Master in transportation design and future mobility

New Sustainable development trends and global urban agendas are modifying the landscape of our cities. New transportation systems will be required to generate new solutions to this change of society’s mentality. The nature of innovation is changing over time due to technological and product life-cycles, which directly impacts upon the industry standards. Co-creation with stakeholders has become innovation 4.0. New mega trends on customer values require the designers to learn a set of conceptual and technical skills. To produce this new technology here at Barreira we want to help students to be in the forefront of the industry. A close collaboration between Interaction Design, User Experience and Transportation Design is key to fulfill the requirements of the new environment and customers that demand efficiency and reduction of waste.

Mobility Lab: Master in Transportation Design and Future Mobility is a course designed to train a new highly demanded professional profile in the transportation design industry. A expand vision of the surroundings and the vehicle itself is demanded and to fulfill those skills the transportation designer needs to be up to date on the new technologies and the future ones.

A course created to equip the students with critical thinking to respond to the wider concerns of urbanism, social and technology changes around transportation. Students will be required and engaged to be informed and contribute to the discourse and debate about transportation future. In that sense, creativity and research will be key to finding a solution to the global issues of sustainability, consumption and energy related to the transportation topic.