Mobile Research Lab

Step by step we improve our mobile lab – the Ford Transit transporter van (the name is the program) and the trailer. Inside the van we started to install a mobile exhibition, which we use as triggers for conversations. But we also use the big load capacity on our research trips to collect artifacts. The trailer we designed as s spatial grid and sub-construction in order to attach white panels which are stored – like a sketch-book – in the yellow box. During interviews on the respective site we draw large-scale live mappings on the...

Maanteemuuseum

On our trip back we re-visited the Eesti Road Museum. Already at our stopover last summer, we had been very intrigued about how artefacts related to mobility-issues are staged. This time we thankfully got a guided tour by the staff. Great, besides the ‚conventional‘ collection of vehicles, the section of where different typologies of „nodes“ are reconstructed 1:1 – like the old gas station and the little pavilion with a little garden including a sculpture. According to the information of our guide such pavilions were designed as a rest areas, located all over the...

Project Space Vienna

We finally succeeded and moved into our new project-space at the „Nord-West-Bahnof“ area. The freight station is still a very busy logistic hub. Contrary to our first assumption that, because of the transformation of the area into a mixed use development (residential/ office) the warehouses are almost empty,  it turned out that as many of the big players and forwarders moved out, lots of little businesses – like vendors, delivering and relocation services, car parts dealers etc. rented smaller lots. So did we! We now have an office space next door to some forwarding agents and a storage-lot in one of the big warehouses. In both spaces we start to set up our installations/ cartographies.      ...

Corridor IV – E79

This time we leave Sofia northwards in the direction to Montana and Vidin, following the Corridor IV/ E79. On our way to Sofia at the Serbian border we had troubles with the customs, because we were entering the Non-EU country and didn’t obtain a Carnet ATA for the technical equipment in advance. Besides we want to experience this route the main argument for taking this route as for so many others is to avoid a long delay at the border – since we don’t have to leave the...

Sofia Workshop

Some photos of the displayed projects – including: Staging of findings from the Somat-Archive, our large scale Mapping-Book – a compilation of some nodes we focus on, a live drawn map of the lectures at the workshop, Nikola Venkov’s collaborative project on the Women’s-Market in...