Mobilität und urbane Entwicklung, Elektromobilität und nachhaltige Mobilitätskonzepte

Peter Wilhelm works as Business Development Manager for a Berlin-based manufacturer of charging stations for electric cars. At the same time, he is a lecturer for political theory at the FU Berlin. Informed by these occupations as well as his earlier artistic activities (performance, Da-Da cabaret), Wilhelm sees ecological issues as equally rational and aesthetic. For example, he bought into his employer’s charging stations because of their “slim” concept, which allows them to be mounted and connected to street lamps. For Wilhelm, the topic of electric mobility must not be seen separately from overall concepts of sustainability. In his view, the business focus does not always do justice to proclaimed sustainability claims.

As a researcher and activist, Kerstin Stark is concerned with mobility and the transformation of the transport system [Verkehrswende]. She is a volunteer with Changing Cities e.V. – a politically independent grassroots organisation that promotes the transformation of transport using a bottom-up approach with its campaigns and projects in Berlin and nationwide. In 2015, Stark co-founded the successful referendum “Volksentscheid Fahrrad” in Berlin and was part of the negotiations for the mobility law. Since 2017, she has been working as a scientist at the Institute of Transport Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Her research focuses on the requirements and effects of innovative mobility concepts and technologies as well as processes of participation and dialogue for the development and implementation of innovations. In her dissertation she dealt with mobility disadvantages and the social and ecological demands on mobility.