City Lab
Linz in Transition
Cohousing Holzstraße 
City Lab, 2023 
City Lab, 2023 
City Lab, 2023 
City Lab, 2023 
City Lab, 2023 
Exhibition view City Lab 
City Lab, 2023
The City Laboratory is a temporary research facility of the Nordico Stadtmuseum Linz that is open to the public; it is a place where the present and future of our city are currently being examined: How do we want Linz to develop in the future? What changes would we like to see? And what can we do to achieve these?
When working on such questions we draw inspiration from ideas that have already been conceived: projects implemented by pioneers of change that establish an interrelationship between the city and society in novel ways.
Five differently themed rooms allow these selected prototypes to provide insights into the areas of housing, local supply, employment, public spaces and the city museum itself. An open prototype workshop offers space for additional contributions from visitors.
We warmly invite everyone to become a city laboratory assistant and take part in this collaborative experiment with an open outcome, to explore the various prototypes, to question these critically and to continue working on them through research.
Curators: Klaudia Kreslehner, Tobias Hagleitner
Exhibition graphics: Anne Rotter
Exhibition architecture: Tobias Hagleitner
| Date | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 07.05 | Opening: Linz on Summer Vacation The exhibition addresses the phenomenon of summer retreats and explores locations that offer the city’s population space for relaxation. | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Thu 04.07 | Sommer(frische)fest Wir feiern am Nordico Vorplatz mit Drumski aus Ottensheim und Kulinarik von der Mühlviertler Ölmühle Koblmiller aus Haslach sowie Joseph Brot. Eintritt frei | 6:30 pm–8:30 pm |
Prototypes
In addition to the City Museum itself, these topics and institutions are also prototypes at the centre of the urban laboratory: Local supply: KIOSK, Stiegelbauernstraße 10; Housing: Cohousing, Holzstraße 17; Public spaces: Climate axis [Klimaachse], from Hauptplatz to Hafen; Work: Café Viele Leute & Galerie KULTURFORMEN, Pfarrplatz 4; Collective Prototyping: Open Lab.
City Lab Stamp Pass
1+5 free
Become part of the city lab community and get your stamp pass. With it, you can visit the exhibition a total of six times, participate in the research and follow the development process. Available at the Nordico ticket office.
City Voices/Letters of Trans(T*).DisCity
Residents of Linz are invited to write down their thoughts/wishes about the city and put them in letterboxes that can be found in various places. These letters will be collected by the artist Jaskaran Anand and translated performatively in the museum during joint events – thus creating new messages about togetherness in the city. The locations of the letterboxes and event dates can be found at nordico.at. An urban laboratory satellite project by Jaskaran Anand and the trivium association on care, connection and communication in cooperation with Nordico.
über.morgen LINZ
Audiowalk from theaternyx*
Immerse yourself in a constructive future, experience hopeful narratives about socio-ecological transformation and stroll through a utopian Linz in 2050. An audio walk that changes the sense of possibility and shows the city in a new light. Out into the city, into the future! A project by theaternyx* in cooperation with the Nordico. Details from January 2024 on nordico.at.
Schule, Hort, Kindergarten
We use the exhibition space, the public urban space and digital platforms to explore history and urban utopias on our own.
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