ACADEMIC
POST-CAR DIALOGS
PROVIDING AN IMMERSIVE TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
The Spirit
Considering the concept of driving based on the journey, not the destination,
providing an immersive travel experience.
Topic 1
Creating an innovative interdisciplinary vision and continuing to demonstrate its commitment to shape the new form of future mobility better suited to the way we interact today.
Topic 2
Questioning what are the technological and socio-cultural progresses and how these will affect the evolution of the car and its intended use.
Topic 3
Investigating the reliance on machines as advanced future technologies continue transforming human-to-machine interfaces to create more human-like relationships with vehicles.
Topic 4
Creating a collaborative expression, synergistic scope, sensorial comprehension, and an emotional experience to propose a deep reflection on new forms of mobility.
Topic 5
Seeking further relationships between user and driver to attach the driver more to the car, both physically and emotionally.
POST-CAR DIALOGS
Thought-provocation and future-watching with changing life needs, mobility patterns, and technology. Denoting the changes that are taking place within the automotive industry and technology at present.
Considering the vehicles consist of an interface of interaction between people and their environment, still or in motion,.
Proposing an innovative approach to vehicle design as a method of inquiry and focusing on transportation programs, considering a new and entirely mobile subculture.
Creating a bridge between private demands for transport and sustainable public systems among digital systems will allow users a vast scope of possibilities.
Creating an inter-modal mobility approach for a global region that would enhance mobility in a clean, safe, and efficient manner.
Challenging to design mobility solutions that would best serve the needs of an underserved region of the world.
Seeing the creativity of prospective designers and having valuable insight from their vision for future mobility and how the context of cars may evolve.
Task is to envision how connectivity and digitalization will revolutionize modern car design.
Focusing on driving experiences and coming in response to the rise in self-driving vehicles have taken center stage.
Considering digital mobility and car sharing platforms to make the car a physical meeting point within the digital networks.
Developing content and experiences for the connected car and envisioning the role content plays in the autonomous car experience.
Questioning how cars will react to the world, change transportation infrastructure, and how people’s lives will change as a result.
Investigating how a redefining purpose will transform a vehicle’s form and function will play a role in shaping new journeys.
Discovering new cars is increasingly feature-focused, and consumers are more aware of the benefits of smart technology in their cars.
Using renewable sources of energy, such as transparent solar cells, self-generated electricity, and wind power, in urban environments.
Considering apps bring people together as both an information service and an exchange platform as a car community, users can meet, exchange ideas, and interchange parts of vehicles.
Designing vehicles that interface with future users' lives by enhancing productivity and connectivity in their cyber networks.
Carpooling systems aim to be a combination of different volumes to minimize the increasing problem of traffic congestion in urban areas while still retaining a degree of privacy for users to be connected and productive during the commute.
Redesigning the interior concept of a car gives the possibility to simulate multiple driving conditions, such as business, van, and leisure.
Making the car‘s interior as usable and comfortable as possible for private purposes and satisfying high demands. Seeking to bring the outside in an organic way to encourage the occupant to interact with their surroundings.
Proposing high-efficiency hybrid vehicles running for long periods of time and distance and adjusting vehicles to suit local environments and road conditions.
Questioning the modern luxury paradigm; understanding the value of time in regard.
Aiming to focus on electric vehicle platforms, auto-motion, and personalization that offers users an opportunity to extensively modify their vehicle based on their desires.
Understanding how the electric powertrain affects vehicle architecture allows designers to provide distinctively fresh mobility between people, technology, and urban infrastructure.
Looking into on-demand car ownership and car sharing.
Adopting solar technology to decrease pollution and primarily serving cars as solar panel devices with smart glass technology.
Envisioning a sustainable society. Clean generation from a wide range of primary renewable and regenerative energy sources by local and self-sufficient power is also in motion. Using renewable energy for inhaling air pollution and emitting clean air.
Cars are used as power generators. Aiming to add a new sense of purpose to the cars as power sources within their community.
