21 September – 23 October, Sala degli Specchi, Museum of Geography
in collaboration with the project PUTSPACE
How often do you take a bus or a tram or use some form of public transport? Have you ever thought about why it is called public transport? And what makes it public? Is public transport a public space and how is it different from other places in the city which we use collectively?
Similar questions have been asked in the project Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting (PUTSPACE). The three-year project (2019-2022) has brought together academics and artists and this exhibition, curated by Aleksandra Ianchenko, is one outcome of their collaboration. The exhibition has two sections. The first, “Rabbits”, asks how different publics (users and providers, passengers and staff) interact with each other on public transport. The second, “Rails”, using the example of trams, asks what role public transport plays in peoples’ lives and in cities.
The exhibition comes in the shape of a vehicle, allowing you to make an imaginary journey, exploring stories from different European cities as well as in an online version in seven languages. Earlier exhibited at Les Halles Saint-Géry in Brussels (Belgium) and at the Estonian Road Museum in Varbuse (Estonia), on occasion of the T2M Conference, Rabbits & Rails will be hosted at the Museum of Geography from 21 September to 23 October.
Have a good journey!
Rabbits&Rails is the Mobile Exhibition of the Project Public Transport as Public Space in European Cities: Narrating, Experiencing, Contesting (PUTSPACE), which is financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded by AKA, BMBF via DLRPT, ETAg, and the European Commission through Horizon 2020.
