Award-winning Co-CreART project: exhibition, event and interactive activities

The project by the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, in collaboration with the University of Salzburg, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences and numerous other partners, won the Gold Sustainability Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Innovation (BMBWF) and the Federal Ministry of Culture (BMK) in 2024 in the ‘Learning’ category and explores various questions about the future: houses with walls made of mushrooms? Table tops made of coffee grounds? How will we build and live (together) in the future? How will we get around? What drives us when it comes to these issues? And who do our streets and squares belong to?

These are the questions that sparked the project, and the the answers - the findings of this study - are now being presented to the general public for the first time in the interactive pop-up exhibition “Social Streets. Streets and Squares for Everyone!”, a creative event exploring visions of the future for a liveable city, alongside a public discussion.

Over the past two and a half years, the CreART-Lab has been developed as part of the “Co-CreART” project in collaboration with children, young people and numerous partners. This mobile, hands-on laboratory offers a wide range of creative activities designed to explore topics relating to sustainable building and living, future-proof mobility and the circular economy, and is now going on tour: It visits schools, museums and public spaces – including events such as the Long Night of Research and the Mini-Salzburg 2026 children’s town. It is also possible to book a visit from the CreART-Lab.

Project lead: Ass. Prof.in Katharina Anzengruber PhD, Contact: cocreart@moz.ac.at

Projektvolumen: 650.000 Euro
Fördersumme: 325.000 Euro
Laufzeit: 01.10.2023-30.09.2027

Events and activities at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, Mirabellplatz 1, 5020 Salzburg

• 20^th April, 1.00pm - 4.00pm
  Social Streets: Happening on the forecourt of the Mozarteum University
  As part of an open, creative event, Swiss artist Anna Reinhold (creator of “MOBILE. The Open-Air Parliament” and “Café des Visions”) is joining forces with students from the Interuniversity Institute for Art and Academia (Wissenschaft und Kunst) to invite participants to collaborate on developing ideas, aspirations and visions for a city worth living in. 
• 20^th April, 6.00pm
  Interactive Pop-up-Exhibition "Social Streets. Streets and Squares for All!" 
  Insights in projects processes, different stations: an interactive installation, experiments and much more, offering a playful way to try out the formats, reflect and discuss.
• 21^st April, 8:45am
  Talk with Anna Reinhold about Journeys with the Open Air Parliament: Topics include the creation of third spaces which enable encounters between cultures, the development of the MOBILE manifesto ‘Right to Participation’, ‘Visions of Home’, pathways to democratic spaces within the neighbourhood, and collective spatial creations. There will be an opportuniy for audience questions afterwards. Venue: W&K-Atelier, Bergstraße 12a, 5020 Salzburg
• 24^th April, 5.00pm
  Interactive exhibition and hands-on activities as part of the Long Night of Research in the foyer of the Mozarteum University in Salzburg