Mar 15, 2026
Pirna Climate School
Projektgruppe „Klima-Schule Pirna“: Julian Christl (fehlend), Marius Neo Datzmann, Maren De Raedt, Lukas Dunger, Hannes Födisch, Selina Hartig, Lena Hutter, Monika Rudolf, Annika Wetzel, Elliot Wieczorek (fehlend), Naemi Yamanaka, ergänzend: Ole Franke, Nora Huxmann, Jan Kvapil (fehlend), Jana Petzold, Enrico Sperfeld (fehlend)
In the winter semester 2025/26, we and our project group worked on the participatory schoolyard design of the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Pirna as part of the LM210/310 design project. We found the school to be an open-minded partner school that was very supportive of our creative process. Our project group also included Hannes Födisch, a student on the Spatial Development and Resource Management degree program, who analyzed the project area from a complementary scientific perspective.
The Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium in Pirna has held the title of "Climate School" since this year and stands for a committed school community that is actively committed to the environment, climate and sustainability. Another special feature is the bilingual orientation of the German-Czech school.
The open space also has special qualities: The schoolyard is divided into familiar elements such as a soccer pitch, a running track and a paved recreation area. Parallel to this, a school park adjoins uphill, which is characterized by valuable existing trees and relics of earlier designs.
Im Workshop entstehen durch die partizipative und spielerische Arbeit mit Collagen Visionen und Ideen für das Schulgelände.
The students' initial task was to get in touch with the pupils in self-organized workshops: to identify their needs, get to know their places and activities on the school grounds and work creatively together in various formats. Based on these preliminary studies, the students developed different visions for the school grounds over the course of the semester.
Im Mosaik-Spiel-Format lassen sich die Studierenden von den Schüler:innen zu ihren Orten auf dem Schulgelände führen.
These visions were presented at the end of the semester as part of a teachers' conference in the school auditorium. In doing so, they deliberately left realistic standards behind in order to facilitate an open discourse, initiate new perspectives and set further processes in motion. The results of the project work will be presented to the entire school community in the form of an exhibition in the summer semester of 2026.
Visualisierung der Vision „Grüne Klammer“.
Results of the project group:
Design book
Posters
A central aspect that we would like to convey as a department is that students see their schoolyard as a space for appropriation: as a place that they can actively help shape, develop their own attitude towards and take responsibility for in the long term.
Further contributions and links:
Website of the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium
Schiller Press podcast episode 6: The school park