City Lab
Linz in Transition
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
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.
Labnotes of Visitors
30 Klimaachse bilder 7 
30 Viele Leute Kulturformen page 0030
City Voices/Letters of Trans(T*).DisCity
Residents of Linz were invited to write down their thoughts/wishes about the city and put them in letterboxes. These letters were collected by the artist Jaskaran Anand and translated performatively in the museum creating new messages about togetherness in the city. An urban laboratory satellite project by Jaskaran Anand and the trivium association on care, connection and communication in cooperation with Nordico.
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