We have long held a theory at the New Mobility Agenda that you can never tell where the next good idea is going to come from. So you really do have to keep your eyes, ears and minds wide open, and learn where you can. Volkswagen in the New Mobility Agenda? Well, maybe. Let's have a look.
Old Mobility at work in Odenplan, Stockholm
Hmmm.
The core of the New Mobility Agenda is not so much mastering technology and organization – though we have to be excellent at both of these – but also culture: perception, attitudes, choices, acts. (And that's why we long ago turned around Reichsminister of Propaganda Goebbels's immor(t)al phrase, so that we can have something we can really work with.) 
Great and important as it may be, we are never going to be able to force new mobility down people's throats in our lively, pluralistic and often contentious democracies (democracy is supposed to be about just this often difficult amalgam).
Here's their idea:
Open up new choices:
But we can use our brains to help bring about the indispensable changes where are needed if we are ever to turn the corner of our grossly unsustainable behavior. 
* Check them out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
And tell us here (Comment) what you think. 
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Whenever I hear the word revolver, I reach for my culture.
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Dear Eric,
ReplyDeleteWorld Streets is realy great.
The piano stairs are very impressing, because its shows that we have to put some bacon on the streets to catch the mice.
Is there a possibility to get the video, because sometimes the films vanish from Youtube just before we want to show them to our politicians.
I like this very much, because it is about culture, we tallkt too much about technology.
Wolfgang Forderer
City of Stuttgart
Head of Policy Planning
Secretariat of UCLG Urban Mobility Committee
Love the piano stairs. The ability of art to shift our brain a bit and then appeal to a sense of playfulness all at once.
ReplyDeleteChristopher Sumpton, Toronto Canada