Open House Europe (OHEu)

The architecture festival Open House Slovenia taking place from 12 to 14 April 2024 highlights inclusivity of all people and interest groups in the built and designed spaces.

Open House Europe is a project that aims to encourage a more inclusive debate on architecture as a common European identity, bring the values of quality spaces closer to the general public and empower citizens to advocate for a well-designed built environment. The project, coordinated by Architektūros fondas from Vilnius, Lithuania, includes partner organizations from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

Open House Europe joins and builds on twelve local Open House events, which are weekend-long festivals where important buildings in the city open their doors for free guided tours and often include lectures, discussions, exhibitions and other activities. Local festivals offer diverse and free direct experiences of architecture and provide the public with a unique opportunity to engage with the built environment, while Open House Europe joint activities and coordinated themes will promote accessibility and create interactive tools to reveal the role of architecture as part of European identity. As part of the annual topics, good practices will be shown on how architecture can respond to contemporary environmental and social challenges.

The three-year project will focus on a different area each year: 2023 sustainability, 2024 accessibility and inclusion, and 2025 future heritage. These thematic axes will enable Open House Europe to create a starting point for discussing contemporary and heritage architecture, its values and quality. The Open House Europe program will present a range of new activities and events that will be organized across the continent. It will include annual sessions in various European cities, a volunteer exchange program, open calls for visual stories, a digital platform, app development and many innovations at local Open House festivals.

The final goals of the project are the introduction of collaborative methods of knowledge exchange, transfer of good practices between project partners, strengthening of the position of participating architectural cultural organizations, promotion of education and awareness of exceptional examples of architecture and urban environments, inclusion and development of the audience and better accessibility of culture.

AFRONT Institute

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Architektūros fondas (leader)

Lithuania (EU)
Open Chaous (partner)

Greece (EU)
Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa (partner)

Portugal (EU)
Open House Bilbao (partner)

Spain (EU)
Associazione Open House Milano (partner)

Italy (EU)
Spolek kultura & management (partner)

Czech Republic (EU)
Open House Tallinn (partner)

Estonia (EU)
Open House Stockholm (partner)

Sweden (EU)
Forum Kunst und Architektur EV (partner)

Germany (EU)
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IE) (partner)

Ireland (EU)

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age