💼 What the programme involves
This “Umweltstation” (environmental protection station) is a place to reflect on a sustainable lifestyle. Together with you, we want to take a creative approach to thinking about the outcomes of our consume and throwaway society. We want to give you an opportunity to find new ways to make your lifestyle simpler, more sustainable and more individual by using your crafting skills. Only by living a responsible and self-determined life, we can find new ways and solutions to create a more sustainable future. In three SELF-MADE WORKSHOPS qualified experts will show you how to use natural material and waste products such as plastic, fabric and wood to design your own products: "The fabric that dreams are made of" – Upcycling ideas for old clothes and natural material: Here you can sew hats out of fabric remnants, print on white bed sheets with the "Ecoprint" technique, color t-shirts with batik technique and felt or crochet bags, scarves and mobile phone covers. "Ideas replacing Waste" – Upcycling ideas for plastic, waste and natural material: Here we will use waste and natural material such as old garden hoses, belts, bicycle tires, other findings, woody debris, construction steel etc. to design a labyrinth trail for the premise of the “Umweltstation”. "Creating instead of consuming" – Upcycling furniture and natural building material: Here we will take used pallets, wooden debris, clay, straw, wild wood, old tires, metal debris, glass and other findings to design and create furniture, shelves, glass walls and pallet furniture for the Umweltstation's humus toilet.
📍 About the location
The little village Georgensgmünd is located in the heart of the Franconian lake scenery, surrounded by fields, meadows with fruit trees and forests. You have lots of possibilities for spending your free time: swimming in the lake, participating in the traditional local fair or attending concerts at the “Bardentreffen” or the “Klassik Open Air” in Nürnberg. You can also take trips to Munich, Bamberg or Rotheburg. The Klassik Open Air with a picknick will take place on the 4th of August, the Bardentreffen in Nürnberg will take place from the 27th to the 29th of July. At the time of the work camp, there will also be a open air tent on the premise of the Umweltstation, where some cultural events will take place: "We are all Jazz" – concert, "HOME – The most amazing pictures of the earth" – Open Air Cinema "Vom Hühnerstall zur Umweltstation" – 30 Jahre Verein Hämmerleinsmühle ? "Wir alle leben unter denselben Sternen" – self-made documentary from 2018.