RAUSCH with us!

3D printing your own replacement parts? How does that work? We want to answer this question and even plan on doing one or two 3D repairs on the spot. Do you hope to repair one of your own broken devices using a 3D printer? Then bring it along with you and together we will determine if it is a good candidate for a 3D repair. And we’ll answer questions like: How do I get it into my computer? And out of the printer? If you are interested, just send a picture of the device you want to repair prior to the workshop to anika@3d-reparieren.de.

The circular economy is gaining unprecedented momentum, both in the economy and financial industry as well as among policy-makers. It has finally become promising to join forces to promote and implement changes to our production and consumer behaviour with all our might. But how can we do that in practice? This presentation will show examples of the circular economy in their respective contexts and presents useful methods for practical “circular system developing”.

The construction industry has a great responsibility for climate change and other types of environmental degradation. The Architects for Future aim to raise awareness of this responsibility and promote a positive vision of how designers and planners can work in a way that utilises the environment instead of harming it. In its demands, Architects for Future put a strong emphasis on the well-wrought use of materials.

Mycelium is an exciting natural material, but what are its applications in a new sustainable world? How good is it really, and what does that mean for our society? This lecture will be about a part of a fungus: Mycelium. This fungal material will play an important role in our future lives: We might be holding it in our hands every day, or even living in it!

Over the course of time, moores have been used in many different ways: they have been vulnerable to constant change in the face of culture, industry and environmental protection, and found itself in the area of tension of different interested parties from the beginning. Just as rich as this nature itself is the potential to transfer its cultural and material value with the help of design, to give it a shape in order to become a medium to help educate people and foster awareness for this underappreciated environment.

DIE ROTE LINIE (THE RED LINE) shows the protest against the destruction of Hambach Forest and the resistance against lignite mining from the perspective of different groups that began fighting alone, then joined forces against the German energy giant RWE. This is a local David and Goliath story that is inextricably connected to the global issues of climate change, energy policy and civil protest movements. The Hambach Forest is now a symbol of resistance against the status quo of energy policy.

Details will follow soon!

People are still unaware of the massive ecological damage that the construction industry causes; mayors and ministers still like to be seen on the demolition excavator or at ground-breaking ceremonies. In contrast, the demand of architectural journalist Daniel Furhop is clear: “Ban Construction!” He is campaigning for a positive programme for a good and sustainable coexistence that is founded on the existing building stock. Here we will take a closer look at his stance as well as other current building culture innovations.

Perceiving vacant buildings not as a problem, but as a potential for regeneration, the association HausHalten e.V. developed exploitation and consultation models for the revival of buildings and business locations. HausHalten has created new perspectives with its four different exploitation models for the revival of vacant buildings and business locations in and around Leipzig. The key to this initiative is their goal of using buildings to preserve them. This presentation will highlight the approaches and exploitation models used in this process.

Children have a right to leisure and play. However, not every child can enjoy their rights. Oftentimes people are aware of specific wrongs, but there aren’t any ideas of how to resolve them. “We are strong” is an exemplary project that shows just what kind of power the voice of children’s language can develop in word and images when we do not try to use them, but rather help them become clear. Not only does this help raise awareness of the wrongs, but new approaches can be used to find solutions.

“Crisis is a productive state. You just have to eliminate the aftertaste of catastrophe.” Max Frisch. We will talk about the sometimes challenging processes – the successes and difficulties – of founding our community-oriented company in the district of Bocklemünd on the outskirts of Cologne. We will begin by explaining the structure of the social environment, current cooperation and designs. Then we will (hopefully) report on how the current crisis could be used as an opportunity in the best sense of Frisch’s words.

Captain Borderline will take you away on an artistic journey… let yourself be amazed...
Afterwards our guests are looking forward to your questions! The perfect opportunity to ask the artist all you want to know and discuss their work.

In this workshop we will be using the free and easily understandable online programming interface Scratch to create sprites. Sprites are digital pictures or figures that are designed on a computer for games and short films. At the end of the workshop, participants will make the figure come to life and have it walk across the screen. These sprites could very well be the beginning of someone’s next project!

Digitilisation is often touted as a saviour in the fight against climate change: It will make everything more efficient, many things are being shifted toward a virtual space and the digital sharing economy even overcomes the ownership paradigm. But since when has increased efficiency led to environmental protection? How does virtual space materialise? And the sharing economy? More like platform capitalism! We want to sow skepticism to form the foundation for the creative co-creation of an ecological digitilisation.

The internet is growing exponentially, but thanks to increased efficiency, the consequential energy needs have not. But this decade we could make great strides toward the limits of this decoupling. The amount of energy necessary for information and communication technologies causes almost as much greenhouse emissions as aviation does.
This presentation will give an overview of the challenges in this field and present alternative approaches for a more environmentally friendly internet.

The workshop format “Games made in Sudan” was initiated in 2017 together with the Goethe-Institute in Khartoum, Sudan. After just three short years the team now consists of 20 women and men who have made programming, game art or game design their own. The team develops many different kinds of video games and gives workshops in order to make interactive media more accessible for more people in Khartoum. But these young developers still don’t have it easy.

This performance presents a segment of the production „Erschöpfte Demokratie“ (or exhausted democracy): an evening of theatre as research on utopias. There isn’t a positive utopia in sight! Can the utopian still be imagined at all? We are not talking about the obvious apocalypses of our future, but about optimistic concepts. Let’s brainstorm new societal models together and develop visionary alternative life designs. For even just thinking about visions is an aspiration in and of itself.

In einem interaktiven Workshop wird Manfred Webel (mobiler Kunst-Container, Kultur Geselle/in) interessierten Teilnehmer*innen und Junggebliebenen im Alter zwischen 14–21 Jahren zeigen, wie man essentielle Ideen durch Handwerk in die Welt setzen kann. Welche Gewerke brauche ich, um meine Idee umzusetzen? Wie komme ich von der Idee, der Form zum Produkt oder zu einer Dienstleistung? Darüber hinaus wird Christina Lenke von der Handwerkskammer Köln Informationen zu Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten im Handwerk geben.
Bitte Anmeldung über: info@creative.nrw.de

Working less and saving the planet? A four-day work week with full compensation would make it possible for us to raise the quality of our life while reducing our emissions at the same time. A four-day work week would initiate a cultural transition away from our stressful work lives, which we try to compensate for with CO2-intensive consumerism. We will show you how it can be done: What are the numbers telling us and how can we make it happen?

Effektiver Klimaschutz erfordert Wandel in allen Bereichen unserer Gesellschaft, auch auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Im Projekt „Vollzeit4Future“ haben wir gemeinsam mit der Colabor-Community erkundet, wie der individuelle Wandel hin zu einer Tätigkeit im Bereich Klimaschutz aussehen kann und welche Voraussetzungen es braucht, damit diese Übergänge gelingen und als Chance wahrgenommen werden. Wir stellen die „Vollzeit4Future Canvas“ vor und wollen gemeinsam mit dem Publikum diskutieren.

Karina Antons, manageress of the Cologne based visualisation provider bikablo, will give insights into her work, offer impulses for design and discuss with the participants the impact of design on sustainable dialogue. Her colleague Birgit Jansen, an illustrator and freelancer at bikablo, will visualise the presentation at the end. We would like to invite you to try it out and share ideas.

This workshop wants to invite everyone who is interested to try out Graphic Recording. Everyone can participate, no previous knowledge or experience are necessary! Materials will be handed out.

For many, the environmental protection measures at the federal, state and local levels are not going far nor fast enough. Therefore, with the help of direct democracy, citizens are taking climate policy into their own hands. They are starting initiatives for more bicycle-friendly cities, saving green areas and taking a stand against coal power stations. We are going to take a look at which initiatives already exist and what opportunites there are for each individual to get involved in direct democracy to campaign for a better climate.

Details will follow soon!

This five-hour mini workshop is designed for (female) beginners as an introduction to web development and the basics of computer programming. Previous experience with programming is not required. The participants will be split up into small groups of about three people plus a mentor to learn how to build a working website/blog. Each participant must bring their own laptop. During the course of the workshop there will be two lightning talks/inspiration talks.

Max. 12 participants (the workshop primarily addresses women)

This office takes its destiny into its own hands. Here destiny can be re-valued, designed and branded, and you can look at it with a fresh, humorous way. You decide! And let yourself find a new understanding of art – or even none at all!

A construct with a lightweight design that materialises a 1.5-metre distance to a person’s surroundings will be presented to the public. The 1.5 metres that people are supposed to keep between each other, or social distancing, which is part of the Corona virus health and safety measures, is difficult to gauge in everday life, and most people don’t adhere to the measure. This construction physically shows people what this distance looks like, protecting the person wearing it from direct Covid 19 infections, and it is designed to be internationally recognised.

