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Wolfgang Schlag (Project manager)
Vienna is different. Maybe it is one of the last bastions in Europe of a sense of social responsibility. Social housing is not privatized, and refugees can find a home here with the assistance of private and municipal institutions whose staff sometimes go far beyond the call of duty in their work. This city has a social conscience. Its collective subco...(more)
Wolfgang Schlag (Project manager)
Vienna is different. Maybe it is one of the last bastions in Europe of a sense of social responsibility. Social housing is not privatized, and refugees can find a home here with the assistance of private and municipal institutions whose staff sometimes go far beyond the call of duty in their work. This city has a social conscience. Its collective subconscious protects the poor, the underprivileged, those who are ill and those who need protection.
But there are always tensions, polarizations, ghettoes and invisible walls.
New Crowned Hope will develop interdisciplinary art projects, involving fields of sociology, urban ethnology, architecture, integration, network communication and engaging such media as photography, music and visual arts, searching for new points of convergence, an integrative understanding between different generations, cultures and disadvantaged groups of our city.
New Crowned Hope is working together with NGOs like Caritas (including Refugio – a house for unaccompanied minors), Pro-Mente (an institution for people with mental illness), with city institutions like the recently built Haus Siemensstrasse for homeless men, Youth Center Am Schöpfwerk, Bassena am Schöpfwerk, or the newly opened FrauenWohnZentrum (December 2005) and with advanced training programs like University of Applied Arts Vienna and Fachhochschul-Studiengang für Sozialarbeit in Vienna.
We can focus on the lives of people defined as marginal minority groups by a majority society. From personal experience they can relate how they live in the public spaces of this city and thus open to scrutiny and question the control of space and standards of “normality”, rendering the mechanisms of exclusion visible. First contacts and gestures can lead to more enduring communication processes.
The context of art can open up new possibilities for action. Surprising interventions in public spaces and unexpected locations are useful for creating new relationships. Needs can be powerfully articulated in real and surreal contexts, making unforgettable impressions which transform future public discussion. Celebrations and festivities in different communities, concerts, talks and lectures offer occasions to evolve shared pleasures and common purposes.
Vienna, situated as it is at the heart of a new and expanding Europe, can serve as a model for a new equality.
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