PLANNING AREA IX

FOKUS: Establishment of a network for the formation of socio-cultural structures in the Hochfeld neighborhood
ABBREVIATION: PIX
LOCATION: Augsburg, Hochfeld district
TERM: January-June 2023
TARGET GROUP: All population groups in a target-group-oriented approach.
CONCEPTION: Wolfgang Hauck
FUNDING CHARACTERISTICS: 2023 Ta7 0293 Socioculture Fund

FUNDING: Supported by the Fonds Soziokultur with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR.

CURRENT DATES

District meeting on Sunday

Easter Monday, 11 April 2023 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Program

Music: Maggie Jane live! Website
Exhibition: People in Hochfeld by Conny Kurz
Exhibition Mobility in the 21st century
Panel discussion on development in Hochfeld
Information on the planning status from Markus Hehl, Managing Director of Bahnpark Augsburg
Plus coffee and cake and much more!
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High field departure order HOCHFELD BÖLGESİNDE BULUŞALIM Фестиваль в районе Хохфельд 10. April Nisan 11:00-17:00

Sunday, 23 Arpil 2023: Open district meeting
Sunday, May 11, 2023: Open district meeting

Friday, May 26, 2023: Table of Nations: 15:00 to 18:00
One table, many cultures and many stories: in one afternoon, people from different cultures and generations talk about their first day at school, their career choices and their formative historical experiences.

Stories and history are told in a three-hour moderated dialog, very entertaining and to the point through formats such as World Cafe and pair interviews.
Participation is free of charge.

Sunday, 7 Juni 2023: Open district meeting
Sunday, June 11, 2023: Open district meeting

Tuesday June 20, 2023: Presentation ArtNoStop, 17:00-20:00
Presentation of the results of the EU project with guests from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands:
Project: Erasmus+ project ANS
Participation is free of charge.

Every Sunday and public holiday, district meetings are held parallel to the opening of the Augsburg Railway Park.

PRESS ARTICLE

09.03.2023 Landsberger Tagblatt: There is now a “Kultainer” at the railroad park [PDF]
13.03.2023 Augsburger Allgemeine: Kultainers will be relocated to the Augsburg railroad park [PDF]
13.03.2023 Augsburg Castle Magazine [PDF]

NEW LOCATION

The cultural association dieKunstBauStelle began its work in Landsberg, a town with a population of 28,000, in 2014. It has developed and implemented 35 socio-cultural projects there. In mid-2022, the association had to give up its premises as the building was sold. For this reason, the 2022 association developed decentralized cultural work with a mobile “cultural station” in converted construction containers in villages in the district.

OPTIMIZATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION

The dieKunstBauStelle association is developing a new location in the nearby city of Augsburg (population 300,000) and is involved in two socio-cultural projects.

The focus of these projects was the Augsburg-Hochfeld district (PLANNING AREA IX, 13th district of Augsburg) with 10,000 inhabitants.

The district is dominated by an industrial wasteland on the former railroad site, which is to be converted into residential and commercial space over the next few years. However, part of the site, 2.4 hectares, belongs to the non-profit “Bahnpark Augsburg gGmbH”, which wants to create a place of learning for European cultural history with locomotives as “steel” contemporary witnesses.

With its central location and buildings, the Bahnpark Augsburg is ideally placed to develop into a new district and cultural center. The dieKunstBauStelle association can help shape this process and act as a driving force.

Four mobile cultural stations (office containers as editorial, meeting and exhibition space) are available for this purpose in order to be present and active on site even before the start of the construction measures and the conversion process from January 2023.

In order to realize this project, a strategic restructuring and professionalization process is to be carried out. In addition to the voluntary commitment, basic funding for full-time staff is to be established, the team is to be qualified for the expanded tasks and the processes (organization, press, projects) are to be optimized.

This includes a moderation process for strategy development and external support for the change process in order to sharpen and focus the company’s own profile and potential for socially relevant, participatory cultural work.

OBJECTIVES

Through the change process, the association dieKunstBauStelle aims to optimize and thus stabilize its organization in order to establish itself as a competent partner for the district.

The existing commitments in the rural area can thus be coordinated and bundled. This will make the association’s activities and social significance more visible and effective, which will attract new contributors to the association and expand cooperation for the development of the area with local residents, artists and stakeholders. With these strategic and structural changes, the association can become a responsible sponsor and actor of cultural life in the district.

It is intended to develop a long-term funding and employment model.
The formation of long-term partnerships and with municipal administrations should be established.
A network is to be formed with the interest and action groups, artists.
The aim is to optimize and professionalize communications, press relations, social media and increase public awareness.

NETWORKING

Networking and networking will be a central component of the development and anchoring of the dieKunstBauStelle association in the district and the new offers. At this new location, the association can play an important role as a coordinator, mediator and actor in order to bundle the cooperation and participation of different actors. The association has already been able to establish initial contacts, which have met with great interest, but need to be strategically and systematically expanded.

EFFECT: Foundation of the Unser Hochfeld association

Through the “Planungsraum IX” project and the predecessor project “Zukunftswerkstatt Bahnpark Augsburg”, project initiator Wolfgang Hauck was able to activate stakeholders in the Hochfeld district and mobilize them to found an association. The association “Unser Hochfeld e.V.” was founded in the Bahnpark on June 30, 2023. This marked the successful completion of the project. As a registered association, the association is recognized by the tax office as a non-profit organization and is increasingly developing and shaping citizen participation and activation in the Hochfeld district.

Website: www.UnserHochfeld.de/