Transportation Design: Pforzheim University

This publication marks the 40th anniversary of the Transportation Design programme in Pforzheim, presenting selected aspects of its history and visions for future mobility design.

Almost a hundred years after the invention of the car, the time must have been deemed right to devote a course of study to this means of transport and its design. In 1984 in Pforzheim, not far from the sites of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, the Transportation Design study program—then known as Automobile Design—was th...