In the climate-controlled interiors of buildings around the world, the costs of comfort are forgotten, and warming futures are endlessly deferred. What have we signed up for? Did we remember to read the fine print? Terms and Conditions brings the outside in—the outside-side of the air conditioner is inside, suspended all around—and confronts visitors with the waste heat resulting from cooling the exhibition rooms beyond. The heat is displaced from there to here, from them to us. Visitors passing through the installation is a spatial allegory for the glaring global inequities of the thermal interior, expanding daily.
Participants
TRANSSOLAR STUTTGART, GERMANY Thomas Auer, Spaichingen, Germany, 1965. Lives and works in Stuttgart and Munich, Germany. Jochen Lam, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 1983. Lives and works in Stuttgart, Germany.
BILGE KOBAS, Izmir, Turkey, 1987. Lives and works in Munich, Germany.
DANIEL A. BARBER, Colorado Springs, USA, 1971. Lives in Amsterdam, Works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
SONIA SENEVIRATNE, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1974. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Authorial Collaborators
Alexandra Auer (Designer); David N. Bresch, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich (Climate science consultant); Dehlia Hannah, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen (Philosopher, designer); Sebastian C. Koth, Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design, Technical University of Munich (Climate experience design); Lorenzo Pierini, Professorship for Weather and Climate Risks, ETH Zürich (Climate science consultant).
Technical Collaborators
Massimo Ferranti, ABC Produzioni e Allestimenti (Production and installation); Klaus Feith, boost (Production)
Team
Transsolar: Alina Wagner, Melis Ozalp
Thanks
DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council)
Supporters
DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council); Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH
