Pekarna "Green Refit" - Maribor, Eslovénia - URGENTE PRECISAM-SE PARTICIPANTES!

O GAIA é Organização parceira de um Intercâmbio Internacional de Jovens que irá decorrer na Eslovénia de 28 de Setembro a 8 de Outubro de 2006.

Este Intercâmbio é co-financiado no âmbito do Programa Juventude - Acção 1.

Irá juntar durante 10 dias jovens da Austria, Bélgica, Escócia, Eslovénia, Holanda, Portugal e República Checa que rão trocar experiências, conhecimento e desenvolver trabalho prático que contribuirá para a remodulação e melhoramento de uma área verde/jardim num ex-complexo militar "ocupado" e transformado num espaço cultural (Pekarna - http://pekarna.org)

O GAIA procura 4 jovens entre os 15 e 25 anos (com motivação ou experiência para o trabalho prático criativo com materiais reutilizados e ou naturais, interesse por "Land art", urbanismo, permacultura para participar neste seminário. Os participantes terão 70% dos custos de viagem pagos e a alimentação e alojamento serão provindenciados.

Segue-se a contextualização e objectivos do Intercâmbio:

1 :: CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION
 
Pekarna is a cultural space originally squatted in 1993, located in Maribor, Slovenia (nice medium sized town, 100 000 inhabitants, surrounded by green hills and crossed by Drava River). It was a military bakery from Yugoslav Army that after Slovenia’s independence left and abandoned these magnificent facilities. A group of young people decided then to use the space for cultural events due to the lack of spaces in number and diversity in the area. The process was slow but after 13 years Pekarna is a reference for a great number of young people in Maribor concerning independent culture/sub-culture events and its promotion and production.
Pekarna is self-organised and several different groups, clubs, and individuals, work, develop projects or even live in it.
 
Pekarna’s buildings are quite old and some are not in very good condition, but they are usable and have very big potential for restoration and improvement.
 
Inside the complex exists a green area that plays a major role on the organisation and structure of the space and place. Nowadays this area is quite neglected and its not very clear who will take responsibility for its maintenance and improvement but, in fact, this discussion has just started among Pekarna’s groups and for the future there should be a group of people more connected to this role.
 
To promote and support the connection of Pekarna’s people to the referred green area comes the idea of redesigning and refitting this space to an extent that aims to make it more useful, sustainable and appealing/enjoyable. The refitting process will be based on artistic intervention in strait connection with the natural environment, namely through the use of Permaculture principles.
 
If successful, this refitting process will create an extreme added value to the complex with the potential of bringing more people to the place mainly those who, by nature, are not motivated to do so. It will create a dynamic of new events, projects and leisure in that area. 
 
Pekarna’s website: http://pekarna.org.pt
Maribor: http://www.maribor-tourism.si
 
2 :: OBJECTIVES
 
• Join 25/30 young people from different European countries for 3 weeks in Pekarna.
• Discuss and develop the theme: “The role of artistic process in revitalizing degraded
areas in urban spaces”
• Identify and determine uses (actual, wanted/needed for present and future) of Pekarna’s green area
• Recreate and refit the space, according to uses studied, through an artistic process and based on Permaculture principles
• Create a starting point for new management of common space
 
3 :: ACTIVITIES
 
• Surveys, interviews, meetings involving permanent, regular, occasional or potential
future users of the space
• Compilation of information obtained
• Theoretical lectures and practical workshops on artistic intervention in green areas and Permaculture based productive gardens
• Group design and planning of future green space
• Practical work and implementation of planed design
• Artistic presentation and opening of refitted green area