A_p [PZI]

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Appendix
Concrete
Interference
Stand-in
Tardis
Traffic Island
Waiting

POLITICAL ASPECTS

“Writing this from the position of a white, multi-cultural, bilingual, citizen of two European Union member states (Ireland and Finland) and living in a third (Holland) you would imagine that the restrictions placed on my mobility aren’t too many”….
“The range of my possibilities to physically move around the world, as well as by the aid of micro-electronics is vast in comparison to those from a Second or a Third World country. Yet has this increased mobility produced more freedom? Certainly it has created a faster paced mobility and hence the illusion of freedom as I can now move between geographical points within hours or seconds depending on my mode of travel. But has it created more personal freedom or more personal choice?” writes Deirdre Donoghue one of the participants.

The project started from the notion of Mobile Capsule as a mode of isolation, capsularity and exterritoriality related to any kind of mobile situation. It can include means of private or public transportation, but it can also be related to temporary moving dwellings. By starting from this notion, project raises a range of issues related to mobility, isolation, capsularity and exterritoriality, such as: mobility as the ultimate freedom, mobility vs. connection and mobility as a loss of physical distance.
To be free doesn't necessary mean to be mobile. Freedom is much more related to the possibility of being away, in conditions which are regulated by oneself.

Students developed projects raising questions of identity (Stand-In), distance (Tardis), relation between body, products and space (Appendix, Traffic Island), mobilization of language (Concrete) and capsularity of waiting spaces (Waiting, Interference). In the works presented mobility is reflected as both restricting and potential concept.