Welcome

thanks for visiting the website of Bauer und Freunde, leading consultants and creators of international and intercultural projects. Christian Bauer is running a leading consultancy for cultural projects and is an early entrepreneur and pioneer for 3D technologies like 3D Online Communities, Virtual Reality and Web3D / VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and earlier in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and CAD (Computer Aided Design).

Current projects:

• Project management for "Crystal Sky", a new and groundbraking mobile attraction in development for Swarovski.
• Project management for "Atlans", the transformation of the Lanser See, today a pure bathing facility - into a place of recreation and spirituality (while staying open for bathing guests) for the Tyrolean Rhomberg Family.
• Several undisclosed projects for artist André Heller.
• Development of the Sudanese Telecenters Proposal with some friends - an educational initiative in Khartoum, Sudan.
• An undisclosed humanitarian project in Khartoum.
• Continued work on "Media Rooms" with the current topic "Ars Ecclesia" (turning churches into media rooms), following "Architecture and Poetry" and "Liquid Architecture" on the University of Innsbruck: See pictures in the Gallery section.
• New lecture on Project Management on the renowned business school Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) in fall 2008.

Recent success stories:

• 2007: Project management planning and building the extension of Crystal Worlds for Swarovski. Reopening on the 30th of November successfully resulted in a substantial increase of visitors and sales of the already most visited Tyrolean attraction.
• 2007: Development of new strategic concepts for Artevent GMBH which are coming in 2008 into realisation-phase.
• 2006: Project Poetry-Automat following an idea of Hans Magnus Enzensberger: 850.000 generated and distributed poems in just 8 weeks of operation and repeated features on prime time German TV.
• 2005-2006: Planning, construction and tour management for the Football Globe Germany - 2006 FIFA World Cup™: 620.000 visitors, 1.8 million website hits, 12.100 recorded dances (video-clips) in 89 exhibition days in Japan, France, Italy and Switzerland.
• 2003-2006: Fussball Globus - FIFA WM 2006™: Over 1.000.000 visitors during the 12 World Cup Host Cities visit in 3 years of travel over a distance of 5.000 km.

Check out the image galleries. Some of these pictures are published for the first time.

Regards,

Christian Bauer