Italdesign Future Mobility Contest

Italdesign celebrates the three winning teams of the “Research Contest on Future Mobility in Cities” during an event held inside the company’s Headquarters in Moncalieri, Italy.

Launched last February with the Patronage of the City of Turin as part of the celebrations for Italdesign’s 50th anniversary, the contest gathered together 88 projects from teams from 20 different countries.

"We launched this contest last February to mark Italdesign’s 50th anniversary, to open our company to creative young people from around the world and to better understand the world of new mobility" – CEO Jörg Astalosch said – “We are thankful to all the contestants who participated from all over the world and to the distinguished members of the jury, it wasn’t easy to pick the winners among these very interesting projects”.

The jury:

• Pierpaolo Antonioli, Managing Director of the General Motors engineering center located in Torino (Torino Polytechnic Campus), since September 2009. GM Torino has global responsibilities for the development of Diesel Engines, Diesel Electronic Controls and Diesel Hybrid technologies for passenger car applications for the whole GM Corporation.
• Klaus Busse, Head of Design for Fiat, Abarth, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Maserati at FCA Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Born in 1969, has been Vice President of Design for FCA Europe since October 2015. Klaus started his career with 10 years at Mercedes-Benz design in Germany. In November 2013 he received the Automotive News All-Star award for design and in January 2015 the Industry Innovator of the Year award.
• Stefano Musso, CARS Member, Department of Control and Computer Enginereeing – Politecnico di Torino.
• Roy Kalawsky, Professor of Human-Computer Integration and Systems Engineering at Loughborough University, UK, He is Director of the Advanced VR Research Centre, and was recently awarded the Airbus Endowed Chair of Data and Digital Engineering Information Systems, Before joining Loughborough University in 1995 he was Head of Cockpit Research at BAE Systems Military Aircraft.
• Iain Macbeth, Head of Foresight for the Transport Innovation Directorate at Transport for London (TfL), responsible for emerging mobility trends. Ian sits on the UK Automotive Council Technology Group and European Commission GEAR2030 Group, developing the roadmap for automated road transport.
• Paola Pisano, Deputy Mayor for Innovation and Smart City at the City of Turin. Professor of Management of Innovation at Università degli Studi di Torino; Responsible of Smart City Laboratory at Centro di Innovazione tecnologica multidisciplinare dell’Università di Torino (ICxT).
• Jörg Astalosch, CEO Italdesign, begins his career within the Volkswagen Group in 1988 in Wolfsburg. He worked within the Volkswagen Group ever since. From 2012 to 2014 he was Chief Financial Officer at MAN Truck & BUS AG. From mid 2014 to 2015 he worked directly for Volkswagen Group’s Supervisory Board Chairman and joined Italdesign in September 2015.