Working-World.net
Written by Udo B. Wiesinger Monday, 19 December 2005 14:19
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Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr - 2006
The museum Arbeitswelt (world of work) opened with the regional exhibition Work - Human Beings - Machine in 1987. It set standards in Europe at that time, when a fundamental crisis appeared and changed the working society (Arbeitsgesellschaft). The exhibition explained the change to the visitors and offered reasons for the development based on socio-historical connections.
Since then, the world of work has gone through a dramatic change in the course of globalisation. This process of change is taking place at high speed and uncertainty is ubiquitous. After 15 years, the exhibition working-world.net again offers a space for reflecting on the ongoing change focusing on the highly relevant aspects of current developments. However, the complexity of the ongoing process does not allow a singular explanation.
Furthermore, the visitor is not forced to follow a linear narrative from one room to the next. Reinforcing the metaphor of a network, the concept enables the visitor to establish a connection in any room. Goal is the provision of a closely woven (mind-)web requesting the visitor to access the meaning of the change step by step .
The new concept intends to include not only scientific interpretations but also artistic interventions. In addition, international co-operations with leading research institutes will lead to a presentation of state-of-the-art knowledge and foster further discussions. The aim of the project is a lively and experimental presentation of the ongoing change based on newer media like video and text animation, photos, and art installations.
Opening on the 6th of June 06 the exhibition working-world.net will establish an international benchmark for other museums. It also incorporates changes in industrial architecture. A newly designed spatial object alienates the functionally designed factory building and leads to a new, unknown future of work. he flexible shape evades any singular definition and reflects the ambivalent change process.
Spurwien (Arno Grünberger, Doris Rothauer, and Sven Sappelt) and the department of social and societal policy of the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Josef Weidenholzer, Bettina Leibetseder) realize the project supported by well-known experts.