Mobilities Design: Affordances, Atmopheres, Embodiments

This chapter introduces the new research area of mobilities design. It situates the development of mobilities design in relation to transportation- and urban planning, urban design, and architecture while it also connects it to the humanistic and social sciences that it embraces. Some of the pivotal concepts within the mobilities design research field are affordance, atmosphere, and embodiment. The chapter will explore the relationship between these key concepts, specifically, and discuss how they form an important foundation to the mobilities design field. The chapter ends with some key pointers for future research within this emerging and growing field.