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WDC-Campus: Dialogwerkstätten

MEER Demokratie. Social Design auf und mit dem Meer | Dialogwerkstatt

July 2026
15
We
11:00 – 20:00

Jana Steingässer / Kurt Friedrich, Okeanos Foundation, greenD und Schüler:innen

The Okeanos Foundation has developed a method for teaching cooperative interaction and collective teamwork while the team is on a sailing trip.

Our quality of life and the future development of democracy depend not least on the preservation of ecosystems – fundamentally sustained by the global ocean. How we, from the perspective of the Main River, keep the sea and its demands on us in view is conveyed by design students from Hochschule Darmstadt, accompanied by greenD and supported by the Okeanos Stiftung. We are developing and testing new sustainable, cooperative, and self-empowered forms of living together and will make them tangible at the WDC-Campus.

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