magdalena bürbaumer and florian pühringer are investigating in a 'mobile lab' how the residents of seestadtravel. they get the data from an app - which i also download directly onto my cellphone. for the next few days, it will automatically record all the routes that my camera team and i take. plus info about the means of transport used and our co2 consumption. the young researchers also go from house to house to distribute questionnaires. we need to know what the status quo is, and monitor it continuously. because there are changes in individual behaviour -- and simultaneously, seestad aspern is changing as well. it's still under construction, it's one third built, so there is still potential for the district to use new info for the next construction phase. the mobile lab shares its data with anyone who is interested: companies, city planners, and the residents themselves. the data is especially important for the planning phase: the new district is meant to learn from its mistakes. at first it was tolerated that you park your car in front of the door, just in order to make your move easier