Our inaugural project, currently on the boards, is a book that uses a design-approach* to explore what cars and their infrastructure will be like in the Southern California of the near future. The Car in 2035 will be a highly visual and engaging exploration of the challenges created by the uneven pace of evolution of the design and technology of vehicles versus their land use, social, regulatory and infrastructural context. The authors, known as the Car Future Group, are a diverse cross-disciplinary team of volunteers who are experts in planning, policy, engineering, urban planning, cultural-studies, art and design who debate the mobility future of Southern California. The mixture of our approaches has created an opportunity for exposing dimensions of the future of mobility that normally get lost in the gaps between areas of expertise. In their day-jobs, The Car Future Group group are local and regional planners, urban designers, transportation and planning consultants, design consultants, automotive researchers, car-subculture experts and car-design instructors.
*including but not limited to radical collaboration, creativity, visualization, fictionalization, systems thinking