Since the
beginning of 2012 we have been preparing the whole project. Finally, at the 6th of
May we started the big travel exhibition of the Creative City Challenge
Project. Our first destination: Gothenburg in Sweden.
From Bremen,
Germany we rented a car from Cambio Carsharing to Kiel. By a Stena Line ferry boat
we got over the Baltic Sea to Gothenburg. The trip on the ferry was very
interesting to film. We got the permission to film at the bridge of the Stena
Scandinavia, which is with 240 meters one of the longest RoPax ferries in the
world. 30 meters above the sea we had a perfect view and learned a lot about life on board. The crew is living about 8 days on the ship that brings up
to 1.800 people daily from Kiel to Gothenburg or the other way around. The
ferry is like a swimming hotel with restaurants and bars, a shop and sleeping
rooms.
On Sunday, we left Kiel
at 7 p.m. and arrived at Gothenburg at 9:00 a.m on Monday. This day was going to be a TILLT day. We met Anna Grzelec, Jon Liinason and Bertil Göransson who are working as project leaders.
TILLT is the Swedish CCC project partner and produces artistic intervention in
organisations. One of the tasks of TILLT is to help companies to change their perspectives by
entering into collaborations with artists, such as actors, photographers,
dancers, writers or musicians. For the travel exhibition we recorded a talk between
Anna and Jon in order to get a better idea about the influence of creativity on the
daily life and the society at all. www.tillt.se
The second
day in Sweden we drove into the wild and made a time travel back to the 60’s.
In the small city Nossebro the people established a retro project. We visited a
flat, a shop and a cinema where everything still looks like 50 years ago.
Before the city started the project in Nossebro there was no reason for other
people to go there. Today the municipality with about 1.800 habitants counts
175.000 tourists every year visiting the retro places in the town and a lot of
events like a big market and a car exhibitions with cars from the 60’s. www.retronossebro.se
From the
60’s we went over to the future that is the main topic of the strategic
planning of Skövde, the largest municipality in the region
Skaraborg in West Sweden. Today, the city
counts about 50.000 habitants and as Christina Josefsson, head of Skövde
municipality says: by 2025
it should be 60.000. Skövde has been
one of the driving forces for the region, when it comes to supporting the
courage to stand out and market the region Skaraborg, not only for its lovely
nature, but also for it´s cultural capacities. www.skovde.se
Both
municipalities are part of the project Cities That Stand out: www.sssu.se
Back in
Gothenburg: In the evening we shared a discussion about the mutual influence of
design, society and creativity at the Chalmers University of Technology.
Day 3 in
Gothenburg: Equipped with three cameras outside and inside the car we drove
through the city of Gothenburg to gather some impressions of the city life and
the Swedes. The first travel exhibition trip ends with about 200 Gigabite or more
than 8 hours of footage.
To be
continued…
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