Offener Betrieb (Open Modes) – and before that Probebetrieb (Trial Mode) – took the idea of a collective, dehierarchised, collaborative and open educational situation as their starting point.
How can an old-fashioned ‘school barracks’ with endless corridors, a listed building, be transformed into a place of forward-thinking education?
As a social practice, architecture essentially points to a totality of spatial, technological, social and economic developments.
Rurasmus is an initiative for a European ‘countryside semester’ as an addition to the established Erasmus programme, allowing young people to develop a new perspective on rural Europe.
A new farm shop with a café at the central market place, a farm offering demonstrations and a fun experience, a research centre and an innovation centre for organic agriculture form the five cornerstones of the new centre together with the school.
Since 2015, an open collective of artists and scientists has been developing the non-profit Neuberg College in collaboration with the town of Neuberg an der Mürz. It is devoted to process-open learning and engages with its rural surroundings.
In 1989 Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler exhibited at the Neue Galerie Graz under the title Les Bricoleurs, which describes an artistic approach based on the knowledge of resources, careful observation, listening and letting go.
In Training Democracy, Werner Reiterer explores the social demands of various opinion leaders in his own subversive way. Quotes collected from the American and European pro- and anti-abortion movements from 1999 to 2007 include protest slogans such as ‘Keep abortion legal’ or ‘My body, my decision’.
