Research questions
The overall PhD asks a number of research questions. This symposium asks sub-questions that are interrelated. These are:
What will be the combined effects of a future connected autonomous renewable energy vehicle system (CAREV) on the public realm?
If these new technologies are going to change cities, and how we will live with CAREV machines in the public realm?
Can society intervene to co-define an ecological framework in which technology positively influences the environment?
Beyond the designs of cities and vehicles, what can we observe that will change as a result of CAREVs?
Could a change in fleet allow for deeper changes in the city fabric, its semiotics and communications, and could a semiotic technoecology arise?