Uni­ver­sity of the trees 2012
A project in Deggenhausertal/​Bodensee/​Germany
Fol­low­ing an inner need more and more men and women set forth for new ways of inter­act­ing with nature and earth.
A Re-​form-​ing of thought, i.e. find­ing an new form is an artis­tic process, which Joseph Beuys calls social sculp­ture.
In a social sculp­ture exter­nal work is insep­a­ra­bly joined to inter­nal work, for „the well­spring of desir­able change in the world is alter­ing con­scious­ness”. In the –Uni­ver­sity of
the Trees– we look for a process to explore new forms of inte­gral knowl­edge.
There emerges a room of learn­ing about tree, nature, and man/​woman. Each par­tic­i­pant can learn and teach. Above all the trees are the teach­ers.
In coop­er­a­tion with Shel­ley Sacks, leader of the world’s first research unit for social sculp­ture – the Social Sculp­ture Research Unit, Oxford
Pho­tographs: Chris­tiane Lehmann, Petra Müller-​Zumsteg