Mobility Spaces in L.A.: The Car as Living Space

The world is in the exciting early days of a new era of mobility. A new chapter in transportation is being written, enabled by the technological revolution and characterized by electrification, connectivity, personalization, autonomous driving, and above all, sustainability. 

Moving away from gasoline and horsepower towards electricity and digitalization – above all, the automobile is being reinvented, evolving into a self-driving, always-connected "device". Through the radical, albeit prolonged, transformation and the new ways cars are used, the interior of the vehicle is gaining significant importance. 

From a mere means of transportation to a mobile office, robo-taxi, or cinema on four wheels, the requirements profile is changing enormously. This in turn opens up endless new possibilities to rethink the interior of the vehicle and to use the time spent in the car in versatile ways. 

From Auto- to Tech-Company

Automobile companies will need to further develop into integrated technology companies and increasingly rely on new innovation and development partners from the software or display industries. Moreover, this also means that other industries are pushing into the automobile domain, ranging from the entertainment or insurance sectors to gaming providers or retail. Already today, Google's Android, Apple's CarPlay, or Amazon's Alexa and Fire are significant platforms in the vehicle and will play an even more crucial role in the future. 

The priorities of the automobile product will change significantly

With this revolution, both the priorities of the ‘car’ product and the associated development processes are changing radically. The vehicle interior is becoming a living space, and thus there is an urgent need for novel platforms to connect developers, producers, and providers of these interior experiences and mobile living spaces, fostering innovative thinking.

To manage and support this exchange globally and, above all, interdisciplinarily, Christian Eckert founded "mobility spaces" as a new, independent conference platform and think tank in 2023. 

On February 22, 2024, the time finally came: The first event took place in Los Angeles, California - purposefully chosen as one of the leading ‘new mobility’ cities worldwide and at the same time a center of the entertainment industry and home to countless technology companies.