Over the past few months, Biennale Urbana (Giulia Mazzorin, Andrea Curtoni, Andrea De Lorenzo) curated the festival centre and adjoining spaces for Tangente St. Pölten. The collective invited students from space&designstrategies, TU Wien and New Design University to collaborate and activate those spaces. During the workshop students inhabited the Löwinnenhof*, listened to neighbouring realities and realised their art and design interventions on site. All sorts of materials from an obsolete school building in St. Pölten were used to work on projects which are functional and narrative at the same time. All while asking: How can we practice our empathy through design?
“By realising the festival centre we approach how to experience and materialise empathy towards human and non-human beings, ecosystems, spaces, objects, memories, meanings and perspectives. Inhabiting the construction site was our way of entering into a deep relationship with the context and allowing the incredible transformative power that emerges from a space in transition.“ Biennale Urbana @buurrb