critical design & art
Das E-Bike etabliert sich. Die Marktzahlen sind auch 2017 beeindruckend und da ist weiterhin Luft nach oben. So weit so gut.
Die wendigen Fahrzeuge sind sogar auf dem Weg zum festen Bestandteil der Alltagsmobilität zu werden. Und wie alle neuen Mobilitätsoptionen sind sie ganz selbstverständlich kommunikativ. More…
+++ An openminded, successful, inspiring, and healthy year 2013 for all of us +++
For my project „e-bikeP23“ this year started already great. A friend sent a link to a project from TU Delft: the stable bike http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtE3aIUhbU
„If we look into the future it is not evident today in which direction things will go. We are near to a so called tipping point. The ball can fall left or right. The future of humankind can be somehow or other….and it is not the traffic, that determines which…(future) option will arise, but the options will determine, how traffic and mobility behaviour will look like.“ (free quote, 
Prof. Dr. Dr. Radermacher, 9.Friedrich-List-Symposium)
Having this in mind I checked various factors: the mobility behavior of the nowerdays young generation, the expected demografic change, the development of urban structures, the development of work structures and the upcoming nature events. (slides language: German). More…
Who will be the main target group(s) for e-bikes and pedelecs in ten years? To answer this question profoundly I checked out developments of environment, society and mobility. Scenarios of various organizations offer a wide spread range of future options. They ask all the same questions: How will humankind respond to the challenges, which are waiting? Are we capable to see a responsibility for our future on this planet? More…
October, 18th and 19th I had the pleasure to participate at the congress „Future Project Earth“ organized by GeoUnion. Scientists of various fields of earth sciences talked about the situation of our planet. For me as an interested but ordinary person it was a great overview regarding the actual state of earth, the challenges we face and the oppurtunities we have – to cope with an earth, which is changing rapidly.
Reports were monitoring changes concerning athmosphere, water and land, population growth, limits of resources and as result: the increasing vulnerability of humankind. More…
