hehe envisions urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future
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french urban design studio hehe have envisioned a series of artistic interventions within paris, recontextualizing mobility as urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future. ‘the train project’ is an ongoing body of speculative investigation into the language and aesthetics of transport culture. the artists propose personal rail travel as a temporary, imaginary solution to question our industrialized conscience in relationship to locomotion.

 

‘metronome is a prototype of hehe’s ‘train project’ seen as an artistic research into the development of temporary, autonomous vehicles on railway tracks. offering personal transportation, which revisits the poetry movement within a metropolis, the design makes the antithesis of the rail industry — it is light, emphemeral and slow.’metronome’ provides a picturesque journey, alone in pairs on the abandoned paths of ‘la petite ceinture’. the vehicle is electric and charges with solar panels, unfolding to the public thanks to its platform and mobile and portable signal system. 

hehe envisions urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future
‘metronome is a prototype of hehe’s ‘train project’

hehe envisions urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future
a public audience interacts with the mobile transportation units

 


‘métronome’
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the ‘m-blem’ recreates a personal transport experience on the historic track, inviting audience members to journey through space and time to experience the past and future of local transportation networks. 

hehe envisions urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future
prototype for ‘m-blem’ vehicle

hehe envisions urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future
‘m-blem’ takes to the abandoned rail lines

 

 


‘m-blem’ 
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hehe envisions urban railroad surfing vehicles of the future
‘radeau de sauvetage’ (life raft)

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the pieces that make up ‘radeau de sauvetage’

 

 


radeau de sauvetage
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