Mobility

According to Kristian Villadsen, partner and director at the renowned Danish architecture firm Gehl Architects, health promotion plays an important role in urban planning.

How will people meet up in the future? How will we foster good vibes, productivity and creativity? And how can meeting places be redesigned? The answers to these and other intriguing questions were provided by international thought leaders and entrepreneurs at the GDI Trend Day, which took place on 10 March 2021. The following is summary of what they had to say.

Public spaces are essential for city dwellers and must be cleverly designed. But how can this be done after the pandemic? A researcher from Finland explains how smart city design works with the help of data.

The first female team manager in Formula 1 motor-racing, Monisha Kaltenborn, is now completely committed to e-sports. You can hear all about her goals and how online racing is democratising motorsports in the video below.

Thomas Sevcik is co-founder of the think tank arthesia and one of the masterminds behind the Autostadt project in Wolfsburg. At the GDI Retail Summit and here in this interview, he talks about the changing shopping behaviour of the middle classes, the role of retail in the city and the dematerialisation of consumption.

In cities, proximity prevails, but the pandemic requires physical distance. How can this dilemma be solved? And how will the public space change? GDI researcher Marta Kwiatkowski identifies six topics that will shape the post-coronavirus city.

Within months, Greta Thunberg's individual school strike against climate change turned into a movement that brings hundreds of thousands of students onto the streets for the #ClimateStrike. Who mobilises Generation Z? An analysis.

A new protest generation is forming – this time against climate change. In the run-up to the Global Climate Strike on 15th March, GDI researcher examined whether the movement is growing beyond its European roots and whether it will enact large behavioural changes.

Forecasts that cost less and less and improve at the same time will change the world. The world-famous AI expert Ajay Agrawal is certain of this. For example, AI predictions have revolutionised autonomous driving, Agrawal explains in a video and on at the GDI on 4 June 2019.