Field of experience for developing the senses

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Hear: Humming stone in Laatzen
Hearing: Hörgarten of the University of Oldenburg
See and smell: sea of ​​flowers in Laatzen
Smell: Labyrinth with herbs and other fragrant plantings in Nuremberg
Feeling / touching: “Indian ladder” on the barefoot hiking trail in Nienhagen
Movement: balancing disc in Bremervörde

The field of experience for developing the senses was conceived by Hugo Kükelhaus (1900–1984). It is an interactive exhibition that stimulates all the senses . The different exhibition objects are intended to inspire the visitor to experiment with them, to explore them, like in a park of the senses or similar to a science center . Kükelhaus designed 32 playground equipment for schools in the city of Dortmund and demonstrated some of these equipment at the world exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal . His holistic concept for a large open-air exhibition was implemented in the exhibition Phenomena and shown in Rotterdam, South Africa and Bietigheim, among others.

Make experience aware

In accordance with the Kükelhaus concept, a large number of sensory objects, fields of experience and systems were created that are intended to address different but also combined sensory areas, for example:

but also the sounds of nature in gardens: the chirping of birds, the splashing and rustling of water, the hum of bees.
  • Seeing: afterimages , color spinning tops, rotating disks, tilting perspective, marble cascade, prisms , play of light and color
Natural garden with the play of colors of different flowers, Feng Shui garden, butterfly garden, water features, idyllic oases of calm, dry stone walls, natural objects such as natural stones and rocks, roots; Fire as a campfire, water features with a Leonard table;
  • Smell: herb snail or types of herbs, rose path or rosarium , floral scents
  • Feeling / touching: touch gallery or touch wall or touch boxes, barefoot path as a haptic path with stone, sand, gravel, bark mulch, moss, grass, moor or water; Experiment with glockenspiel in water, water features.
  • Taste: orchards with fruit to taste , picnic by the campfire, orange meditation
  • Movement: swash plate, three-time pendulum, sand pendulum , pendulum stone, balancing devices such as beams, discs, pirouettes, climbing objects such as trees, roots, rocks.
  • Encounters: communicative facilities such as partner swings, echo tubes, parabolic dishes, also encounters with animals such as in the petting zoo , animals on orchards

“The visitor experiences how the eye sees, the ear hears, the nose smells, the skin feels, the fingers touch, the foot (understands), the hand (grasps), the brain thinks, the lungs breathes, the blood pulsates, the body vibrates. The perception of the laws of one's own nature enables people to perceive and maintain the same legality in the phenomena of external nature. (Hugo Kükelhaus) "

Fields of experience

Fields of experience can be found under different terms: world of the senses, garden of the senses, park of the senses, sensory park, therapy garden, healing garden, Kükelhaus park, feeling garden, perception course and others. They often also contain elements such as: motor skills garden, feng shui garden, butterfly garden, bee garden, windfall meadow, forest discovery path, sculpture path and others.

Facilities that use fields of experience with the aim of strengthening resources, promoting mindfulness, learning experience, promoting creativity and joie de vivre, relaxation:

Water games in Laatzen
Blind garden in Bremen - Vegesack
  • Educational support facility for children or old people, in kindergartens, in the schoolyard, in old people's homes
  • Therapeutic support facility in the field of special education, occupational therapy , facilities for the disabled, garden for the blind , psychotherapeutic area with connection to therapeutic clinics, areas for the seriously and chronically ill, rehabilitation facilities for trauma victims
  • For the normal citizen attached to botanical gardens, or as part of larger exhibitions and events (e.g. EXPO), recreational facilities also for healthy people, or created as community or project work in schools, kindergartens, communities

In addition to fixed installations, there are also some mobile experience fields that can be booked for events and company purposes, e.g. B. in Kassel or in Nuremberg (where the mobile experience field is older than the "large" field).

