HOPE Spatial Laboratory

# Educational landscapes in climate change

Set up and operate a mobile modular co-creatively planned and

implemented spatial laboratory for artistic initiatives and experiments on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

The built environment and thus also educational institutions and school routes encompass many areas that have led to climate change and biodiversity loss. It is our duty to provide children and young people with an innovative laboratory for spatial experimentation and research to enable them to perceive and recognize problems in their direct environment, and give them the scope for action and to gather design experiences in creation processes, and thereby initiate a process of self-education to empower them to proactively shape the energy transition.

Objective:

We are developing HOPE as a spatial laboratory that can be transformed with and by children and young people into a utopian educational institution, a "palace of hope" that will be built, converted and used as a school space and spatial school for the planned duration. Together with architects, researchers, specialists and artists, solutions for climate protection will be developed and disseminated to society. This experimental space lab will become a living lab in which climate protection and climate change processes will be directly researched in spatial 1:1 models and with co-creative methods. Sustainable energy systems in relation to architecture and urban planning as well as mobility and smart urban development (e.g. urban measures for climate adaptation) will be developed and implemented together with the users in

extracurricular educational activities. Among other things, mobile,

topic-specific exhibition modules will be developed that make spatial and urban processes and the flow of (energy) resources visible.

Through the development of the infrastructure and contents of the

spatial laboratory, educational landscapes and the city become a toolbox with which to work. The result is a pioneering laboratory for the innovative fields of climate protection and climate change adaptation that offers sustainable educational opportunities for children and young people to participate in as equal partners.