Learning to live together : cars, human and kerbs in solidarity

Fernández-Abascal, Guillermo

Learning to live together : cars, human and kerbs in solidarity

Fernández-Abascal, Guillermo

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dc.contributor.author	Fernández-Abascal, Guillermo
dc.date.accessioned	2019-05-07T22:53:24Z
dc.date.available	2019-05-07T22:53:24Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/133158
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	Recent developments in driverless technologies are bringing discussions about the urban environment to the forefront. Automotive and technological industries are envisioning the future of our cities while developing the vehicles themselves without establishing a conversation with the architectural discipline. Yet, proposed driverless scenarios appear to emphasize consensual solutions where idealized images of the street seamlessly integrate their technologies. Ignoring the immediate future, these visions focus on a more distant time where technology dominates: driverless cars populate the road, human behaviour and city infrastructure remain unchanged, and society has learned to live with autonomous vehicles. This thesis explores the conflicts unleashed by new technology, how it triggers meaningful transformations in the city, and how these changes might happen in the near future. The fast and disruptive implementation of driverless technology does not foresee an urban solution. However, it does ask us to imagine how the cohabitation of humans and cars might be articulated in the urban environment since this is where the short-term negotiation between them will take place. The differences in the way that cars and humans sense and sense the city will define the terms of the discussion and the design of these spaces. To explore these discussions and transformations, we first dissect the sensing devices that allow driverless technologies to navigate the urban environment whilst unpacking the interlinked socio-technical controversies inherited in their deployment. Secondly, we identify the hybrid forum as the only available space with the capacity to address the convolutions of the immediate driverless future. We finish by concentrating on a thing; a kerb is presented as the object of deliberation in this hybrid forum. It allows multiple agents to have discussions about safety, control, surveillance, security, empathy, trust, urban policy and automation; it sets the rules for cohabitation.	en_AU
dc.format	Thesis (MArch)
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/133158/2/02whole.pdf
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.subject	urban environment
dc.subject	autonomous vehicle
dc.subject	cohabitation
dc.subject	self-driving car
dc.subject	surveillance
dc.subject	human behaviour
dc.title	Learning to live together : cars, human and kerbs in solidarity	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis	en_AU
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

Abstract:

Recent developments in driverless technologies are bringing discussions about the urban environment to the forefront. Automotive and technological industries are envisioning the future of our cities while developing the vehicles themselves without establishing a conversation with the architectural discipline. Yet, proposed driverless scenarios appear to emphasize consensual solutions where idealized images of the street seamlessly integrate their technologies. Ignoring the immediate future, these visions focus on a more distant time where technology dominates: driverless cars populate the road, human behaviour and city infrastructure remain unchanged, and society has learned to live with autonomous vehicles. This thesis explores the conflicts unleashed by new technology, how it triggers meaningful transformations in the city, and how these changes might happen in the near future. The fast and disruptive implementation of driverless technology does not foresee an urban solution. However, it does ask us to imagine how the cohabitation of humans and cars might be articulated in the urban environment since this is where the short-term negotiation between them will take place. The differences in the way that cars and humans sense and sense the city will define the terms of the discussion and the design of these spaces. To explore these discussions and transformations, we first dissect the sensing devices that allow driverless technologies to navigate the urban environment whilst unpacking the interlinked socio-technical controversies inherited in their deployment. Secondly, we identify the hybrid forum as the only available space with the capacity to address the convolutions of the immediate driverless future. We finish by concentrating on a thing; a kerb is presented as the object of deliberation in this hybrid forum. It allows multiple agents to have discussions about safety, control, surveillance, security, empathy, trust, urban policy and automation; it sets the rules for cohabitation.

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