UPCOMING DATES

THE CARRIER BAG THEORY OF ANTI FICTION
COLLECTIVE WEAVING & READING AFTERNOON
Friday April 11, 3–6pm 
hosted by Anna Tenzer
location Studio of Klasse für Alle at Heiligenkreuzerhof
registration at anna.tenzer@student.uni-ak.ac.at

Together we will weave small baskets from rush („Binse“ in German) and read some of „The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction“ by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Instruction, rush and text will be provided.
This is the first workshop in a series of 3 on the topic of weaving! In the future ones, we will also work with nettles and dandelions. You are invited to join all three workshops, but you can also take part in each workshop separately.
Anna Tenzer is a student at Cross Disciplinary Strategies and participant of Klasse für Alle. This workshop is part of their master thesis “the carrier bag theory of anti fiction”.

COMPOST CARE #14
DESIGNING FOR ONGOINGNESS: EXPLORING TOOLS FOR TOGETHERNESSARTS
Friday May 9, 2025, 2–5 pm
guest workshop Helena Hansson (in cooperation with IKL, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)
location compost garden in the main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

COMPOST CARE #15
EXCURSION
Friday May 16, 2025, all afternoon
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
meeting point tba

COMPOST CARE #16
GARDEN CARE: WORKING WITH PROPOSITIONS
Friday May 30, 2025, 2–5 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
location compost heap, garden in the  Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

COMPOST CARE #17
THE WOUND – READING & MOLDING CLAY SESSION
Friday June 5, 2025, 2–5 pm
guest workshop with Frida Robles
location compost heap, garden in the  Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

COMPOST CARE

Since fall 2022, Klasse für Alle has been looking after a compost heap in the Angewandte courtyard at Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2.
On Fridays from 3–5 pm, the compost collective* organizes and hosts a regular COMPOST CARE there, where practical and metaphorical methods of composting are learned together, deepened and practiced for everyday practice. The compost care events are open to everyone.

We bring organic materials for our compost and take care of the rotting process as well as the garden surrounding the compost heap. In this caring interaction with the nature around us, we gain a deeper understanding of natural cycles and the ecosystems that surround us and realize how close the more-than-human-beings actually are to us (the worms, fungi, bacteria involved in the rotting process; the mycorrhizae that form the deeper networks). We translate these experiences into similar composting processes and through cultural and craft techniques from reading, (deep) listening, writing, moving, spinning, working with clay and paper, to cooking and fermenting. An understanding of craft and artistic processes in turn helps us to better understand the more-than-human beings and their workings.

*compost collective
The compost collective was founded in 2022 in the Class for All as the compost group and has developed a practice of compost care that, in addition to practical composting, also develops and practices techniques such as deep listening, recording, writing, moving, reading, fermenting, braiding and much more. The members of the collective organize workshops on these topics and integrate composting as a practice into their everyday lives.
Current members are: Vik Bayer, Camille Belmin, Yeonwoo Chang, Kristina Feldhammer, Victoria Ferreri, Michael Haag, Ivie Isibor, Andrea Lumplecker, Michael Reindel.

ARCHIVE

COMPOST CARE #13
GETTING IN TOUCH: COMPOST GARDENING
Friday April 4, 2025, 2–5 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
location compost heap, garden in the  Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

COMPOST CARE #12
ORGANISE COLLECTIVE COMPOSTING & COMPOST GARDENING
Friday March 28, 2025, 2–3:30 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
location compost heap, garden in the  Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

We compost & garden collectively, together with other humans and lots of more than human beings who need dedicated care. Compost needs (different & many) ingredients to grow, plants need water regularly …
At the core of this meeting are the questions:
How to organize that growth & care collectively?
How to commit to a long term project? What do I want to learn, what do I want to give? Where is my responsibility?
We will bring our composts to the heap, start with check in & a sensing practice, look out for and water plants, and discuss “collective action”.

