On April 1, 2025, the 90 Segundos de Ciência program broadcasted an interview with Ivo Oliveira, professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the University of Minho and integrated researcher at Lab2PT/IN2PAST, about the platform The Future Design of Streets, an initiative that brings together experts to rethink and transform street design.

The Future Design of Streets is a platform that brings together researchers, designers, and technicians, who in the most varied professional and territorial contexts intervene or take action that transforms street space.

The transformation and design of streets today is based on a set of principles that have to do with the need, for example, to reinforce the quality of pedestrian space, to introduce soft mobility modes, to improve the conditions of public transport, in particular those installed on the streets, both in terms of the quality of the service and its frequency.

There is a set of principles here that appear to be agreed upon, and much of the funding from European programs is directed towards this transformation.

With this platform, Ivo Oliveira intends to bring together those involved, coming from the most varied contexts, and contribute to reinforcing the quality of the response, not only in the specific design of a street, but in promoting a design that comes from a broader and more comprehensive vision of the city.

 

Available at: https://www.90segundosdeciencia.pt/episodes/ep-1982-ivo-oliveira/