Citizen, Teaching, Industry, Cities for Future Mobility

This Interactive seminar will show and immerse students in the real situation to design, solve and manage Services for citizens, using examples and demonstrative cases.

Several real cases of (un)successful projects, applauded or rejected by citizens, will be presented and analysed with the students to learn the creation and design processes that drove them. Some of these cases will be studied, according to the interests of the students:

1.- General Urban Planification. BCN Eixample MasterPlan from Ildefons Cerdà
2.- Local Urban Design. Superblocks Barcelona from Agencia Ecologia Urbana
3.- Tactical urbanism. Covid19 projects by Urban Department Barcelona
4.- Barcelona Tramway. Infrastructures and Mobility Department Barcelona
5.- Parking regulation, Area Verda. Mobility Department Barcelona.
6.- Logistics, Last Mille MicroHubs. Mobility Department Barcelona.
7.- Pacte per la Mobilitat. Citizens Engagement. Barcelona.
8.- Public Transport Integration and Payment. T-Mobilitat. Autoritat del Transport Metropolità. Barcelona Region.
9.- Taxis, Uber, Cabify,… Digitalization of traditional services. Institut Metropolità del Taxi. Barcelona Metropolitan Area
10.- …

Some of them will be explored in detail in next seminars

After the seminar, the students will understand the specific characteristics of the design of services projects for Citizens and will have an orientation to detect the challenges, will know how to pose the problems and they will be able to apply their specific knowledge of engineering to services with a transcendent and social impact.