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V4 Mini Grant - Semiramis

V4 application - Semiramis

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1. Project content (topics, roles, people)

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This youth mobility project unites 16 young participants (ages 18-30), with an equal balance of 8 from Czechia and 8 from Hungary, to co-create a work of land art: a living, eye-shaped willow dome. 12 years ago the previous generation started building a small willow-dome, therefore we build upon this heritage in cooperation with them to create a cross-generational knowledge, practice and energy exchange. We are using the natural elliptic shape of the field to reach the “eye-shape” as a symbol of awareness reflected in the connected exhibition too.This structure symbolizes climate resilience and our shared cultural heritage, establishing a community space on land recently exposed to drought.

The project is delivered in two phases.

Phase 1 (March) is a 7-day creative workshop where participants gain hands-on skills in ecological design, collaborative construction, and artistic co-creation, including documentary film-making and composing a theme song.

In Phase 2 (July) for 5 days the dome becomes an interactive exhibition at a local festival for 1000-1500 visitors. Integrated QR codes and gamified elements will transform it into a permanent, free-access educational space, illustrating interconnected sustainability solutions and ensuring lasting community engagement.

2. Partner organization(s) and their roles:

Špejchar – Institute of Cultural Ecology (CZ): As the Czech partner organization, Špejchar's primary role is providing the project's artistic and ecological leadership. They are responsible for delegating the lead artist and workshop facilitator, Gabriela Sojková, whose expertise in land art and willow-weaving is central to the project's execution. Špejchar will manage the selection, preparation, and mentorship of the 8 Czech participants, ensuring they are equipped for the cross-border collaboration. Their experience of cultural ecology will inform the project's core themes, helping to frame the willow dome as a symbol of human-nature co-existence and climate resilience.

Fiatalok a Magyar Vidékért Alapítvány (HU): As the host organization, their primary role is managing all on-site logistics, coordination, and community integration in Csobánkapuszta, Hungary. This includes securing the project location, arranging accommodation and meals for all 16 participants, and coordinating local resources and volunteers. They are responsible for selecting and preparing the 8 Hungarian participants, including the core members of the documentary film crew. Their local network is essential for the successful execution of both the March workshop and the July public exhibition at the festival, ensuring the project is deeply rooted and supported within the local community.

Draft:

This project is a 2-phase cross-border collaboration to create a significant work of land art, a natural community space with deep roots in art and humanity, re-cultivating diversity into a land currently suffering from drought and ecological degradation.

Phase 1 (March): 7-day working session (main creative event) led by Gergely Dzsida and Gabriela Sojková on Csobánkapuszta (location of S.U.N. Festival), where we build a living-dome from willows on a cozy field, with later plans of a permacultural garden supported and nurtured by the structure and placement of the willowdome. Volunteers get hands-on experience in designing, planning, and cultivating a living willow structure and its lateral processes:

Weaving strands of willows into the structure

Planting new willows

Soil-work with hand-tools, machines and barehand

Brainstorming together about practical choices of design execution

Cooking

Practicing english skills

Logistics of human resources

Every team member is encouraged to participate in every work step that they like, (all viewpoints matter and are valued)

Phase 2 (July): Interactive documentary film presentation, and 4-day active involvement of the festival audience (1000-1500 people) at the local Festival through workshops and games organised and hosted by our team - each day 2x4 of us will be responsible for 4 hours shifts to introduce our work.

Participants (16 total): all participants age between 18-30. Joining 8 of them from Hungary (including project managers and lead film crew) and 8 from Czechia (including the lead architect and apprentice artist)

Roles and responsibilities:

Gergely Dzsida: Project Management & Organisation

Gabriela Sojkova: Artist Director & Art Design

Ádám Papp: Designer of a self-sustaining humidity-dripping system

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