Gardens of Care
Kintsugi: Unconventional Crafting and the Culture of Repair
A workshop for teachers, educators and people who work with children and teenagers
9. June 2026
04.30-06.30
04.30-06.30
Save the Date
for adults
in German
In this workshop, we explore “wild bricolage,” inspired by the picture book Kintsugi by Issa Watanabe. Through poetic imagery, the book tells a story of rupture, loss, and reassembly, opening up ways to reflect on how something new can emerge from fragments.
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Building on this, we experiment with creative practices such as assemblage and bricolage. Drawing on the concept of “wild thinking” described by Claude Lévi-Strauss and further developed by Gerd E. Schäfer as an autonomous form of aesthetic thinking, the focus is not on planned construction, but on improvisational, material-led processes. Participants collect, combine, and reassemble fragments, allowing new aesthetic forms to emerge along with an appreciation for the imperfect.
“Wild bricolage” thus becomes a process of exploratory aesthetic thinking: the material itself provides impulses, ideas emerge through making, and knowledge develops through experimental engagement with what is at hand. This approach opens up new ways of working experientially with children and young people.
Elisa Bauer leads the workshop in cooperation with Mariela Nagle.
Participation is free of charge.
Please register via email at info@spore-initiative.org. (Please include “Interest in Picture Book Journey” in the subject line)
The workshop is conducted in German.
