bau:KULTUR! Festival - Building & creating with straw and clay

Discover and experience ecological building using our own straw and excavated clay from the fields at Lindenbrunnenhof in Forchheim. An open hands-on lab is being created here, where circularity in building culture can be experienced directly through workshops, projects and other formats.

European Action Week marks the launch of our bau:KULTUR! activities and at the same time extends an invitation to everyone interested — especially children and young people and their families — to take part in workshops and other formats

• to acquire skills in straw bale construction and earth building

• to put what they have learned directly into practice during the final stages of building the HUB:itat’s infrastructure

• to help shape the place with their own ideas

• to create experimental structures, walk-in sculptures and objects from natural building materials

• to playfully explore the potential of the materials

• to investigate and understand material cycles

• to experience and help shape encounters and exchange in an open atmosphere

Alongside our own straw and the excavated clay soil, a range of different material and resource cycles can be experienced and understood here first-hand. A large proportion of the materials used and built in have been given a second life with us. From the old livestock trailer that is being converted into a composting toilet, to the construction timber left over from the Kulturkiosk co-building activities in Freiburg, the countless pallets — which have been transformed here into all sorts of things — as well as a wide variety of resources already secured by the re:purpose collective and now being put to further use here.

Our approach — Re:Use first!

We invite you to fill this place with life — even beyond the action period! The HUB:itat is an open, lively space for learning, encounter, and research. In the future, it will offer a diverse program focused on habitats, building culture and sustainability, and participatory design processes with children and young people. We draw on the investigative power of artistic processes and the purposeful power of skilled craftsmanship.

The activities are aimed primarily at children, young people and their families — but are also open to anyone else who is interested. We work together to create a respectful, appreciative, and supportive environment for young people’s perspectives on the world.
In addition, the activities provide space to network with people and organizations from the education sector.

You can find all updates and important details on Instagram.