Parts of the town hall in the Upper Austrian municipality of Kremsmünster are being reactivated to work on and test sustainable strategies.
By creating centrally located flexible workspaces and establishing a cross-regional co-working network, Schaltwerk 2030 tested alternative workspaces and forms of collaboration. The town hall also served as a hub for building an energy community. To reduce resource consumption and pollutants, two circular economy communities and a platform to promote swapping and sharing were also developed. The involvement of relevant actors and a co-creative monitoring process created the strategic framework for future regional development. For self-organisation and decision-making, the project team tested the sociocratic organisational model.
- Experimental character:
Developing a regional strategy through an inclusive and forward-looking development process and testing the re-use of vacant buildings in rural areas; testing energy cooperatives and co-working in rural areas, circular economy models and democratic decision-making processes.
- Challenges addressed:
Sustainable energy consumption, multilocality in rural areas, dealing with the existing building structure and resource-saving production and consumption methods.
- Financing/funding:
The initiative is funded as a Smart City project by the Climate and Energy Fund.
- Duration:
01.07. 2019 – 30.6. 2022
For more information: https://www.schaltwerk2030.at/