INITIUM: "Neighbourhood House"

The INITIUM Foundation is a professional arts and culture production platform that implements sustainable projects to support social, educational, and cultural initiatives in Latvia. In Kauguri, Jurmala, the creative team is working on the Neighbourhood House, an environmental installation by artists Rute Marta Jansone, Patrīcija Māra Vilsone, and Kristians Aglonietis in collaboration with local residents. This small, gazebo-sized temporary building uses windows as its main element. Inside the installation, like in a home, the different stories of the neighbors will be revealed—anonymously but very personally—telling the stories and fates of one or more people in the house. The internal content will directly depend on the outcome of co-creation workshops, inviting Kauguri residents to take part in the process. The installation symbolically acts as both the eyes of the building and a connector between the inner and outer worlds. The window is also often a point of heat loss in a building, symbolizing the difficulty of tackling issues that concern the whole community one by one.

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