Experimental teaching and research programme, and a workshop that took place at KSEVT, the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in Slovenia.
Project & text: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič
Photo: Ajda Schmidt
Nanotourism is a new constructed term, describing a creative critique to the current environmental, social and economic downsides of conventional tourism, as a participatory, localy oriented, bottom‑up alternative. Nanotourism is beyond tourism, it is more an attitude to improve specific everyday environments and to open up new local economies.
A three week research, design and make course focused on the strategies of nanotourism, allowing participants to engage in a wide range of projects: from site‑specific micro interventions at a 1:1 scale to holistic strategies for existing contexts. The students had to develop adapted projects that had to materialize as actions or structures, temporary or permanent, ultimately seeking to create a comprehensible, tangible and novel experience of the building and institution of KSEVT and Vitanje.
3D Sleeping
A site‑specific installation at the KSEVT exhibition was the experience of levitation in an environment of gravity. The team’s field of research was the transition from conventional 2D sleeping to the experience of 3D sleeping.
The KSEVT hotel offers two experiences. The individual version enables the researcher to spend the night in KSEVT by sleeping in a uniquely engineered levitation‑suit, suspended in the central space of the building.
With the collective experience, a group of people is able to experience 3D sleeping as an extended feature of the exhibition, where a set of pyramid shaped cushions support your entire body in a custom 3D position while asleep.
The concept of the KSEVT hotel and 3D sleeping embodies the unique program of KSEVT – it fulfills the accommodation needs of the institution and furthermore upgrades an already unique visitor experience.
Credits & info
Place: KSEVT hotel, Vitanje, Slovenia
Program: AA Visiting School Slovenia – nanotouristic strategies in Vitanje
Tutors: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič
Co‑tutors: Jakob Travnik, Blaž Šef
Project team: Samo Bojnec (Slovenia), Natalie Jasinski (Poland/Austria), Kaja Švab (Slovenia), Vid Žnidaršič (Slovenia)
Period: 2014
HangOut Vitanje
Although KSEVT has changed the status quo of Vitanje, its visitors often leave the place right after they see the exhibition.
HangOut Vitanje responded to this issue by researching and devising alternative acommodation strategies and activities, giving KSEVT visitors or local residents a reason to explore the area for a longer period of time from a few hours to several days.
HangOut Vitanje proposes an intrinsic experience of renting out a bag kit with a site‑specific, XL lace hammock and a map with a set of site suggestions to explore.
New discoveries can be noted and uploaded to the project website, where personal spots of interest can be shared.
Custom lace hammocks were produced by a reworked traditional bobbing technique to fit specific sites and conditions.
They offer a possibility of accommodation and space for activities, while all infrastructures, including the renting service, are available at KSEVT. They represent an alternative to the conventional vision of a hotel or camp‑site.
Credits & info
Place: Vitanje, Slovenia
Tutors: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič
Co‑tutors: Jakob Travnik, Blaž Šef
Project team: Anja Petek, Janaina Lisiak, Zizhengyan Yang, Jurij Ličen
AA Visiting School Slovenia Programme director: Aljoša Dekleva
Programme assistant: Jakob Travnik
Period: 2014
