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"During the height of segregation and Jim Crow, many African Americans owned copies of the "Negro Motorist Green Book," a guide that informed travelers of the safest places to eat, sleep or get a haircut when on the open road. The book was first published in 1936 by a Harlem postal worker, and it continued to be released in updated and expanded editions until the mid-1960s and the passage of the Civil Rights Act."

"To spark a conversation around the larger questions regarding a technology that could substantially change mobility in the future we followed a Design Fiction approach to produce this Quick Start Guide. Our Quick Start Guide is a 14-page z-fold document from the near future. It's a reminder that every great technology needs instructions for the uninitiated. That instruction may be a document, a tutor from a friend, 'rider' instructions - something that gives a feel of the things car owners might do first and do often with their first self-driving vehicle. Get your copy."

"Le guide des aménagements cyclables merdiques a pour but d'aider les services techniques des villes à réaliser des aménagements cyclables vraiment catastrophiques à moindre coût et en prenant le moins de place possible à la voiture. "

"En deux : un kit de survie. À monter en fonction de ses habitudes alimentaires : une mignonnette de poivre, quelques cristaux de fleur de sel, une fiole d'huile d'olive, un flacon de sauce soja, un pot de miel, du piment, des conserves du placard et un kilo de farine. Cette épicerie de base ouvre la grande panoplie de ce que l'on pourrait appeler « la cuisine sauvage », elle-même constituée essentiellement de marinades, d'aliments crus, de consommables sucrés, de sandwiches, de sauces et bien d'autres choses encore."

"La voiture a été commentée maintes et maintes fois pour évoquer l'asymétrie des rôles de genre, et notamment les rapports différenciés du corps au temps et à l'espace. Dans son article Le Corps Construit (1989), Colette Guillaumin énumère les injonctions et les incitations qui depuis la naissance construisent le corps féminin comme une entité entravée, contenue, maîtrisée, dans son rapport au temps, à l'espace et aux autres corps."

"Les acteurs du numérique ont commencé par le plus simple à numériser et à indexer : le web. Puis le e-commerce a vu arriver Amazon et Ebay. Comme Nokia a découvert Android, l'industrie du voyage a découvert l'intermédiation des plateformes de réservation. Puis le monde physique est en train d'être numérisé, indexé. La carte et le guide sont dans notre poche, on les commande à la voix. La plateformisation est devenue le standard d'un succès. Emerge déjà d'autres possibilités pour faire du pair à pair sans plateforme. Le graal de la désintermédiation totale avec des voyages blockchainés … Deux paramètres peuvent structurer quatre options radicalement différentes de l'avenir du voyage. Ces deux paramètres sont la mobilité et la connexion, et les opposés, l'immobilité et la déconnexion, offrant quatre terrains de jeux :"

"Un guide pour améliorer la fréquentation et la satisfaction des voyageurs du transport public. Basé sur les meilleurs exemples de marketing digital, il donne des clés pour conquérir, conserver et développer votre clientèle."

"The Efficient Passenger Project is on a mission to put up signs throughout the subway system guiding commuters to the best spot to board a train in order to make the quickest exit or transfer. The anonymous participants have been placing "Efficient Passenger Project" stickers on and around the turnstiles in select subway stations, signaling the presence of a plaque on the platform that tells you exactly where to stand to make your commute most efficient."

"Promenade Nocturne est un site internet fabuleux destiné à tous les amoureux de la ville. Il vous plonge dans l'effervescence du Cours Julien, quartier de Marseille réputé pour son atmosphère unique où le street art est roi. Au son des voix de vos guides, Julie et Christophe, vous déambulez à travers ses rues animées comme si vous y étiez, grâce à des photos panoramiques à 360 degrés que les concepteurs ont prises de nuit. "

"Only this time his offer was different: "Why don't you just UberX it?" A half hour later I'd registered an Uber account, requested an UberX ride, scored a $20 credit which covered the $13 trip, had an interesting conversation with the driver, and met my friend 5 miles away in Silver Lake. The same journey by bus would have taken over an hour, required a transfer, and involved two miles of walking. For this specific trip, the transit option was woefully inadequate, and without UberX I would have foregone the trip. Did travel in Los Angeles - nay, in any American city - just get ridiculously easy? Over the course of three days, UberX enabled me to conquer L.A. on my own terms without reverting to a childlike dependency on someone with a license. UberX isn't free; it's still more expensive than transit. But it's a lifeline in a city that offers few reliable alternatives to car ownership. And if history is any guide, I think it's here to stay."

"Guy Debord, Guide psychogéographique de Paris, Discours sur les passions de l'amour, pentes psychogéographiques de la dérive et localisation d'unités d'ambiance, dépliant édité par le Bauhaus Situationniste, imprimé chez Permild & Rosengreen, Copenhague, mai 1957. La fabrication de cartes psychogéographiques […] peu[t] contribuer à éclairer certains déplacements d'un caractère non certes de gratuité, mais de parfaite insoumission aux sollicitations habituelles. [2]"

