the CARS WE LIKE

The CARS WE LIKE is an ongoing research project of mine in collaboration with the Futurama.Lab and Rainer Prohaska. With it, we try to radically reinvent mobility as an artistic, modular practice. We believe that transportation should no longer be something epiphenomenal to the artwork itself, but be part of an ecologically minded, wholistic cultural practice. Therefore we build the CARS WE LIKE from the same material pool of recycled and retrieved pieces we then also use to create installations, houses, kitchens and any other modular form.    

"The environment must no longer be adapted to the car, but the car to the environment" is the leading of the CARS WE LIKE. 

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 the CARS WE LIKE, we work towards overcoming this dead zone of imagination by prefiguring better worlds, beyond an autocentered paradigm, for the many flourishing worlds of the future. 

We focus on introducing plurality and fun to the gray monotony of mundane traffic jams by building inclusive and dada-esque, modular forms of radically ecological cars using recycled materials, found objects and bike waste. 

--> Interview about the project (German)

--> film presentation of the project