In order to reform the world, according to Jörn Hintzer and Jakob Hüfner, one must be able to see it with different eyes. The two young directors from Berlin have made a film together about mini-utopias. It is called "Measures for World Improvement " and ran at this year's Berlin film festival. The documentary drama depicts fictitious initiatives like "Ampel e.V." (“Traffic Lights Association”). In this organisation, annoyed pizza drivers and couriers have come together to minimise the waiting period during rush-hour traffic: Cars waiting at a red light are supposed to drive off at the same time when the lights turn green, and the film shows how the organisation members practise this on an abandoned parking level. Another episode of the film portrays a man introducing a flattened hierarchy: With the aid of adapted shoe soles people are standardized to a size of 1.90 metres. According to statistics, smaller people have lower incomes: So let's make them taller!  

   Berlin is currently the only city in Germany which makes it very easy to see the world with different eyes. There are hundreds, probably thousands, of young designers who do it on a daily basis. For instance, the "wish researchers" in their office and studio in the Friedrichshain district. Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichmann set up their company while still studying design at the University of the Arts. The walls of their studio are decorated with tools like adhesive tape, screw clamps and a bag of rhinestones, together with a pale green document with the German eagle as official seal. It is the record of a registered design for a sushi roller, notarised and signed by one Dr. Schade. The machine works like a cigarette roller. The "wish researchers" already have sold three thousand of them.

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