2021/2022
S.O.S. – Schools of Sustainability
Can Schools Save the Climate?
School projects, workshops, closing congress, teacher training courses
Jun 2021–Nov 2022
Nov 28 & 29, 2022: Teacher training courses
What needs to change in schools in view of the climate crisis? Saving CO2 is important, but curricula and subject structures also need to be rethought. Can artistic approaches motivate schools to become fit for the future of the climate?
The climate crisis demands rapid action and rethinking at all levels. Together with three Berlin schools and eight artists, Haus der Kulturen der Welt is looking at the school system to initiate sustainable change processes: How can we live and experience sustainability in the classroom, in the building and other resources, in our awareness? The focus is on artistic research as a method for opening new perspectives on the world and its complexities in an open and participatory process. This process will be supervised by experts from education, ecology and politics. The result is a vision of a new curriculum, a contemporary school that is forward-looking in its architecture, teaching and technologies. At a closing congress, the students present their school projects to their peers in workshops and an exhibition and discuss their demands with decision-makers from schools, politics and administration. Two teacher training courses will draw on the experience of the project work to provide recommendations for teaching practice.
Participating schools:
Wedding-Schule
Heinz-Brandt-Schule
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gymnasium
Participating artists:
Aïcha Abbadi
Jana Engel
Erik Göngrich
Franziska Pierwoss
Ursula Rogg
Julia Jasmin Rommel
Johanna Schwab
Margo Zālīte
Accompanying research:
Students from the University of Duisburg-Essen under the direction of Maren Ziese and Sarah Wenzinger accompany the project artistically and scientifically and develop materials for educators.
