Filmstill (While), 16:28 min., Rheinpromenade Bonn 2011, © Hannah Schneider

School project title: HQ/Schools of Sustainability, “HQ is the scientific term for flood discharge. H means flood. Q means discharge amount. In the case of a 100-year flood, the flooded area is significantly larger than in the case of frequent floods.” The water school project takes up interdisciplinary references to water in the school context.

The artist Franziska Pierwoss works together with school classes within the framework of project weeks, in-depth and interdisciplinary basic knowledge about water: ethical considerations about human responsibility, about the waste of drinking water, geographical water distribution, use of water in areas of chemical and biological production, historical and political perspectives on water and climate protection, … up to the development of concepts for a green classroom and with additional excursions, e.g. to the Leibnitz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries.

As part of the exhibition, elements of the HQ/Schools of Sustainability project are to be taken up and adapted to the context in Wedding. The focus will be on the Panketal as a potential flood area, aspects of drought and flooding in Berlin/Brandenburg and rain irrigation in the schoolyard.

Water is taken up in these workshops as a recurring theme in a wide variety of school subjects. In addition, in consultation with the schools, a rain irrigation system is to be built together with the students. For this purpose, several disciplines are to be brought together again: from concept design (architecture, art), to practice (building and crafts) to a sensible and sustainable use of rainwater (biology). The result should be an intensive debate on the topic of resource conservation.

Registration for the guided tour: workshops@z-n-e.info