Future Mobility: New Master Programme Transportation Design at the HBK
May 31, 2009 | Levent OZLER
Starting from winter semester 2009/10 the HBK Braunschweig offers for the first time the master study course Transportation Design.
"People become more and more mobile", says Dr. Martin Scholz, course-coordinator at the Institute of Transportation Design (ITD) of the HBK Braunschweig.
"We must ask ourselves which forms of mobility will exist in future."
But this depends strongly on what people in twenty or fifty years will expect.
In this respect the research of mobility is not only a technical task but also a socio-scientific one.
Without the answers to this task designers cannot draft any sustainable products.
This is exactly the approach of the master programme Transportation Design (TD), pursuing a concept which is unique throughout Germany.
"It will be a unique feature of the HBK not to limit its work field to automobile design but to consider all products and systems of public mobility, from aeroplanes over railway trains to the pram, as well as to take into account engineering, design and social aspects", Scholz says.
According to the opinion of the coordinator the Braunschweig model, which the HBK supports interdisciplinary features of the studies with, rises above other concepts.
Thus Transportation Design at the HBK is not only a creative-artistic but also a scientific and interdisciplinary study course.
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