The Cars We Like
Thinking and Enacting Radical Transformation in Mobility
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
The environment must no longer be adapted
to the car, but the car to the environment. / Workshop led by the Futurama.Lab
Workshop Times: 4–8 Mar 2024, Mon,
Tue: 14:00–19:00 /
Wed, Thu: 13:00–17:00 / Fri: 12:00–16:00
(This workshop is for free and is also open to
non Angewandte students and non students too)
For the workshop please register via info@ailab.at
Mobility is one of the major challenges of global ecological transformation and
yet our ideas for innovation seem to be very limited and one-sided – especially when it comes to automobility. In this transdisciplinary
workshop and symposium, we will work towards overcoming this dead zone of imagination by prefiguring better worlds, beyond
an autocentered paradigm, for the many flourishing worlds of the future.
How can mobility become a source of inspiration
in a devastated global society that mostly feels it has to or is obligated to move (to work, to the supermarket, etc.) and
tends to forget the joys of doing so voluntarily and as a larger-than human practice?
The environment must no longer
be adapted to the car, but the car to the environment is the leading motto of this 5-day-workshop led by the Futurama.Lab.
It will focus on introducing plurality and fun to the gray monotony of mundane traffic jams. Participants will be able to
build dada-esque, modular forms of radically ecological cars using recycled materials, found objects and bike waste.
The accompanying symposium (6–8 Mar) seeks to go beyond mere critique by combining theory and practice in a novel way. Evening
lectures, panels and screenings will investigate radical utopias of carfree worlds, the need to devise new safe spaces beyond
the car, the car as a crucial nexus in the consumer-capitalist system and how the arts can take part in this transformation.
International experts and visionaries whose perspectives are almost unknown in the German-speaking sphere will be introduced
to stimulate a dynamic discourse for the radical transformation we need.
Workshop is led by: FUTURAMA LAB
Team:
Kilian Jörg, Rainer Prohaska, Dietmar Tollerian (Radbande)
Exhaust(ed) Entanglements (EE) is a trans-disciplinary
and international series of symposiums and labs devoted to the question of mobility and its future challenges in regards to
the climate crisis. The Cars We Like is the second edition of the series.
The Cars We Like is supported
by:Radbande BMKOESMA7 . Stadt Wien . KulturYPSOMEDAngewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL)
(Flyer Image: SAN LUN
CHE Sketch 07 – © Rainer Prohaska – (Bildrecht 2009)
