Talking about automobiles in an architectural, urban and social context may seem to be a boring cliché since there has been never-ending discourses and countless projects on the basis of this topic, and it has been accepted as an inevitable part of the urban life for long. But it may also be true, on the other hand, that framing effect–as a cognitive bias–blinds us, in this case, to see other aspects of the topic and put us in a situation where we “cannot see the wood for the trees”. Regarding the probability of being biased and a personal interest in the unique character of the car–specifically as a moving micro-space inside a macro-space (the city or streets)–an architectural practice started recently.
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