Roland Gruber

Roland Gruber, born 1972 in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Carinthia (Austria). Studied architecture in Linz and Zurich and cultural management in Salzburg.

Since 1999 co-founder, partner and managing director of nonconform (www.nonconform.at), an office for architecture and participatory spatial development of communities, cities and companies.

Initiator and curator of the annual vacancy conference; co-founder of LandLuft - association for the promotion of building culture in rural areas (www.landluft.at); co-founder of Zukunftsorte - platform of innovative communities in Austria (www.zukunftsorte.at); co-founder of RURASMUS - European scholarship to bring young people to the countryside (www.rurasmus.eu).