Mobilitäts.Wende.Kongress @ Munich, 14.9

Every ear the IAA, Europe's biggest auto-mobility fair and main propaganda tool of the German car lobby, is taking place. Since the protests got too heavy in Frankfurt a couple of years ago, they have moved to the calmer waters of Munich. So let's heat up Munich and show them that we are ready for a better and more inclusive world of mobility and willing to fight the strangle hold that the German car lobby not only has on Germany, but on Europe. By now even rather conservative economists are of the opinion that the German car industries massive influence on the nation and the EU is wrecking their future prosperity and thriving.

On the 14th of September I will be involved in various ways at the Anti-IAA-summit, including a talk, a panel with the artists Folke Köbberling, whose work in Munich's public space I admire a lot. Here is the time table:

16:00-16:45 PerformanceLecture mit Filmschnipseln von und mit Folke Köbberling
17:00-17:45 1000 Wege aus der Autodestruktion: Den Status Quo durchlöchern! Vortrag von Kilian Jörg
17:45-18:30 Gespräch und offener Austausch mit Folke Köbberling und Kilian Jörg über ökologische Kulturarbeit und transformatorische Kunst. Moderation: Katharina Horn

And here is all the necessary info: https://umwelt.asta.tum.de/mobilitaetskongress/ 

Furthermore, at 20h I will be part of our second physical meeting of "Highway? To Hell" - a pan-european coalition fighting for a moratorium on all new street building projects following the french role-model of La Deroute des Routes. https://programm.mobiwende.camp/mobility-transformation-camp-2025/talk/FFZCHR/ 

Highway? To hell! - First coalition project statement

Change is in the air but our mainstream politics and economies seem to blissfully neglect that fact by trying to forcefully maintain a status quo that will surely lead us into ecological catastrophe. 

The coalition Highway? To Hell! seeks to alter this autodestructive course focusing on a main artery of old and catastrophic ways of making economy and politics: highways.

How can it be that – although many European economies and populations are factually shrinking for years – we keep building new highways in an almost compulsive manner?

The coalition Highway? To hell! wants to show that the majority of European people see further than their leaders think: by connecting the almost uncountable local resistance movements against new street building, we want to build a network to create visibility for the need to change course. 

After the role-model of the successful French coalition La Déroute de Routes, the coalition wants to map all local struggles, thereby creating a means of exchange of knowledges, experiences and activists.

Furthermore, we want to unite the coalition with a common demand we will fight for on an european level : a discontinuation for new street infrastructure. 

We also want to reclaim a non-motorised way to use the streets. The underlying motivation is that we should work on ideas and visions of the good life that are no longer ecologically catastrophic – in that they for example require hugely destructive fossil car infrastructure all over the continent in order to work. Another, better life is possible beyond a car-centric understanding of Europe. 

RECLAIM THE STREETS! 

Written by those present at the first plenary meeting in the aftermath of the protests against the A100 Berlin