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The automobile is an extraordinary object that imposes its delirious infrastructure on the world, shaping the landscape and the atmosphere as well as our imaginations: it can be found in the blind spot of all our daily lives. Omnipotent, it is the central component of a globally and politically ramified mobility system: more than 1.2 billion cars are on the road today. A private object for individual use that colonizes public space, the automobile is not only an assembly of thousands of parts, it also carries with it its legends, its own world.

Autofiction proposes a subjective, embarrassing and often taboo biography of this object which participates more than ever in the fabrication of systemic, massive, encompassing artificial environments. How to branch out under these conditions? This biography of the automobile object illustrates the multiple ties that must sometimes be broken in order to be able to completely rethink mobility tomorrow.

Speaker: Olivier Peyricot

Designer, director of the research department of the Cité du design, St-Etienne.

General curator of the 10th Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial 2017 Working promesse, les mutations du travail.

Scientific director of the 12th Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial 2021 Bifurcations.

Co-founder of the design agency IDSland (1996-2010), design & urban planning consultant (2008-2014) teacher at ENSAD (2008-2014), represented by Galerie Mercier&Associés (Paris) for his most experimental work, present in the collections of MoMA, FNAC, VIA and Centre Pompidou, director of the research pole of the Cité du design since 2014 (supervision of a dozen research programmes: Data capture, autonomous vehicles, smart-cities, instance design, instabilities, mutation of work, design & anthropocene...), director of the Cité du design editions, curator of the exhibitions Née dans les fougères 2015, Panorama des mutations du travail 2017, Dépliages 2019, Autofiction 2021, scientific direction of the Saint-Etienne Working promesse 2017 and Bifurcations 2021 International Design Biennials.