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The Themes

Energies Of Data

The “Energies of Data” workshop is based on the vision of the winning entry by Jürgen Mayer H. Architects for the  Audi Urban Future Award 2010. This group of themes discusses such questions as: “How will a new data space, automatic driving and social networks change the urban space and individual mobility in the future?“

There will be an exchange of data between people, automobiles and architecture. Alongside the architectural space, a completely new space will be defined: a data space. As a result of this, the automobile will change fundamentally: the driving machine will become a viewing machine. This means that the occupants of a vehicle will be able to perceive their urban surroundings in a completely different way, regardless of whether the automobile is in motion, or must stop or brake.

The core statements of this topic:
• digital individualism
• personalized city
• the experience of autonomous mobility

Energies of Social Relations

The “Social Relations” workshop is based on the vision in the proposals of Alison Brooks Architects for the Audi Urban Future Award. If it is assumed that the city of the future consists of many heterogeneous areas, social exchange will be enhanced. New forms of neighborly cooperation will arise. Questions such as the following will be posed: “Will social exchange, common use and neighborhood assistance take the place of individual ownership in some fields.”

A new era of communal mobility will make it possible for conurbations and ecological systems to coexist, thus enabling the sustainable growth of megacities. The combination of Internet appliances and social networks will also characterize new patterns of thinking in individual transport.


The core statements of this topic:
• society with mutual trust
• multi-faceted city
• social value of mobility

Energies Of Resources

The “Energies of Resources” workshop is based on the vision of the BIG team of architects from Copenhagen  and Andreas Klok Pedersen: optimized networks, to which data on energy sources, traffic participants and infrastructure have been input, could optimize the flow of traffic. Free, interactively usable surfaces and energy surpluses would result from this. Can the automobile and the home in future be supplied by the same flexible energy storage, instead of being dependent on static supply systems? Decentralized and mobile energy storage schemes are contrasted with a central, static supply. With "Balanced Mobility" Audi has already initiated a pilot project that is unique in the automobile industry in the endeavor to achieve CO2-neutral mobility that is sustainable and conceived in holistic terms.

The core statements of this topic:
• sustainable hedonism
• city of abundance
• intelligent mobility