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Nord News (2019) 



Open Workshop, Newspaper,  Typewriter, Printer, Collage
In collaboration with Amon Ritz

As part of Spielstadt Nordbahnhof, A.R.E.A.L Wien


 The newspaper was part of a big children’s holiday project that we organised as a group of 8 during the summer holidays in Vienna. Spielstadt Nordbahnhof was a play city in which the children could explore different aspects of city life for 10 days. During this time, the children governed and administered their own small city built out of theatre backdrops in a hall in Vienna.

The play city hosted different workplaces; the children were able to earn their own money, which was used to buy goods produced in the city. All the decisions were made in the daily general assembly of all citizens (children). Around 300 children from the age of 7-15 participated every day, with some joining only for a few hours and others for most of the 10 days.

This newspaper, called Nord News, was developed every day in collaboration with the children, resulting in a total of 10 daily issues. The agenda for every day was set during the round table in the morning: discussing events to report on, people to interview, and opinion pieces to write. Experimenting with analog techniques, using collage materials, handwritten notes, stamps, typewriters, and occasionally texts written on a laptop, the layout for the paper was finished every evening, before the Nord News were sold at the city’s Trafik (Kiosk).