The Society for the Promotion of Exemplary Road Damage (GzFvS) examines the paved surfaces of our cities for irregularities of high valence. It is interested in flawed defects and patched-up repairs—not to improve the quality of the roads or to make fun of the hard work involved in maintaining them, but to draw conclusions about broader societal contexts from the interplay of cobblestones and sidewalk slabs, road surfaces, stumbling blocks, and potholes.
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After all, the street has much to teach us about the coexistence of different principles of thought and order, about contaminated ecologies, about dealing with liminal problems and radical fragments—and about what kinds of rocks one might grab in the event of an uprising. The Society for the Promotion of Exemplary Road Damage therefore calls on the public to submit exciting situations. This is creating a participatory archive of exemplary road damage from around the world on the society’s archive website and its dedicated Instagram channel @unloesen.
The Society for the Promotion of Exemplary Road Damage is a participatory project initiated by Peter Behrbohm and carried out with the help of countless others. The Road Damage City Tours were created in collaboration with the nomadic ReRouting Project by Clementine Butler-Gallie and Viviane Tabach. The Road Damage City Tours were documented by Clementine Butler-Gallie and André Wunstorf. The Society’s website and its archive were designed by David Liebermann as a walkable online game. Since the founding of the Society for the Promotion of Exemplary Road Damage, countless people from all over the world have submitted interesting situations. The examples shown here are from Aram Bartholl, Alice Astłik Baseian, Emma Grau, Romain Render, Annie Cooklin, Jo Ziligen, and many more. On September 15, 26, Steffen Greiner reported on this for the TAZ. Thank you very much!
