Outdoor activities…
“Sustainability Communities” is a CASE pilot course that was delivered during the winter semester at the University of Vechta, Germany, by Senan Gardiner. In the context of this course, the students spent one weekend in December 2016 at the ecovillage “Lebensgarten” (English: “Life Garden”) near the village Steyerberg in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Over 120 people are currently living there as a community, trying out ways to live as sustainable as possible – concerning social, cultural, ecological, economic, and technological aspects. The course culminated in this excursion to show the students that many changes to communities, in order to make them more sustainable, can be both simple and profound.
… and indoor activities at the Vechta pilot course
This experiential learning was enriched by sessions lead by one of the founding members, former TU Berlin Professor Declan Kennedy, and some of his community colleagues who introduced the students of the course to principles of permaculture, e-mobility, and sociocracy over the three day stay.
Pictures by Florian Schmitt
