In this case, the “gateway to the Weinviertel” is not the municipality of Wolkersdorf, which is commonly referred to as the entrance to the Weinviertel. Tina Rögner’s “Gate to the Weinviertel” is an artistic representation of the city, more precisely: a map. It brings the Weinviertel out of the country into the living space.
The work of art makes a simple, but all the more elegant impression. It captures the state of affairs in the rapidly changing urban community. In a few decades, the buyers of the work will be able to look at it and will then be transported back to the time when the new estate in Kirchbergen was still in its infancy and the residential project “Generations Living” was still a meadow.
This is the present, which Tina Rögner took from the online map service OpenStreetMap. However, a work of art has not yet been created: Rögner laboriously searched for houses and buildings that had not yet been drawn on the OpenStreetMap map, as they were still unfinished at that time. The colors from turquoise to gray-blue fit in with the official appearance of the municipality, which bears the color in the logo.
The plant should integrate into the environment
“Something graphic that is regional and something that you also hang on to,” graphic designer Rögner wanted to create with the artful map. The work should not be gaudy, but rather integrate into the room. She thought about the title for a long time, there were several to choose from, and Rögner also wanted to include it in it. It has therefore become “The Gateway to the Weinviertel”.
The map was not created single-handedly, Rögner works as a graphic artist in the community. She is not a lone fighter. “What is important for the process is how it comes about,” she explains, to draw attention to the fact that it should be understandable how decisions are made. For example, that the choice of the title “Das Tor zum Weinviertel” expresses the desire to include both Wolkersdorf and Obersdorf.
Rögner’s map was not only created in joint processes, it also wants to promote joint processes with the income from the sale. Specifically, the graphic designer collects money for equipment for the Obersdorf playground and is already excited to see “what will be implemented.”
Working collectively for the township
Rögner has already drawn up a concept. She felt the incentive to do so in the autumn at the “Ideenwerkstatt” on the main square, when it was discovered that some playgrounds in the area of the municipality were in need of renovation. Most of the work in creating the concept was communication, as Rögner reports. Because she didn’t just work out something herself, but approached other people with the sentence “Look, I have a plan, what are your ideas?” And gained numerous suggestions and insights from this.
Now the concept is to become reality, with each map on a wall in a Wolkersdorf apartment contributing to it. Rögner’s approach can be viewed as a model of citizen participation: art and communication are the means here to incorporate the wishes and concerns of Wolkersdorfers into a project for the community.
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