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I will help you through listening and through guiding you to transform your habits, thoughts, belief systems and feelings,
and I will guide you to implement your transformations directly in your life.
to become more and more aligned with your true self

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I AM

I AM
(Deutsch weiter unten)

Did you ever have these moments, this feeling - when you are completely here, completely present, completely home inside yourself, in this moment ?
Yes Home and Free. In these Moments, I am seeing the World around me, I perceive the World, the shelf full of books, the white painted ceiling of the room, I hear the rain rattle and yet - yet I don’t really see this World, I view the World and yet it is different than usual, it seems more like an image, not real, not meaningful, without relevance - just there / here - a reflection of what is. And me, I am feeling home, vibrating full of energy - I Am - entirely & here; here, simply. I can barely speak, whispering seems to be acceptable, which I can do when I wish to speak, if anything, what do I want to communicate? I Am - without thoughts, not even thinking of me being seems possible. I can communicate my feelings through my whispers, express my Gratitude to share. Gratitude for this moment. Tears start running over my face - Love and Gratitude suffuses me almost overwhelms me. Letting me perceive what I happen to forget so often in the manoeuvres of life, how it feels to be. How overwhelming and giant, full of Love and Light. Thank You for this Perception - THANK YOU! Thank you for this insight, which is the home I was looking for, the home and the connection, which has the power to transform my fear. Thank you with all my heart, out of full love. I AM

 

ICH BIN

Hast du schonmal diese Momente gehabt, dieses Gefühl wenn du vollkommen da bist, vollkommen gegenwärtig, vollkommen zuhause, in diesem Moment ?
Ja zuHause und Frei. - Ich sehe die Welt um mich herum und nehme sie wahr, das Regal voller Bücher,  die weiß-gestrichene Decke des Raumes, höre den Regen draussen rasen und doch - doch sehe ich die Welt nicht wirklich, ich schaue sie an und es ist anders als sonst, die Welt erscheint mir wie ein Bild, nicht wirklich, nicht bedeutsam, ohne Bedeutung - einfach da - ein Abbild dessen, was ist. Und ich, ich fühle mich zuhause, ich vibriere voller Energie - ich bin - vollkommen & da; hier, einfach. Ich kann kaum reden, flüstern erscheint mir annehmbar, das kann ich wenn ich etwas sagen möchte, was überhaupt, möchte ich denn kommunizieren? Ich bin - ohne Gedanken, nichtmal dass ich einfach da bin kann ich denken. Was ich fühle kann ich kommunizieren durch mein Flüstern, meine Dankbarkeit ausdrücken um sie mitzuteilen. Dankbarkeit für diesem Moment. Mir laufen die Tränen übers Gesicht - die Liebe und Dankbarkeit erfüllt mich und überrollt mich fasst. Lässt mich wahrnehmen was ich so oft vergesse in den Manövern des Lebens, wie es sich anfühlt zu sein. Wie überwältigend und gross, voller Liebe und Licht. Danke für diese Wahrnehmung - DANKE! Danke für die Erkenntnis, dass dies das Zuhause ist, was ich gesucht habe, das Zuhause und die Verbindung, welche es möglich machen, meine Angst zu transformieren. DANKE von ganzem Herzen, aus voller Liebe! ICH BIN

food security – there is no time

FOOD SECURITY (THERE IS NO TIME)

‘Design for the Living World’ class in collaboration with Das Archipel

during the G20 summit in Hamburg the Project ‘There Is No Time’ organised panel discussions on the topics of the G20 - broadcasted live on the website thereisnotime.net and shown on public screens around Hamburg

contribution in form of a video ‘Food Security’ - examines the economic interests of the food industry and points to their socio-political conse- quences - various local initiatives present their practices as laboratories for a new culture of living, which foregrounds sharing and community-based farming as sources of agency in a resilient city

 

Hamburg, Germany  -  July 2017

the open shelter

THE OPEN SHELTER
(DER OFFENE ORT IM WALD)

School Forest

‘Design for the Living World’ class HFBK by invitation of Springhornhof Foundation
in collaboration with Elementary and High School Neuenkirchen

‘a safe place is especially a warm place‘

creating and building a biomeiler (large pile of compost, which creates heat from accumulated biomass) - a circular concrete form with a surface - a “warm place”
the biomeiler also provides warm water for washings hands

observing and interacting with this system clarifys systems in nature

later:
deconstruction because of disfunction after time
going back to another design idea - using the material to build different roof and shelter structures

place for students to relax - to open their minds to the processes of nature around them

 

Neuenkirchen, Germany  -  May 2017

participation matters

PARTICIPATION MATTERS with ASC

Venice Biennale Architecture - The Swamp Pavillon
‘Design for the Living World’ class HFBK in collaboration / exchange with the Assemblea Sociale per la Casa (ASC) in the Casette neighborhood of Giudecca

in the part of ‘Futurity Island’ at the ‘Swamp Summer School’
platform to exchange knowledge for shifting discussions on public space - by exploring the surrounding environment / swamp - ‘living organism’ which borders (social, cultural, political) are permeable

