Architektur und Tourismus

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im Coconat wirst du nicht nur durch die Natur, sondern auch durch die Architektur inspiriert!

Die Gestaltung des Ortes bestimmt die Arbeitskonditionen und den Wohlfühlfaktor. Nicht ohne Grund haben wir einen Architekten im Team. Das historische Erbe der Gebäude und des Geländes sollen herausgearbeitet werden und an aktuelle Anforderungen angepasst werden.

Deshalb haben wir uns sehr gefreut, als wir von der Tourismus Marketing Brandenburg eingeladen wurden die Veranstaltung Tourismus & Architektur mitzugestalten. Einen Tag lang diskutierten wir mit anderen Touristikern über Themen wie

• regionale Baukultur
• die Umnutzung alter Gebäude
• DDR-Architektur
• Denkmalschutz
• Ferien in Baumhäusern, Bunkern, Scheuen…
• Globetrotter in Brandenburg
• Ökologische Baustoffe
• oder schwimmende Bauten

 

Zusammen mit Samantha Wolf die ihre Masterarbeit über workation places schreibt diskutierten die beiden Coconat Gründer Michael Kloos und Janosch Dietrich mit vielen Interessierten über das Thema Es lebe das Erbe – Neue Arbeitswelten auf dem Land.

What you liked most!

Things you like the most about Coconat

Just had a look at the evaluation sheets from our Summer of Pioneers and happy to share this nice word-cloud with you.

Thank you again for coming and giving us feedback!

What an Inspiring Summer

Together, with many new and old faces of our growing community, we explored ways in which work can be more fulfilling. This was the Summer of Pioneers!

Those who joined us in our countryside retreat came with enthusiasm from their various sectors, with their different projects, alone and with teams. They gave our Beach-House indoor camping experience a try, and gave a trial run to the little worlds we created for them to be inspired and work in.

We are happy to say that the response was overwhelmingly good to what we created this year. We also received some wonderful suggestions on what could be done differently, and what areas we should focus more on.

In just four weeks Coconat had visitors from Berlin, Bonn, Hamburg, Poland, and Switzerland. We are thrilled to announce that we had visitors from Gotzerberge too. We had hoped that we would create a place of interest to local people as well, and they came with smiles on their faces.

The online and word of mouth community is over 700 strong. And we had interviews with journalists from all over the place – really! – Bali, Canada, the USA and even Germany! 😉

To sum up, our proof of concept phase was really a great success – because of all of you.

THANK YOU!

A huge thanks to all the people who not only believed in us but who actively supported in many different ways, and to all the guests who have embarked on this little workation experiment with us.

What do a Mobile Compost Toilet, a Give-box, and an Overdose of Apples have in common?

In addition to ‘regular’ Coconat guests, during the last week of the Summer of Pioneers we had friends from Moviemiento, Berlin’s traveling film festival, and L’Atelier Toupie, the great upcyclists from southern France, join us in Götzerberge.

The project ‘Récupère le Paradis’, or ‘Reclaiming Paradise’, explored the concept of paradise and its main symbol: the apple. In just 5 days upcycling workshops brought to life a mobile compost toilet and a give-box of our very own to share with our village community. We also made plenty of visits to the local apple, pear, and choke cherry trees, picking the little treasures which were happily transformed into delectable cakes, pies, and jams.

When the end of the project coincided with the end of of Coconat’s Summer of Pioneers, and Landwerk’s traditional Spätsommerfest – we thought, ‘Why not have a grand party together!?’ And that is just what we did till the wee hours.

PRESS RELEASE:: Germany’s First Workation Retreat Opens ‘Summer of Pioneers’

Relax and Get Some Work Done Just Outside of Berlin