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[http://blip.tv/file/2137943]
If you have a minute you may want to have a quick look at this. You may find
some 
use in it. A few
weeks ago some friends from The Movement Design Bureau in London (Eyes on the
Street), called over to suggest that we might spend a few minutes together to
demo a Skype video link they are working with in a program they call Re*Move
(forgive them, they're English).
To give our video some content they invited me to wing it
on the subject of a kind of "layered conference" that I have been
giving some thought to for the last months, namely to investigate in some depth
and from different angles the concept of and potential for sharing (as
opposed to old-time ownership) in this strange new world of ours. . . including
various aspects of sharing in transportation.
I thought you might possibly want to have a quick look and
cogitate a bit about how you might in time want to put this approach to work in
some of your own projects? Remember. They are just getting underway with this.
It's still brainfood.
From Re*Move, The Movement Design Bureau
Eric Britton's
shared vision for future transportation
Eric Britton has a plan. The man behind worldstreets.org, thinks a
lot about the future of transport, and its connection to the overheating nature
of the planet. His 'Plan
B' vision is a radical twelve point blueprint that he thinks needs to be
gone through to stop us cooking the planet - and is an interesting
read.
In the green transport field right now, alongside electric
cars, high-speed rail, and all the usual stuff that gets tossed around,
perhaps the most intriguing idea concerns not the development of new products,
but the networking together, and sharing of existing ones. Our cars, bicylces,
space - how do we 'use' them more effectively? Take cars. Right now, we're
fast-forwarding to a world of hybrids and EVs - but what's the point when we've
still got single vehicle occupancy, one-person-to-one-car ownership, and one hour
in every 24 utilisation rates?
The problem is that at the very heart of the notion of today's car is a
concept built around ownership, freedom and the ability to cut yourself off in
a little glass and steel box. Your car is a space that, right now, you probably
only choose to 'share' with your friends and family. Sharing a car with a
complete stranger (even if you're not both in it at the same time) is a
relatively big leap to make, but it's something worth thinking about.
That's what Eric wants to look into in more depth. So in the video chat (above) we had with him a few
weeks back, he described the idea of a conference - for want of a
better word - to draw people together to talk about sharing within the bounds
of future transportation. On the first day, Eric suggests transportation-related
talk should be banned. Instead, the attendees - linked together with experts
and interested parties across the world via video and Internet, would seek to
understand the human psychology behind sharing things. Then on the next days,
this would be developed into the field of transportation applications. The big
news? Eric doesn't think i t will work without a woman at the helm...
Can we make this happen? Can you help? Watch
the video, let us know what
you think, and check out World
Streets for more.
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