Young people who turn their backs on school education because they don't feel that the learning methods and structures there appeal to them. Many no longer even learn the absolute basics. Learning groups in day-care centers and schools that are overloaded with social problems and have often become primarily places of care, declining educational standards in more and more areas, a shortage of skilled workers in educational institutions and in geriatric care, alienation of many adults in functionalist working life, fragmentation of society, increasing social isolation of individuals, compensatory life in parallel digital worlds, to name just a few of the current problems in our society.

If we had an unconditional basic income for everyone, including the middle class that generates the tax revenue, as a basis for further professional activity, as an incentive for entrepreneurial activity and at the same time for taking on social responsibility, and if we converted compulsory schooling into a self-designed compulsory education, then people could get together and buy the vacant properties in eastern Germany and turn them into vibrant projects, including in other parts of the country and in the cities. These could be agricultural, craft, artistic or technical projects, for example. Young people could move from project to project, go on a journey and learn independently. Children would grow up with more caregivers, i.e. with a wider range of male and female role models, including professional ones, which would be good for their development. People then did a lot of things themselves again. They would help each other in the communities, from caring for small children, to educational work with older children, parallel to the schools and daycare centers that continue to exist but have become fewer in number, to the integration and care of older people or people with disabilities. Vocational schools and universities could hold entrance examinations for those who study on their own initiative in projects. A lot of traveling would be eliminated, which would also be good for the climate. Things would slow down, people would have more time for each other and be healthier. But what we need for this is a changed social structure and a philosophy from which new narratives that promote identity and create social cohesion can emerge.

This third volume of documentation, this time digital, shows the current status of the further development of a three-sided farmhouse dating back to 1884 in Anhalt into a think tank and the creation of cultural and educational connections.

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