vienna.transitionBASE - infrastructure for change

For us, the transitionBASE located in the city of Vienna is a ‘living lab for a future of lived chances’. We want to live essentials now!

The economical and ecological change of culture and society is dear to our hearts. We create room for players who want to get active as well as for guests who want to be inspired. We try out ways that reopen our sense of what we really need for a happy, healthy and fulfilled life.

With our predecessor-project ‘Sprungbrett Aspern’ we already collected experience and knowledge of the temporarily usable space in the area of the newly emerging ‘Seestadt Aspern’ since 2011. During this project, creations like clay and straw building prototypes, ‘bio-kiln’, composting toilet, permaculture beds, foodsharing networks, sociocratic communication, art, concerts, parties, singalongs, seminars, workshops and many more were realized.
And we learned a lot about ourselves, especially that one of the most essential things is relationship.

Since the fall of 2015 we have a new contract to use the area until 2020. Because of the intention to build a more professional and effective platform for projects, a new drive and energy came to the place. During the last few years, a similarly fresh wind of a young and alternative scene of entrepreneurs is palpable in the city of Vienna. So the transitionBASE is a great addition, because it is a stepping stone for green and social start-ups. We want to support a dialog and cooperation to create room for synergies so that small but good ideas can grow and get to the next step. Our green oasis in the heart of the ‘Seestadt Aspern’ is the perfect place for that.

The transitionBASE is built on 6 pillars that are interconnected:
EXPO - exposition and use of prototype buildings, projects and objects
PARK - nature, garden, edible landscape and green city oasis
CAMPUS - we pass on our experience in seminars and workshops
STAGE - expression of the culture of change in the form of public events and experiences
FABLAB - communal studio/workshop for experiments, sustainable ideas and Open Source projects
NET - a big network, a living community of change - and you can be a part of it.

“A future worth living is possible - we’re trying it!”

“I love the whisper of the trees and the open space, here directly in front of the lakecity Seestadt Aspern, where you can be in nature and also be at Praterstern in Vienna in 20 minutes.”

People who are interested in sustainable building, gardening and living, find a lot of fascinating projects and creations at the transitionBASE. We offer a space where a new culture can be tried out as well as lived. We organize greenbuilding seminars and want to develop new possibilities for low-priced and sustainable living space with our house prototypes.

The permaculture garden and container studio/workshop are aimed to create communal and experimential results for a transition.

Additionally there is room for very practical experiences - from making a Green Smoothie (pick it yourself and mix it) to a pleasant indoor climate in a clay house as well as using an outhouse. In seminars taking place here, you can learn to build such houses, or you can just relax in a hammock and listen to the whims chirping.

You can join, become a member, propose a project or get involved in an existing one; everything is possible. Aside from houses built from renewable resources and a species-rich natural garden, it is also possible to find out more on the topic of transition and change through our events and cultural contributions. In fall of 2016 the opening of the space is planned.

Come and check out our urban nature lab and lively experiment - the playground of the special kind for adults. You can find more ideas and likeminded people through our transitionBASE Newsletter, our website www.t-base.org, www.united.creations.org, our Facebook page vienna.transitionBASE or through our network.

We create the base for the transitionBASE.
In fall the opening of the platform for guests and visitors is planned. It is important to secure a good and reliable infrastructure for the vienna.transitionBASE. Your support allows us an important step to more professionally integrate additional exciting projects and to be able to offer a truly effective platform for transition.

You can join with your project, allow other projects to join, and also get to know many exciting people and ideas. As a platform we want to be the support for great projects and participants and present ingenious new solutions to the world. To accomplish that, we need good tools, water, electricity, a studio/workshop, toilets, a kitchen and dry working spaces.

Check out www.t-base.org or just visit us personally!
‘You are not alone with the idea that it has to be possible to do it differently!’

We have a 3 steps plan:

10.000 € as a basis (funding-threshold) - The most important things.
For electricity/water/warmth, weatherproofing of buildings, flyer, webpage, crowdfunding-campaign, tools for gardening, display cases and signs, toilet and kitchen, submission for buildings, safety of trees, basic facilities for the studio/workshop

15.000 € as second step - really cool !
5000 € for a big canopy for the studio/workshop, garden infrastructure and care. Infocenter and a tipi for a culture of community.

20.000 € as third step - really amazing !!
5000 € for the covering of a 50sqm geodesic dome (“oasis of living silence”) and additional constructions of the kitchen for use in the winter time.