Well-known institutions

There are fields of experience in Freudenberg Castle (Wiesbaden) as well as in Essen, Kassel, Nuremberg , Suhl, Welzheim near Stuttgart, in the park of Wissem Castle in Troisdorf near Bonn and the Path of the Senses in Haag am Hausruck (Austria). A traveling exhibition World of the Senses addresses the field of experience. The Bremervörde nature and adventure park was created on the occasion of the second Lower Saxony state exhibition Nature in Urban Development in 1991, the Park of the Senses in Laatzen for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. Further sensory experience facilities exist in Groß Gerungs , Rodenbach , Herten and many other places. The Tower of the Senses in Nuremberg is a related example of an interactive experimental museum for making scientific fundamentals tangible, as part of museum education and in the children's museum area , which offers objects to try out on the topic: How do our senses actually work?

Fields of experience for the development of the senses supervised by the Hugo Kükelhaus Gesellschaft (Soest)

  • A garden for the senses - Mars-Skipper-Hof experience field in Kotzenbüll on the Eiderstedt peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein, offers for sensory training and awareness promotion in combination with barrier-free accommodation for groups of all kinds, especially for children and young people with and without disabilities Educational institutions and families
  • Eins + Alles - experience field for the senses and the Welzheim recreation center, on the grounds of the Laufenmühle, an anthroposophical facility for people with disabilities, which is open to all visitors as an integration project
  • Field of experience for the development of the senses Nuremberg of the youth center for cultural and political education on the Wöhrder Wiese in Nuremberg , open from the beginning of May to mid-September. Each year a key topic is dealt with, for example, in 2014 for the 20th anniversary, Encounter in the Dark.
  • SinnesGänge in the former kiln of the brickworks Oberkaufungen of the experience field association for developing the senses in Kassel .
  • Field of experience at Freudenberg Castle (Wiesbaden) of the former employee and student of Hugo Kükelhaus, Matthias Schenk and his wife Beatrice Dastis Schenk, Society Nature and Art
  • Phenomania field of experience in Essen (formerly field of experience for developing the senses (Hugo Kükelhaus))
  • Sensorium of the Rüttihubelbad Foundation in Walkringen (Switzerland), based on stations in Hugo Kükelhaus’s field of experience.
  • The world of sense in the Jordanbad in Biberach - offers visitors a variety of sensory experiences along the biblical creation story, based on the concept of Hugo Kükelhaus, the Montessori pedagogy and the approaches of Emmi Pikler and Elfriede Hengstenberg .

Examples of publicly accessible fields of experience in open space

Educational institutions

  • Institute for Creativity and Pedagogy - Marielle Seitz in Munich, courses to train imagination and creativity, imparting a new art pedagogical approach (for example the creative implementation of geometry, sensory impressions and writing)
  • KindSein eV in Bielefeld-Theesen , a parents' initiative that supports the integrative kindergarten Kinderhaus am Mondsteinweg with the aim of implementing Hugo Kükelhaus’s ideas in architecture, outdoor space design and everyday educational life
  • Municipal family center and day care center Am Krausacker I in Troisdorf-Bergheim with a focus on sensory perception in connection with the ideas of Hugo Kükelhaus in daily group life in the form of experience field stations as well as daily specifically planned offers in the house.
  • One of the first experience fields was installed in the “Sensorium” in Frauenfeld ( Switzerland ). Due to the success and the associated rush of visitors, the perception was so badly disturbed that a follow-up project with a changed concept was created with the “Sinnwerk”. It turns with similar sensory stations v. a. to groups and wants to enable deeper and intensified perception according to their own information.

literature

  • Hugo Kükelhaus: Development of the Senses , Verlag Schloss Freudenberg, new edition 2008 ISBN 978-3-00-024810-8
  • Elisabeth Stelkens: On the trail of the field of experience , organism and technology eV, Essen 2007
  • Hugo Kükelhaus: Grasping, Feeling, Forming - Organ experiences in dealing with phenomena , non-profit research and education company mbH self-published; 7th edition 2000, ISBN 3-87732-017-1
  • Walter Jäger: That's us out there ... building blocks of a pedagogy of the senses. 7 years on the road with the mobile field of experience to develop the senses, Nuremberg , Verlag Modernes Lern, Dortmund 1997, ISBN 3-8080-0389-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Addresses of fields of experience , accessed on August 21, 2014
  2. ↑ Sinnespark - Alexianer Münster. Retrieved July 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Background information on the Sinnwerk (sinnwerk.ch), accessed on February 9, 2016