Starting point for the design laboratory of this summer is the festival „Kulturelle Landpartie“ which attracts every year up to 60.000 people for 600 manifestations to the Wendland area in the East of Niedersachsen. Visitors, creatives and artists from the metropolises of Berlin, Hamburg, and Hannover merge with a vivid local creative scene in this cultural event far away from metropolitan cores. In a research phase, the laboratory aims to explore the spatial logics underlying this festival, leading to pathways of innovation— including debates between identifying streamlines and creative opportunities („fringes“). In parallel, the future role of the festival for creative and cultural economy and for new ideas of living in Wendland are to be explored—as one of the most remote areas of Germany, with strong rural character and unique heritage values, but also with the risk of abandonment and neglect („fringes“); with the aim to envision its future as a Common Habitat. In the design phase, the laboratory will connect different scales of access towards the active design of spatial qualities, of spatial visions and branding, and of transformations processes: between a regional scale, a scale of small towns and hamlets, and architectural interventions and new typologies—including new living and working models, a strong focus on young people, for cultural and productive spaces, and for new mobility.
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