DESIGN Alibaba and the Black Cloud9/13/2016The future belongs to e-mobility, that much is certain. Whereas in the Global North people are mostly complaining about low ranges, in the South an e-car’s battery can be charged using solar energy while parked.
FAIRS & EVENTS Tasting the future 4/28/2015This year’s Salone once again blazed many a trail into automotive wonderland. Think tracks made of fine marble, highlights for the senses and dreams on wheels powered by an improbability drive.
ARCHITECTURE Tuk-tuks, daladalas and super-highways12/19/2014Africa is urbanizing faster than any other continent. But tends to be forgotten in the debates on ubran mobility. Perhaps because the challenges are too great? Or perhaps because we aren’t being imaginative enough.
ARCHITECTURE Will donate data. Save the city11/13/2014The Audi Urban Future Award 2014 goes to Mexico City. With their proposal for an “operating system for urban mobility”, the interdisciplinary research group centering on José Castillo won out against teams from Boston, Berlin, and Seoul.
DESIGN My colleague, the Robocar11/9/2014Many driving instructors enjoy the driver assistance systems in today's cars. The sector is not worried that piloted driving might one day cost them their job – to the contrary actually.
ARCHITECTURE My colleague, the Robocar11/3/2014Despite assistance systems in cars, driving instructors are sure that their competence still will be needed in the future.
ARCHITECTURE “The traffic in Berlin is frustrating.”11/2/2014In Berlin, traffic often is challenging. In an interview, Susi Nestraschil talks about her own ways through the urban jungle and possibilities to improve them.
ARCHITECTURE Using the social status to help society10/26/2014Team Seoul uses the car to promote social engagement as a status symbol in Korea.
ARCHITECTURE From “Slummerville” to “boom town”10/19/2014Philip Parsons, head of Team Boston, explains the opportunities of a close collaboration between urban designers and traffic planners.
ARCHITECTURE Smart elevators as a model for autonomous transport10/5/2014Elevators, that know the destination of passengers, are highly efficient. Could this principle work for cars, too? Martin Lewicki talked to Paul Friedli about driverless transport systems.
ARCHITECTURE The European Answer to Silicon Valley9/29/2014When Berlin´s new airport BER is in use, what will happen with the former area of the Berlin airport Berlin-Tegel?
ARCHITECTURE Playing on the roads9/15/2014Motivation is a central aspect of “gameful design” and intends to have a positive influence on user´s behavior.
ARCHITECTURE A car for your handbag9/7/2014The divisible car as a new interpretation of car sharing? Charlotte Malz talked to Prof. Fügener about concepts of future mobility.
ARCHITECTURE The Secret of Happy Cities9/1/2014What kind of urban realm makes you feel good? Scientists have developed different methods to demonstrate the psychological impact of cities on their inhabitants.
ARCHITECTURE Please swarm out8/11/2014Team Berlin: The city as a nervous system requires a different kind of swarming behavior.
INTERVIEWS High density alone is not enough to have a city5/25/2014On the occasion of the fifth annual conference on global urbanism at the Columbia University, New York, Catriona McLaughlin talked to thinker Saskia Sassen about the relation between invisible and visible mobility, the power of open-source-systems and her ongoing research on “urbanizing technology”.
FAIRS & EVENTS Of ants, data donators and Ferris wheels5/23/2014In the Audi-Forum in Ingolstadt the teams in this year’s Audi Urban Future Award allowed the public a first look at their research.
FAIRS & EVENTS Super interfaces and super trains5/21/2014Big Data, sharing systems and super-trains: At the “Mobilities in Cities” conference in New York urban planners, architects and transportation experts met to swap ideas on past, present and future mobility.
FAIRS & EVENTS Transport, not ecstasy5/18/2014Can a KIA “Picanto” write design history? Is there even any justification for cars’ continued existence in the future? Journalist Niklas Maak, philosopher Martin Gessmann and architect Max Schwitalla sat down in Cologne to discuss the most popular form of auto-motion.
FAIRS & EVENTS Autoethnography: Team Seoul4/22/2014Phone, city, house – everything becomes smart. Also cars? How does the digitalization of our everyday life change car functions and the requirements autos must meet? This is the focus the ethnographer Sung Gul Hwang, the urban planner Cho Taek Yeon and the product designer Yeongkyu Yoo.
