The history of the Kassel Elementary School Workshop begins when Ariane Garlichs takes up the professorship for educational science with a focus on elementary school pedagogy at the Gesamthochschule Kassel in 1972. Trips with students to England, Sweden, Denmark, France and Holland were the reason and motivation for planning an elementary school pedagogy laboratory. Ariane Garlichs and her students wanted to show how open education and the university as a learning environment should be designed. From 1975, the so-called elementary school room existed, room 1415 in the AVZ in the Oberzwehren district of Kassel. This room was 48 square meters in size. Its furnishings were inspired by the room and classroom design at schools in England, Holland and Denmark.
