Concept Map
An interactive map of the project’s conceptual landscape. Drag nodes to rearrange. Hover to explore connections and read descriptions. Dashed lines show cross-domain relationships — the places where ideas from different traditions meet.
Reading the Map
Six domains radiate from the center, each containing the concepts that belong to it:
- ■ Diagnosis — what’s wrong (alienation, school crisis, fragmentation, control society, welfare limits, skilled worker shortage)
- ■ Philosophy — the thinkers (communitarianism, O’Donohue, Fromm, Beuys, Deleuze, Dewey, Sennett, Thoreau, Rosa, Illich, Polanyi)
- ■ Five Pillars — the model (civil society, work & income, learning, entrepreneurship, community — with sub-concepts like basic income, Wanderjahre, the commons)
- ■ Transformation — the four dimensions of change (economic, social, cultural, ecological) plus the UN SDGs
- ■ The Farm — where theory meets practice (buildings, land, crafts, agriculture, sustainability, Polish-German exchange, seminars)
- ■ Safeguards — honest engagement with risks (democratic oversight, GDR memory, protection against exploitation)
The dashed lines are where it gets interesting. They reveal how Deleuze’s control society connects to both the diagnosis and the civil society pillar. How Sennett’s craftsman links philosophy to meaningful labor and to the farm’s workshop. How the commons concept bridges entrepreneurship, economic transformation, and the memory of GDR collectivism. How Polanyi’s Great Transformation connects to the economic dimension. How Illich’s deschooling feeds into self-directed learning.
These cross-links are the project’s intellectual signature — the insistence that these ideas cannot be pursued in isolation.