This summer (2024) I will be working with Pixar designer, great friend, and collaborator Jay Shuster on a new co-design project. We aim to Dream-Up some RADICAL New Mobility System Concepts - for the Future of Metro Denver - Front Range urban corridor. I will first work with a group of students and design-interested public in Denver. (We are looking for students / people to help us with this. Please contact me if interested in participating!) We are not looking so much for professional designers, but people that have ideas about new transportation vehicles, new services, and / or how transportation can make the Denver region far nicer to live in other ways.

The reality is that average people can not draw all that well - but may have great ideas! So many co-creation projects I have seen in the past - reward mainly only those that can draw or render well :( We are not looking for the best drawings, but rather the best ideas - even if someone’s drawing of their idea looks more like a bunch of “chicken scratches”.

After our small team in Denver develops some great new mobility concepts, Jay will then render / illustrate these ideas - so they will be exciting to present to the Denver area public. (We have not decided the final format on how the rendered concepts will be presented, but likely they will be shown in September at a small initial Denver multimobility (TRANSPO) “expo” or fair I / we intend to hold. More as this develops).

Dan (March 13, 2024)