Introduction

In broad terms, Mobilising design emphasises the role of design as process, practice and outcome in producing mobility. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book outlines relationships between individual designed objects and wider systems of mobility. It explores how artefacts become rather than importing them into accounts of mobility as prefigured. The book elaborates three inter-related themes relating to the production of subjects and practices; the mobility of design knowledge and practices; and the ways in which design practices and artefacts connect or disconnect and blur boundaries between users and practitioners. It considers the design process as an intersection and potentiality where the designed assemblage comes into being through ongoing movement and negotiation amongst multiple stakeholders. The book also highlights the importance of intersections as the borders where translations and distortions occur, where some understandings take precedence over others.