ASC - an association of Venice residents
squat empty buildings and make them usable for people who need a place to live
address the need for affordable housing in Venice

residents themselves manage and care for these buildings, which have been neglected by the state for decades

Venice, Italy -  June 2018

fub

FUB - FLOATING UNIVERSITY BERLIN

knowledge exchange with international students, artists, architects,…

offshore-laboratory at an old concrete rainwater basin for collective,
experimental learning to challenge routines and habits of urban practices

in cooperation with Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux from raumlabor - planning,
cutting and sewing the inflatable rooftops for rainwater collection

in cooperation with Katherine Ball at the ‘water tower’ - preparing beds of
straw in a line of bathtubs for mushroom spawn, the mycelium / mushrooms
growing on the straw are filtering the rainwater and are edible

the greenhouse - growing tomatoes in 50 self-made wooden boxes installed on a scaffolding structure - planting around 35 varieties of tomato-plants - designed and built an irrigation system

Berlin, Germany  -  April - June 2018

 

craftspeople’s network

CRAFTSPEOPLE’S NETWORK:
TAKING MATTERS INTO YOUR OWN HANDS

knowledge exchange between students & craftspeople

‘Design for the Living World’ class in collaboration with students from the

‘Hybrid Ecologies Studio’ of University of Thessaly and craftspeople of Volos

organised a roundtable discussion with local craftspeople

exhibition ’Cheirotechnes - Craftspeople’s Network: Taking Matters into Your

Own Hands’ at Giorgio de Chirico Art Centre in Volos showing the documented

discussion, craftworks by students and craftspeople and a publication

produced in a workshop

Volos, Greece  -  May 2018

exercising citizenship

EXERCISING CITIZENSHIP

movement as communication tool

Venice Biennale Arte
‘Design for the Living World’ class HFBK
with Chalet Society and Department of Visual Art at IUAV

Geometry of Citizenship

how does society work in space - all participants take on roles and explore
the relationships created in society through spatial movements
What do you want to keep and/or delete in society ?
Who is part of society, and who ist not part of society ?

 

The Collective Body

create an other way of living together - creating different roles of collective
bodies - exploring power relations and coexistence through body movement
exercises - physical experience as base for personal inquiry & group discussions

 

Five Exercises

experience and movement research as communication tool
sharing and discussing the collective body drawings in space

Venice, Italy  -  June 2017

dot

DOT

“ first there is a single thought - a dot

giving this dot more relevance/sense is giving it more energy

through this sense there are arising feelings in us,
which are leading to an action

a single ray of light seems like a dot if it impinges on a surface

if a ray of light impinges a prism it gets fragmented
and shows to us a great variety of colours

everything we create starts with a dot
the feelings in us are the same and lead to a great spectrum of experiences ”

social inclusion

SOCIAL INCLUSION

collaboration, knowledge exchange, handicraft products/solutions

HFBK students with ‚Brücke Schleswig Holstein’ - living and employment institution for people with mental illness - in the Workshop ‘Bildschön-Designwerkstatt’

crafted products made of donated or waste materials
workshop about handmade stamps for printing paper products - decorating store windows to get more attention - sewing new bags out of unusable ones and printed with stamps

 

Elmshorn, Germany  -  June 2016

rooftop

ROOFTOP

a place to come together

a group of three girls at a rooftop of HFBK

modular, affordable and hydrophobic furniture - openair cinema - heavy (concrete) plant pots with ropes to the top of the roof for plantclimbing, windbreak and safety fence - more nature

Hamburg, Germany  -  April - July 2016

mexico – in solidarity: living, making, together

EN SOLIDARIDAD: VIVIENDO Y HACIENDO JUNTOS

four intersecting projects with discussions and exhibition

‘Design for the Living World’ class in collaboration with four initiatives working on establishing the principle of collectivity and solidarity economy

 

Huerto Roma Verde - community garden initiative
Cooperative Palo Alto - housing collective
residents of América neighbourhood and the Social Hub of CENTRO University
residents of San Francisquito neighbourhood and the Dérive Lab at BEMA

 

public exhibition an ongoing public discussions during two month
at Muca-Roma of UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

Huerto Roma Verde
growing holistic laboratory of knowledge

constructing arches with local and organic building materials e.g. carrizo (wild cane)
organising talks / disucssions on
'social solidarity' - 'solidarity economy' - 'right to the city'

Working with América Residents
quarter struggling with drug related violence, unemployment, low school attendance

working and discovering through conversations - encounters - discussions - sharing knowledge through joint activity at our weekly stand on a corner built with leftover materials

neighbours constructing their own system of support

our investigation on solidarity in the neighbourhood
was concluded in - newspaper “Calle Sur 128”

 

Mexico City, Mexico  -   March 2017