FAIRS & EVENTS Mobilonomics: Team Boston4/22/2014How is urban space changing with piloted parking? Can one estimate what impact infrastructure projects will have on urban space? These are the questions the Boston team are tackling, in an effort to expand the limits of the mobility market.
FAIRS & EVENTS System optimization: Team Mexico4/21/2014Mexico City is renowned for its gridlocks. Each day, commuters spend more than two hours in traffic jams. José Castillo, Carlos Gershenson and Gabriella Gomez-Mont are hunting for solutions to this problem.
FAIRS & EVENTS Swarming behavior: Team Berlin4/20/2014If you need to get from A to B in Berlin you need above all two things: patience and time. Architect Max Schwitalla, neuroscientist Arndt Pechstein and transit-manager Paul Friedli want to change this, and in their efforts have investigated the swarming behavior of animals.
FAIRS & EVENTS Digital Locomotion4/15/2014Stylepark is curating the Audi Urban Future Award for the third time. This year, the focus is firmly on connectivity: How can we utilize data to improve infrastructure and thus make more efficient use of urban space?
DESIGN Mission for agent i2/17/2014Assuming the BMW’s i3 electric car is an international success, it will no doubt influence how we buy and use cars – and get from A to B – in the future. Ranges, service packages and even refueling could soon be dictated by the concepts of carmakers.
FAIRS & EVENTS Driving, light10/9/2013Technology, safety, design – there’s a lot happening in the field of automotive lighting. Lighting technology is advancing in leaps and bounds. While the designers aren’t always creating new currents, the complex forms of automotive lighting will definitely impact on other products.
MAGAZINE Going with the data flow and sharing means of transport7/28/2013What will the cities of tomorrow look like? How will we move in them? And what role will digital media play in the process? A discussion with Jürgen Mayer H. and Eric Höweler at the “Schaustelle” in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne tried to find some answers.
MAGAZINE Take your dromedary to the beach7/26/2013To construct a fun car you need more than a great idea and a good mood. As can be seen from a comparison between the unique “Méhari” Citroën and Jean-Marie Massaud’s concept for a Toyota “Me.We”.
MAGAZINE What can the city do for me? What can I do for the city?5/29/2013Our cities are already bursting at the seams. We need new forms of mobility to shape life in the megacities of tomorrow. In New York experts from Audi teamed up with architects, urban planners and academics to seek answers to one of the most pressing questions of the future.
MAGAZINE Mobility in the cities of tomorrow12/31/2012Developed as part of the “Audi Urban Future Initiative” and the “Audi Urban Future Award”, the “mooove.com” online platform and the accompanying context-based search engine we.moove.com first went live in October 2012. Anyone can use them to find out more about how our cities and metropolitan regions will look in 2030.
MAGAZINE Welcome to Utopia!10/31/2012The “Shareway” concept developed by Höweler + Yoon Architecture, winners of the Audi Urban Future Award 2012, spotlights the collaborative use of transportation structures. The other studios participating in the architecture award curated by Stylepark also focused on questions of mobility and transportation in 2030 – against the backdrop of individual needs and trends in society.
MAGAZINE Mobility shapes our metropolises5/25/2012About 70 percent of the world’s population will in future live in megacities. For the Audi Urban Future Award 2012 six architectural offices are casting an eye over the metropolitan regions of Boston/Washington, São Paulo, Istanbul, Mumbai, the Pearl River Delta and Tokyo – and coming up with new ideas for developing mobility in urban space.
MAGAZINE Open systems for urban mobility9/20/2011Directly prior to the beginning of the 64th IAA International Motor Show in Frankfurt, the first “Audi Urban Future Summit” was held at The Squaire at Frankfurt Airport, curated by Stylepark. International experts from a variety of disciplines spent the day discussing Tag possible approaches to mobility in the cities of tomorrow.
DESIGN Anyone who can build with peas and toothpicks must be a genius6/24/2011At the age of 32 Richard Buckminster Fuller faced disaster: He was bankrupt and his infant daughter had just died. Instead of giving up, he resolved henceforth only to do things that were destined to help mankind as a whole. The fruits of his intentions are now on show at Marta Herford.
MAGAZINE Ideas for the New City5/4/2011The New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City” examines – in cooperation with Stylepark and the der Audi Urban Future Initiative – the work of prominent architects as they grapple with questions of mobility and urbanism in a large-scale, three dimensional model of Manhattan along with five neighborhood-specific interventions designed by NYC-based architects.