03.05.2024 – 26.05.2024
Teachers and students from the Institute of Design & Communication at FH Joanneum Graz have worked together with the residents of Oberzeiring in Upper Styria on strategies to improve communication in public spaces. They worked on the town’s most important square, which has been deprived of its actual function as a meeting place for residents for several years. In future, it will once again be reserved for pedestrians. Joint workshops were held to develop the transformation of the village square from a car park and a turning area for buses into a square with a variety of recreational qualities.
The exhibition shows the results of the four-year collaboration between “Human Cities” for the “SMOTIES – Small and remote places” project. Ten small, remote European locations were selected for the project European places affected by a strong rural exodus were selected for the project. The selection criterion was their particular importance as custodians of material and immaterial culture, which would run the risk of being undervalued, unconsolidated or handed down – in other words, of being lost forever. The aim is to enhance the remote areas through joint cultural and creative activities with the residents and to develop them into contemporary places worth living in. The projects from the nine other selected locations in Europe are also shown.
A BREATH OF FRESH AIR IN OBERZEIRING
HDA – Haus der Architektur
03.05.2024 – 26.05.2024
www.hda-graz.at