"By all accounts, the self-driving vehicle, unlike the personal jetpack, will come to a salesroom near you sometime in the near future. When an idea moves from speculation to designed product the work necessary to bring it into the world means that it is necessary to consider the many, many facets of its existence - the who, what, how, when, why's of the self-driving car. It's easy to speculate about the self-driving car. But, touch on the topic of allowing one's self-driving car to be used in the Uber network of modern-day taxis immediately begs the question - what do you do if you forget a bag of groceries after sending it into Uber mode? Will there be a geo-fencing mechanisms to control where the car goes - and how fast it goes - when you give the "keys" to your teenage son to take to football practice. How does the car pickup groceries - and how do you upload the list - when you send it on errands? To spark a conversation around the larger questions regarding a world of autonomous vehicles, we set about to create a tangible artifact from the near future of the self-driving car. We ran a workshop at IxDA 2015 in collaboration with students from the CCA and conference participants to create the interaction design for a self-driving car. We did this as a way of digging into the details, discussing the known topics and raising many more unknown ones. Our design brief: Represent the features, attributes, characteristics and behaviors of the self-driving car and its requisite "ecosystems" through the vehicle's Quick Start Guide. The result helps: Get a feel of the things you might do first and do often with your first self-driving vehicle. Experience the consequences and implications of a world with self-driving vehicles. Discover how Design Fiction can help you discover the unknown unknowns for your projects."

"Dynamic parking guidance systems are well-known all over the world, for cars at least. Utrecht has just started using such a system to guide people to bicycle parking facilities and that is a first! The Dutch are sometimes accused of resting on their laurels, there would be no innovation in The Netherlands"

"The London Underground map has probably prompted more pastiches, tributes and piss-takes than any inanimate object in history. We've rounded up as many as we can find." => une cinquantaine de liens vers des carte métro londonien revisitées

"Un guide visuel pour comprendre notamment comment les avions décollent, naviguent, entrent en approche et atterrissent."

"More than just an eye-catching advertisement on wheels, the DXP's most innovative features are on the inside: An illuminated oven and storage areas that can be locked and unlocked via key fob Capacity to transport up to 80 pizzas-plus other menu items including wings, salads and soda bottles-thanks to the removal of all seating except for the driver's seat Numerous integrated Domino's logos, including a fresh take on the classic roof topper, and a side-mounted light to project the Domino's logo on the walkway and illuminate the delivery driver's path Standard equipped OnStar navigation system to safely guide drivers to multiple delivery destinations and quickly connect them to emergency services"

"The South-Korean oil company S-Oil took the initiative for a campaign to save oil. Bright yellow "HERE" balloons, visible from a long distance, are guiding drivers to empty parking spots. When occupied, the balloon falls and rises again when the car leaves. S-Oil indicates that in just one day, in one parking lot, 700 cars used 23 liters less oil. This simple, low-tech method helps drivers to save time and oil, resulting in a lower gas consumption for South Korea."

"Shibuya is a famous district and railway station in central Tokyo, famous for having the most busy pedestrian crossing in the world. The game SHIBUYA is a competitive puzzle game to guide pedestrians to their destinations. The game takes place at the heavily used pedestrian scramble at Shibuya, Tokyo. Pedestrians can successively move over adjoining grid's cells sharing the same color or shape, but they cannot move over the cells presently occupied by other pedestrians. Try to find your best route in the busy pedestrian scramble where people are rushing to all directions. In this puzzle game for two players, or for four as two teams (2 vs 2), first place the tiles to form the pedestrian scramble. The player or team who manages to have their pedestrians cross the street wins. "

"Alors qu'au début du mois d'avril 2020, plus de la moitié des habitants de la planète sont confinés, il n'a jamais été aussi nécessaire d'interroger le rôle de notre système global de mobilité. Dans cette perspective, les critiques de la mobilité des années 1970 sont des guides sûrs. Celles-ci offrent à la fois une perspective sur un facteur d'expansion de l'épidémie devenue pandémie - le système de transport - et les pistes pour aménager le système de transport de l'après-crise."

"Traffic circles are ubiquitous in France, accepted as safer than traditional intersections. But they have also become an emblem of the country's ailments, from urban sprawl to inequality. France loves its roundabouts. They are ubiquitous throughout the country, including in Abbeville, a city of about 25,000. Credit...Aurelien Breeden/The New York Times By Aurelien Breeden Dec. 25, 2019 ABBEVILLE, France - Every day, about 65,000 vehicles cruise through the center of Abbeville, passing by its Gothic church, City Hall and rows of red brick houses, with many drivers on their way to the English Channel about a dozen miles away. But they never stop for a red light. None exist in this town of about 25,000 people. Instead, drivers bank, swerve and loop their way through traffic circle after traffic circle. Their ubiquity in Abbeville is an extreme example of France's unabashed embrace of the roundabout, found in abundance throughout the country and widely credited for making roads safer and less clogged. Even in Abbeville, on a recent morning, workers in fluorescent orange vests and hard hats were breaking ground on yet another traffic circle, as cars were backed up by the construction. Roundabouts played a central role in the Yellow Vests protests, when demonstrators occupied hundreds of the nation's roundabouts, blocking traffic as a way to demonstrate against a despised fuel tax increase in particular and a growing sense of inequality in general. But France's relationship with them has in some ways soured, their very pervasiveness making them a convenient scapegoat for many of France's ills, real or perceived. Pierre Vermeren, a French historian writing in Le Figaro last year, said roundabouts were a "symbol of ugly France" and the "emblem of French malaise." There are no official statistics, but estimates of the total number of traffic circles in France range from 20,000 to 50,000. In the United States - about 18 times bigger and five