ERDEN SCHULE
Learning from the earth.
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The earth is home to us all, and we build on it. Erden Schule offers opportunities to immerse yourself in the world of clay and learn through your senses as you explore earth building architecture and art.
ERDEN Schule is a lively creative space. The focus is on creative design with loam, clay and earth. Fundamental principles of design, space and materiality are not abstract or theoretical, but can be experienced through direct action. The sensual, playful exploration of materials opens up spaces in which ethics and aesthetics are not experienced as opposites, but as necessary complements.
Clay as a building material offers more than just an ecological promise. It challenges us to rethink craftsmanship, material awareness and design competence. In a world of dwindling resources, its potential is obvious, but it will only remain effective if the knowledge of its use is shared and practiced.
Education for a sustainable future must not be exclusive, but should be as low-threshold, inclusive and participatory as possible.
Creative activity contains gifts that are born of themselves and allow people to find themselves in the moment.
Free clay work is a guided creative process in a prepared and safe environment. It enables a spontaneous relationship between mind and material. The undescribed becomes a form, a design. Free clay work
- stimulates the imagination
- is open to meaning, results and knowledge
- promotes confidence in one’s own creative impulse
- enables the learning of skills
- makes it possible to experience clay in different consistencies
- allows creative skills to be discovered and enjoyed
- makes it possible to put into words and reflect on process and design
What you understand with your hands, understand with your heart.
Accompanying aesthetic experience processes requires a basic pedagogical attitude that promotes creativity. We therefore see experiencing, experiencing and recognizing as central elements in the cognitive process. Our intention is to create formats that appeal to head, hands and heart in equal measure.
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Offer
for elementary education
for schools
for groups
Individual, interdisciplinary, process-oriented.
We develop project-based formats for school classes that combine creative work with mathematics, geography, language, technology and art. Whether as a project week or over the entire school year, we focus on creative skills and independent thinking.
Annual project VS Sebastianplatz
Model making as a thought process.
This format is aimed at planners, architects and designers who are looking for new perspectives. In experimental model making, unfiltered impulses develop into clear concepts and viable visions. The method activates intuition, sharpens the eye for space and material and opens up new ways of working together.
Goodbye Brainstorming: Clay Storming in 5 quick lessons
A therapeutic program for children and young adults. Heinz Deuser’s method is based on haptic perception and enables young people to enter into a relationship with themselves by touching the clay. Through the encounter with clay, young people can approach their own expression of movement, experience childhood imprints and develop new self-efficacy through creating.
Individual appointments for children and young adults possible from February 2026
Dates
Flora and clay. In dialog with plants and earth. Workshop with Magdalena Türtscher and Anna-Pia Rauch. 5.6. to 6.6.2026, Seminarcenter Mühle in Buchboden, Atelier Erden Schule.
Clay Storming Master Class with Anna Heringer, and Martin Rauch. Workshop for architects, designers and planners. Summer semester. Date to be announced, Werkhalle Lehm Ton Erde.
Excursion & workshop. Experience clay: from the building material of history to the material of the future. With projects on site, first-hand insights and a creative part for shaping & polishing a mud ball. 18.04.2026. Workshop in Schlins
Team
Anna-Pia Rauch, Cornelia Faisst, Martin Mackowitz, Martin Rauch, Maria Schneller, Monja Krötz, Sebastian Rauch, as well as specialist planners and craftsmen from Lehm Ton Erde.
Erden Schule is a registered association. If you are interested in participating, please contact us.
Experts from the fields of education, therapy, architecture, design and ceramics make various contributions to Erden Schule. Together, they bring their respective perspectives, specialist knowledge and technical skills to the educational work. Anna-Pia Rauch is the didactic director.
The interdisciplinary collaboration makes it possible to support children holistically. It combines creative, spatial, technical and social learning and thus creates a lively, experience-based approach to art, architecture and sustainable building.
