… through eco-social innovation grounded in everyday life.
The Neudorf Institute explores how social, ecological, and technological practices can strengthen wellbeing, sustainability, and local capacity. We work with communities to create tangible transformations through design, learning, and shared experimentation.
Project
The Resilience-Kit as a tool for local Communities
We are currently planning … a hybrid physical–digital tool designed to make everyday knowledge visible. It will capture micro-contributions to local challenges—like resourcefulness, repair, care, or workarounds—and it will translate them into modular, transferable strategies. The goal: to strengthen collective resilience through shared, situated learning and co-created design responses.
at concept stage
Event
Feldgespräche / Field talks I
Big ideas often start small: sun-bleaching a stain, fixing dinner from scraps, or setting up a shared school run. This one-day gathering brings together neighbours, researchers, and local makers to explore everyday innovation—and how to nurture it.
Join us for work groups in the morning, shared lunch, a collaborative mailbox installation in the afternoon, and a campfire afterwards.
Hosted with Kunstuniversität Linz and New Design University.
Friday 18 July 2025
10:00 Prevenhuberhaus
13:30 Neudorf 126
Event
Jour fixe
Important matters, everyday issues, meeting point
Every Monday 16:30-17:30
Project
3000m2 Prototype
A real-life experiment in eco-social living and building: this tiny house project explores everyday innovation, design literacy, and shared resilience on a rural plot in Neudorf.
A local institute with global connections
The Neudorf Institute is embedded in a rural community and shaped by everyday concerns like energy, food, education, and care. We work closely with local people who are experts in these areas through experience. At the same time, we collaborate with international researchers and designers to reimagine innovation through shared projects, dialogue, and experimentation.
Contact us
Neudorf Institute for Innovation
Neudorf 128
3335 Gaflenz, Austria
+43 664 75134346
info@neudorf.in