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Time and power

Who commands our time? Who commands your time? Both macro- and micro-level analyses of power relationships related to time need to be investigated. Time policies are most obvious when it comes to regulations of working time, permissions of business hours or so-called bank holidays. On the micro or individual level, it is often the question of who spends more time on work, care and repair. Hourly wage rates have been claimed by economists to guide or decide societal time spent on one or the other activity. An extension of this rationale with an overriding objective of happiness might considerably change the impact of power relationships on time. Longer time perspectives on health shall also shift the view of how power impacts the time spent on various activities. Time sovereignty is a precious value in its own right.
The power play between employers and employees keeps shifting the balance, albeit the overall trend over the last 100 years has been towards a reduction of working time and increased time sovereignty of employees as a form of democratization of working life. This constitutes one form to share the benefits of productivity gains over decades as well. (Image clock on Berlin City Council building on labor day 2025).

 

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VR im Museum

Das jüdische Museum hat am 8.5.2022 eine Klanginstallation der ganz besonderen Art aufgeführt. Die Pianistin Annika Treutler hatte Werke von Viktor Ullmann aufgeführt, die zusätzlich durch 3D Aufnahme virtuell in z.B zeitgenössischen Musiksälen erklingen kann. Damit lebt die Musik heute weiter in vielen Konzertsälen und Klangräumen. Eine ganz besondere Freude zum Sieg über Nazi-Deutschland. Der Vernichtung von Kulturgütern kann begegnet werden durch innovative Technik. Alexander Stublic hat ebenfalls eine kurze Erläuterung zu seiner VR-Installation Innerland zum Werk von Viktor Ullmann gegeben.
Dem Siemens Arts Program ist hiermit eine einmalige Würdigung der Geschichte zum Tag der Befreiung von Nazi-Deutschland gelungen, bei gleichzeitiger Projektion in eine vielfältige Zukunft. Vergessene Werke können so zu neuem Leben erweckt werden und für nächste Generationen mittels neuer technischer Möglichkeiten übersetzt werden.
Das Live Klavierkonzert von Tamar Halperin hat diesen Ansatz vorzüglich klanglich umgesetzt mit zentraler Referenz zu Viktor Ullmann, eingerahmt von eigenen Kompositionen. Ich verneige mich in Dankbarkeit für eine würdige Feierstunde bei allen Kunstschaffenden und Organisierenden. Hoffentlich bleibt die Möglichkeit des virtuellen Begehens der Aufführungen länger als die geplanten 2 Wochen bestehen. Für mich bleibt diese Erinnerung für immer mit dem 8. Mai verbunden.

 

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E-Car Market and Sharing

2020 is supposed to bring many new E-Cars to the market. Car-Sharing with the retreat of DriveNow and ShareNow from several cities with only moderate prospects. The Brussels Motor Show, also called Auto-Salon including the #WeAreMobility hall is still going strong right at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in early 2020. Some of the established car-sharing companies like Cambio.de or Cambio.be are not even present at such events. Poppy.be has few visitors as relatively unknown sharing-company yet. Not many more visitors I spotted at europcar.be with the attached scooter-sharing in Brussels and Antwerp.
The Auto-Salon gives a preview on E-Cars from most major companies. The E-go alternative has no presence there and competition of the big established companies from Europe and Japan take most of the space.
Most Consumers seem to want a practical solution to their mobility at a reasonable price, few seem to search for cars to show-off with. There is more “rational choice” around than in previous years. I should have done a survey to measure this, last time and this time round. This could be a worry to the industry as they are more used to sell “dream cars” than practical day-to-day mobility solutions.