By Anna Turner, Head of Creative Solutions, Ahead Partnership, At Ahead Partnership we believe that collaboration between researchers, designers, and young people can be an enabler to truly inclusive growth and tangible social impact. As INFUZE continues to explore what better transport for everyone might look like, we’ve worked in partnership to ensure that young … Read more
We are proud to announce that INFUZE has had a paper published in Global Research in Action, selected papers from the 34th World Design Congress. INFUZE researchers from the Royal College of Art attended the congress in London to share insights about our work and our approach to collaborative design. The paper introduces INFUZE and … Read more
By Milad Mehdizadeh, Back home in Iran, I was one of those people who liked driving everywhere, and I eventually managed to buy a decent car. My friends and society treated owning a car as an investment, achievement, and as a sign of progress in life. When I started researching transport about 13 years ago, … Read more
By Greg Marsden, This originally appeared on Fleet News What do people want from their transport system? Sustainable Mobility Week and the forthcoming Integrated National Transport Strategy are both opportunities to further flesh out what can feel like an age-old debate. It is possible to point to places in the middle of big cities where … Read more
Over the last few months INFUZE has run two Creative Assembly workshops at Leeds City Museum. At the first event, we brought citizens together from across Leeds to listen, learn and collaborate. We explored our shared philosophies, values and emotions and together we designed a set of guiding principles for a future transport system that’s … Read more
By Luma Al-saadi, When we think about car emissions, most of us picture exhaust fumes coming from a tailpipe. However, the reality is much bigger. Every vehicle on the road carries an invisible footprint which includes the energy and resources used to make it, how we drive it, and even how it’s recycled at the … Read more
By Elena Alyavina and Carlos Lopez-Galviz, “How many different alternative uses can you imagine for a parking space?” read the opening question of the first Creative Sprint, run by the INFUZE team and Ahead Partnership at Carr Manor Community School in Moortown, Leeds. In just three minutes, nine groups of four to six Year 10 … Read more
By Dan Phillips, The UK’s integrated national transport strategy asks the public to tell the Department for Transport how to improve our travel experiences and, for organisations, to share how transport systems could be better ‘joined up’ and how ‘data’ and ‘technology’ could improve our transport network. These questions rely on the idea that strategy … Read more