Creative laboratory Krater
laboratory crater, Amadeja Smrekar
Categories: cultureother
Organizers: Mre a centers of research arts and culture 2019 - 2023
Lokacation: Bežigrad, Ljubljana 1000 (46.06751583798197, 14.51071858406067)
Where good practice takes place: outer space
About good practice
A description of the location
The creative laboratory Krater was created in a closed construction pit at the intersection of Dunajska cesta and Topni ke ulica. The crater is a community of designers, biologists and artists who have concluded an agreement with the owner of the facility on the free management of 4,000 m2 of the cave for three years, until construction of the facility on the site begins.
The reason for the emergence of good practice
The construction cave was closed to the public for more than 26 years, until the installation of the Krater laboratory.
The operation of best practice
The crater was created in cooperation between the Trajna society, the prostroRo society, the Society for Permaculture of Slovenia, with the joining of the Society Zaveti e za abandoned plants and the society Agrodivizija, designer Roko Oblak and architect/curator Danica Sretenovi. The Krater Laboratory is a production space, it acts as a mechanism for the regeneration of nature in the area of degraded urban surfaces. The laboratory offers workshops for both domestic and researchers, for example; a paper-making workshop, a woodworking workshop and a microlaboratory. Residents can easily learn self-organization, self-care and cultural production, ecology and local food production.
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