Treasure Hunting Workshop on the land of Moomins

On the first day the presentations of Pori municipality staff showed how the municipality tries to make its operation really participative and how it tries to involve the community of the city into the decision making process defining their own life. The presentations were held in the stateful city hall, however the team spent the afternoon in East Pori, a peripheric area of the city holding many treasures.  Here first the doors of Itätuuli Center were thrown open, which hides both a library and an elementary school satisfying the up to the minute requirements. Then the team could discover the building complex  designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä, which consists of a kindergarten and a nursing home. The architect couple has numerous links to the world of the Moomin books, so in the kindergarten named after the magician’s hat the team besides many Moomin relics could meet a small sauna designed for kids. The walk has ended in the epicentre of the future festival, in the former radio station, where at the moment there is a temporary exhibition from a local art association T.E.H.D.A.S., which explores the theme of concrete through intermedia installations. The evening has ended on the opening ceremony of a new exhibition place of the NYTE art association.

The second day was not eventless either, it has continued the theme with a workshop on the questions of art and community, presenting those main initiatives of artists from Pori, which try to propose solutions to social problems with the help of art.

In the afternoon the participants recorded their impressions about Metallikylä and Väinölä residential areas through an experimental cartographic workshop, then based on this, shared their thoughts and ideas about the organisation of the festival. The evening has ended with a special experimental concert in the exhibition space.

Adrienn Lőrincz/ Come in! Transfer Network