Fetishizing the Future. Utopias of the third dimension

The transdisciplinary exhibition Fetishizing the Future. Utopias of the third dimension at the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen discusses visions and ideas from the last 120 years for overcoming gravity in a variety of ways and for optimizing the necessary technologies. Airships and air taxis, civil Hypersonic Aircraft, flying cities and space settlements: Historical and current technical and socio-political utopias are juxtaposed with artistic positions that question them, envision alternative scenarios and reveal their dystopian potential. The exhibition focuses on the question whether technical innovations can fulfil the human desires for speed, freedom, peace, immortality and sustainability, or whether their significance is exaggerated by marketing and fetishized promises of salvation.