Intelligent Mobility Design Centre Events

In September 2024, we hosted the second annual Intelligent Mobility Perspectives at the RCA's Battersea campus, Hangar Space. The exhibition presented visions of the future of Intelligent Mobility through a combination of work from our 2024 MA student cohort, centre research projects, and our visiting design fellows from Hyundai Motor Company showcasing their individual design projects.

In September 2023, the IMDC hosted its first Lab Perspectives event, showcasing research projects and visions of the future of intelligent mobility through a combination of MA student work and key IMDC projects with industry partners across the centre's three labs – Automotive Transitions, Humanising Technology and People and Places.

The exhibition gave a vibrant perspective toward the techno-cultural concerns and opportunities across the future mobility landscape – highlighting the opportunity for enlightened brands and creative professionals.

The work across the centre adopts an innovative and visionary approach to the formation of new mobility propositions – developing ideologies and processes of design to engage with the key global issues of sustainability, autonomy, future digital experiences, AI, and alternative power. The work on display represented a series of OEM projects and individually generated briefs to a wide array of contemporary issues. These included exploration of the circular economy in future vehicle interiors, mobility for Gen A in future ‘15-minute cities’ and micromobility across Europe and Asia.

The RCA symposiums brought together a wide range of speakers and an audience from various design, art, science and industry fields.

The Mobility Metamorphosis Symposium 2022

The Mobility Metamorphosis symposium discussed the possibilities of a just transition in urban mobility, the cultural, technological, societal, ethical and aesthetic drivers of change which should inform the future designs for autonomous, shared, and sustainable mobility. It brought together researchers in architecture, city, mobility, technology and environment to address the need of cross-disciplinary collaboration to develop mobility solutions.

2022 Mobility Metamorphosis Symposium (Recordings)

Designing Intelligence into our Cities 2020

The symposium explored what it means to design intelligence into our cities and explored three interrelated themes and asks what we mean by intelligence and how this differs from the smartness that has often been used to describe future cities. The three themes and questions that underpin the symposium are:

• What is the future for intelligent neighbourhoods – their shape, constituent parts, networks, governance and size?
• How might we reimagine mobility hubs and networks as centres of community rather than purely functional transport systems?
• How might digital tools merge technical data with social knowledge to enable better planning for sustainable futures?

2020 Designing Intelligence into our Cities (Recordings)

Transformation: Arts, Cities, Mobility, Products, Services, Technology 2019

The programme was divided into three sessions, each focused on one of the key topics: Transforming Cities and Society, Transforming Creativity and Practice and Transforming Mobility and Technology.

2019 Transformation: arts <> cities <> mobility <> products <> services <> technology (Recordings)