Designology: Driverless Futures at the London Transport Museum
'Designology' is a series of exhibitions at the London Transport Museum all about how design is encountered during the everyday journeys that people make around our city.
The latest installment addresses the potential future of driverless vehicles, which is currently the subject of an £8m research project called ‘GATEway’ led by TRL, in partnership with the Royal College of Art (among others). The ‘GATE’ in ‘GATEway’ stands for Greenwich Automated Transport Environment.
The exhibition presents findings from a series of co-design sessions (which I took part in last year), where researchers from the RCA asked members of the public about their hopes, fears and aspirations for driverless vehicles.
There were also some amazing concept designs that have been developed by the RCA.
As well as some charming responses to the question 'What would you like to do in a driverless vehicle?' contributed by visitors to the exhibition.
As part of the 'Design Studio' events programme, on Thursday 13th April, a couple of project researchers from the Helen Hamlyn Centre For Design were on hand to lead a lively and wide-reaching round-table discussion about how autonomous vehicles might evolve the design of urban spaces.
The Driverless Futures exhibition finished with a panel debate on all of the topics covered by the exhibition. I’d recommend checking out the video of the debate on the London Transport Museum facebook page (the debate starts about 12 minutes in).
Related post: Event Report: Designology – ‘The Human Factor’ at the London Transport Museum
