ReGenerativa
ReGenerativa - the new cultural platform for regenerationDescription
To launch the new cultural future platform ReGenerativa, we invite children aged 6 to 12 and interested adults to a free theme day featuring short talks and open workshops centered around the topic of “Regeneration.”
Opening at 9:30 a.m. with Mona Jas, Artistic Director of the KinderKunstLabor, and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Artistic Director of the future platform ReGenerativa, as well as Hermann Dikowitsch, Head of the Department for Culture, Science & Education of the Province of Lower Austria. This will be followed by keynote talks by artist Veronika Dirnhofer and writer Michael Stavaric.
Workshops: 10:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. & 1:30–4:00 p.m.
Animals and Other Species, Nature and Plants: How might animals, plants, and fungi reorganize the world? What can we learn from them about regeneration? What kinds of art might they find beautiful?
// Workshop with Kay Walkowiak, artist
Water: Why is water a central force of regeneration? How can we engage with water mindfully?
// Workshop with Herwig Turk, artist
Forest/Wood: Dreaming to change reality and exploring the utopia of imagination in connection with dream.lab (a project by Rivane Neuenschwander).
// Workshop with Andreas Hoffer, curator and art educator
Textiles: How can clothing be developed regeneratively? How can the negative impacts of fast fashion be avoided? Could new technologies help? Current reports and a handbook of textile fibers (for all participants to take home) support the work in this workshop.
// Workshop with Karin Oèbster, fashion designer
Cycles: What do we mean by cycles—in biological and technical contexts? What significance do cycles have for regeneration and for our relationship to sustainability/biodiversity as well as digital technologies, including artificial intelligence?
// Workshop with Ronja Grossar, IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna
The future platform ReGenerativa aims to promote regeneration as a new mindset and game-changer for developing a better future. Its goal is not to force the future against nature, but to shape it in harmony with nature — strongly supported by artistic imagination, entrepreneurial vision, the creativity and poetry of children and other generations, as well as powerful technologies such as generative AI. Guided by the motto: "Regeneration — let’s build a flourishing future together.”