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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 and leisure activities.
A range of international scholars illustrate the designed mobilities of car parks, traffic lights, street benches, pedestrian wayfinding systems and accessible design in the urban environment; they examine spaces within hospitals, airports and train stations and investigate design practices for bicycles, future urban vehicles and MotoGP motorcycle racing. Other contributions explore overlooked mobile artefacts such as television and video game remote controls, 3D printing and the types of packaging which enable objects themselves to move around. This book demonstrates how the tools, assumptions and processes of design shape spaces of mobility, and also illuminates how shifts in the fluidity and circulation of people, practices and materials in turn reconfigure practices of design.
Mobilising Design develops multi-disciplinary understandings of design, drawing upon diverse literatures including design history, product design, architecture and cultural geography. By highlighting often invisible artefacts and associated knowledges and controversies, the book foregrounds the taken-for-granted ways in which everyday mobility is designed. It will be of interest to scholars in geography, sociology, economic history, architecture, design and urban theory.
List of contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
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 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 Garciìa-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 Susan Robertson
Conclusion
Justin Spinney, Suzanne Reimer and Philip Pinch
Index
About the author
Justin Spinney is Lecturer in Human Geography at Cardiff University.
Suzanne Reimer is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Southampton.
Philip Pinch is Senior Lecturer in the Division of Urban, Environment and Leisure Studies, London South Bank University.
