TRAININGS
Online Trainings
Over two online sessions in June 2024, six educators (two per partner) were trained on how to employ a set of methodologies related to public history, oral history, social storytelling, community reporting, and on the Notion platform.
MEETINGS
Kick-Off Meeting
LOCAL WORKSHOPS
Local Workshops (Vienna, AT)
X-Arts decided to focus the project and oral history workshop on Vienna’s 16th district (Ottakring). A municipal housing complex with originally 1,587 apartments, built in five stages between 1924 and 1928 as part of the housing policy of “Red Vienna”. Today, it houses a vibrant and diverse community, with residents from all backgrounds – which is why we selected the location for our field research.
SOHO Studios
SOHO Studios opened their doors for us, and we spend 10 days researching and documenting the history and current state of the Sandleitenhof (16th district).
The participants engaged with local community members and conducted local history research. Through interviews and exchanges, they collected stories, visual materials, historical documents etc. on the Sandleitenhof: it’s past, present, future.
Exhibition of initial results
10 days of research and exploration culminated in an exhibition of the initial research.
EXHIBITIONS
Naheliegende Geschichte(n): A Resonant Finale to the CHAC Project (Vienna, Austria)
Naheliegende Geschichte(n) marked the emotional and meaningful conclusion of the CHAC project. Hosted at Soho Ottakring in Vienna, the exhibition brought to life the often-overlooked stories of Sandleitenhof’s residents through a multi-sensory experience grounded in oral history, memory, and place.
Curated by Martina Gimplinger and Frida Robles, the exhibition featured a range of artistic works developed through months of research and collaboration. From Lydia Baumgarten’s immersive installation to Pavel Naydenov’s reflections on political memory, and from Stella Konietzka’s life-sized portraits to Angelika Ginzburg Gurov’s guided walk retracing the area’s Jewish history, each contribution added a unique layer to this living archive.
Naheliegende Geschichte(n) celebrates storytelling as a transformative tool—where spoken stories live on, evolve, and shape our shared memory.
Read more here.
Local Exhibition (Nuoro, Italy)
From 4 to 12 April 2025, the TEN Gallery of the Eliseo Theatre of Nuoro hosted the exhibition “Nuoro, Stories of ties, encounters and journeys”.
The exhibition was set up as an itinerary for visitors. Starting with an infographic on the CHAC project, visitors were accompanied through the works of the participants, in a succession of stories expressed through comics, drawings, poems, and photos. In addition, the digital oral archive of interviews collected during the workshops was made available. Some visitors in fact had the pleasure of enjoying the participants’ works while listening to the interviews from the archive.
Local Exhibition (Berlin, Germany)
