Industry focus: Mobility Transition & Sustainable Transport
In the mobility transition, facts, emotions and societal reality collide
Anyone who wants to change mobility has to understand why people are attached to it. Ellery Studio supports stakeholders in mobility, transport planning and transformation where the policy goals of the mobility transition meet everyday conflicts, user experiences and public debate.
Where we come in
Mobility transition challenges we know inside out
Factual, but highly emotional
Hardly any field of transformation is as closely tied to everyday life, freedom, habit and frustration as mobility. Arguing with facts alone often fails to reach the real conflicts.
Many perspectives, many realities
For some it's about climate targets, for others about parking, accessibility, safety or the commute to work. Good communication has to bring these perspectives together without wagging a finger.
Complex systems stay abstract
Modal shift, multimodality, traffic calming, integrated planning. Many sustainable transport solutions are technically clear but hard to communicate.
Participation, yes, but often only symbolic
Mobility questions affect everyone, so expectations of having a say are correspondingly high. But without good processes, participation quickly tips into frustration or wish lists that go nowhere.
Future visions are missing
Many regions know what they want to avoid. That is precisely why they need narratives, scenarios and images people can relate to.
How we work
Our guiding principles for communication and participation in the mobility transition
Everyday life & emotion
Explaining the transport transition without draining it of emotion
Mobility is never just infrastructure. It is experience, habit, friction and identity. That is why we develop formats that combine technical depth with storytelling rooted in everyday life. For Agora Verkehrswende, we created the award-winning science comic “Future Ahoy!” (“Abgefahren!” in German), which does not just explain the transport transition but is as entertaining as it is informative.
Studies & transport transition
Mobility knowledge translated so people can get on board
In mobility in particular, political, technical and social questions are closely intertwined. We distill studies, strategies and position papers into visual formats that provide orientation. The result: fact sheets, communication series and publications that work well beyond expert circles.
Public participation & public space
Participation for new mobility spaces
When mobility is to be rethought, collecting opinions is rarely enough. Not a one-way street, so to speak. It requires processes that take different lived realities seriously and bring them together productively. We design and facilitate participation formats in which perspectives from public administration, civil society, science and everyday life come together.
Regional mobility & foresight
Future visions for regional mobility
How will a region get around tomorrow? What mobility services do rural areas need? How does mobility change when you consistently start with people? In projects like NaMoW, we work with scenarios, participation and visual synthesis to turn open questions into concrete future visions.
A look into our project world
When mobility knowledge gets moving
Our services for mobility & the transport transition
Communication, foresight and participation for sustainable transport
We support stakeholders in the mobility transition, from strategic framing to visual, communicative and participatory implementation.
Strategic policy and transformation communication
Narratives, guiding visions and communication strategies for the mobility transition, mobility planning and societal transformation, covering urban mobility and rural transport alike.
Research- and evidence-based communication
Communication formats that translate research, data and policy goals around mobility so they become understandable and effective beyond expert circles.
Design & visual translation of policy content
Infographics, publications, fact sheets, graphic novels, visual storytelling and digital formats for sustainable transport topics of high societal relevance.
Editorial formats for mobility and society
Books, fact sheet series and editorial formats that combine facts with a clear stance, accessibility and narrative power.
Dialogue and participation formats
Participatory processes, workshops and futures formats that productively bring together perspectives from the public, administration, science and practice.
Foresight, scenarios and strategic direction
Future visions, scenarios and structured processes that help you think through sustainable mobility for the long term, systemically and with people at the center.
Who we work with
City, country, information flow. We are your communications agency for the mobility transition.
Mobility affects everyone personally and therefore has to be negotiated together. We work with stakeholders who do not just plan or research forms of mobility but have to translate them into societal reality.
Ministries and the public sector
For when sustainable mobility is meant to be not only designed but also politically communicated, explained and anchored in society.
Administrations, municipalities and regions
For the regional transport transition, where planning, participation and communication have to come together, especially when challenges are contested or close to everyday life.
Foundations, think tanks and associations
For formats that provide orientation, structure debates and make complex questions about the future easy to understand.
Science & research
For translating research into accessible, visual communication formats that connect with society.
Civil society stakeholders
For processes and formats that take participation seriously and work through mobility conflicts constructively.
Mobility & society team
Experts in transformation, participation and the visual translation of complex mobility issues
With more than ten years of experience in research, design and transformation work, we develop strategies, formats and processes for the future of mobility.
Bernd Riedel
Executive Creative Director
Dodo Vögler
Executive Creative Director
Eugen Litwinow
Managing Director
Andreas Lohner
Infographics & Editorial
