The workshop aims to explore the history, present and future of public transport interiors by focusing on both the upheavals and the continuities of its design. Given that it is the interior in which passengers physically and psychologically encounter new transport technologies, the underlying assumption behind the workshop is that the importance of the design lies in the function of mediating – by touch and sense – the experience of modern travel.
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Programm:

Friday, 20.2.2015

14.00 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
Charlotte Klonk/Franziska Solte

CHAIR: Robin Schuldenfrei
14.30 CARS
Spaces of Modernity: Car Interiors since the Late Nineteenth Century
Penny Sparke (Modern Interiors Research Centre, Kingston University, London)

15.15 Lightweight vs. Comfort:
The Structural Complexity in Automotive Seating
Frank Urban (Faurecia Autositze GmbH, Stadthagen)

16.00 COFFEE BREAK

CHAIR: Philipp Oswalt
16.30 TRAINS and THE UNDERGROUND
Seeking Light – Going Underground
Charlotte Klonk (Institute of Art and Visual History, Humboldt-University, Berlin)

17.15 Packaging Passengers: Populuxe and the Train Interior
Gregory Votolato (Vehicle Design, Royal College of Art, London)

18.00 Mobility and Design – Mobile Spaces in Public Transportation
Jan Wielert (büro+staubach GmbH, Berlin)

Saturday, 21.2.2015

CHAIR: Julia Meer
10:00 OCEAN LINERS
Designing the Liner: National Imagination and Identification on Board the P&O
Daniel Davies (Middlesex University/National Maritime Museum, London)

10.45 THE ZEPPELIN
The Lightest Hotels in the World. On the History of Zeppelin Interiors
Elisabeth Bergmann (Institute of History and Theory of Art and Architecture, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio)

11.30 COFFEE BREAK

12.00 PASSENGERS
Images of Passengers
Dortje Fink (Institute of Art and Visual History, Humboldt-University, Berlin)

12.45 LUNCH BREAK

CHAIR: Franziska Solte
14.00 AIRPLANES
Why Fly? Evolution of the Commercial Aircraft Cabin
Barbara Hauss (Design History, Freiburg i. Br.)

14.45 The Aircraft Cabin in the Age of Sustainable Growth
Ralf God (Institute of Aircraft Cabin Systems, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg)

15:30 FINAL DISCUSSION