living sauna | mobile sauna laboratory

2025

living sauna

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@ Social Design Studio, Vienna

Project Team:
Karlotta Leonie Paul, Ilia Gromov & Franz Hagmann

Supervised by:
Predrag Milić
Pubilcation:
https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/detail/o:74568

This project plays with sauna experiences as a tool for grounding moments and as a platform for inspiring and meaningful social encounters. In the ‘living sauna‘, people are invited to relax, think, connect, and create together. And to activate the joining sauna enthusiasts even further, we want to break with the usual relation of guests buying a service. Therefore, we invite everyone to play an active role, be it by setting up the sauna, performing an ‘Aufguss,’ or contributing a poem, a topic to discuss, or anything else. Besides a variety of hosted events, we compiled a publication with the collected knowledge and a selection of different inspiring projects. This ‘sauna manual’ aims to inspire and support people around the globe to live sauna through three major approaches: join, borrow, and build.