Design for Movement - The Carmen's Fellowship

In 2002 the first Carmen's Research Fellow was appointed at the Royal College of Art's Vehicle Design department, with a brief to organise research towards designs to solve congestion. Carmen helped and advised.

URBAN FLOW attracted the majority of first year graduate students. They created a vision - of personal hired transport, vertical vans, elegant taxi-systems, friendly city-bikes, linked modules, estate mobility and in-building movement, all linking individual mobility with urban flow.

The project kick-started Urban Mobility, the theme for future department projects and student work.

The Carmen Archive was established at the College, a related 'bus interior design project generated, with parallel interest from the Design Council and the Design Museum's education section.

The project attracted attention from the Union of International Transport Operators, who are including it in their 2003 journal and at their annual Congress.

With the Carmen's support, the Fellowship continues, other projects are planned, with the help of Carmen sponsors and advisors. This initiative puts the Carmen at the cutting edge of transport design education.

The Urban Flow project in 2003 developed into one of three Department tutorial pathways, and a Carman Visiting Lecturer was appointed.

In the new academic year 2003/4, students in all pathways tackled the Mobility Design research project, and the Urban Flow research base was extended.

In 2004 a Carman Visiting Tutor was appointed, and the Department planned an Urban Flow project centred on London bus design and development.