What concrete results do you intend to achieve with the project? What is the value of the project for the region and the people living there?

We want to create a space for cultural and public events to make the local municipalities artistic and organizational. Technical tools will be provided for the benefit of all types of local communities with tools and places to actively participate in the organization, to organize and promote the organization of cultural events. It is not intended for the sole purpose of promotion of consumption of culture, but also to engage the community to contribute to it.

The project organizes a basic requirement of events and promotes, promotes and trains self-initiatives.

The Hackerspace is a space that offers the necessary tools of video production, audio processing, 3D printing and AutoCAD tools for every artist interested. Also, produced art or event is advertised in local and regional municipalities to support local artists.

Members of local communities can enjoy both the cultural program that the project offers, as well as discover art for themselves.

The restoration of the old part of the mill will include:

• replacing the roof beams
• repair the roof
• install insulation
• install electrical and networking cables
• renovate the interior
• renovate the old wooden staircase
• install new heating system
• …

Funding is also needed for:

• consultation of professional services for renovation

We will purchase the following equipment to reach our goals

• projector
• 1x specialised computer
• 3D printer
• sound system
• monitors
• …

We will set up a Hackerspace / centre where the local community can come and create art in various diverse forms including:

• provide a space for and support theater productions
• provide a space for and support concerts
• video and visual media
• a quiet and reflective space for creative writing & literature
• design & architecture
• 3D printing courses / workshops and practice sessions
• art installations
• …

We define Hackerspace as a place of creativity where people can work individually or collectively toward our Ideals

Funding will also be needed for:

• Consultation services to make this project a success with the local community

Presentation of the initial situation in your region / municipality, brief description of the cultural landscape as well as the challenges and needs.

In Heiligengrabe and the surrounding areas, there are very few cultural institutions, little cultural support for the youth, little international cultural tourism and very little theater or theater groups.

There are relatively many visual artists in the region but few exhibition venues. But in the adjoining building of Kuckucksmühle, a centuries-old, protected water mill from the 16th century, we will create a place that will fill this vacuum.

Kuckucksmühle is in the process of establishing an association to conserve the listed building, an ecological, open, self-sustaining community has already been founded, and the members want to use and develop modern, open technologies.

In the adjoining building, this project is now a house in which we want to create a hackerspace for filmmakers, writers, actors and artists. Not only can we use the networks of the aforementioned association, the Kuckucksühle is already a well-known place for events over the last decades and even the older people of the towns still gladly remember these times.

Therefore, this project not only closes a cultural gap in the region, it is also one of the best places to bring culture back to life.