discussions aim to analyze mobility challenges in the megacities of the future and propose innovative solutions.
The course will merge current local conditions with opportunities for a sustainable mobile future. The topics should reflect the diversity of megacities, addressing unique needs: some cities require flexible, spontaneous use of public spaces, while others demand seamless mobility systems that integrate multiple modes of transportation. Additionally, intelligent communication between vehicles and cities will be a key focus. Beyond technical aspects, the resulting ideas and findings must incorporate social, environmental, and aesthetic considerations.
Mobility and access to goods and services are fundamental to the efficient functioning of expanding cities and towns. Mobility contributes not only to the livability of urban areas by reducing congestion and pollution but also to their economic potential by facilitating the efficient movement of people and goods. Moreover, mobility underpins equitable access to essential resources and opportunities, such as employment, education, healthcare, shopping, and social engagement, enabling inclusive participation in civic life.
However, the collective costs of automobility have become increasingly evident, including urban sprawl, air and noise pollution, climate change, traffic congestion, and accidents. Urban planning and design must prioritize bringing people and places together by creating cities that emphasize accessibility over merely expanding transport infrastructure. The future of mobility must be planned thoughtfully to ensure it is sustainable, equitable, and safer for all.
For the mobile generation, the significance of the car as a personal status symbol is evolving. While cars have traditionally been viewed as expressions of achievement and luxury, new values are emerging, emphasizing sharing over ownership and integrating sustainable mobility into daily life. These shifts are creating new demands, such as seamless networking within communities and extensive interaction with urban surroundings.
In the medium term, these changing requirements will lead to a reimagined architecture for cars. Electric drive systems, for example, allow for innovative packaging concepts that make these transformations feasible. Additionally, the car's new role in society will create opportunities for other forms of individual mobility in major cities. Lean, lightweight, and efficient vehicles with two, three, or four wheels will contribute to a more sustainable urban mobility ecosystem.
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Manufacturers have already addressed the functional needs of cars, and with reliability no longer a primary concern for consumers, design has become paramount.
As future cities face increasingly complex and systematic challenges related to transportation and global issues, it is essential to recognize that the "big three" trends now dominate the car design world:
. Connecting with customers: Building stronger connections with consumers will become increasingly important. As consumers grow more sophisticated, involving them in the design process will lead to greater diversity and customization.
. Car interaction: Cars will increasingly interact with people, one another, and the city itself. Modern automotive technologies will significantly influence urban planning and infrastructure as vehicles integrate into the broader urban network.
. Technological advancements in manufacturing: Revolutionary production methods will reshape car manufacturing, enabling innovative platforms and architectures.
The car is undergoing a transformation, and its role in future mobility will evolve. Cars will gain advanced capabilities and intelligence, potentially becoming mobile devices, information hubs, or tools for seamless mobility through smart networking and communication solutions. As lightweight and efficient vehicles increasingly dominate urban areas, evidence suggests that future mobility will go beyond the traditional car, encompassing various forms of socially hybrid transportation.
This workshop aims to develop new concepts and creative ideas, explore how we perceive the mobile world, and translate these insights into actionable scenarios for the future of mobility.
During the process, projects will be evaluated through architectural, functional, aesthetic, technological, cultural, social, environmental, economic, and sustainable perspectives.
Future
An opportunity to shape a better world, starting today.
Design
A tool to express our aspirations and define the cars of the future, blending form and function to create purposeful features.
Accessibility
A concept that reimagines the car as a service, emphasizing exterior and interior design improvements for user-friendly interfaces, flexibility, comfort, reduced structural bulk, and enhanced environmental visibility.
Sustainability
A mobility paradigm that fosters sustainable change for future generations by addressing ecological, social, economic, and environmental responsibilities.
Upgrading the global transportation system involves mediating between the lessons of the past and the visions of the future. This process is attainable through creative, innovative, and open thinking.
CONCEPTS AND SUBJECTS
As a general approach, not only for convenience but also for improved traffic management and road safety, projects should be envisioned as transport methods that effectively move people from A to B. These methods should predominantly rely on emission-free energy sources, operate silently through the city, adapt interiors to users’ needs, and provide access to communication and information channels.
Flexible Inner-City Vehicles
. Designed for short to medium distances within urban environments.
. Small size for easy navigation and parking.
. Accommodates 1-4 passengers with limited but customizable storage space.
. Lightweight structure.
. High customizability of interiors and compatibility with everyday items.
. Ideal for car and ride sharing.
. Self-controlled or partially remote-controlled (switchable modes).
. Passenger safety prioritized over visual interaction with the outside world.
. Incorporates lightweight, advanced, and accident-resistant materials.
Long-Distance Cruisers
. Serves as a city link, offering greater freedom and range.
. Larger size for increased energy capacity, smoother operation, enhanced storage, and improved comfort.
. Features larger windows for enhanced visual interaction with the surroundings.
. Self-controlled or partially remote-controlled (switchable modes).
. Built with lightweight, advanced, and accident-resistant materials.
The Five Subjects Emerging in the Distant Future of Better Mobility
E: Mobility
. Smart charging methods for electric vehicles.
. Capability for manufacturers to integrate apps.
. Customizable control settings within vehicles.
. Maximum personalization to better suit driver preferences.
. Seamless integration between cars, digital connections, and information sources.
. Bringing the power of digital networks into the automotive world.
. Modular, open platforms that adapt to user needs.
. Sub-surface functionality.
. Multi-layered vehicle bodies.
. Electroactive technologies.
Car Sharing
. Access to a variety of vehicles without actual ownership.
. Cars as both products and services available through new shared ownership models, aiming to reduce overall car numbers and improve inner-city living.
. Facilitates easy intermodality with endless possibilities and combinations.
. Lower user costs: no ownership expenses, reduced parking fees, and no maintenance charges.
. A flexible approach combining sharing and ownership methodologies—or a blend of both.
Autonomous Cars
. Incorporating automation and intelligence into the dominant private car model creates an enhanced transportation system.
. With communication increasingly shifting online, vehicles are becoming integral to people’s social networks.
. Autonomous cars (driverless or smart cars) encompass concepts like automated highways, intelligent navigation, smart public services, advanced road systems, and commuter information.
. Self-controlled cars provide a high degree of flexibility.
. Smart cars enhance safety by helping users avoid accidents.
. Ideal for car enthusiasts and those seeking convenience and flexibility.
Smart Roads
. Revolutionizing long-distance transportation services and networks.
. Demonstrating how computers and communication technologies can transform transportation through automation, intelligence, and seamless interaction between routes and vehicles.
. Intelligent transportation networks enable real-time interaction between cars and roads.
. Hyperloops: traveling at high speeds on air cushions through elevated, low-pressure tubes.
Hydro-Utility Transportation
. Underwater transportation systems that utilize a city’s water resources—such as rivers, lakes, and seas—are inspired by marine life.
. Hydro-efficiency, or on- and under-water transportation, is an integral part of the broader transportation network.
. Bioluminescence serves as a power source by harnessing organisms found in the water.
. Biomimicry draws from the intelligence of deep-sea creatures, taking inspiration from nature’s solutions to human transportation challenges.
. Symbiosis describes a relationship that creates mutual benefits between vehicles and nature.
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