17 - 19.06.11

This morning Ellen Leanne and I had our presentation for Spatial and Environmental Planning in CEE countries. We had taken a number of documents relating to the EU Danube Strategy and chose to focus on Transport and Tourism along the Danube.
We focused on the stretch between Vienna and Bratislava and proposed a central transport route to help create a more efficient, environmentally friendly and economic transport system. We proposed this system would interlink with sites along the stretch of river to help draw more tourists of wider interests and age groups and therefore help improve the local economy and infrastructure. This focused study was formulated in a way that it could be applied to different parts of the Danube in phases and has the potential to expand across a much larger stretch of the river.
Overall the presentation went well as we received positive feedback from our tutor and other students. We now simply have to make a few adjustments to our work and this will be presented in the form of a document. We were all able to return home feeling positive.

Later that day I left to meet a group of friends at the Urban Art Forms Festival in Wienneustadt.  This festival is Europe’s leading audiovisual festival and attracted many of Europe’s and some of the world’s best Dj’s, producers and bands.
The atmosphere of the festival was fantastic, the people were friendly and the setting was breathtaking. We set up our tents in the camp site and made our way over to the festival. The music venues were held in a complex of old Aircraft Hangers. The huge hangers filled with people and music created a special and unique atmosphere. We had a fantastic time together and were able to see all the acts we had planned to watch and apart from the rain on Saturday we were overjoyed with the experience.
Thank you Urban Art Forms!