José Rui Marcelino

José Rui Marcelino has a PhD in product design process management (FAUTL, Lisbon) and in 1997, founded Almadesign Studio where he manages design projects for transportation, product and interiors. He participates in the development of cooperation networks, having co-founded PEMAS, the Portuguese Association for the Aeronautical Industry, of which he was president for six years. He is a co-founder and board member of the Aeronautics, Space and Defence Cluster (AED.CP), of the Portuguese Rail Platform Cluster (PFP) and the board of COTEC. He is currently responsible for the master's degree in product design at the Faculty of Architecture, Lisbon.

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Presentation

The electric cabin: designing zero-emission aircraft interiors

The increase in urbanization and road congestion has raised the need to address new solutions for transportation. Urban Aair mobility has come up as a possible solution, supported by the advance of sustainable propulsion, energy storage systems, connectivity, automation and lightweight structures. The FLY.PT project, involving Portuguese aerospace companies, explores autonomous electric mobility combining a drone, a passenger cabin and a skateboard, for vertical and horizontal movement. The collaborative design methodology included the creation of a morphological table to support the generative phase, sketching sessions to visualize concepts and a concept selection matrix to choose and refine concepts collaboratively.