THE HARE AND THE HEDGEHOG

A cross-city performance event in which the transition to sustainable transport systems so urgently needed in the twenty-first century is put to the test through the famous eighteenth century method of the Brothers Grimm. The car is statistically proven the slowest of all means of transport when used in the city. And yet we all sit in our cars and in traffic jams, because somehow we still believe in the old fairy tale about its speed and efficiency.

For one day only a city organises a very special race. Its districts are arbitrarily divided into 'hare' and 'hedgehog' areas, creative costume suggestions are sent to every household, the route is set. Everyone joins in this real-life laboratory, taken straight out of a fairytale world.

A starting gun is fired. All hares have to drive. All hedgehogs can cover the distance as they wish, as long as they do not drive.

Days later there are still many wonderful photos to be seen in the press and all social media of large groups of hedgehogs on skateboards, on foot and in cable cars - and of hares stuck in traffic jams.