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metropa is an art and peace project that shows Europe as an entity on multiple layers; it anticipates the idea of a pan-European metro network system that interconnects all of its citizens and visitors, regions and metropolitan areas – without the borders within.

metropa presents a european future where all ecological, economical, technical and political questions are answered and transformed into a viable comprehension of what could be, at times, the Federal Republic of Europe.

metropa is the junction of all of these topics: mobility, climate change awareness, European integration and migration. Its clear and simple imagery speaks to the people like a current map of any subway in any possible city in Europe. It makes people believe that it is already true. And the more people see it, the more the pressure grows on the people in charge – the EU, the companies, the heads of governments.

2023 starts with a brand new experience for us. We created our first map applied to a real network:

the great European network of night trains.

It wasn't easy (in fact, it is impossible) to find all the data needed. Still, there's no reliable and up to date platform that knows about all the trains and lines.

Nevertheless, after lots of talks, hours of research and design work we finally made it. And what we got is so different from what we expected and what we knew from metropa. Utopia is so different from real things. It is beautiful and disturbingly chaotic at the same time. Over 90 lines rolling through the european nights from here to there, hundreds of cities of all size connected (not all of them are on the map), transporting thousands of people each day already. Night trains, so it seems, are an important element of our future mobility, if not the backbone of it. Because the trains are already here.

voices in support of metropa

Prof. Markus Friedrich
University of Stuttgart, Chair of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

"There are a lot of visionary solutions concerning the future of transportation. But many of them don't really work out. METROPA uses proven technology and thus interconnects Europa – that's visionary!"

your voice on metropa

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metropa is an art and peace project that shows Europe as an entity on multiple layers; it anticipates the idea of a pan-European metro network system that interconnects all of its citizens and visitors, regions and metropolitan areas – without the borders within.

voices in support of metropa

Prof. Markus Friedrich University of Stuttgart, Chair of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering

your voice on metropa

Prof. Markus Friedrich
University of Stuttgart, Chair of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering