After successful completion of the course, students are able to creatively and independently develop a learning-specific project and design it specifically.
In the tradition of leaning by doing, a concrete project is implemented in the exercise. Through networked, transdisciplinary thinking and action, a variety of positive learning experiences, both individually and collectively, should be made possible. Cognitive, social and emotional learning are encouraged.
The open process design is intended to motivate people to engage with innovative learning and knowledge transfer strategies, to recognize and actively use specific potential (especially for younger audiences, but also across generations).

02_Grätzl-Labor # BiB-Lab / Innovationslabor für Bildungsräume in Bewegung

The aim is to develop ideas for the program orientation of the Grätzl-Labor in a small shopping center in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung and to take over the supervision once a week in the afternoon (12:00-17:00).
The Grätzl Lab is an open creative and retreat space, especially for pupils from the nearby secondary schools, who like to spend their lunch breaks and free periods here. It was set up and operated as an experimental space over the last three years as part of the BiB-Lab / Innovation Lab for Educational Spaces in Motion project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) (see www.bib-lab.at).
Now, after the end of the project, it has been possible to maintain the Grätzl-Lab as such an important “safe space” for young people via the association LÄB - Laboratory for Aesthetic Education.
As part of the course, regular opening hours (Mon-Fri, 12:00-17:00) are to be guaranteed by teams of two students. Reliable and continuous presence on site is absolutely necessary. The tasks include being the contact person for the young people, trying out different spatial settings with them, providing low-threshold (creative) offers and opening up new worlds and future prospects for them through “social learning in creative processes”.
The independent and self-reliant commitment on site (including the journey there and back) takes up the main part of the course time, the logging and reflection of the respective daily events can also take place during the attendance time.

Literature research, internet research, participant observation on site, interviews, practice-oriented project work in a team, project diary, creation of video contributions for social media

01_HOPE

LVA start and introduction with compulsory attendance: Thursday, 10.10.2024, 14:00-16:00
LVA time with compulsory attendance: weekly Thursday, 14:00-16:00

Contributor: Gordon Kriwanek

The total number of hours required for this LVA is 75 hours (3 ECTS = 3 x 25 semester hours), of which 26 LVA attendance hours (Thursdays 14:00-16:00) with compulsory attendance and 49 project work hours with free time allocation.


02_Grätzl-Lab

LVA start and introduction with compulsory attendance for all 02_Groups: Friday, 04.10.2024, 11:00-13:00
LVA time with compulsory attendance: weekly according to registration group, 12:00-17:00

The LVA and also the introduction for all groups takes place in the Grätzl-Labor: Kl. EKAZENT in the Per-Albin-Hansson-Siedlung, 1100 Vienna, Alma-Rosé-Gasse 2 (U1 station Neulaa).
The total number of hours required for this course is 75 hours (3 ECTS = 3 x 25 semester work hours), of which approx. 70 hours must be spent in the Grätzl laboratory with compulsory attendance.

01_HOPE
Regular participation in the course units is a prerequisite for a positive assessment. As a result of each LVA phase (observation phase / interview phase / design phase / communication and knowledge transfer phase), a contribution for the HOPE social media channels must be prepared.

02_Grätzl-Lab
Regular and continuous attendance in the Grätzl Lab during the selected project afternoon (see registration groups) is a prerequisite for a positive assessment. Independent supervision and documentation of the Grätzl Lab activities in a project diary (= basis for the final project report, in which the course of the project and the associated individual and collective learning experiences are to be documented in text and images in a process-appropriate manner).

No special prior knowledge is required, but you must be able to communicate in German and be interested in creative communication and coworking processes with different groups of people and ages.