Today, shopping takes place online. But can we be responsible for the consequences? The devastating ecological footprint, the exploitation of parcel couriers, the vacancies on the high street? The ecological balance is devastating because the individualization of orders and the possibilities of returns multiply the distances and packaging of goods. Everyone suffers from the multiplication of goods routes. Traffic collapse is also looming in our cities. The picture that is emerging before us is that of an upside-down world: between the empty retail spaces in the former shopping streets of our cities, delivery vehicles are stuck in traffic jams, and between them are customers on their way to pick up their goods.

In the 2019/20 winter semester, eighteen students of the MASTER STUDY COURSE IN INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE_CONCEPTUAL DESIGN at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, led by Professors Holger Kleine and Uwe Münzing, examined the social and spatial effects and potential of online shopping. IMPACT RheinMain brought these results into dialogue formats in discussion with external stakeholders and realized the science communication. In June 2020, the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main exhibited the results.

IMPACT RheinMain
RheinMain University of Applied Sciences and the sam - Stadtmuseum am Markt regularly cooperated in joint exhibitions and dialog formats in order to shape the exchange with Wiesbaden's civil society, in particular to discuss the effects of smart technologies on our everyday lives and the design of the transport and energy transition. DIALOG IM MUSEUM was part of the IMPACT RheinMain project, with which the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences was supported by the federal and state initiative "Innovative University". Admission to the exhibition was free of charge.