GROWL - Living Degrowth

GROWL course on Community Building

May
31
When: Sunday, May 31, 2015 - Sunday, Jun 7, 2015, (All day)
Where:

Transition Seminar House, Brückenstrasse 20

University Park, Steinstrasse, Witzenhausen

Jugendburg Ludwigstein, Witzenhausen
Add to Calendarhttps://co-munity.net/growl/events/growl-course-community-building05-30-2015 22:00:0006-06-2015 22:00:0035GROWL course on Community BuildingIn this course we will explore the power of community and ways of community building, via different methologies and experiences, as well as from the evalution from already ongoing (transition) projects in a small town in Germany, Witzenhausen, which suffers from big debt payments. The goal of our course is, to develop creative ways of thinking, being and doing, so that instead of scarcity the „Buen Vivir“ comes in full power in our communities.We start from the „I narrative“, explore our (gender) roles and our body (language), then shift to the next level, and explore ourselves within the generational context, and different ways of living constructs. We explore historical and also critical aspects of community building. In the next step we will go to the community level (village, small town, barrio) and explore aspects around city development and civil participation on a theoretical as well as academic level, as well as hands-on projects which already run in Witzenhausen and evalute them in the context of degrowth discourse and the level of sucess for community building.The course will be taken place on the Jugendburg Ludwigstein, which is a very interesting historic place, and has a strong link to community building, as the "Wandervögel", a reformist youth movement in the early twenties of the last century bought it and started to restore it.The second part takes place in the center of the city in the „Transition House“ from Transition Town. The central point of the course will be a yurt in a public part. There will be a lively exchange between the course participants, inhabitants of Witzenhausen and students of the organic agriculture faculty with an rich cultural programm.Further information and materials at the course community spaceTransition Seminar House, Brückenstrasse 20University Park, Steinstrasse, WitzenhausenJugendburg Ludwigstein, WitzenhausentrueDD/MM/YYYY

In this course we will explore the power of community and ways of community building, via different methologies and experiences, as well as from the evalution from already ongoing (transition) projects in a small town in Germany, Witzenhausen, which suffers from big debt payments. The goal of our course is, to develop creative ways of thinking, being and doing, so that instead of scarcity the „Buen Vivir“ comes in full power in our communities.

We start from the „I narrative“, explore our (gender) roles and our body (language), then shift to the next level, and explore ourselves within the generational context, and different ways of living constructs. We explore historical and also critical aspects of community building. In the next step we will go to the community level (village, small town, barrio) and explore aspects around city development and civil participation on a theoretical as well as academic level, as well as hands-on projects which already run in Witzenhausen and evalute them in the context of degrowth discourse and the level of sucess for community building.

The course will be taken place on the Jugendburg Ludwigstein, which is a very interesting historic place, and has a strong link to community building, as the "Wandervögel", a reformist youth movement in the early twenties of the last century bought it and started to restore it.

The second part takes place in the center of the city in the „Transition House“ from Transition Town. The central point of the course will be a yurt in a public part. There will be a lively exchange between the course participants, inhabitants of Witzenhausen and students of the organic agriculture faculty with an rich cultural programm.

Further information and materials at the course community space

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