Short-term residencies for urban nomads allow them, as participants of this artistic installation, to be active factors of the cultural and entertainments programme in Exportdrvo and the rest of the Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture programme, and an opportunity opens up for the people of Rijeka to exchange knowledge and experiences with young people from all over Europe.
The experiment of sleeping in Exportdrvo for the people of Rijeka is nothing new – in conjunction with the preparations of the Sweet & Salt programme, more than 600 members of the European organisation of architecture students EASA (European Architecture Students’ Assembly) spent two weeks living, working and sleeping in this former warehouse. On the basis of this good experience, the experiment continues into 2020, however, in a somewhat different form. Short-term residencies for urban nomads allow them, as participants of this artistic installation, to be active factors of the cultural and entertainments programme in Exportdrvo and the rest of the Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture programme, and an opportunity opens up for the people of Rijeka to exchange knowledge and experiences with young people from all over Europe. Alongside the urban nomads, the installation also hosts the artistic work Oblomo for the people by artist Sašo Sedlaček (SI), which is realised in conjunction with the Dopolavoro flagship and which, in an area of increasingly-present automatisation of work and artificial intelligence, figuratively speaking values laziness, idleness and inactivity.