Schule im Aufbruch is an international initiative in German-speaking countries that advocates holistic and transformative education. It was founded to promote ‘education as the development of potential’.

The School for Civic Action is an educational experiment that tests alternative approaches to ‘city-making’.

Founded by the artists Veronika Dreier, Dorothea Konrad, Silvia Ulrich, Eva Ursprung and Anne Wrulich in Graz, Eva & Co. was the first feminist art and culture magazine in Europe.

A new farm shop with a café at the central market place, a farm offering demonstrations and a fun experience, a research centre and an innovation centre for organic agriculture form the five cornerstones of the new centre together with the school.

Built in 2014, the Mariagrün primary school is a passive building made mainly of wood and located on a green-field site in Graz. This welcoming, light and airy structure provides a range of options in the space that support the school’s progressive approach to education, providing an environment for eight classes.

Offener Betrieb (Open Modes) – and before that Probebetrieb (Trial Mode) – took the idea of a collective, dehierarchised, collaborative and open educational situation as their starting point.

How can an old-fashioned ‘school barracks’ with endless corridors, a listed building, be transformed into a place of forward-thinking education?