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What must or can be done to save the world?

Saving the world in practice and in theory: Will we have a Mindo-Matic brain washing machine to cleanse our mind from contamination? Will there be an earworm capable of saving the day and therefore at least some piece of the world? Partly in an enlightened spirit, partly in an ironical one new initiatives trumpet weekly calls to “save the world”. Well targeted interventions attract our attention, serve as exclamation marks, wake-up calls, challenges. Or perhaps we should see them simply as howls of protest to rouse us from our habitual complacency. Associations, organisations, students, children and old-age pensioners introduce us to what preoccupies them, bothers them and makes them tick. it could be “Superhero”: He materialises in places where routine, repetition and simply doing as one is told threaten to severely hamper human development. He could mow your lawn on a Sunday, stand in for you at your workplace or brush your teeth while you are doing something really worthwhile. What approaches will ultimately prove persuasive remains to be seen. There will be a central home base to keep you informed on what’s going on.


WHAT // INTERVENTIONS
WHEN // all year 09
WHERE // Bus stop on the Nibelungenbrücke
IDEA / CONCEPT //
Linz09/Christine Weisser after an idea by Karl Stocker, Alexander Kada,
Josef (Seppo) Gründler, Anke Strittmatter, Gerhard E. Kuebel
DESIGN // Folke Köbberling, Martin Kaltwasser (www.koebberlingkaltwasser.de)

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