Public Programme 31 March 2009
Arte Sustenibile - Art, Design and Sustainability
The exhibition made sustainability a first-hand experience. Themes were the protection of natural resources, energy efficiency, the reduction of greenhouse gases, encouragement towards tolerance and humanitarian aid, reduction of social discrimination and the observation of human rights. Arte Sustenibile presented practical examples of art and design from more than 60 artists from all over the world: I.E. Solar Art, wind games, art in context with public transportation, art made from or with renewable resources, recycling art, art against war. Very popular were the human powered kinetic art objects and vehicles. Solar architecture and solar-flying without noise and exhaust gases were given attention, too.
Most fascinating was a world record car: The Swiss Paccar II makes incredible 5385 km with only a one-litre petrol equivalent. Included in the exhibition were designers, architects, video artists, photographers, painters, and sculptors. In part, different groups of persons contributed, even from the margins of society. There were wind plays made by young prisoners and works from artists who have been involved with homeless people were displayed.
Organizers: Association for Arts, Health and Education, patronage: German Commission for UNESCO
Date and Venue: 06.03.-05.04.2009, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn
The knowledge box – The future of our city is unknown but we can create it
We live in houses, work in factories, learn in schools, meet in assembly rooms - places in a city fulfil different functions for us. We walk through forests, transport goods over streeets and rivers.
But how does the water quality for a flush have to be? How many machines do we really need? What goes better, the cable railway or my old car? What tastes better, the apples from my garden or those from Australia? How much of a forest does the print shop need for a newspaper? Can I benefit from the sun on my house top?
To answer these questions, we need informations and imagination that will becreated just in front of the World Conference.
Organizers: Artpromotion Bonn
Date and Venue: 31.3.-2.4.2009, World Conference Center Bonn, in front of the main entrance, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn
More Information: info[@]artpromotion-bonn.de
Hot Times - taking the climate into your hand!
The Eine Welt Mobil (One world Automobile) is a part of the new campaign "Hot times - taking the climate into your hands" for young people and children, which is a 2 year campaign that promotes sustainable learning.The Eine Welt Mobil is a bright, red bus that is packed full with exciting games and materials, ready to make a day visit to your school! On this day you could escape the classroom to learn about climate change; the issue everyone is talking about. During a project day with the one word automobile we learned what exactly climate change is, what it is doing to the world, how it is caused, if it will affect the entire world and what we can do to save the climate.
Organizer: Eine Welt Netz NRW
Date and Venue: 31.03. - 02.04.2009, World Conference Center Bonn,
in front of the main entrance, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn
Getting Mobile for ESD - LUMBRICUS bus in front of the conference venue
Mobile Environmental Education Projects (MEEPs) with their specialised technical equipment and educational methods form an attractive means of conveying ESD. Representing the network of mobile educational projects (AGUM), which exist in many countries throughout the world, LUMBRICUS, the rolling classroom from North-Rhine Westphalia, allowed a glimpse into its hands-on experiments for ESD and provided information on the international network of MEEPs.
Organizers: Association for MEEPs (mobile environmental education projects)
Date and Venue: 31.3. - 2.4.2009, 10.00h-16.30h, World Conference Center Bonn, in front of the main entrance, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn
"Seven gardens" International Art-Project for Ruhr2010
Children are educated as multipliers for the next generations to keep Culture alive in future developments. With dye plants they will produce painting colours for every reason, such as cosmetics, theatre, walls, boats, textiles, drawings, food and printings. During the project, they will learn about biological, chemical and farming processes. Twins2010 is a group of artists, teacher and hand craft workers, working together in the "seven gardens". The results of the event will be presented in an exhibition of garden treasure. Products, paintings, poems, herbaria, seed collection, tourist concepts, job creating and many more possibilities and visions are shows in Ruhr2010 in the European culture capital.
