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Mobilising Design

254 Pages

by Routledge

252 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

252 Pages 35 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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Description

This book brings together research working at the boundary between design knowledges and mobilities, offering a novel collection for both theorists and practitioners. Drawing upon detailed case studies, it demonstrates the diverse roles of design in shaping mobility at different spaces and scales: across cities; within different types of buildings and infrastructures; and through commuting, work... Read more

Introduction (Justin Spinney, Suzanne Reimer and Philip Pinch)

Part I: Designing mobility: mobile subjects and practices

1. From the movement of things to movement in things: object-environments and the neoliberal sensorium (Guy Julier)

2.“Spoiled”, “bored”, “irritated” and “nervous”: the transformations of a mobile subject in airport design discourse (Anna Nikolaeva)

3. Legible London: mobilising the pedestrian (Spencer Clark, Philip Pinch and Suzanne Reimer)

4. Bicycle design history and systems of mobility (Peter Cox)

5. Rushing, dashing, scrambling: the role of the train station in producing the reluctant runner (Simon Cook)

6. Reforming design mobilities via 3D printing (Thomas Birtchnell, John Urry and Justin Westgate)

Part II: Mobilising design: the mobility of design knowledge and practice

7.Why ship air? packaging design, mobilities, and the materiality of void fillers (Craig Martin)

8.Designing signals, mediating mobility: Traffic management and mobility practices in interwar Stockholm (Martin Emanuel)

9. MotoGP and heterogeneous design (Philip Pinch and Suzanne Reimer)

10.Universalising and particularising design with Professor Kawauchi (Kim Kullman)

11.Artefacts, affordances and the design of mobilities (Ole B. Jensen, Ditte Bendix Lanng and Simon Wind)

Part III: Design knowledges: making connections

12.Towards a new discipline: the design of urban vehicles (Lino Vital García-Verdugo)

13. Being wheeled through the hospital: designing for hospital patients’ spatial experience in motion (Margo Annemans, Chantal Van Audenhove, Hilde Vermolen and Ann Heylighen)

14.Border crossings: exploring artefacts of mobility with blind and visually impaired users (Jayne Jeffries and Peter Wright)

15.Feeling the commute: affect, emotion and communities in motion (Emily Falconer)

16.Drawing mobile shared spaces: Brighton bench study (Lesley Murray and Sue Robertson)

Conclusions (Justin Spinney, Suzanne Reimer and Philip Pinch)