For this mobile multimedia performance, I developed a responsive media architecture that transformed a moving double-decker bus into an audiovisual environment traveling between Cologne and the Hambach open-cast mine. By synchronizing digital projections and generative soundscapes with the transit of the vehicle, the system layered speculative climate scenarios directly over the passing industrial landscape.

The great global threats have been averted after plants and humans were able to form a powerful intelligence in symbiosis. However, some individuals still try to live at the expense of the community. A bus trip from the future to the past is supposed to restore the balance before it is too late for humans.

Come along on a journey by double-decker bus from the outskirts of Cologne to the area of the Hambach open-cast coal mine and the wildly romantic Schloss Türnich. Based on the research project “Zukunftsbilder” by Scientists for Future on the question of what our lives could look like in 20 years, a multimedia theatre experience has been created. A touching and sensual journey of experience that theatrically packages complex development scenarios.

• Acting: Franziska Schmitz

• Acting & Script: Mira Wickert, Thomas Zimmer

• Script: Arwen Schünk

• Consultation: Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfennig, Dr. Friedrich J. Bohn, Nicole Loeser, PD Dr. Volker Ossenkopf-Okada / Scientists for Future Regionalgruppe Köln/Bonn

• Technical Assistance: Damian Weber

• Costume Design: CHANG13, Fenja Ludwig /#changfenja

• Concept & Stage Design: Keren Korman

• Sound Design: Joel Jaffe

• Production Assistance: Judith Steinig-Lange

• Project Coordination: Lucia Oiro

• Dramaturgy & Script: Nadine Schwitter

• Video & Lighting & Programming: Navid Razavi

• Installation & Stage Design: Nicolas Sippel

• Project Manager: Ria Unverzagt

• Direction & Script: Christoph Steć

• Conceptual Cooperation: Olaf Sabelus