Organizers: atavus e.V./ Ziegenmichel e.V./ Agenda21 Gelsenkirchen
Date and Venue: 31.3.2009, 20.00h, Stiftung Umwelt und Entwicklung NRW, Kaiser-Friedrich-Str. 13, 53113 Bonn
Presentation of the Anna-Lindh-Foundation
At the public event of the Anna-Lindh-Foundation (ALF) and its German Network, projects and initiatives were presented fostering youth participation,intercultural dialogue and human rights education for sustainable development. The Anna-Lindh-Foundation has been set up by the EU member states and the Mediterranean neighbour countries in North Africa and the Middle East, to strengthen intercultural dialogue, education and mutual understanding. Contributions were made by official conference delegates, the ALF Alexandria, the Goethe Institute, the Kreisau Initiative Berlin, the DAAD and others and include youth’ presentation from Turkey, Poland and Germany of the MICC – a simulation of the International Criminal Court for high school students. The public event was enframed by school bands’ music, short film presentations and a reception.
Organizers: Anna-Lindh-Foundation Alexandria, the Goethe Institute, WOMNET Bonn, the Kreisau Initiative Berlin, the DAAD and others
Date and Venue: 31.03.2009, 18.00-21.00h, Universitätsclub Bonn, Konviktstr 9, 53113 Bonn, (Metro-Station University / Markt)
Guided tour in the Botanic Gardens Bonn: "Diversity of cultures, Diversity of life - Safeguarding one world!"
On two days the Bonn Botanic Gardens and Inwent- Capacity Building International offered a guided tour for Delegates of the UNESCO World Conference. The aim was to talk about "Biological and Cultural Diversity" as a key theme for ESD. With this tour the organisers also wanted to demonstrate the great potential of Botanic Gardens and similar institutions for ESD.
The Participants were picked up at the conference venue (World Conference Center Bonn) where they also returned by the end of the lunch break. A small snack and a soft drink were provided.
Organizers: Bonn University Botanic Gardens, Inwent
Date and Venue: 31.03.09, 13.30-14.30h and 02.04.09, 13.30-14.30h, Bonn University Botanic Gardens, Meckenheimer Allee 171, 53115 Bonn
Exhibition: How to approach global justice? Methods and instruments enhancing global competences and understanding
Global justice is an issue arising from the concern that "we do not live in a just world.” Many people have high income, while others live on less than one dollar a day. Some live in war conditions other in peace.
How should we respond to these facts?
Global Education is an active learning process which starts with raising awareness of these problems, then creates a deeper understanding of the complex issues behind. Thereby it aims at changing people's attitudes and encourages them to reflect on their own role.
What are the methods to reach these goals?
At five learning stations good practices for education for sustainable development were showcased.
Organizers: Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst gGmbH (DED), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GTZ), Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., Disability and Development Cooperation/bezev), Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH (InWEnt)
Date and Venue: 31.03.2009, 13.00-17.00h, 2.04.2009 10.30- 14.30h, InWEnt gGmbH, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 40, 53113 Bonn (Room A)
More information: DED, GTZ, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., InWEnt
Child labour: Children’s rights are human rights
Children’s Rights are Human Rights. Meaning that children have the right to spend their childhood without being forced to work. Furthermore, they have the right to education. However, more than 218 million children have to work every day. The exhibition ‘workers-neglected childhood’ showed photographs of the Italian photographer Cristina Francessoni who is engaged in a comprehensive documentation of children’s destinies. Francessoni wants to stop child labour and stands up for their rights.
