NonA Weekly: NEXT MOVE
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Dear readers and friends,
NEXT MOVE is a compilation of design challenges that aim to approach the idea of transportation from different perspectives:
// STREET OF TOMORROW
With a new perspective on mobility, it must come a new set of design principles for street management, street design, and mobility creation. This competitions’ purpose is to carry streets forward by imagining a new paradigm on urban mobility that reconnects people and reimagines the urban space.
// HONG KONG DRONE PORT.
As cities become highly populated and technology evolves, it has become likely that air mobility might be part of the transportation modes of the future. In this scenario, drones become part of transportation networks in future cities, by replacing or supplementing existing ones. By imagining a world where the urban airspace is populated by drones and aerial vehicles, drone ports become a necessity – a building to support autonomous air traffic. It is up to the participant to propose how the built environment may adapt to this new reality, as well as the specificities and type of use of the drones.
1. CITIES ON THE MOVE: WHAT THE EXPERTS PREDICT FOR THE FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY
In our increasingly urbanized world, everything and everyone has adopted a lifestyle of nomadism. New environmental and social constraints have forced people to have a constant “on-the-go” behaviour, so much so that almost everything has acquired WHEELS, even the buildings.
2. NEW MOBILITY
The new possibilities of physical MOBILITY in the industrial age have decisively influenced architecture and city planning. the new mobility has significantly altered the structure and urban image.
3. RETHINKING MOBILITY TO DESIGN CITIES FOR HUMANS
An INTERVIEW with Max Schwitalla questions how can we transform our cities through small-scale solutions, mobility hubs and citizen participation, putting sustainability and quality of life at the centre?
4. WITH NEW MOBILITY, DESIGN IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT
Technology-enabled transportation systems have scaled up at an incredible rate. There will be even more rapid change coming, along with new forms of TRANSPORTATION not yet envisioned. The coming changes make smart street design that can create equitable access to multiple forms of personal mobility even more important.
5. MAJOR URBAN MOBILITY TRENDS OF THE FUTURE
All experts agree on one thing at least: the MOBILITY of 2021 can no longer be the mobility of 2030. Cities have to be there for people again, and not for cars.
6. THE FUTURE OF CITIES – MOBILITY
The mobility of goods and people is one of the essential elements of urban development, characterising urban space and how it functions. Over the past 50 years, personal TRANSPORT has been dominated by private vehicles powered by internal combustion engines.
7. THE FUTURE OF URBAN MOBILITY: HOW WILL WE MOVE IN 30 YEARS?
While the pandemic is still very present in our daily lives, the transportation sector has taken a big blow: travel restrictions, social distancing, other countries still under curfew… All this leaves room for real frustration within populations in dire need of TRAVEL and escape.
Stay creative and see you next week.
Daniela
