City spaces ______________________________________ Culture mile on the Danube New spaces for culture and the arts Community centres as a cultural focue in the suburbs Networker for suburban culture Pubs and markets as cultural centres Opening up communal centres for culture Summer cultural programmes The opening up of the city to the Danube will be decisively enhanced by the planned new building of two cultural centres (Museum for Modern Art and Music Theatre). If in addition the site of the tobacco factory and slaughterhouse can at least partially be put to cultural use, there would then be a "culture mile" on the river with a wide diversity of infrastructure: City Workshop, AEC, Music Theatre, University of Fine Arts, Stifter House, New Art Gallery, Bruckner House, Tobacco Factory, Slaughterhouse right up to the harbour area. As a complement to the arts centres already in existence or in the course of realization, serious thought is being given finding cultural uses for the tobacco factory, slaughterhouse and harbour. Possibilities include concepts for a mixture incorporating commercial enterprises with cultural links; the participation of private and business investors is also a possibility to be investigated. Culture mile on the Danube The City of Linz is committed to the concept of exploiting both old and new city spaces for culture and the arts. Free sites and industrial buildings of architectural value are therefore examined for possible cultural use, and plans developed where appropriate. The widely scattered network of decentralised institutions in the suburbs should be made the starting point for a comprehensive process of renewal and development. New spaces for culture and the arts The City of Linz believes that the further development of every community centre with the potential to become a lively focus of cultural life should be one of the most important aims of suburban cultural development. Limited-term pilot schemes are being introduced to stimulate cultural work in the suburbs, carried out by staff with social as well as cultural training. Their job, over and above the narrow cultural brief, is to optimize the prevailing conditions as regards space, organization and atmosphere, to animate and co-ordinate the efforts of others and to offer practical help and city services (legal advice, project supervision, know-how transfers etc.). In the framework of these pilot schemes projects and priorities specific to that part of the city should be pursued and developed together with local cultural societies, cultural institutions and cultural initiatives. Community centres as a cultural focue in the suburbs . To achieve high-quality expansion of the suburban cultural network requires above all the active support of the city's cultural institutions (know-how transfers, joint projects, moving projects from the city centre to the suburbs and so on). . The aim behind all these considerations is that the institutions should be given over to a mixture of social, ethnic and cultural uses, and that spaces and times should be created for forms of self-organization. All regulations which are a hindrance to the achievement of these aims should be reformed, above all in the community centres Networker for suburban culture Pubs and markets are of particular interest as cultural centres, important meeting places for communication in the city and suburbs. The City of Linz should therefore take suitable measures to create and preserve high-quality infrastructure for pubs and markets, and to foster conditions which will enable a pub and market culture to flourish (survey of requirements, regional planning decisions about sites for pubs and markets and so on). Pubs and markets as cultural centres Specific plans should also be made for the cultural use of other facilities primarily designed for leisure, sport or similar activities. Cultural projects which use synergies on communal housing estates, sports grounds and in swimming baths etc. are of particular interest and could be developed as artistic and cultural promotion schemes within the scope of "Culture for all". Opening up communal centres for culture Another priority is the expansion of attractive summer cultural programmes which emphasise a specific "Linz profile". Old and new spaces must also be used, created and expanded for culture and the arts. Summer cultural programmes Cultural Development Plan CONTACT Culture Director Mag. Siegbert Janko Cultural Office of the City of Linz A-4041 Linz, Hauptstraße 1 - 5 Phone: +43 (0)70/7070-2930 Fax: +43 (0)70/7070-2955 mail: info@mag.linz.at