House! Society for People and Spaces

{{Infobox | name = House! society for people and spaces | localname = Hiša! društvo za ljudi in prostore | logo = | street = Orožnova 7 | town = SI-2000 Maribor | telephone = | email = | website = http://www.ziva-dvorisca.si/ | contacts =

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 with its peak during the, and later on the 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 with their activities and projects, in collaboration with the local community. The Living courtyards inciative has won the best international collaboration prize at the BIO 50 (Biennial of Design (BIO). Launched in

Today House! fosters culturally and socially invigorating programmes, while its professional team works intensively on 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 European City of Youth Maribor 2013. It produces also street performances and interventions in public spaces (Vilin Klopčič), as the Living town programme aims at revitalization of sleepy streets of the city in co-operation with the local clubs, street theatre, and the residents. 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.

Collaborations

House! and Vetrinjski dvor (Narodni dom Maribor) collaborate with Ana Monro Street Theatre Festival

See also

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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