21st Date Speaker Series - "Utopia meets reality: New ways of mobility and urban design"

How do we want to live and get around in our cities in the future? Less traffic, more greenery, more space to live - pictures show us that this is possible.
Utopias encourage people to rethink: They open up new perspectives and reveal how a city could be more liveable, calmer and more sustainable.

The Hamburg artist Jan Kamensky designs in cooperation with the Munich S-Bahn a new utopia for the Hackerbrücke. In his vision, a gray traffic junction full of cars, buses, bicycles, footpaths and rails becomes a lively, green place of mobility - full of imagination and possibilities.

But how far away are we really from such images? And what is currently happening in Munich to get closer to these ideas?

Join us on September 18, 2025 at 6.30 pm to discuss where utopias can help initiate real change - and where their limits lie.

Discussion topics:

• How can utopias be used to promote sustainable mobility and forward-looking urban development?
• What are we already working on to get closer to utopia?
• And how do we ensure that everyone in Munich benefits - permanently, tangibly and fairly?
• What are the limits of utopias - and where can they still help to initiate necessary transformation?

Together with experts from Germany and all guests, we will discuss what impetus utopias can provide for Munich.

With impulses from:

• Jan Kamensky (Hamburg artist and visual utopian)
• Karsten Lang (Deutsche Bahn/ S-Bahn Munich)
• Sonja Rube (Managing Director USP Projekte GMBH)

Moderation: Oliver May-Beckmann (MCube)

The event is open to everyone, presented in an understandable way and invites you to think along.