Workshop | Sustainability in Spatial, Stage and Costume Design | 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue'
When: 24. - 25.11.2025, 10:00 - 17:00
Where: Goethe-Institut Czechia, Prague
Language: English
Free to attend but limited places and registration is required: https://forms.office.com/e/YR0d91VWY7
The Goethe-Institut Czech Republic, the future Pina Bausch Center, the Bund der Szenografen, and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy invite you to a workshop on the topic of sustainability in spatial, stage, and costume design.
Programme: We want to encourage those who conceive, invent, and build spaces for dance, theatre, film, exhibitions, and performance to take a renewed look at sustainability within our global responsibility — ecologically, economically, and socially. We aim to create a space for reflection on experimental modes of production, to explore and experiment with new approaches in both material and aesthetics. What initiatives and strategies already exist? How can we learn from one another, develop collective intelligence, and take initiative?
The two-day workshop is aimed at interested theatre professionals, and other experts from the fields of art, technology, design, architecture, science, and crafts who wish to exchange ideas and deepen their knowledge. No special prerequisites are required.
Following the first day of the workshop, there will be a panel discussion on Monday evening at 6:00 p.m.: 'New Spaces for Unknown Art Forms – A Sustainable Future for Scenography'
Further information and registration here.
The workshop and panel discussion takes place as part of the CYCLE UP! project, which is co-financed from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Workshop Lecturers
Dr. Carolin Baedeker, Wuppertal Institute
Dr. Carolin Baedeker is Deputy Head of Department and Co-Head of the Research Division Innovation Labs at the Wuppertal Institute. Her work focuses on sustainable production and consumption. The Wuppertal Institute develops strategies for sustainable development with an emphasis on resource, climate, and energy challenges, working on sustainable production and consumption systems and applying methods of sustainability assessment and empirical social research.
Teresa Monfared, Board Member of the Association for Scenography and Bühnenmütter
Teresa Monfared studied stage and costume design in Berlin and works as a stage and costume designer for theater, film, and advertising, as well as an art director and event manager. She is a board member of Bühnenmütter, an association promoting family-friendly working conditions in theater institutions.
Bettina Milz, Climate Officer, Curation, and Content Coordination, Pina Bausch Center
Bettina Milz studied Applied Theatre Studies and has worked as a dramaturge and curator specializing in dance. From 2009 to 2022, she headed the Department for Theater and Dance at the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2022, she has been the content coordinator for the Pina Bausch Center. She completed further training as a transformation manager for sustainable culture.
Dragan Stojčevski, Independent Stage Designer and Visual Artist
Dragan Stojčevski was born in Pančevo, in the former Yugoslavia. He studied stage design at DAMU, where he also completed his doctoral studies. He currently teaches in the Department of Alternative Puppet Theatre. His work focuses on site-specific projects, and he has realized several installations in public spaces, museums, and galleries. As a stage designer, he collaborates with numerous renowned Czech directors, including Jan Frič, Michal Dočekal, Jan Mikulašek, Štěpán Pácel, Jiří Havelka, and Petra Tejnorová. He also designs sets for operas, most frequently in collaboration with Jiří Heřman.
The workshop concept was developed as part of the project “The Pina Bausch Center as a Holistically Sustainable Approach” in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute. It was funded by Zero – Climate-Neutral Art and Culture Projects of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal.
Where: Goethe-Institut Czechia, Prague
Language: English
Free to attend but limited places and registration is required: https://forms.office.com/e/YR0d91VWY7
The Goethe-Institut Czech Republic, the future Pina Bausch Center, the Bund der Szenografen, and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy invite you to a workshop on the topic of sustainability in spatial, stage, and costume design.
Programme: We want to encourage those who conceive, invent, and build spaces for dance, theatre, film, exhibitions, and performance to take a renewed look at sustainability within our global responsibility — ecologically, economically, and socially. We aim to create a space for reflection on experimental modes of production, to explore and experiment with new approaches in both material and aesthetics. What initiatives and strategies already exist? How can we learn from one another, develop collective intelligence, and take initiative?
The two-day workshop is aimed at interested theatre professionals, and other experts from the fields of art, technology, design, architecture, science, and crafts who wish to exchange ideas and deepen their knowledge. No special prerequisites are required.
Following the first day of the workshop, there will be a panel discussion on Monday evening at 6:00 p.m.: 'New Spaces for Unknown Art Forms – A Sustainable Future for Scenography'
Further information and registration here.
The workshop and panel discussion takes place as part of the CYCLE UP! project, which is co-financed from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Workshop Lecturers
Dr. Carolin Baedeker, Wuppertal Institute
Dr. Carolin Baedeker is Deputy Head of Department and Co-Head of the Research Division Innovation Labs at the Wuppertal Institute. Her work focuses on sustainable production and consumption. The Wuppertal Institute develops strategies for sustainable development with an emphasis on resource, climate, and energy challenges, working on sustainable production and consumption systems and applying methods of sustainability assessment and empirical social research.
Teresa Monfared, Board Member of the Association for Scenography and Bühnenmütter
Teresa Monfared studied stage and costume design in Berlin and works as a stage and costume designer for theater, film, and advertising, as well as an art director and event manager. She is a board member of Bühnenmütter, an association promoting family-friendly working conditions in theater institutions.
Bettina Milz, Climate Officer, Curation, and Content Coordination, Pina Bausch Center
Bettina Milz studied Applied Theatre Studies and has worked as a dramaturge and curator specializing in dance. From 2009 to 2022, she headed the Department for Theater and Dance at the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2022, she has been the content coordinator for the Pina Bausch Center. She completed further training as a transformation manager for sustainable culture.
Dragan Stojčevski, Independent Stage Designer and Visual Artist
Dragan Stojčevski was born in Pančevo, in the former Yugoslavia. He studied stage design at DAMU, where he also completed his doctoral studies. He currently teaches in the Department of Alternative Puppet Theatre. His work focuses on site-specific projects, and he has realized several installations in public spaces, museums, and galleries. As a stage designer, he collaborates with numerous renowned Czech directors, including Jan Frič, Michal Dočekal, Jan Mikulašek, Štěpán Pácel, Jiří Havelka, and Petra Tejnorová. He also designs sets for operas, most frequently in collaboration with Jiří Heřman.
The workshop concept was developed as part of the project “The Pina Bausch Center as a Holistically Sustainable Approach” in cooperation with the Wuppertal Institute. It was funded by Zero – Climate-Neutral Art and Culture Projects of the German Federal Cultural Foundation and supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Stadtsparkasse Wuppertal.