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