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Development of mobility
By admin | September 18, 2009
In research and development of mobility, for instance, the mixture of people,
processes, and things has already become an everyday event. Modern mobility development includes a whole string of processes and persons that intertwine with each other. There are product innovations (such as the development of new vehicles), infrastructural measures (such as in the fields of highways and railways), logistics (such as the link of forms of traffic and communication), development of processes (such as intensifying the product use by car renting and carpooling), and the development of new organizational structures (between transport, services, political authorities, and the users), up to new forms of communication. The decisive difference with ordinary product development is that various tasks are no longer handled separately but rather are thought of and designed as a mixture of
people, things, and processes.
We change our environment by using it. Changing implies planning and design. The traditional notion of design is object oriented; however, a transformation of objects and events takes place when design is seen as a process. People and things come to share a common destiny. In his book, We Never Had Been Modern, Bruno Latour explains that people and things are crossed over with one another. Objects and spaces are conceivable as sensitive and interactive entities that are capable of reacting automatically to brightness, temperature, and moisture, and to the absence or presence of people with whom they are able to interact. Products acquire transformational qualities, and this marks the point where the manufacturing process begins to extend beyond what is generally understood by the production of finished goods. Karl Marx’s idea that the production process becomes complete in consumption takes on a completely new perspective.
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