The projects done for the Campaign Projects 2008 are to be exhibited at the The Sustainable Cities Round Table this wednesdy at 6 PM. Be there for a chat. Some of the studenst will be there to talk about their projects.
The Sustainable Cities Round Table on Healthy Cities
Village Roadshow Theatrette, The State Library of Victoria
6-8pm, [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Sharing’
August 16, 2008
What will the car of the future look like?
Imagine this: Sometime in the future – private ownership of cars may be curtailed.
Car will then be shared but not owned. This will fundamentally change the way companies think of and develop cars. Cars will not be seen as possessions but as modes of transport. Cars will in short be PUBLIC TRANSPORT.
What then will these [...]
August 16, 2008
Volkswagen 2028
Volkswagen 2028 > Volkswagen Company > Volkswagen Company > Volkswagen Australia
The cars of the future: innovations are coming
Cars won’t be able to fly in the year 2028, but we’ll experience vehicles that communicate with traffic lights and other vehicles, that you can control using words and that have the necessary intelligence to find a free [...]
August 11, 2008
Nissan Denki Electric Cube – NY Auto Show
The CUBE Nissan Denki(Electric)
more about “Nissan Denki Electric Cube – NY Auto …“, posted with vodpod
August 11, 2008
Cars that avoid collisions
YouTube – World Tech Update
n this week’s show: We take Nissan’s high-tech cars for a spin, Steve Jobs grills employees over MobileMe, riding Toyota’s robotic transporter, new rules for gadgets at U.S. ports and news on upco…
August 11, 2008
Petrol Prices and Social divide
Social gap widens from outer to inner Melbourne | theage.com.au
SUBURBIA is bearing the brunt of rising fuel prices and extreme mortgage stress, a major study of Australian cities has found.
Governments must step in to provide outer suburbs with better public transport or risk extreme social breakdown, it warned.
The report, Unsettling Suburbia, for the first time [...]
August 11, 2008
Retrofitting Hybrids
I like this as I think it is a welcome boost to reusing old cars – and my favourite Austin Chummy from 1929 – with an electric wheel.
Strap-On Hybrid Kit Coming This Fall | Sustainable Life Media
July 25, 2008 – Soon you may be able to turn your non-electric vehicle into a hybrid simply by [...]
August 9, 2008
Share your car
Press Release
Car sharing is becoming popular with the advent of high fuel prices and local people are being invited to join a car-sharing scheme set up by Kirklees Council.
As well as reduce travel costs, the scheme will help to reduce congestion and pollution in the area and will ease pressure on parking spaces. Since the [...]
July 20, 2008
The I-Car
What would be in an Apple iCar? – MP3 Players
The rumoured collusion between Apple and Volkswagen on an iCar leaves me baffled. What would an iCar do that cars with iPod adapters don’t? For example, the 2008 Scion range from Toyota in the U.S. comes standard with an excellent iPod interface, giving you full access [...]
July 20, 2008
Impromptu Car Pooling
HOV lane or Transit lane as we call it here in Australia – is being used.
Slugging News Story – Impatient commuters form impromptu car pools
Hundreds of passengers and drivers team up each day to create impromptu car pools that let them whiz to work in the HOV lane. As the region grows and traffic worsens, [...]
July 20, 2008
Where can you find car sharing?
List of cities.
Where can you find Car Sharing in North America
Car Sharing, launched in 1987 in Switzerland and later in 1988 in Germany, came to North America via Quebec City in 1993. As of January 1, 2008 – based on data provided by Susan Shaheen, University of California, Berkeley – 18 U.S. carsharing programs claimed [...]
July 20, 2008
Google Map of Autoshare ar locations
A graphc portrayal of where the cars are – Autoshare, Toronto.
AutoShare: Our Fleet & Locations: Locations
July 20, 2008
Model T Car Design Project
Designing the Model T for the Future – NYTimes.com
AS part of its celebration of the centennial of the Model T, the Ford Motor Company commissioned a group of transportation design students at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit to rethink the Model T for the future. The students were asked to imagine “a car [...]
July 11, 2008
Melbourne Icarus Project
To Design a Car for Car Sharing in Melbourne
If you are interested in Sustainability and have an interest in vehicle design, which may have led you to develop skills in rendering, then you will find in this project a chance to combine your two interests within the idea of car sharing. In this project you [...]
June 28, 2008
The way Cars are Designed
I am going back in to teach UG classes after a semester of work exclusively with post grad. I am beginning to feel the energy of this enterprise and am quite excited.
Undergraduate teaching in design consists of setting up fictional projects – which simulate a design project situation where the student plays the role [...]
June 25, 2008
Cars for Car Sharing
The Melbourne ICARUS Project began with the objective of looking at – A Car specifically Designed for Car Sharing in Melbourne. See what I wrote before I went in to see Monique Conheady the CEO of Flexicar.
And what she told me changed the brief. Before it was 2-seater and small and now its not!
A [...]
