Nanotourism is a constructed term describing a creative critique to the current environmental, social and economic downsides of mass-tourism. It is defined as a site-specific, participatory, locally oriented and bottom-up alternative, operating as a tool to stimulate mutual interaction between provider and user by co-creation or exchange of knowledge. Ultimately, it stretches beyond tourism: it is more an attitude to improve specific everyday environments and a strategy to open up new local economies.

The exhibition will showcase the diverse output of the many collaborating designers, architects and institutions from around the world who have dealt with the topic of nanotourism since its conception in 2014 by the AA nanotourism Visiting School and BIO 50 – Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

Events:
Opening days and hours during the festival:
Friday 28.9 – Sunday 7.10 from 11:00 – 20:00 (daily)

Opening cocktail: Saturday 29.9, 19:00

Intro by Jakob Travnik / Greeting from Ambassador of RS in Austria mag. Ksenija Škrilec / Catering from Ecological Winery Rodica

Lecture series:  Sunday 30.9, 16:00 – 18:00
Old School Ilica (Maja Kolar, Maša Poljanec), BIO 50 Hotel (Alessandro Fonte, Silvia Susanna), AA nanotourism Visiting School (Aljoša Dekleva), nanotourism TU Vienna (Jakob Travnik), discussion session

Opening

Curator:
Jakob Travnik
Co-curators & assistants:
Andreas Maximilian Arndt, Amanda Sperger

Location

Festivalzentrale, Sophienspital (soba 310)
Apollogasse 19
1070 Vienna

Organization

SKICA – Slovenian Cultural Information Center in Austria

Link
http://www.nanotourism.org