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ABOUT KFA<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
calendar<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
compost days<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
art & ecology, art & community<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
cooperations<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
youth cooperations<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
collaborators<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Klasse f\u00fcr Alle<\/em> is a program of continuing education, created by the University of applied Arts Vienna to opening up their institutes and departments towards all who are interested in discussing, reflecting upon and re-enchanting<\/em> ( Silvia Federici) our world. The urgency of the current existential dangers requires collective action and dialogue. We invite people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds, from all professional fields, with or without previous education, and with a diverse range of skills and interests, to work with us on building a present and future worth living. At Klasse f\u00fcr Alle<\/em>, we learn from and with each other, and with as little hierarchy as possible. Artists and other specialists (from both within and outside the university) will lead and accompany this learning. Mutual appreciation and respect form the basis for this cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ART & ECOLOGY, <\/em>
ART & COMMUNITY<\/em>
spring\/summer 2026<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

ART & ECOLOGY, ART & COMMUNITY ist ein Kurs f\u00fcr Studierende und Nicht-Studierende, die im Rahmen der Klasse f\u00fcr Alle Projekte mit Kindern, Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen planen und umsetzen wollen. (Z.B. in  Kooperationsprojekten mit Mittelschulen, Programmen wie Hobby Lobby, in Kooperation mit AGIDS, oder mit Vereinen, die mit gefl\u00fcchteten Menschen arbeiten.) In der Klasse f\u00fcr Alle vereinen wir \u00f6kologische, soziale, politische, antikoloniale und subversive Praktiken zu unserer k\u00fcnstlerischen partizipativen Methode. Wir werden zusammen grundlegende Fragen zu  \u201cKunst und \u00d6kologie\u201d und \u201cKunst & Community\u201d stellen und reflektieren:
Was bedeuten Begriffe wie Partizipation, Teilhabe, Autor:innenschaft und Handlungsf\u00e4higkeit? Wie finden wir eine verst\u00e4ndliche Sprache? Wie sprechen wir mit Kindern und Jugendlichen? Wen wollen wir erreichen?Welche Rolle spielt dabei die Kunst? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Im ersten Treffen werden wir einander mit unseren Ideen, Projekten und W\u00fcnschen vorstellen und davon ausgehend schauen, was die Gruppe braucht. M\u00f6glichkeiten f\u00fcr das weitere Arbeiten sind: Projektpr\u00e4sentationen & Gruppen-Feedback; Methoden und Tools f\u00fcr das Arbeiten mit Gruppen kennenlernen und zusammen ausprobieren; Gemeinsame Lekt\u00fcre grundlegender Texte (bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Stefano Harney\/Fred Moten, Carmen M\u00f6rsch); Exkursionen und Compost Days, in die Projekte eingebettet werden k\u00f6nnen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dieser Kurs ist einerseits daf\u00fcr gedacht, bereits begonnene Projekte weiterzuentwickeln und sie praktisch umzusetzen, als auch neue Ideen zu entwickeln und in der Gruppe Menschen zu finden, die an einer Umsetzung mitarbeiten wollen. Offen f\u00fcr Studierende anderer Universit\u00e4ten und Nicht-Studierende, die an k\u00fcnstlerischen, \u00f6kologischen, sozialen und politischen Themen und Praktiken interessiert sind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COMPOST DAYS<\/em>
fall\/winter 2025\/26<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. We must return the gift. <\/em>(Robin Wall Kimmerer in <\/em>\u201cBraiding Sweetgrass. Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall, we return to the compost heap and its garden to follow Robin Wall Kimmerer\u2019s call to continuously renew our connection with the (natural) world. Composting is<\/em> joining ecological cycles \u2013 we practise to treat our organic matter carefully, to appreciate what is nourishing, and to recognize the interrelatedness of decay, transformation, and growth. We renew our focus on an everyday base. Composting is <\/em>a bodily practice that relates us to the world.<\/em>
Composting is<\/em> maintenance \u2013 developing a sense for ongoingness that demands attention, presence, celebration and being in place. Composting<\/em>, we notice what is there, what\u2019s becoming, in a relation of reciprocity.
Maintaining compost<\/em> is maintaining relationships: composting is learning-from and learning-with: humans, soils, gardens, the more-than human world.. 
Composting as a form of care taking<\/em> is embedded in political, spiritual, bodily and environmental actions. To care for compost<\/em> is to oppose the capitalist world order that is built on colonialism, imperialism, racism, oppression, ecocide and genocide.
Composting as learning-with and caring-for is getting in touch<\/em> but also more: it is getting into action.
Composting is<\/em> (ecological) resistance, regeneration and repair. (A.L.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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*compost collective<\/em> is an open collective. Whoever wants to actively participate in compost days and compost care is invited to join! Members of the collective take responsibility for the organic compost garden at Oskar-Kokoscha-Platz throughout the semester. They also take over the roles of hosting and\/or facilitating compost days and skills exchange sessions. If you are interested to join, come to compost days or contact us!

