BMW Presents the ‘Where Do We Go from Here?’ Symposium

The BMW Group in collaboration with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, have just announced a one-day symposium on the occasion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15). The symposium, scheduled to take place on December 12, 2009, will be comprising international names in the fields of architecture, design, contemporary art and technology.

The participants of the symposium, as revealed by BMW, are the artists Olafur Eliasson, Sissel Tolaas, Shilpa Gupta and Ann Kristin Lislegaard, to name a few. You may know Olafur Eliasson for his unusual BMW H2R project, that we presented some two months ago.

Looking more like an oversized hedgehog, the BMW H2R race car is, in fact, a hydrogen-powered vehicle, developed to attain speed records while using regenerative fuel. Eliasson has removed the car’s outer shell and replaced it with a complex, translucent skin made of steel mesh, reflective steel panels, and many layers of ice.

Furthermore, during COP 15, BMW Group will provide more than 30 cars for the official UN shuttle fleet including hydrogen cars and highly efficient Diesel automobiles. The company will also integrate four fully electric MINI E into a fleet of cars, that will commute delegates to green technology showcases.

“The BMW Group is the world's most sustainable car company. In 2009, this was confirmed by the renowned Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the fifth year in a row. No manufacturer uses its resources more effectively. We will maintain this course - with our products and with their production. It is our declared goal for sustainability to become the guiding principle of how we define all processes within our entire value chain,” said Frank-Peter Arndt, member of BMW AG’s board of management.