The Lower Austria State Exhibition ran from 30 March to 10 November 2019 in Wiener Neustadt under the title “A World in Motion!”. Its venues were the Museum St. Peter an der Sperr and the newly revitalised Kasematten, where the audiovisual installation “Cloud Mobil” explored the present and future of our mobility.
The CLOUD MOBIL installation transforms a vault of the Kasematten into a vehicle constantly moving through abstract space, using 9 projections: a mobile with a dynamic visual interior generated by a growing cloud of data. This staging references the well-known “Spaceship Earth” metaphor coined by US economist Henry George. Its playful approach opens up otherwise hard-to-communicate aspects of mobility, such as its environmental and health impacts.
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The Engine Room
Cloud Mobil is divided into two main areas, the ENGINE ROOM and the COCKPIT. The ENGINE ROOM addresses the everyday mobility of our present. Individual decisions are linked, through a layered information design, to the impacts of our collective mobility. At interactive terminals, visitors can analyse their everyday routes. They can choose between walking, cycling, public transport, mopeds and cars, partly complemented by multimodal, carpooling and e-mobility options. The basis for these decisions includes not only distance and travel time but also cost, effects on individual health and the respective CO2 emissions.
On the central windows of the Cloud Mobil, all analysed routes are continuously visualised in modular form. Various emergent mobility metrics are shown, such as the total duration, distance and cost, or how frequently each mode of transport is used, alongside the environmental and health impacts of the routes entered. This makes the systemic consequences of one's own mobility behaviour tangible and lays the groundwork for informed everyday decisions.
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The Cockpit
In the COCKPIT, visitors can finally pause and travel a stretch of the road towards the mobility of the future. They encounter abstract constellations representing futuristic forms of mobility and are confronted with questions aimed at the future and sustainability of our transport system, such as: “Will the car be a thing of the past?”, “Will I soon be holidaying on Mars?” or “How much mobility will I be able to afford in the future?”. The future of mobility takes shape here, in the minds of the visitors.