You're a woman* and in the mood to try something new? You like to break the rules of traditions an clichés? Perfect, that's all you need to bring with you. The lecturer will provide materials and inspiration.

The workshop is limited to 10 participants. Registration opens at the end of July!

How does the new enter into the world and what is the value of the space between expectations, ideas and reality? Mistakes, coincidences and wonders are the creative power of the space that HOERNEMANN&WALBRODT create and will use for their performance lecture.

SOLANGE is an interactive, participation-based art project in public spaces: façade cladding with cable ties and tulle are used as protective covers on construction sites in Germany and abroad. SOLANGE has the goal of raising awareness of feminist demands on a large scale. In her presentation, Cibulka will give insights into the façade cladding and share examples and construction site experiences to highlight the necessity of feminist work.

Half of the 150,000 people living in Cologne’s Mühlheim have a migrant background. Many experience exclusion due to the current debate surrounding home countries. The Kulturbunker’s programme “Mühlheimer Heimatministerium” (or “Mühlheimer Ministry for Homeland”) is providing a meeting space and opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to meet and share aspects of their culture. Its goal is to bring together the many cultural identities of the community and create a diverse network, fostering the shaping of this community’s neighbourhood. For the current residents – and those of the future.

What do you want from life and what inspires you to take the next step? Avido founded a fashion label in the middle of the largest informal settlements on the African continent. He will answer the question of why fashion can be used to make a statement, and which role his origin plays in it. And what is your answer? We look forward to a dialogue about self-confidence, patience and creativity in Kibera, Cologne, and all over the world.

More and more people are realising that things have to change. Industry, trade, handicrafts and design also want to help create a more just and sustainable world with new concepts. The principles of ecodesign help us re-think products, services, structures and processes. The goal is the reconciliation of the economy with sustainable behaviour.
Practical examples will show you how you can face current challenges and how innovative solutions can help you secure a leading role on future markets.

Paticipants: max. 20
Registration: here

From 16.00 to 18.00 the acquired knowledge will be deepened during an excursion to ökoRAUSCH Exhibition at the Museum for Applied Arts (MAKK) in Cologne.

The Workshop takes place as a Side-­Event of the ökoRAUSCH Festival
fuor Design and Sustainability.

From the material to the final product – how can the cooperation between local handicraft businesses and designers be fostered to support completely local production?
The goal of this workshop is to inquire about and discuss with exclusive guests the need for a networking platform for NRW-based craftspeople and designers. The platform is intended to facilitate the cooperation between material makers, craftspeople and designers by providing a digital distribution channel to sell sustainable and locally made products.

How can regional materials, regional design and local products be brought together more effectively?
The aim of this discussion round is to analyse the status quo of the cooperation between manufacturing trade and design and to seek out opportunities, tools as well as funding possibilities for both sustainably and locally produced goods.

The Effizienz-Agentur NRW (EFA) has been commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment of NRW since 1998 to help transform the industry and manual trades in NRW to become more resource-efficient. With their resource efficiency consultations they help businesses make their products and production processes more efficient, thus reducing costs and environmental pollution. They also do financial consultation for the implementation of resource efficiency measures and educate people about the topic at events, training courses and in webinars.

All too often, design is still seen as a discipline of superficial beautification, its significant capability to solve problems is often overlooked. But if we want to economise existing resources in a way that allows future generations to do the same, we need a lot more sustainable design that solves problems instead of creating new ones. This presentation will discuss what makes design sustainable and why sustainability needs design.

What are the innovative concepts that re-interpret the storage and refrigeration of food? Which structures and competencies are necessary for them in organisations and supply chains? With the help of creative methods the ideation for sustainable, visionary services and product ideas can result for the storage of food in the private household. The ideas that are developed will be discussed based on to resource-efficiency, recyclability, avoidance of plastic, digitalisation and organisational transformation.

Moritz and Wibke have worked in the sustainable design industry for many years and started building ecological and sustainable tiny houses in 2020. This endeavour is supported by the Rurtalwerkstätten, a workshop for people with disabilities in Düren, Germany. At the Ecodesign Conference they will talk about the new trend of radically reducing one’s life spatially and always being able to take your house with you.

Festive closing ceremony of this year's ökoRAUSCH exhibition.