Creating a car that could also be used after the journey concerning autonomy and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
Providing a significant impetus for the emerging analysis of mobility in modern societies and examining the car and its promises of autonomy as one of the most dominant forms of future mobility.
Accelerating the car as one of the central areas of economic, social, and political consequences and considering its high impact on transforming the time-space scope of modern urban-suburban inhabitants.
Proposing cars as a holistic medium in the context of modular mobility and amphibious vehicles.
Aiming to promote flexibility inside the car through the use of self-folding, self-assembled, shaped, memorized, and programmable materials, putting emphasis on new forming abilities.
Making research into the use of revolutionary new materials, investigating natural constructions, and individualized 3D printing manufacturing processes.
Developing a reconfigurable, flexible, transformable, adaptive car interior in terms of space (adding additional seats or subtracting to create a more spacious cabin).
Using cars as data hubs that assimilate large amounts of data from the surrounding area as well as contributing information themselves.
Creating a vehicle that would grow with the user by expanding, extending, and contracting based on their needs is a natural process.
Creating an intelligent skin that changes form while driving as a hull of air, a skin of light, and an active skin that uses micro-technologies to embed multiple functions onto the surface of the car.
Seeking how biomimicry can influence vehicle design to benefit the environment. Considering artificial photosynthesis, muscles, intelligence, and interactive biodegradable materials that are reactive to electricity, water, and thermal changes.
Developing cars into devices with their own intelligence and the capacity to act while still providing information.
Creating a vehicle driven by the human brain and eco-tour machines powered by natural processes by using magnetic levitation and advanced sensors.
Leading the mobile revolution to a system of different devices that combine efficiency with an individualized urban lifestyle.
Questioning what additional functions cars might have in order to offer people benefits for a better community above and beyond the transportation paradigm to create a more positive perception of cars, which are often seen as bad things.
Changing the fact that the current global car occupancy rate is 1.3 people per vehicle and cars are parked for 95% of their lives and occupy 65% of urban mass.
Creating the Post-Car by shifting the idea of the car when not in use.
Proposing the future of ''moving together'' as shared mobility experiences by maintaining the historic and traditional interactions between the car and the driver.
Mobile Revolution: The city itself is changing into an utopian place. Creating a city is based on a place that is not organized by functions (divided into functional areas such as living, working, shopping, and leisure) but by mobility requirements following different needs of speed.
Considering buildings and cars have much in common, from construction to use, and they depend on energy and resources, both homes and cars have similar living systems. Developing a car so that it can incorporate mobile and immobile elements could prove a worthwhile strategy in terms of sustainability.
Creating an energy flow between home and car that is symbiotic in nature and considering cars as energy accumulators on wheels while home is a supplier and receiver of shared energy.
Considering the surface as a floating and adaptive skin, a vehicle should tailor itself to the requirements of the user and their driving style. It interacts with its surroundings and environment, visibly altering its appearance in response to natural changes such as light, sound, and heat conditions.
Questioning how a vehicle can alter and adapt its movement by observing the nature around it with reference to the user's requirements and exploring the transition of air, light, and sound from the surrounding environment.
Building up a new interactive relationship between lighting systems and users that would transpire the user's mood.
Setting new car design trends to evoke the emotion of movement and the notion of how a moving object can communicate, apart from the idea behind designing cars to look ''as if moving when standing still’'.
Exploring advanced smart transportation systems based on self-driving cars; driving autonomously; attaching and detaching them when in motion. Despite the enhanced technology, it is also worth considering that the car is still meant to be driven by a human to provide driving pleasure.
Integrating various media into car design through the digitalization of information since more data is being digitalized, such as sound, image, and text, and making users able to use electro-sensuous instruments based on tangible interfaces as a reference for digital interactions and tactile as well as functional concerns.
Creating dualities reflected in contrasting choices of materials such as complexity and simplicity acting together and using piezoelectric materials that can create energy when compressed.
Considering a car as an art object and a sculpture that visually expresses emotions that inspire and impress the observer with its pure aesthetic appeal, sensuous aspirations, and highly sophisticated symbolic characteristics.