COMPOST CARE #11
REVIVING (WITH) THE COMPOST GARDEN
Friday March 21, 2025, 1– 5pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
with guest Sigrid Gerl, Kleine Stadtfarm
location compost heap, garden in the  Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

We planted nettles
-and raspberry plants
-make a Hügelbeet
-replant another fruit tree (look for a good spot for it)
-make one compost bed into a mint bed
-seed salad, raddish, rucola as “Vorkultur”
-take care of the compost
-…

COMPOST CARE #10
GETTING IN TOUCH: PROPOSITIONS FOR THE GARDEN
Friday March 7, 2025, 3–5 pm
hosted by Andrea Lumplecker
location compost heap, garden in the  Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

On March 7. we met outside in the compost garden for the first time this spring/summer semester, to slowly GET IN TOUCH. We walked around the garden to see how the trees we’ve replanted, the mosses, nettles and other plants we’ve taken care of last year, were doing.
We did some exercises for getting to know and getting in touch with our compost garden in practical and sensual ways, to not only see, but also sense those more than human beings in many different ways – listening, touching, smelling, tasting, … We composted dry plants to make space and light for little, growing plants. We even already seeded some spinach, rucola and salad.
We are very much looking forward to working with and in this garden in a practice of compost and soil care, this year.

COMPOST CARE #9
Freitag 21. Februar 2025, 15–17 Uhr
Reading Compost: Elvira Espejo Ayca: YANAK UYWAÑA, The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts & Garden planning
hosted by compost collective & Andrea Lumplecker
Location compost heap, Yard in the Main building of Angewandte, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna

COMPOST CARE #8
Freitag 17. Jänner 2025, 15–17 Uhr
Mapping the Compost
hosted by compost collective & meandr
Ort compost heap, Hauptgebäude der Angewandten, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Wien

How does compost transform through time? What holds it together and what connections are there that benefit the metabolism of the compost heap? Questions meandr raises and tries to answer through a collective dissection.

meandr
A Vienna based collective whose members all have diverse backgrounds ranging from art, architecture, ecology, geography to education. They participated in the “Free Radicals” program at Floating University in Berlin where they executed their project “Assembly of the Unmapped” through which they have refined and strengthened their methodology relating to mapping.

COMPOST CARE #7
Friday, January 10, 2025, 15-17 Uhr
Report from the Workshop „Composting as Transforming, Speculating, and Writing“ at the Living Library of @biodesignlab_hfgk
hosted by Vik Bayer & Michael Reindel (compost collective)

With insights into the 2-day workshop and the practice of the Bio Design Lab in Karlsruhe with a special focus on their project of the Living Library
Location Studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof

COMPOST CARE #6
Friday 20.12.24, 3–5 pm
end of the year compost care + burning herbs
hosted by Ivie Isibor (compost collective)
meeting point Compost Heap at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, Courtyard of Die Angewandte Main Building

COMPOST CARE #5
Friday 29.11.2024, 3 pm
compost visit at Kleine Stadtfarm
invited by Sigrid Gerl
meeting point Kleine Stadt Farm
Naufahrtweg 14a
1220 Wien
public transport: U2 to Donaustadtbrücke, 93A to Rallenweg

COMPOST CARE #4
Friday 22.11.2024, 3–5 pm
Spinning Nettles
hosted by Vickie Ferreri (compost collective) & Pi Schuh #4
Friday 22.11.2024, 3–5 pm
SPINNING NETTLES
hosted by Vickie Ferreri (compost collective) & Pi Schuh

Nettle plants grow all around our compost heap – we love their resilience as well as their beauty. In this workshop, Vickie and Pi will show us how to cut up the dried fibers and spin them into strong twine.

COMPOST CARE #3
Friday 15.11.2024, 3–5 pm
Braiding Bamboo, compost care
hosted by compost collective

COMPOST CARE #2
Friday 25.10.2024, 3-5 pm
Soil, Onggi, Secret Cross: Kimchi Workshop with Political Storytelling
hosted by Yeonwoo Chang (compost collective)

COMPOST CARE #1
Friday 18. Oktober 2024, 3–5 pm
Structuring and re-initiating the compost heap
compost collective invited Sigrid Gerl, Kleine Stadtfarm