These illustrated essays were created by the students as their final assignment.

The final illustrated design essay in this seminar asks the students to demonstrate their learning by speculating on the design of an infrastructure related to the Autonomous Vehicle. This very significant technological hardware change is likely to have a significant effect both on how people move around the city as well as safety, car ownership models, public transportation and eventually infrastructure and urban form. 

This final illustrated design essay will allow you to demonstrate your ability to design at an infrastructural scale with a designer’s ability to analyze relevant technologies and social issues, innovate through design and direct social futures through infrastructure.

The essays demonstrate the students’ ability to synthetically consider and design an infrastructural element, network or system related to transportation and then discuss its impacts on society and/or urban form. In addition it demonstrates their ability to discuss your design in the context of current theoretical discourse in the field .