ABSTRACT
The Opera Village Africa allows for a different approach to social engagement that does not primarily touch on themes of architecture and politics but was rather conceived of as an idealistic concept of cultural engagement and social change. It was supposed to provide a stage for cultural collaboration and exchange between African artists as well as artists from other countries. The Bayreuth Festival is one of the most celebrated and illustrious theater events in Germany, drawing crowds of people and many celebrity guests for its strictly Wagnerian productions. The construction of the Festival House was also the cause for the infamous and permanent rift between Richard Wagner and his good friend and architect Gottfried Semper. The individual must therefore be free to create the new democratic structure as well as another economic system. This concept of social sculpture in consequence centers on art to be related to the individual, who in turn becomes the artist of the social sculpture.
