A HUMAN RIDE
The transport revolution is on everyone's lips and mobility of the future has become one of the trending topics. But why is this even important? If traffic presents us with such major challenges, why don't we just stay at home?
Is mobility a basic need?
It was precisely with this question in mind that director Kristian Gründling took to the streets, train stations, trains, parks, petrol stations, garages, cab drivers, research institutions, cities and the countryside. Using a camera and microphone, he explored very personal perspectives on everyday mobility. Exciting changes of perspective, revealing contexts and emotional realities of life make this film itself a movement. The film is not an appeal and does not offer any direct solutions. A HUMAN RIDE is a cinematic journey of experience into the primal human need to be on the move.
ZUKUNFT NAHVERKEHR and MCube - Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions - invite you to an exclusive screening of A HUMAN RIDE followed by a film discussion at the Munich Urban Colab.
Film screening and discussion with director and protagonists.
Trailor and info about the movie: https://www.a-human-ride.de
Present in the evening:
Kristian Gründling
is an internationally acclaimed director, producer and Spiegel bestselling filmmaker. He accompanies transformation processes of people and organizations and deals with the pressing issues of our time in his films (including The Silent Revolution). For the documentary "A HUMAN RIDE", he set off on a journey through Germany to track down the basic need for mobility. He will be able to tell us what he experienced after the screening.
Micha Fritz
Viva con Agua founder, entertainer, keynote speaker and gifted activist who is committed to clean drinking water for all.
Christian Schaalo
is a marketing expert at DB Regio. For 12 years, he has supported communication projects at various points in the Deutsche Bahn cosmos. For some years now, he has been responsible for industry communications and thus also for the ZUKUNFT NAHVERKEHR (ZNV) initiative, which was launched in 2023. This creates space and a stage for public transport in order to make the public mobility of the future more attractive. The film 'A HUMAN RIDE' is a project sponsored by him and the ZNV.
Julianna Günther
Managing Director International Building Exhibition (IBA) - Spaces of Mobility - Munich Metropolitan Region. Architect / urban planner / regional planner / government architect.
Rönke from the heath
questions, thinks freely, concretizes and makes. This is also the process behind Studio DE DRIFFT, which he founded with Beke Fahrenbach in Hamburg. He has been involved in DB Regio's industry communications for many years and was co-initiator of the ZUKUNFT NAHVERKEHR initiative. It was in this context that he came up with the idea for the film "A HUMAN RIDE" and oversaw its production. Together with the director and protagonists from the film, he answers our questions.
Sophia Knopf, M.A. - Doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Sophia studied communication science and psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich as well as Responsibility in Science, Engineering and Technology at the TUM. She gained international research experience at the IT University of Copenhagen and worked at the Institute for Social Science Research e.V. (ISF) in Munich from 2017 to 2020. In 2022, she spent a research stay at the Program on Science, Technology and Society at Harvard Kennedy School.
Since 2020, Sophia Knopf has been working as a strategy team member and researcher within the MCube cluster and is doing her PhD at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology. Her research focuses on the societal impact of innovation - especially in the areas of responsible innovation, data-driven cities and digital urban twins.
