The Goethe-Institut Amman uses the many hours of sunlight in Jordan’s capitol: a rooftop solar plant covers 95 percent of its energy needs with solar power.
Photo: Goethe-Institut.
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A group of volunteers cares for the educational and community garden in Bogotá. The focal point is on creating and maintaining a corridor for different types of plants and animals displaced by the ongoing urban expansion into their habitats. Additionally “Jardin82” serves as an open discussion space where people meet to talk about garden initiatives, biodiversity and ecological feminism, along with other aesthetic practices.
Photo: Goethe-Institut
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The Goethe-Institut São Paulo garden hosts workshops and community plantings, along with events like “Narrativas Indígenas – Mbaraka Parã, Ajaká Pará, Ayvu Porã” in April 2020.
Photo: Danila Bustamante
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The Goethe-Institut Nancy also has a Goethe-Garten with raised beds and a puppet theatre for younger visitors to the institute in north-eastern France.
Photo: Goethe-Institut Nancy
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A small, green oasis in the middle of a metropolis: The Goethe-Garten at the Goethe-Institut Cairo in the centrally located Dokki quarter west of the Nile.
Photo: Worschech Architects
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: A creative approach to plastic waste: a March 2020 event to celebrate the Goethe-Institut Bangkok’s 60th birthday invited visitors to come shred and melt down their plastic waste. The resulting plastic material was then be turned into vases, bowls or saucers using a vertical lathe.
Photo: Goethe-Institut Thailand
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This is what the bowls made from shredded plastic waste look like. The Goethe-Institut Bangkok has been looking into creative ways to upcycle any unavoidable plastic packaging since 2018.
Photo: Goethe-Institut Thailand
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