At Klasse f\u00fcr Alle, we compost since 2022. compost collective<\/em> was founded in the frame of composting at Klimabiennale 2024 by then core members Vik Bayer, Camille Belmin, Yeonwoo Chang, Kai Feldhammer, Vickie Ferreri, Nola Haag, Ivie Isibor, Andrea Lumplecker and Michael Reindel. Together, they have not only developed strategies to integrate composting into everyday life but also practice artistic methods in relation to composting such as deep listening, writing, moving, reading, fermenting, braiding and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This semester\u2019s program \u2013 COMPOST DAYS \u2013 is curated and organised by Vik Bayer and Andrea Lumplecker. Current compost collective facilitators are Ivie Isibor, Raphaela Leitner, Oleksa Shevchenko, Ritger Traag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GARTEN F\u00dcR ALLE<\/em>
since 2022<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

After an exploration of different aspects of REPAIR<\/em> in the first year of Klasse f\u00fcr Alle, this year’s focus lies on the gardens for all: the garden as a public, communal space between “nature” and “culture” that holds immense possibilities for future survival. We want to learn with and from gardens.
In the winter semester of 2022\/23, a variety of programs will take place to approach the gardens of our surroundings and their possibilities. In the summer we want to transform the collected ideas into projects.
The garden is a real space of gathering as well as a metaphoric one \u2013 as always, we will approach it with global, anti-colonial and queer-feminist ideas of care<\/em> & repair<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are learning and working with different green areas this year: the courtyard garden of the main building of the University of applied arts at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2; the meadow at Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz \u2013 opposite the entrance to the Angewandte \u2013 which we take care of as a biodiversity space in cooperation with the 1st district; the courtyard in front of our studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof; and a field at Zukunftshof in the 10th district. Engaging with these (semi-)public spaces allows us to learn and consciously engage with every form of “nature” in the city that we encounter in interstitial spaces, wall cracks, traffic islands, and standoff greens. We learn with each other and with and from other species we encounter in these places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Growing up in the countryside, my idea of a garden was a private space: under the open sky, but surrounded by hedges, secluded, welcoming visitors with a lawn and roses. And youthful boredom. Far more emotional is my memory of the cottage garden of my childhood. The see-through fence was only a protection to keep animals away. In my memory, it is a paradise \u2013 a miracle of lush blooms and coexistence (worms, insects, bees), smells, tastes \u2013 and a generous giving away of what was given by nature anyway. Tending my grandmother\u2019s garden was her greatest joy. I became a city person because what I liked about public parks, whether in Vienna or New York, was that you could meet all kinds of people. Later with the child: In the park one always finds friends, is never alone.
In the pandemic it became clear: gardens are not for everyone. We were thrown back on privacy, those who owned property were lucky and had more right to fresh air than others, the green in the cities was temporarily blocked. Then the heat summers: those who can, flee the city, not all can, not all want to. The city is the center of life for many, and it should provide a good life.
It is a necessity to rethink the garden.<\/em>
In our imagination, the garden is a social space: it and we will be fine only as long as we are respectful \u00ac of each other and the non-human species. (We glimpse that cultural diversity and biodiversity might be related).
The garden is an emotional space in this clash. It is about our survival in an uncertain future. We are pushed to our limits \u2013 drought, floods, wars thwart human planning and desires \u2013 and must be resourceful to move forward.  In the garden, nature and culture meet, order and chaos, visible and invisible systems: In understanding \u2013 and delighting in \u2013 how plants interact with insects, fungi, and microbes through invisible systems, new possibilities open up. An awareness of biodiversity, a desire for soil unsealing, for healthy greenery in the middle of our city is already grpwing. We need to make emphatic demands on politicians for swift and consistent action on a broad basis. At the same time, it is necessary to go into depth through personal experience: Expand our knowledge into the smallest details, change our relationships with the smallest insects, recognize the healing powers of plants, feel and smell their colors, therefore appreciate and protect them. We need to go out for sensual experiences.<\/em>
The garden is a playground. Being in the garden feels good, gives pleasure. Gardening is an active dialogue with living material \u2013 thinking, feeling, practical doing go hand in hand.
Activity with simultaneous slowing down of time: We have to act now(!), at the same time patience and calmness are needed.
The garden is an empathic space with which we learn to be able to lead healthy relationships. We learn respect for the earth, for all our fellow inhabitants. It is also about aesthetics, but even more about the magic that is created in a conscious togetherness.
So back to politics, to collective action, to multiplicity. Some districts have more gardens, more trees, better air than others. Our gardens could be anywhere, on roofs, on walls, in cracks in walls, at street intersections, in spaced greens. We practice on the very smallest possibilities and learn to make demands for the large.
Our garden of longing is a garden for everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Andrea Lumplecker, August 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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REPAIR
<\/em>2021\/22<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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