At Nordwestbahnstraße 16, a large experimental field for sustainable co-existence and a livable future is being created. Several exhibitions, spatial interventions, workshops, as well as a series of participatory formats, but also a Gstettn Sanctuary, including a canteen, children’s play area, and a dense program of events will bring the area to life as a festival. With the Klima Commons, there is a neighborhood center, a consumption-free zone, and an open stage for festivalpartners.

The group exhibition Songs for the Changing Seasons, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti (Head of Ecologies, Serpentine, London) and Filipa Ramos (Lecturer, Institute Art Gender Nature [IAGN], University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland [FHNW], Basel), brings together international artists to explore how art engages with the effects, consequences and reality of environmental change between mourning and transformation.

The exhibition Design with a Purpose, co-produced by Vienna Design Week, will showcase outstanding green and circular design from Austria. At Biofabrique Vienna – a pilot project of Wirtschaftsagentur Wien building on the bio-regional design practice of Jan Boelen and his team – unused and reused resources are turned into new materials for design and architecture in cooperation with Technische Universität Wien. For Solutions & Strategies, students from Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien will develop projects relating to art and climate.

StudioVlayStreeruwitz and Rajek Barosch landscape architects worked together to design the festival area, temporarily transforming the former railway station grounds into an urban utopia.