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If you want to spend your summer in a very special place surrounded by nature, come to Alte Ziegelei Gahlen: This is where the integrative environmental education center Interforum e.V. is located. It is a meeting place and action space for a wide range of target groups. Your task will be to take care of this special place. Depending on needs and interests, there is a variety of tasks. For example, you can help with construction projects to beautify the grounds in the area of garden and landscape art (LandArt) or with renovation work, as well as nature-related tasks such as maintaining and harvesting the many gardens.

This year, we plan to create replicas of garden bed edgings, salvage and prepare demolition bricks, advance permaculture and shoreline stabilization, and protect wooden walls with old linseed oil.

In addition, the camp becomes a laboratory for democracy: Through workshops, such as on political education, creative writing or theater, you explore what democracy means and how it looks in your home countries. Together, you experiment—who can come up with the funniest rule? How do you find compromises and share the cake fairly? Here, democracy isn’t just talked about- it’s lived and shaped by all of you.

What makes this project special is its openness to the development of new ideas, the joint exploration of democracy and the flexibility of the work. The project therefore aims to foster creativity and self-organization in diverse ways, making different aspects of democracy visible and tangible.