House! Society for People and Spaces

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Hiša! društvo za ljudi in prostore

Orožnova 7, SI-2000 Maribor

http://www.ziva-dvorisca.si/

Katja Beck Kos, President

House! Society for people and spaces was set up in 2010, its first and still prominent initiative being the Living courtyards programme with its peak during the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012, and later in the scope of the summer Lent Festival. A year-round program, has brought to life abandoned semi-public spaces, the Maribor backyards in the city centre, giving an opportunity to artists to revive courtyards in collaboration with the local community. The project has won the best international collaboration prize at the BIO 50 (Biennial of Design (BIO).

Today House! fosters culturally and socially invigorating programmes, its professional team working intensively on the cooperation of the private, public and creative sector. Being an incubator of new ideas and young activists, it has developed the Polygon of Knowledge for the Maribor 2013 – European Youth Capital.

Living town programme aims at revitalization of deserted streets of the city in co-operation with the local clubs, street theatre, and the residents. House! produces also street performances and interventions in public spaces (Vilin Klopčič). It collaborates with Ana Monro Street Theatre Festival, organising in Maribor a line of street performances of Ana Desetnica, Ana Mrzla and Ana Plamenita together with Vetrinjski dvor (Narodni dom Maribor).

One of notable activities is the Printmaking art centre, an on-going international workshop for printmaking art.

Rajzefiber office, an alternative tourist offer that is tailored to the individual and continuously discovers new curiosities of the town.

House! is part of the Actors of Urban Change the Robert Bosch Foundation. It is recognized as an innovative local community initiative (Award InLoCom 2013), they received two Challenge Future Summit 2013 awards in the category of social enterprises and the main prize of Maribor.

External links

• Living courtyards website
• Printmaking art centre website
• Rajzefiber project
• Living courtyards on the Lent Festival website
• Rajzefiber office presentation on BIO 50, 2014