Setting a multiple chain of associations in movement, motion, speed, dynamism, and a unique artistic creation in terms of car design.
Designing and reflecting individual interpretations of sudden visual emotions observed in nature and understanding nature's randomness with reference to human life.
Observing nature's diversity and perfection and developing a creative process without constraints while not simply mimicking nature. Looking at the structures of nature to give shape, strength, and solidity to the car and its extended components.
FUTURE MOBILITY
Seeking Intelligent Ways to Shape the Urban Mobility of Tomorrow
The world is changing at a rapid pace, and populations are growing more quickly. According to forecasts, 60 percent of all people will live in metropolitan areas with populations of over eight million people by the year 2030, primarily in Asia and South America. Meanwhile, this workshop is focusing on working to develop answers to the questions resulting from this trend.
In this context, the initiative should be an interdisciplinary forum that networks creative thinkers among architects, sociologists, city planners, and trend researchers across the whole world by bridging the gaps between experts of various disciplines, cultures, and perspectives. The joint discussions should target the analysis of mobility in the megacities of the future and seek to find possible solutions.
During the course, we should be merging actual local conditions and possibilities for a sustainable mobile future. In this context, the range of topics should be as multifaceted as the megacities themselves, as in some cities what is needed is flexible, spontaneous use of public space, while in others the focus is on seamless mobility that combines different modes of transportation. Furthermore, another topic that should be taken into consideration is the intelligent communication between cars and cities. Besides covering technical aspects, the findings and ideas that should result from this process also incorporate social, environmental, and aesthetic aspects.
Mobility and access to goods and services are essential to the efficient functioning of our cities and towns as they expand. Mobility is an important part of city design, as it contributes not only to the livability of a city in terms of reduced congestion and pollution but also to its economic potential by allowing the efficient movement of people and goods. Furthermore, mobility is at the core of equitable access to basic goods, services, and activities such as work, education, medical care, shopping, and socializing to enable people to participate in civic life.
Over time, the collective costs of automobility have become abundantly apparent, including urban sprawl, air and noise pollution, climate change, road traffic, and accidents. Urban planning and design should focus on how to bring people and places together by creating cities that focus on accessibility rather than simply increasing the length and capacity of urban transport infrastructure. Therefore, we need to ensure the mobility of the future is well-planned, sustainable, and safer for everyone.
For the mobile generation, the significance of the car as an individual status symbol is changing. Its expression of achievement and luxury will become secondary as new values gain increasing importance, such as sharing rather than owning, concerning integrated sustainable mobility. New needs such as seamless networking with the community and wide-ranging interaction with the surroundings have already been created and will become more firmly established. In the medium term, these requirements will lead to a new architecture for the car; at the same time, electric drive systems enable innovative packaging concepts that will make these changes possible. The new role of the car in society will create space in major cities for other forms of individual mobility, such as lean, lightweight, and efficient vehicles with two, three, or four wheels.
Manufacturers have already solved the function of the car, and as reliability is no longer a concern for the consumer, design is now crucial.
Considering that the future city will be problematic in a rather complex and systematic way in terms of transportation and global issues, it is required to discern that the ''big three'' below now dominate the car design world.
1. Connecting with customers will become more important. With an increasingly sophisticated consumer, it is vital to keep them in the loop on design, leading to greater diversity and customization.
2. Cars will interact with people, each other, and the city itself. Modern technologies in cars will have a larger impact on city planning and systems as cars become a part of the urban network.
3. New technologies will reshape the manufacturing of cars, as revolutionary methods of production will provide the opportunity for new platforms and architecture.
The car is in the process of changing, and the role of the car will change in future mobility. It will acquire even more capabilities and intelligence and might become a mobile device, an information hub, or a tool for mobility with smart networking and communication solutions as new lightweight and efficient vehicles increasingly populate the big cities. Today’s evidence proves that in the future, there won’t be just the car but rather various forms of socially hybrid mobility. Therefore, this workshop is aiming to develop new concepts and creative ideas, examine how to perceive the mobile world, and transfer the findings to future mobility scenarios.
