News from the Goetheanum

Contributions from adults with assistance needs to their social environment
18 February 2025

Contributions from adults with assistance needs to their social environment

Stefanie Schälin
To this day people with assistance needs experience discrimination and exclusion, although knowing and recognizing their contributions to the social ...
Screen Culture
18 February 2025

Screen Culture

Nathaniel Williams
A research project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum is dedicated to understanding today's interactive screen technologies; at the same time, ...
The Earth Lives
28 January 2025

The Earth Lives

Ueli Hurter, Eduardo Rincón
A biodynamically managed farm is seen as an organism, a living being. At the annual conference “The Earth as a Living Being” from February 5 to 8, ...
Human, animal, plant and soil health
27 January 2025

Human, animal, plant and soil health

Georg Soldner, Ueli Hurter
A research project conducted by the Sections for Agriculture and Medicine asks about strengthening human, animal, plant and soil health.
True Cost Accounting in biodynamic farming
27 January 2025

True Cost Accounting in biodynamic farming

Ueli Hurter
The Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum is conducting a research project that focuses on socioeconomic criteria for fair prices.
Does Waldorf School Make Children Healthy, Strong, and Confident?
24 January 2025

Does Waldorf School Make Children Healthy, Strong, and Confident?

Wolfgang Held
Belle Leung and Jacinta Gorchs from the Pedagogical Section are coordinating the Resilience and Pedagogy research project.
Sustainable growing methods such as biodynamics are successful around the world
18 December 2024

Sustainable growing methods such as biodynamics are successful around the world

Anna Storchenegger
The smallholder farmers of indigenous cultures seek to live in harmony with the earth. Biodynamic farming is for them a way of bringing together ...
Healing Others, Healing Myself
04 December 2024

Healing Others, Healing Myself

Zacharie Dusingizimana
In October 2024, Zacharie Dusingizimana spoke at the international conference for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum. He told of the ...
The Future Begins in Our Encounters
27 November 2024

The Future Begins in Our Encounters

Johannes Kronenberg
Johannes Kronenberg has been researching and working on sustainable development and its spiritual and anthroposophical dimensions for seven years. ...
A Tale of Faith, Love, and Hope
25 November 2024

A Tale of Faith, Love, and Hope

Andrea de la Cruz
All that is good, beautiful, and true comes in threes—sweet, salty, and sour; heads, hands, and hearts; darkness, light, and color. And stories, so ...
Anthroposophical Doctors under National Socialism
23 November 2024

Anthroposophical Doctors under National Socialism

Peter Selg
Did anthroposophical doctors follow, profit from, or oppose the medicine under National Socialism and its “New German Medicine” [Neue Deutsche ...
When Science and Art Play Together
19 November 2024

When Science and Art Play Together

Eduardo Rincón
When art helps us deepen our understanding of nature, art becomes research. Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the Agriculture Section, engages ...