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Orientation
System to the New
a project of REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT in the rural area
the pilot project
Under the headline "art for the village - villages for
art" Deutsche Stiftung Kulturlandschaft initiated a model
project. The aim of the foundation is the preservation and
development of the rural area. During the pilot project artists
are asked to create an artwork for the community. The dialogue
with inhabitants and the artistic process are part of the
work. REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT was chosen by Grambow, a small
village near Schwerin to develop and realize an art project
there.
RG created the Orientation System To The New that is based on a survey about the living conditions and future perspectives in the agrarian region. The System consists of traffic signs whose pictograms refer to the tasks of the future. It offers reference points for activities in the society based on structural challenges such as climate change, demographic trends, employment outlook and life chances in the countryside.
The Future Image, developed by RG, shows a utopien future propect of the changes in the village in 2057.
the village
Grambow has 708 inhabitants. Schwerin, the regional capital
of Mecklenburg Vorpommern is just ten kilometers away. This
neighbourship affects directely the character of the village.
The structural changes after the German re-unification brought
a significant change to the life conditions. While the possibilities
to work in agriculture decreased dramatically, many pople
started to commute for their jobs towards west. Many Grambowers
work 80 or 100km away in Lübeck or Hamburg. At the same
time younger people leave the village to get professionally
educated.
The character of the village also changes through new inhabitants
and their homes and lifetsyle. Often they come from urban
areas and have their jobs still in the city. It means a further
enlargement of the number of people who commute between the
countrysite and the cities. Despite those new inhabitants
the total number of inhabitants of the village is still decreasing.
Grambow is located not far away from a moor. Large parts of
the hill moor landscape are under nature protection since
the 1930s. In the 1990s there were carried out intensive activities
for renaturation. The moor is an important rest area of cranes.
The route of the birds reaches from Scandinavia via the Hungarian
Hortobágypuszta to Northern Afrika. Since 1998 Grambow
has three flying cranes in its coat of arms.
the survey
in order to carry out a co-operative art project it is firstly
important to define common themes and questions. For that
reason we created a questionnaire that was sent to all households
in Grambow. The major Piotrowski arranged that there is a
special letterbox at the community center to receive the answers.
Based on that survey there will be opened an exhibition at
the community center on 26th of April 2009. It will feature
the summarised results of the survey as a basis for the further
dialogue.
SPONSOR: The Project is made possible by the kind support
of the Deutsche Stiftung Kulturlandschaft. : http://www. landschafft.info
PROJECT NAME: by courtesy of Konstantin Adamopoulos
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