No Spare Wheels: A Tactile Experience Between Art, Culinary Arts and Science

What if you forgot your thumbs? What would your fingers push against? How would you hold a pen, a cup or someone else's hand? 

At our next event on art, science and culinary arts on the 19 May 2025, at the University of Zurich’s UniTurm Restaurant we will explore these questions together.

At the heart of the experience is the titular tableware No Spare Wheels, designed and handcrafted by artist Thomas d’Enfert, to facilitate a simulated amnesia of one's thumbs and encourage connection with elderly people and people with disabilities. Dr. Franziska Felder, Professor of Inclusion and Diversity (UZH), and Dr. Andrea Horn, gerontopsychologist and head of the SERH research group (UZH), will provide scientific insights through short presentations on their research.

No Spare Wheels is a participative happening, an exchange of scientific and artistic ideas, visions and expertise, where through playful unlearning, we create space for new ways of thinking. 

This time, we are fully booked and unable to accommodate any additional participants. Please stay tuned on our social media or our website for future events. 

This event was created in collaboration with the ZFV.

No Spare Wheels, 19 May 2025, 6pm @ UniTurm Restaurant, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich.