Exhibition „Alles fließt“
Munich
Name
Exhibition „Alles fließt“
Client
Dr. Huber / Stadtwerke München
Program
Exhibition
Location
Munich
Project
2008
Status
completed
Parcel
–
Area
800 m2
Footprint
800 m2
Almost 100 years ago, the writer Karl Kraus stated:
„I demand from a city in which I am to live: asphalt, street cleaning, house keys, air heating, and a hot water supply. I myself am comfortable.“
In doing so, the Viennese satirist and big-city enthusiast encapsulated exactly what we still expect from a well-managed city today—that it functions as quietly and efficiently as possible, yet remains virtually invisible in its operation. Water (indeed, even warm water) must always be flowing through its pipes, as must electricity and gas through their conduits, day and night; public transport should be at our disposal 24 hours a day, and even sports-cooling water or healthful warmth for refreshment and invigoration—we take all that the city provides for granted and gladly accept it.
This tendency to take so much for granted inspired us to create the exhibition “Alles fließt” about the many tasks and activities of Stadtwerke München. We want to explore some of the services that are usually only cursorily known to us, and we aim to show what is “flowing” in the many pipelines or transit routes above and below Munich’s streets. We also want to highlight the work of the people who, day after day, ensure this uninterrupted flow in the Munich community—from the power plant worker and subway driver to the sustainability-minded designer.
It is Stadtwerke München who, on the occasion of the city’s 850th birthday, invite citizens to look behind the networks and pipelines and to become better acquainted with everything that rightfully belongs to them—and that is to say, to all of us.
Exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich / Collaboration with graphic designer and typographer Dominique Boessner.
