KlimaHof. (Climate Farm)

Weather stories and climate subjects.
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A sixteenth-century farmhouse becomes a makeshift stage for stories, debates, and active involvement in energy, climate, and weather issues.
Klimahof

Photo: Nikola Milatovic

Saturday, July 14, 2012

WORKSHOP ROOMS:

1 – Cross-stitching weather slogans
Stitch weather folklore with local embroiders


2 – Bricolage weather tree
Build a weather tree with Marc Ganzglass (artist, New York)


3 – Stirling motor – nothing but hot air
Build a kind of thermal power machine with Marco Kellhammer (designer, Vienna)


4 – Meteorological station
Experiments on weather and climate, with Sandro Oswald and Felizitas Zeitz, students from the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna

AUDIO ROOM:

Listen to weather and climate compilations and enjoy the landscape Concept: Irina Koerdt (Vienna)

SHOW ROOM:

Home cinema with short and feature films on the subject matter.
Concept: Melanie Ohnemus (Vienna)

STORY ROOM:

In the parlor of a sixteenth-century farmhouse, professionals and everyday experts from the region and abroad tell about their knowledge and activities in the areas of weather, climate, nature, and culture. Visitors are invited to sit down at the table, join the conversation or simply listen, with a cup of tea or coffee, some cake or soup. What impels people to become engaged, to experiment? It’s about what can be or should be, what perhaps also takes place, about curiosity, true stories, desire production, needs, fears, absurdities, and ambivalences.

Moderation:
eSeL – Lorenz Seidler (artist, networker; Vienna)
Mieze Medusa (author, musician; Vienna)


Storytellers
- Christian Bachler (highest farmstead in Styria, operator of a meteorological station; Krakauhintermühlen)
- Ing. Dr. Renate Cervinka (psychologist, assistant professor at the Institute of Environmental Hygiene at the University of Vienna)
- Dr. E. Kurt Domittner (Styrian Hail Resistance Association; Hausmannstätten) in conversation with Hans-Jürgen Pross (chairman of Stormhunters Austria; Straß)
- Josef Fanninger (Lungau Regional Association) in conversation with Dr. Alexandra Wieshaider (Mangager of the Austrian Federal Forests in the Wienerwald biosphere park)
- Hofrat Dr. Kurt Kalcher (head of Disaster Control and National Defence, Province of Styria)
- Bettina Reichl (designer, Verpackungszentrum Graz)
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Reinhold Steinacker (meteorologist, professor at the Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna)
- Ingeborg Strobl (artist and experienced dairymaid; Vienna)
- Christian Würger (snowmaker at Krakauebene Lift GmbH)
- Poems by Barbara Moser (poet, Krakaudorf)


KlimaHof spatial design: Irina Koerdt and Sanja Utech
KlimaHof concept & symposium: Christina Nägele and Klaus Schafler in cooperation with REGIONALE12

KlimaHof, Impressions:

 





Photos: Nikola Milatovic

 

Photos: eSeL.at