Санкт-Маргаретен
The project was started in 1961 by Slovenians Janez Lenassi and Jakob Savinšek. They first met in 1959 at the in the quarry at Sankt Margarethen im Burgenland. In proposing the name , they meant exploring living sculpture in ever new directions; the meaning became extended to mean the symposia themselves, and later to describe any outdoor collection of sculpture.