AA nanotourism Visiting School is exhibiting at this year’s Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 (OAT)

AA nanotourism Visiting School is exhibiting at this year’s Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 (OAT) with case studies of nanotourism developed in three consecutive years, from 2014 to 2016, in Vitanje, Slovenia. The town of 800 inhabitants has seen a drastic increase in number of visitors since the construction of the building of KSEVT – Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in 2012. The programme has addressed the new reality and aimed at establishing a deeper and meaningful relationship between the visitors of KSEVT and the local community of Vitanje.

AA nanotourism responded to the Triennale’s theme of ‘degrowth’ and questioned how tourism might work in a degrowth society.

Nanotourism is a creative critique of conventional tourism through design of interactive experiences. It proposes strategies for integrated tourism based around mutual interaction between providers and users.

The OAT exhibits two projects of AA nanotourism: ‘KSEVT hotel’, a site-specific experience of 3D sleeping in a precisely-engineered ‘levitation suit’, allowing individual visitors overnight stays in KSEVT suspended in mid-air. ‘Gravity: A User’s Manual’ is a wine-tasting experience based around a wearable ‘glass’ of wine, where visitors must engage themselves in a custom-designed suit through series of choreographed movements in order to air and taste the wine.

Both projects as well as an extensive catalogue of past AA nanotourism case studies are part of the main collection of ‘The Library’ at the National Museum of Architecture in Oslo and will be on show until 24^th November 2019.

Find out more about the AA nanotourism Visiting School or about the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019