POWER OF POSSIBILITIES ⧗⧗⧗⧗ Inspiration Forum @ INOTA Festival 2023
How can we harness innovation-based cultural and regional values to drive development? How can we effectively apply creative know-how? How can we recognize and rethink our own possibilities to achieve stronger motivation?
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The POWER OF POSSIBILITIES inspiration forum at INOTA Festival 2023 aims to initiate dialogues that activate various areas of knowledge concerning the cultural and industrial utilization possibilities of the Inota power plant complex. We will present successful case studies and strategies on the potential functions of different buildings, creative content development, reindustrialization, collective memory research, and education. We strongly believe in the impact of local and international good examples, forward-looking and realistically achievable visions. Join us in exploring the power of possibilities and shaping the future of our community.
The patron of the conference is Márta Campanari-Talabér, mayor of Várpalota. This event is supported by the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture programme.
Conference ticket: 3800 HUF
For residents of Várpalota: 1800 HUF
With festival pass or Thursday day ticket: FREE
⧗⧗⧗ 11:00-12:30 - Power of Industries ⧗⧗⧗⧗
How can rehabilitation efforts on brownfields lead to the creation of new functions and the development of sustainable business models?
Partners: Contemporary Architecture Centre, Zsolnay Quarter, Torula, Trans Europe Halles
Guests: Sára Szombathelyi, Zsolnay Quarter, Tiffany Fukuma
Moderator: Szemerey Samu
⧗⧗⧗ 13:00-14:30 - Power of Creativity ⧗⧗⧗⧗
How could the creative industry redevelop industrial and abandoned spaces?
Partners: Unsound, Lunchmeat Festival, Happy Locals, CTM - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art
Guests: Mat Schulz, Kuba Pesek, Dietmar-Maria Hegemann, Oliver Baurhenn
Moderator: Varga G. András
⧗⧗⧗ 15:00-16:30 - Local Power ⧗⧗⧗⧗
What kind of future visions can be provided by heritage research and local history for the creative initiatives who are dreaming about projects in industrial areas?
Partner: Várpalota Város Önkormányzata, TÚRAJÓ, Almásfüztői Asset Management, INOTA Festival
Guests: Raffai Csilla, Katona Csaba, Kálmán Mátyás, Antal Sebestyén, Hutvágner István
Moderator: Kovács Dániel
⧗⧗⧗ INSTALLÁCIÓK ⧗⧗⧗ 11:00-19:00 ⧗⧗⧗
⧗⧗⧗ TÁJTÉKA adatvizualizációs kiállítás, INOTA ANNO videóinstalláció ⧗⧗⧗
Creative management: Let it Be! art agency
Curated by: Kovács Andrea
Co-operation partners: Kortárs Építészeti Központ, Várpalota Város Önkormányzata, TÚRAJÓ, Almásfüzitői Asset Management KFT
Supported by: Budapesti Francia Intézet, Institut français de Budapest
INOTA POWER PLANT
The Inota thermal power plant was the largest industrial investment in Hungary in the 1950s, and at its peak, it could have provided street lighting and tram traffic for the whole of Budapest. Its three huge, illustrious cooling towers are not only familiar to anyone who drives to Lake Balaton from the capital, but it is also worth knowing that their novel water-cooled technology was a revolutionary innovation at the time, winning engineers László Heller and László Forgó the Grand Prix at the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition. It was thanks to Inota that these horn-shaped cooling towers soon became widespread throughout the world.
