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John Thackara on the future of individual mobility

By Mark Vanderbeeken - September 16, 2009

in Object Culture

John Thackara, in the sustainable mobility section of the September Domus Magazine, argues that designers should focus on reducing the movement of matter "by changing the word faster to closer".

"The fundamental problem with the car and the plane is not that they burn too much of the wrong kind of fuel. The problem is that they enable, and perpetuate, patterns of land use, transport intensity, and the separation of functions in space and time, that render the whole way we live unsupportable. Rather than tinkering with symptoms - such as inventing hydrogen-powered vehicles, or turning gas stations into battery stations - the more interesting design task is to re-think the way we use time and space."

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