Even as the coronavirus measures restrict our lives, one place offers some balance: the kitchen. The meaningful activity of cooking, the involvement of children, the diverse sensory experiences, and the tasty dish can give us joie de vivre – and health.
Matthias Rang and Johannes Wirz are now leading the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum. The two scientists, who have doctorates in physics and biology, will continue to develop the Goetheanistic approach of the Research Institute. Their research areas include optics and free will as well as genetics and bees.
Teachers are currently communicating not only with their students and parents exclusively via internet, but also with each other – and that mostly via a computer screen. The Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum has expanded their tips for school life during the time of the coronavirus to include suggestions for conducting video teacher conferences.
Due to the measures being taken against the Sars-CoV-2 virus, teachers and parents are now teaching children and adolescents via multimedia or directly at home. The Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum publishes tips on individual relationship management, age-appropriate content, and how to include the full world of the senses and more on its blog.
The new production of Goethe‘s ‘Faust 1 & 2’ at the Goetheanum is scheduled for 20 and 21 June (director: Andrea Pfaehler). Both the performance tradition and the fact that all productions combine acting with eurythmy are unique in the world.
As a result of the decisions of the Swiss Federal Council on how to deal with the coronavirus, the Goetheanum is closed to the public until 19 April 2020. Internal operations will continue – bookings for events starting in May will continue to be processed.
The Speisehaus at the Goetheanum is supporting the Swiss organization ‘One Happy Family’ between 1 March and 30 June 2020 with one Swiss franc per meal sold. This was prompted by the fact that the ‘School of Peace’ in the Community Center for Refugees on the island of Lesbos was completely burned down.
The teaching of anthroposophy in professional settings is still informed by its origins in the German-speaking realm. Given the dissemination of anthroposophy around the globe and the changing of societal values, the Goetheanum Adult Education Program asks for forms of conveying anthroposophy that are suited to our time.
Commercial kitchens often have a poor reputation. Cafeteria food must be cheap. The Nutrition Circle for Kitchen Professionals advocates an appreciation of the processes involved in the cultivation, production, preparation and consumption of food in its Charter for Community Catering.
This year Beat Hutter will share the management of the bookshop at the Goetheanum with Claude Million. He will assume full management of the specialist bookstore for Anthroposophy, currently with a staff of five, starting in 2021.
Claudy Jongstra will be at the Goetheanum from 5 to 8 February during the exhibition of her monumental installation ‘Woven Skin’ (2018) made from felted wool. In addition, her triptych ‘Landscape in Pointillism’ (2019) will be exhibited in the foyer of the Goetheanum until the end of May 2020.
More and more businesses want to take a new approach to ownership. Small and large businesses and start-ups have drawn up a draft law on trustee ownership in collaboration with Gerald Häfner, Leader of the Section for Social Sciences at the Goetheanum.