Cars from the Future Past | On Markus Herrmann’s Design Fiction ‘Nebula 2071’

From the aspect of global mass production, we could hardly find a better symbol than the car. When Henry Ford’s T-Model rolled off the production line in 1908, it not only marked a new era of transport and industrial production, but also defined the fundamental coordinates of mass society and modern design for the century to come. Finally fifteen million identical T-Models were assembled and international mass production became the dominant strategy beyond the automotive industry as well. By combining design and fiction, Markus Herrmann formulates a future alternative in which local, small-scale plants become production centres and local self supply overrides the logic of export-import

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