A Symposion “rural Baukultur between Tradition and Innovation”
19.– 22. September 2024
HTBLA Hallstatt
interventa Hallstatt 2024 is a multi-genre symposium that is addressing “Rural Baukultur between Tradition and Innovation” as part of the Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut. Baukultur is a holistic and interdisciplinary concept that regards space as the balanced sum of its landscapes, architecture, and everyday structures. If rural regions are to be equipped for a sustainable future, they need innovation and change.
The curators of interventa Hallstatt 2024, Sabine Kienzer and Marie-Therese Harnoncourt-Fuchs, are inviting regional and international protagonists of the Baukultur of tomorrow to investigate issues including emigration and new living environments, sustainable tourism and overtourism, resources and innovation, and mobility and landscape. The actors come from the fields of architecture, philosophy and sociology, cuisine, and the fine and performing arts. They are global and local, avant-garde and traditional, and operate between utopia and pragmatism.
On four consecutive days, interventa Hallstatt 2024 focuses on the conditions, tools, and practices required for change, progress, and the dissemination of a Baukultur that is fit for the future.
The formats with which the essential issues of Baukultur are discussed are performative, classic, and unconventional – as they shift between the building site and the lecture theater.
Illustrative of the wider region, Hallstatt serves as an inspiring center of regional and international networking and interdisciplinary exchange at the interface between theory and practice.
„Die Baukultur von Morgen ist eine Bewusstseinskultur!“
(“The Baukultur of tomorrow is a culture of awareness!”)
Sabine Kienzer and Marie Therese Harnoncourt
Ringing-in
At the beginning of 2024, interventa Hallstatt was eingeläutet (rung in) with a performance that reinterpreted the region’s traditional Glöcklerlauf (bell ringers’ procession). Esther Balfe and her performance group of students from the MUK (Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna) took the Glöcklerlauf and brought it up to date with contemporary choreography and costumes – at a number of locations in the Salzkammergut on January 5 and at the official opening of the Capital of Culture in Bad Ischl on January 20.
The bells were specially created by Björn Wilker of Klangforum Wien and manufactured by students of the HTBLA Hallstatt, while the wearable shapes that formed part of the performance were designed by the artist Isabella Kohlhuber.
Venue
The HTBLA Hallstatt is a prestigious training facility for a range of artisanal professions. It is particularly well-known in Austria and abroad as an advanced technical school for many forms of working with wood, including boat and instrument making, carpentry, and timber technology. It also trains pupils in restoration techniques, sculpture, and interior design. For three days, interventa Hallstatt is occupying the modern extension to the HTBLA that was completed in 2015 and is located right next to Lake Hallstatt.
Capital of Culture
Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut are one of the European Capitals of Culture 2024. The region is embodied by a rich history, impressive nature, and an economy and landscape that are shaped by wood, water, and salt. Due to its compactness, the region typifies many around the globe that are facing mounting political, cultural, economic, and ecological challenges.
One of the four focuses of the Capital of Culture, “GLOBALOCAL – Building the New,” addresses Baukultur in its widest sense and the complex relationship between the status quo and the changes that we will require in future if we are to attractively shape our regions for coming generations. interventa Hallstatt is one of the main projects of “GLOBALOCAL – Building the New.”