The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Mr Lorenzo Davoli (Umea Institute of Design, Sweden)
to lead a seminar entitled
Trojans & Drones: Design Explorations of Community Driven, Last-mile Distribution Solutions
to be held
Tuesday 31st March 2015 @ 16:00
Please join us for presentation and discussion at
Room 207, Skempton (Civil Eng.) Building, Imperial College London
Abstract
Emerging post-industrial societal needs require the evolution of existing networks of industrial infrastructures toward more distributed and citizen-centred configurations. This opens up new questions regarding what design processes and practices are necessary to effect change within these systems often deliberately not open to bottom up innovation. During this seminar we'll introduce a set of design explorations in tracing and materializing infrastructures in order to make them available for design and participation. Taking logistic services in a remote rural area of northern Sweden as a case study and field site, this presentation illustrates the process that led to the rehearsal and speculation on the possibility of a future community-owned delivery network operated by drones. The project provides an example of a possible framework for initiating and curating the transformation of industrial systems towards more open and locally adaptive forms and functions.
About the Speakers
Lorenzo is a designer with a particular interest in large sociotechnical systems and sustainability. After his MS in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano, he had the chance to spend some time in the States working at MIT as a research assistant for the Vehicle Design Summit, collaborating with the Senseable City Lab and the Mobility and Energy Efficiency Team of Rocky Mountain Institute in Boulder Colorado. He's now PhD Candidate at the Umea Institute of Design, Sweden.
The Following Special CTS Seminar
Professor Michael Bell (ITLS, The University of Sydney Business School, Australia) will be leading a seminar titled "Port-centric logistics: An Australian perspective" at Imperial College London on Wednesday 1 April @ 16:00.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at University College London. They are usually held on Wednesday afternoons at Imperial College London or University College London.
Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties.
Please register for this event using the following link<http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trojans-drones-design-explorations-of-community-driven-last-mile-distribution-solutions-tickets-15598189605>.
For further information: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
CTS home: www.imperial.ac.uk/cts<http://www.imperial.ac.uk/cts> (Imperial College London)
www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/cts<http://www.cege.ucl.ac.uk/cts> (University College London)
|