Elizabeth Wirsching

My first image of the YS some years ago was: The world is always pregnant with new ideas. These ideas can be born in the YS. Or some years later: We are all born with an unknown name. The meaning of life is to search for this name, and the YS supports this searching.
And today: The YS is a garden full of all different kinds of flowers. The question is: Who is the gardener. ( and it is not me!)

Martin Stenius

For me, the YouthSection is a place where I can be taken seriously as a human being, without having to wear a mask. It is a place of overcoming tradition and routine, where something quite new wants to flow into the world. A place where I have no fear of the things that are yet to come.

Für mich ist die Jugendsektion ein Ort, wo ich ohne Masken zu tragen als ganzer Mensch Ernst genommen werde. Ein Ort, der Traditionen und Routine durchbricht und etwas ganz Neues in die Welt fliessen lassen möchte und ich keine Angst habe, vor dem was noch nicht ist.

Katie Dobb

The Youth Section is like a home to me. A place where I feel warm, held and understood.

Katharina Ludwig

My picture of the YouthSection is of a place where things become real, a birth place of projects such as YIP and Idem. It is a place where things can come into this world, ideals and ideas become reality. It is not a place that can be taken for granted or taken over by any one impulse. It is a place to practice the gesture of respecting each other, to practice how to keep a common space healthy and open so that new impulses can be embraced. A learning space for us to understand the responsibility free individuals have in a shared world.

Silvia Zuur

For me the youth section is like a carefully crafted clay pot, sculptured by the people from the past. It is filled with (bio-dynamic) filterlised potting mix which contains many different types of wild flower seeds. We are each the different grains of soil - alone we cannot grow the seeds but together we can bring incredible things to bloom.

Pablo Grassi

The Youth Sektion carries the quality of a threshold where possibilities may become reality through our own personal work. A place where new ideas can be born and already existing ones be developed. An open door from heaven to earth, that through the Grimm reaper, Materie, let the angels become men.

Caitlin Balmer

For me, the Youthsection is an embassy. Maybe we should even have our own currency for the coffeemachine and the internet cafe! For me this is sacred ground, safe ground -- It’s a home for us young and old changemakeres, the movers and shakers -- A place to regroup, to come up with new ideas and meet long-lost and finally-found friends. There's a familiarity despite, or probably because of the many nationalities and cultures that meet here. It's not a place where people come to stay for too long, but it's a meeting point along the way.

John Stubley

I see the youth section as a kind of mirror that reflects all the growing, youthful stars of the universe, revealing back to them their highest, brightest potentials...at the same time, it is a kind of a star in and of itself, shedding its own light too...

Guy Collins

I see the YouthSection as it appears, as a place and as an ideal in the world, as a beacon on a lone mountain peak. A fire that shines out into the world and can be seen and felt from afar. Mostly it is a cold and lonely job for the ones whose task it is to keep the fire going and although the fire keeps them warm it is for many varied others that they keep it burning in that barren place.

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