During the process, projects will be discussed in terms of architectural, functional, aesthetical, technological, cultural, social, environmental, economical, and sustainable aspects.
Future
A setting and an opportunity that we can now start to shape for a better world.
Design
A tool that allows us to express our desires and shape the cars of the future by making their features more purposeful in the right blend between form and function.
Accessibility
A layout to use the car itself as a service with its exterior and improved interior design, more user-friendly interfaces, flexibility and comfort with fewer frames and heavy structures, and a more visible environment.
Sustainability
A mobility paradigm that creates sustainable changes for future generations, considering ecological, social, economic, and environmental responsibilities.
Upgrading the global transportation system is a process of mediation between the anticipation of the past and the prospects of the future, yet this process is achievable through creative, innovative, and open thinking.
CONCEPTS AND SUBJECTS
As a general approach, not only for convenience purposes but also for better traffic management and road safety, projects must be considered as transport methods to effectively get people from A to B (mostly) powered emission-free energy sources, roll silently through the city, adapt the interior to the users’s needs, and offer access to communication and information channels.
Flexible innercity vehicles
Designed for short to medium distances within an urban environment.
Small size for easy navigation and parking.
1/4 passenger and limited storage space (flexible, customizable setup). Light weight in structure.
High customizability of interiors and compatibility with everyday items. Suitable for car and ride sharing.
Self- or partially remote-controlled (switchable).
The safety of passengers takes precedence over visual interaction with the outside world. Technological, lightweight, new, and accident-free materials.
Long-Distance Cruisers
Act as a city link, allowing greater freedom and range.
Bigger size for higher energy, smoother operation, storage space, and comfort. Increased window size for visual interaction with the outside.
Self- or partially remote-controlled (switchable).
Technological, lightweight, new, and accident-free materials.
The five subjects that emerge in the distant future of better mobility.
E: Mobility
Smart charging methods for electric cars.
Possibility for the manufacturers to be able to add the apps.
Ability to change the settings of the controls in the car.
Maximum customization to better adapt to the driver.
Maximum integration between cars, connections, and information sources. bringing the power of digital networks to the world of cars.
Transform itself around the user’s needs; modular open platforms.
Sub-surface activity.
Multi-layer body. Electroactive methods.
Car Sharing
Having many and different vehicles without actual ownership.
Car as a product and service available on new shared ownership models in an attempt to reduce overall car numbers and improve inner city life.
Easy intermodality and infinite possibilities; variety of choices and combinations.
Low users’s costs, no ownership expenses, reduced parking charges, and no maintenance. Sharing or owning methodology, or both.
Autonomous Cars
The addition of two ingredients to the dominant concept of private car automation and intelligence: an improved transportation scheme.
Due to the shift in communication shifting online, vehicles are now part of people’s social networks.
Autonomous cars (driveless cars, smart cars) comprise different conceptions such as automated highways, automated navigation, intelligent public services, smart roads and signs, and information for commuters and travelers.
Self-controlled cars can offer a high degree of flexibility.
Smart cars can help people avoid accidents. Convenience for car-lowers and flexibility-seeking people.
Smart Roads
New long-distance transportation services and networks.
Proving that computers and communication technologies may revolutionize transportation by adding automation, intelligence, and interaction between routes and cars.
The feature of an intelligent transportation network is that it precises real-time interaction between cars and roads.
Hyperloops: speeding on air cushions through elevated and low-pressure tubes.
Hydro-Utility Transportation
Underwater transportation systems that use the city’s water sources, such as rivers, lakes, and sand, are inspired by sea creatures.
Hydroefficiency, or under- or on-water transportation, is a part of the transportation network. Bio-luminescene; as a power by catching the organism in the water.
Biomimicry includes the intelligence of deep-sea creatures and considering nature’s answers to human transportation challenges.
Symbiosis is a relationship that creates mutual benefits between vehicles and nature.
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