Under the head line Taking the Time to Study Speed the Stanford site has a good little piece up on our Speed Limits project:

“Life in the fast lane” is a contemporary phrase we often use to describe exciting, action-packed events in our lives, but just what is the human obsession with speed?  Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford professor of Italian and of Comparative Literature, explores this very question in an exhibit titled, Speed Limits, at the Canadian Center for Architecture (CCA).

Not coincidentally, Speed Limits, an exploration of speed and its evolution is taking place during the one-hundredth anniversary of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s foundation of the Italian Futurist movement. Futurism dismissed the past and its old political and artistic traditions, admiring among other things, speed, industry, and technology’s conquest of nature.  As its founder, Marinetti stated in his Manifesto of Futurism, “The world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.”

SPEED limits is a mixed reality exhibition project concerned with themes of speed and slowness in modern culture that will: a) pioneer a participatory approach to museum-based informal learning, targeted at youth, with the aim of transforming infrequent museum-goers into active content producers and curators; and b) contribute to the implementation and launch of a new virtual world platform.