Organizers: Welthungerhilfe
Date and Venue: 31.3. - 2.4., 8.00h-20.00h, Kreuzgang der Katholischen Hochschulgemeinde Bonn, Brüdergasse 8, 53111 Bonn
Finkens Garden: Experience nature with all your senses
Experience nature with all your senses? If you want to give it a try, you have to visit Finkens Garden. Would you like to know how a green eel or a world garden has to look like, you should come along and enjoy nature. With more than 130 bird, 74 cicada, 447 bug and 148 butterfly species, biodiversity can be discovered at a glance. You will be surrounded by speaking, awfully stinking and wonderfully smelling flowers. Children are particularly welcome. Touching, discovering, laughing and smelling: almost everything is allowed! But there is also enough entertainment for adults. Five official German Projects of the UN Decade will present their work at Finkens Garden. Energy conservation shall be tested, Continents can be discovered as flowerbeds. It’s worth coming along because “boredom is something nature does not know. It is an invention of townsmen.” (Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962)
Organizers: Finkens Garden, City of Aalen, Association for environment education of Baden-Württemberg, BUND, Action-orientated energy saving at school and at home
Date and venue: 31.03.2009, 12.00-19.00 h, 1.04.2009, 10.00-14.00 h, 2.04.2009, 10.00-15.00 h, Finkens Garden, Friedrich Ebert-Straße 49, 50996 Köln (Cologne, tram 16, stop: Rodenkirchen)
Wadden Sea meets Biotope
Questions like global climate change, energy supply and sustainability are in the focus of an exhibition at NaturGut Ophoven. While walking in the garden, visitors can examine and experience factors, problems and solutions related to these topics. A climate station shows youngsters the difference between climate and weather; local biotopes give a brief idea of what hands-on pedagogical experience means and staff members of the International Wadden Sea School explain why nature has to be protected across national borders. There are plenty of things to do and see. On your mark, ready, go!
Organizers: NaturGut Ophoven, Germanwatch, International Wadden Sea School
Date and Venue: 31.03.2009, 9.00-17.00h; 1.04.2009, 9.00-17.00h; 2.04.2009,
9.00-17.00h – NaturGut Ophoven, Talstraße 4, 51379 Leverkusen
Multimedia & water
The concept of self-organised learning presents the implementation of the topic ‘water’ into school curriculars. The visitors could experience the complexity of water and could do some extraordinary experiments. The essential factor was the combination of multimedia components with traditional design approaches. This allowed a variety of experience such as those between science, aesthetics and philosophy. The approach of “self-organized learning” is used in combination with multimedia learning methods which are also useful for extracurricular partners. The information point “A sip of Water” showed this approach to the public.
A special training for teachers on the subject of “Self-Organized Learning (SOL) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)” took place from 14.00-18.00 h. “Self-Organized Learning” is a teaching concept that supports and structures the autonomous organization of learning processes. The method SOL is especially suitable for interdisciplinary teaching units as well as for the organization of subject-specific teaching. In the context of this advanced training for teachers of all school types and subjects the complex relations between SOL and ESD was elaborated.
Organizers: Insyde e. V., CREative TAten
Date and venue: 31.03. 2009, 9.00-19.00h, 02.04.2009, 9.00-19.00h, Evangelische Akademie im Rheinland, Mandelbaumweg 2, 53177 Bonn
Sustainability in forests
Forest education, hunting and school are no contradiction. On the contrary, they complement each other and give new input to current discussions related to new learning styles. The ‘House of Nature’ wanted to show new approaches in the field of nature education. Visitors experienced nature with ‘head, heart and hand’ and got to know new concepts on how to advance sustainable development. Being crucial for sustainability, forest use could be examined in detail. Examples were given and interaction with ecological, economic, social and cultural factors were not left out.
Organizers: House of Nature, ‘Querwaldein’, Forestry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, German Hunting Protection Association, University of Freiburg and Pedagogic College of Ludwigsburg
Date and Venue: 31.03.2009, 16.00 – 20.00 h; 1.04. 2009, 10.00 – 15.00 h; 2.04.09, 11.00 – 17.00 h, Haus der Natur Bonn-Kottenforst (Waldau), An der Waldau 50, 53127 Bonn
Forest forum
The forest forum aided to demonstrate the importance of forest to Education for Sustainable Development. There was a "green classroom" which was surrounded by trees, logs served as benches. It was located at the Münsterplatz in the centre of Bonn. We invited pupils from Primary Schools and Kindergarden-Children to the "forest forum". In a forest-like atmosphere four classes or groups each day learnt facts about forests, sustainable utilisation of wood and the sustainable developement. Due to the public location other people were able to watch this event and had the chance to get some informations about Education for Sustainable Development.
Organizers: German Association for the Protection of Forests and Woodlands
Date and Venue: 30.03 - 06.04.2009, 8.00-19.00h, Münsterplatz, 53115 Bonn inner city
