As of: February 10, 2024, 2:01 p.m
By: Lisa Metzger
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In Nuremberg, an artist uses AI to show what the Franconian city could look like in the future.
© Ulrich Schmitt/Bazn.org
Anyone interested can admire the works of artist Ulrich Schmitt in Nuremberg until February 28th.
His pictures show a possible future for the Franconian city.
Nuremberg – In the Caritas Pirckheimer House in Nuremberg, people can currently marvel at a work that dares to look into the future of the Franconian city.
The artist and photographer Ulrich Schmitt used artificial intelligence to create images that show Nuremberg as a green city: more trees, lots of plants - little concrete and almost no cars.
Mere fantasy of a creative mind?
Or inspiration for a new reality?
Nuremberg of the future: urban jungle instead of a concrete desert
In the computer-animated images it is difficult to separate them from each other.
Reality and vision merge into one here.
Ivy and all sorts of plants grow on the house facades, parks line squares in the middle of the city and where there is still asphalt and cars, you can see groups of people sitting together relaxed in the shade of huge trees.
There is greenery wherever you look: Nuremberg's city center can hardly be compared with today's city in the AI-generated works of art.
© Ulrich Schmitt/bazn.org
If the artist Ulrich Schmitt had his way, this would be the future of Nuremberg: a green oasis with a great quality of life for people and animals.
In his view, a constant drive for optimization through increasing technology is not sustainable.
“We live in a world of climate change, and I don’t think that more and more technology is the solution,” the artist tells BR.
The summers are becoming increasingly hotter, cities are heating up - trees are the natural means of choice to cool down the cities in midsummer.
Modern architecture meets jungle flair: If the artist Ulrich Schmitt had his way, this is what the future of the city of Nuremberg could look like.
© Ulrich Schmitt/bazn.org
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Using AI and data that he received from the city itself, Schmitt shows his ideas for a climate-friendly city on his Instagram account
“Buntes Amt für Zukunft in Nuremberg”
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From the jungle flair to the futuristic-looking architecture, everything is there.
With the exhibition, Schmitt hopes “that the willingness to change will be increased.
Many people often only see the sacrifice, but I also think that there is a lot of potential to be gained, for example a lot of greenery and nicer streets in Nuremberg.”
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Many people would like this to happen faster, but every measure we implement also faces headwinds.
Britta Walthelm (Greens), environmental officer for the city of Nuremberg
Schmitt's vision is also well received by users online.
On Instagram, for example, the user a1gabi1 comments on a picture in which a tram is driving through a leafy city center with the words: “This is so much nicer than what is on offer in the city now.” And also on the hfgg_hochschule channel comments on a green facade with enthusiasm: “Your pictures are great and so important from the perspective of political aesthetics!
Especially in summer like this: the street canyons, which are up to 10 degrees cooler, are almost noticeable when you look at them.”
The artist's vision for the city of Nuremberg: green plants grow on the house facades, which naturally cool down the city's climate and thus counteract the increasingly hot summers.
© Ulrich Schmitt/bazn.org
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Green Nuremberg: A lot should happen between now and the State Horticultural Show in 2030
A greener city – that has always been a long-running issue in Nuremberg, says environmental officer Britta Walthelm (Alliance 90/The Greens) to BR.
“Many people would like this to happen faster, but I also have to say that there is also headwind for every measure we implement.
So people would prefer to have a park in front of their door, but also a parking space for their car, and that is difficult in reality.”
Futuristic and yet back to the origins: Instead of increasing technology, the artist Ulrich Schmitt focuses in his AI-generated images on the harmony of the city with nature.
© Ulrich Schmitt/bazn.org
With the “Open Space Master Plan”, the city of Nuremberg has long been trying to make the cityscape greener.
The State Garden Show is scheduled to come to the Franconian metropolis in 2030.
A lot should happen by then.
For example, the gray city moat will literally bloom again.
A lot will also happen in many other parts of the city: “We will redesign the traffic area at the Maxtor in the north,” Walthelm told BR.
Kesslerplatz in the east, which is currently a parking lot, will be converted into a green space.
In the west, Johannis Boulevard is in sight.
There, too, a street is to be converted into a green space.
“And to the south we have the so-called Südstadt climate mile, where we will also redesign the street space from the main train station to Kopernikusplatz.”
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