Welcome to Accessible Hubs

Abstract

This presentation introduces to the first international workshop on Universal Design in urban mobility systems.

Speaker’s bio

Martin Knöll is Assistant Professor of Urban Health Games (UHG) in the Department of Architecture at Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is a registered architect and holds a PhD from University of Stuttgart, Germany, on health-oriented urbanism. Previously, Dr. Knöll was visiting scholar at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University, London, UK, and held a post-doc position at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Dr. Knöll leads new transdisciplinary collaborations between urban designers and health experts to address global health challenges such as social inclusion, sustainable mobility systems, Access for All, physically inactive lifestyles, diabetes and mental health. Current research projects include project mo.de – the mobility design project (LOEWE research cluster Infrastructure – Design – Society), the coordination of a DAAD / European Union funded Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership PREHealth and a funded research cooperation on accessibility with the Frankfurt book fair.