Encouraging Sustainable Urban Access: An Exploratory Student Approach to Design of Product Service Systems
Paper i proceeding, 2013

Urban access is a key trans-disciplinary design axiom looking to ensure that every member of the society can reach those locations and resources one needs for a sustainable standard of living and productivity. This should be achieved in a way that does not deprive others from their right to access the same urban environment. Crafting the future of urban transportation design is a dynamic process that depends on developing a thorough understanding of the complexity of the human needs that associate with delivering ways to support urban access and, in particular, more sustainable and socially inclusive mobility patterns. New market demands and customer expectations force public and private organisations to expand their commitment to cross-border collaborations to provide attractive alternative transport modes. This paper discusses the challenge of utilizing design innovation as a tool for eco-branding and how an exploratory approach to this has been used in a post-graduate course in Visual Brand Identity and Product Design. Seven research teams, closely guided by the authors, were affiliated with designing an innovative hypothetical bike-sharing scheme for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, with the potential to captivate road users’ acceptability. An overall description of the project concept and a brief summary of the results produced are presented herein. More specifically, this paper concentrates solely on one of the most innovative projects delivered within the course and discusses how the students adopted the challenge, as well as the actual project outcome and its contribution to the overall learning experience.

Branding

Sustainability

Urban Access

Bike-Sharing Schemes

Product Service Systems

Författare

Alexandros Nikitas

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Design and Human Factors

Mistra Urban Futures

Ulrike Rahe

Mistra Urban Futures

Chalmers, Produkt- och produktionsutveckling, Design and Human Factors

Göteborgs universitet

Toni-Matti Karjalainen

15th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education Conference "Growing our Future", September 2013, Dublin, Ireland

786-791
978-1-904-67042-1 (ISBN)

Ämneskategorier

Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi

Annan teknik

Transportteknik och logistik

Styrkeområden

Transport

Building Futures (2010-2018)

Produktion

Lärande och undervisning

Pedagogiskt arbete

ISBN

978-1-904-67042-1

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2017-10-07