The Kassel Workshop sees itself as a didactic laboratory in which the conditions and possibilities of learning are examined in relation to learning situations and framework conditions, and a direct connection is established between teaching and learning processes. A wide variety of learning and visual materials from the learning areas of elementary school are available for this active process of examination.
The materials are arranged thematically, exhibited and arranged with a high call character for discoveries and own activities. Among other things, they have haptic and aesthetic qualities, are memory anchors to one's own past or model an idea that one carries within oneself; and there are also those objects that one has always wanted to hold in one 's hands but never had the opportunity to do so. In any case, the collected world of materials - although the criteria for collection remain to be clarified - enables students to actively engage with forms of learning and teaching and thus opens up scope for experimental action, thinking, planning and reflection.
In contrast to planning processes related to teaching, i.e. bound to institutions, the material-mediated encounter is initially not bound to real conditions such as time, place, goal, content, and method, so that aberrations, errors, etc. are also permitted, which can be recorded, analyzed, and adjusted in retrospect through targeted reflection processes . Precisely because of these conditions, there is at the same time scope for undreamt-of creativity and for thinking and acting in terms of alternatives.
