On Wednesday we performed a simulation game in which we discussed about a devised plan of the city of Lang to change the riverbed and the dikes around the city. The description is written for 8 players.
There are four parties with different opinions and interests: Representatives of the city of Lang, Local Farmers, Affected Residents, Environmentalists.
Representatives of all these groups are invited to a round table to discuss about the plans for the dike.
You can download the map of the city and the description for the game here:
Flussbad Berlin e.V. seeks to transform and reactivate the largely unused Spree Canal in Berlin-Mitte along with its adjacent urban areas. The project has a number of different and multilayered objectives; however, its main focus is on revitalising the existing natural and urban resources in the area, cleaning the river in this section and establishing direct public access to the canal. Along Museum Island, between the Humboldt Forum and the Bode Museum, a public space will be created that invites Berliners and visitors alike to swim in clean, uncontaminated water. The project foresees filtering the water in a completely natural way and also transforming the Spree Canal near the Fischerinsel into an ecological water landscape. (Text: Flussbad Berlin e.V.)
What can be useful for your own environmental youth work? The experiment waterfiltration can be useful as it simulates one important step of the complex processs of waterfiltration happening in the nature. It also shows the pupils how rivers clean themenselves or can be cleaned and where the drinking water in Berlin comes from: at the water protection areas around Berlin the waterfiltration process takes place at the lake shores so that water goes through different sand and grivel layers to the groundwater which is finally used for drinking water.
We started the wednesday-session with an introduction to the role-play simulation-game “Who is the owner of the water” that gave us the possibility to join a typical “water-conflict”.
After the lunch break an open space was opened up that provided room for non-formal educational approaches of the participants .
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Roleplay-Simulation “Who is the owner of the water”
