Art as a learning space
Werk-Stadt-Schloss began in 1989 as a sculpture project and has developed into a long-running cultural event. For one week, trainees and school pupils from Wolfsburg engage intensively with art and a current topic. They are accompanied by experienced artists. Since 2013, the project has been carried out by the Kulturwerk der Stadt Wolfsburg in its creative workshops. NEULAND has also been participating for many years, enabling its trainees to step outside their everyday working lives and develop new perspectives.
What the project achieves
Werk-Stadt-Schloss enables young people to engage in an intensive creative process: from the initial idea to implementation and public exhibition. Participants overcome fears, train their imagination and learn to deal openly with challenges. Through the group and working together, they experience support and appreciation. The aim is to confront trainees with complex issues and develop skills that are also valuable in everyday and professional life.
Project example: Really? Art in mixed reality
A past project by Werk-Stadt-Schloss dealt with the topic "Really true? Art in mixed reality". Eight trainees from NEULAND worked together with artists from Karlsruhe on the question: What is actually real?
In the creative workshops, they created visualisations of analogue drawings and brought them to life virtually with the help of the "Artivive" app. The app makes it possible to link analogue works of art with digital content. The resulting works were displayed publicly in the town hall for two weeks.
