The Innsbruck Cultural Strategy 2030 was in focus of the Cultural Committee meeting at the beginning of December 2020. At first, Mag.a Aliette Dörflinger informed about the status of the work, especially on the preparations for the topic workshops that will start this spring.
The first three dates have now been fixed:
- Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 5 p.m.
- Monday, May 17, 2021, 5 p.m.
- Tuesday, June 15, 2021, 5 p.m.
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Duration of the workshops approx. 3.5 hours. The locations (possibly also a digital variant) and the topics of the workshops will be announced soon, as the dates of the workshops that follow in September, October and November.
Afterwards, MMag. Thomas Philipp gave an insight into the currently ongoing baseline study work. He primarily addressed initial findings from the 33 interviews conducted and talked about several topics that are of particular importance for the future of Innsbruck as a city of culture. Two of these topics were then discussed intensively for more than an hour in the Culture Committee:
- Art and culture in public space
- Fundings and criteria
The participants in the session addressed their ideas of what the city of Innsbruck should have achieved on these two topics in 2030 and what supporting or hindering factors there are to consider.
The discussion on “Art and Culture in Public Space” led from reflections on visions of urban space, on the special topography of Innsbruck and on the increased use of urban peripheral locations, to questions of the connection between quality of stay and art and culture in public space, thoughts on the interface between culture and urban development or traffic planning, to questions of curation and cultural education as well as bureaucratic issues. On the topic of “Funding and Criteria” various approaches on the formulation of funding criteria were reflected upon, considerations on setting priorities and evaluation were discussed, and the consequences of Fair Pay for fundings were debated.
The meeting of the Culture Committee was attended by Uschi Schwarzl (GRÜNE), the city councilor in charge of the department at that time, as well as the members of the Culture Committee Irene Heisz (SPÖ), Christoph Appler (ÖVP), Andrea Dengg (FPÖ), Astrid Denz (FPÖ), Thomas Lechleitner (GRÜNE), Dejan Lukovic (GRÜNE), Mesut Onay (ALI), Theresa Ringler (Für Innsbruck) and Julia Seidl (NEOS), furthermore by Isabelle Brandauer (MA V, Cultural Department of the City of Innsbruck), Rita Hebenstreit (MA V, Cultural Department of the City of Innsbruck), Birgit Neu (MA V – Society, Culture, Health and Sports), Thomas Philipp (LIquA) and Aliette Dörflinger (external project managemer, for LIquA).
More details of the discussion – similar to the interview results – will be included in the baseline study for the cultural strategy, which will be published here on this website in March.