Low-Tech

The steep rise of artificial intelligence applications and the ever-progressing miniaturization trend in chip-manufacturing make you think of a linear development: The future seems completely digitized. But there are downsides to the increasingly heavy reliance on sensors, LLMs and smart devices. Some can be counterbalanced by intelligently designed low-tech solutions.

Design in public transportation is so fascinating because it can shine a light on a variety of issues in current public discourse: Usually deployed in large-scale projects, design choices often reflect careful consideration of the Zeitgeist, public norms of aesthetics, changes in transportation infrastructure and avant-gardist glimpses or concepts of what an imagined general public space might look like.