As a work of art located in time, Olafur Eliasson’s transformation of the H2R–automobile is a design provocation that opens up debates about the profound impact of art and design in their contemporary social setting. “Traditional car design has defined the car as a desirable object, a fetish almost, and a commodity, depriving it of its relationship to its surroundings and to time. Car design has primarily focused on the most profitable way of facilitating and mediating physical movement. We have to challenge this, and I think the task is to reintroduce time as the key producer of our experiences. Reality then becomes temporal reality. This reintroduction will give us the possibility to perceive the car and the consequences of driving in relation to our own bodies.”
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