ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a further development of the perspective in the direction of a material and design oriented turn. It presents the mobilities theory perspective of staging mobilities' and connects this to the empirical phenomenon of parking lots and their design. The chapter reports on an initial effort to connect the academic analysis of the mobilities turn' and the interventionist practices of the various built-environment professions dealing with the material design of mobilities and place. Several researchers of mobilities advocate that making a journey is a matter of social, cultural and experiential complexity. Also cultural and historical dimensions are key in shaping the journey experience, not least with regard to the actual material environment that the wayfarer inhabits on the journey. Parking lot materialities perform mobile affordances in relation to the natural environment and transport technologies, thereby conditioning practices and experiences.
