Why we should learn to celebrate construction sites - and finally shape mobility based on facts and together
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Our movie night at the packed Munich Urban Colab was a complete success: over 150 people attended the screening of The automobile man - the wrong paths of a society and possible ways outthe latest documentary film by spatial planner and director Reinhard Seiß.
In it, Seiß takes a razor-sharp look at our mobility behavior - and debunks the myths surrounding public transport, cycling infrastructure and our fixation on cars. Whether it's land consumption, particulate matter or resource conservation: according to Seiß, the reality is uncomfortable - and the necessary change is complex.
Together with the "Inspiration & Talk" series of the Munich Urban Colab and our MCube Speaker Series "Future of Mobility", we not only showed the film - but also discussed it in an exciting panel afterwards:
A big thank you to Isabel Strehle from the Mobility Department of the City of Munich for the passionate plea to celebrate construction sites and change as places of positive progress - and to Dr. Julia Kinigadner (Science Head MCube) for valuable impulses for the transferability of good examples from all over Germany.
We would also like to thank Sabine Hansky and Oliver May-Beckmann for the moderation and the successful evening.
A very special thanks goes to our partners from FUTURE OF LOCAL TRANSPORT - and of course to Banging popcorn for the delicious accompaniment to the movie.
What remains is a clear message:
The mobility turnaround will not succeed through new technologies alone - but through new thinking, courageous planning and joint action.
And the movie? It moved us. In our heads - and hopefully soon on the street too.
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