Mobilising Design

by Justin Spinney (Editor), Suzanne Reimer (Editor), Philip Pinch (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138676374
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/02/2017
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

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.

Table 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