DESIGN AND ROAD

In Italy there are average 614 car accidents, 15 deaths and 867 blessed on the road per day.

R.Q: How design can improve the safety of vulnerable road users?


Design can be used to solve practical problems, to create awareness in order to give positive examples around the use of the road.
Design can trigger imagination to think about a better road, to be proposed to individuals, politicians, city planners and road engineers.

We let down our children and our
communities when we ceded control of the
streets to the car.
City planning as if people mattered
Philip Parker 22/06/2008

Old people, Children, pets and birds are the the creatures more at risk.

The general increase of traffic hazards and have prompted parents to reduce the freedom of movement of their children, with important consequences for their health and this figure has changed life in our cities.

Design as: safety objects, awareness campaigns, critical objects, communication signs and road enginering .

THE PERCEPTION OF SAFETY

R.Q: How can design make people feeling more safe?

Perceived safety refers to the level of comfort of users. For example, traffic signals are perceived as safe, yet under some circumstances, they can increase traffic crashes at an intersection. Traffic roundabouts have a generally favorable safety record, yet often make drivers nervous.

Are design for safety making us feeling safe or they are having the opposite effect?
What are communicating? Is it possible to design safety?

Symbiotic Design

"The term symbiosis (from the Greek: σύν syn "with"; and βίωσις biosis "living") commonly describes close and often long-term interactions between different biological species"


R.Q: How can anonymus existing objects renovate their image and values?

Symbiotic design is a new category of designs that will interact with the existing substrate of object that surround us.

Far away from any marketing research and outside any commercial category this new objects will rely and support the already existing macro structure of objects of the "contemporary living".

The Symbiosis consist in supporting the already existing objects, anonymus and sometimes obsolete, and giving them a new life, new values.

A new life in terms of energy consumption, in improved functions, cooperativism with other existing objects in the environment.

New aesthetic created as a methafore of a prosthetic support or even shaped in a form of parasitivsm.

5.5 Designers, Paris


D.A. Artuffo - Damper, radiator humidifier