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Five Perspectives in Regard to Mobility

The Crossing Art & Science series focuses on the topic pertaining to "Mobility" ranging from broad artistic, academic, and scientific perspectives.

Crossing Art and Science
Crossing Art and Science

Similar to a "seven images in seven minutes" type of format, speakers shared interesting insight and a glimpse into their current work about the future of mobility.

Mobility in the Mind
Univ. Prof. Amalia Barboza (Linz University of Art & Design, Department of Artistic Knowledge Practices) conducts research into everyday aesthetics and migration cultures. She raised an interesting question as to how research about mobility can be conducted when the object of research itself is constantly in motion. Her work aims "to show transformation potential and encourage people to embrace mobility in their minds".

Optimizing Mobility as a Service
Univ. Prof. Sophie Parragh, PhD, (head of the Institute for Production and Logistics Management at the JKU Linz) explained how mathematical models can help optimize mobility behavior and programs. She believes the key is to consider "mobility as a service and the models should be designed to reflect the user’s individual wishes". Her institute is, for example, currently developing freely accessible algorithms to support shared mobility services or ideal electrification strategies to support for public bus networks.

Mobility and the “Pod” Feeling
Communications designer Wolfgang Preisinger (Die Fabrikanten) voiced his belief that the future of individual transportation lies in autonomous vehicles. He outlined the resulting opportunities, challenges, and business models. Passengers in these types of vehicles will feel like they are in “pods”. He noted that identifying the pods’ negative and positive aspects would be important because only then "can companies design autonomous mobility in a way that people would successfully adopt."

Mobility and Tourisms
Dr. Markus Lassnig (senior researcher at the Innovation Lab at the Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft) revealed how data analysis could be used to streamline the flow of visitors and tourists in certain regions. Lassnig remarked: "Our goal is to stagger the flow of visitors in terms of time and space so that everyone has a better experience in outdoor areas and at tourist destinations." We can best attain this goal, he said, through incentives rather than restrictions. In cooperation with the JKU Linz, the study "Qualitätstourismus im Alpenraum" is focusing on concrete measures to better manage visitor flow in selected Upper Austrian regions.

Mobility and Space
Tobias Hagleitner, PhD, (architect and lecturer at the Linz University of Art & Design) took the audience on a road trip through a century of the automobile age in which space had been primarily organized around car travel. Hagleitner believes this age is now drawing to a close and emphasized: "As during the dawn of the automobile age, now we need a new positive narrative in regard to progress in a new century; this will be defined by proximity and compression. We need a new idea of what the good life is."

The Crossing Art & Science organizers, Dr. Claudia Schwarz (Academia Superior), Dr. Herta Neiß (JKU), and Dr. Andre Zogholy (Linz University of Art & Design), pointed out the importance of interdisciplinary scientific exchange in an effort to generate new insight and perspectives.

The Crossing Art & Science series is a collaborative effort between the Linz University of Art & Design, opens an external URL in a new window, the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the ACADEMIA SUPERIOR - Gesellschaft für Zukunftsforschung, opens an external URL in a new window.

"Crossing Art and Science" brings artists, academics, scientists, and professionals together to initiate exchange, network, and take part in potential collaboration efforts across disciplines.