SCALA Art and Craft Lab
Location: Bad Goisern, Salzkammergut, Austria
Target groups: Regional and international artists, local craftspeople, companies, and the broader public.
Upper Austria (AT31)SCALA Art and Craft Lab connects crafts and art with local communities and businesses by promoting new collaborations and supporting skill development through a work-based approach. Key focuses include iterative processes, interdisciplinary collaboration, bottom-up cooperation, organisational innovation, and showcasing maker skills.
Since 2021, a joint team has run an Artists in Residence exchange programme with international and regional artists, coordinated with Bad Goisern municipality and the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024. Activities launched in 2023 include workshops, exhibitions, and events across the region, centered around a new hub at Hand.Werk.Haus Salzkammergut, fostering transversal, maker, and entrepreneurial skills among participants.
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Project manager:
Franziska Görmar
IfL - Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Germany
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This project is supported by the Interreg CENTRAL EUROPE Programme with co-financing from the European Regional Development Fund.
Find more information about the x-Inno Radar project on the Interreg CE projectwebsite.
x-Inno Radar is a project of: 
Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria Gmbh, 
The Regional Chamber of Commerce of the Karlovy Vary Region, 
Padova Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture, 
Creative Industry Košice, n. o., 
BSC, Business support centre, ltd., Kranj, 
Regional Development Agency in Bielsko-Biała, 
Stebo Competence Centre Community Developmentm, 
Association of Cultural and Creative Industries Chemnitz and Region (Creative Chemnitz), Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography – Germany, Otelo Cooperative