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transeuropa e.V.
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31141 Hildesheim
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A Discourse Programme In Seven Parts
The experience of the internet challenges our concept of community. It is necessary to find out how networks are organizing themselves today – in arts, politics, economy and living spaces. A series of talks, presentations and experimental set-ups. Artists, activists and scientists from various fields of society meet up with the private expertise of the international festival community to produce common knowledge.
Knowledge Sharing
The organization and sharing of knowledge is one of the most basic cultural and social actions. By preserving valuable knowledge, it creates bonds between the generations. The fight against oblivion provided the starting point for our discourse programme.
Designing Urban Spaces
Traditionally cities are perceived as places of separation and anonymity: Their inhabitants seek for individuality and independence. Good neighborly relations lose their importance and make room for temporary networks. In contrast we go on a quest for fostering moments of communities in urban environments.
Commemoration for the European Union
Europe is a federation of states without citizens and with a ruined image. Democracy deficit, beaurocracy monster, debt crisis – the European idea became a concept rather than conviction. Between politicians and citizens a gap has established.
Bankquet for Festival Research
In modern cities festivals create temporary meeting places that reflect the urban co-existance. We turn transeuropa2012 into an object of investigation and explore community-creating formats within festivals. How do festivals stage communities? Where are social spaces established through the architecture of a festival? How do festivals relate to local contexts?
Global Economic Change
While the markets fall from one crisis into the next, we discuss a change in the system: Could the mechanisms behind Wikipedia and Firefox serve as a blueprint for a new economic system in the material world aswell? Regionally producing and consuming communities are to play a crucial role and shall bestow a happier world without greed of gain upon us.
The Neverending Story of Mashup
The virus remix has messed up artistic implicitnesses. Aside from the desperate attempts of the cultural industry to rescue their yields, we go out in search of models far beyond the concept of genius that encourage processes of collective authorship but guarantee existence nevertheless.
