Friday 11.30am and 15.00pm, Saturday 11.30am

please notice: group 22, Veronika Schröter - Messies. A NEW WORKSHOP!

1 Elisabeth Baumholzer – Do cleaning staff need qualifications?
German only
Simple procedures – professionally taught – ensure cleaning quality.
Learning for gain, with an example in theory and practice.

2 Daniel Berti
How do surfaces and furnishings determine cleaning costs?
German / English
When cleaning buildings the best possible results and times must be achieved. How do I recognize slow buildings and how do I make buildings faster and easier to clean and care for? What can architects and developers do to create buildings that are really easy to care for? What is the difference between different floor coverings in cleaning terms? What improvements are still possible once a building is there? Answers and further questions will be considered together in this workshop. Please bring writing materials and your own ‘problem cases’.

3 Hans Dackweiler – What is care and what effect does it have?
German only
Which level of their existence do carers bring to their work? 4 Walter Gindelhumer – Why schools, too, are aware of their responsibility and clean in an environmentally helpful way German only As caretaker for a number of schools in Dornbirn AT, W. Gindelhumer, started an experiment cleaning a school without chemical agents three years ago. The results were so good that the method was introduced at other schools. The local authority had given its consent. He will speak of the actual benefits for children, teachers and cleaning staff. The budget has also benefited, a welcome ‘side effect’. 5 Peter Malaise – Inversion space, resonance space – cleaning space?German / FrançaisThe 20th century brought profound changes in people’s awareness of the spaces around them, and of ‘space’ in general terms. We can explore material and immaterial evidence of this in architecture, music and sculpture as closely connected arts. How do we deal with this new experience and how does this affect hygiene and hygiene work?

4 Walter Gindelhumer – Why schools, too, are aware of their responsibility and clean in an environmentally helpful way
German only
As caretaker for a number of schools in Dornbirn AT, W. Gindelhumer, started an experiment cleaning a school without chemical agents three years ago. The results were so good that the method was introduced at other schools. The local authority had given its consent. He will speak of the actual benefits for children, teachers and cleaning staff. The budget has also benefited, a welcome "side effect".

5 Peter Malaise – Inversion space, resonance space – cleaning space?
German / Français
The 20th century brought profound changes in people's awareness of the spaces around them, and of "space" in general terms. We can explore material and immaterial evidence of this in architecture, music and sculpture as closely connected arts. How do we deal with this new experience and how does this affect hygiene and hygiene work?

6 Michael Mattstedt – Cleaning culture replacing spit and polish
German only
Interrelationship between attitude, action, cleaning materials in inner/outer spaces.

7 Petra Neisse – Tidying up we relate to things
German only
Tidying up is to find the right place for something, giving it value and care or letting it go. What influence does tidying have on your relationships, environment and yourself? What do you have in common with your home and how is it connected with you and your family? We’ll consider these things and take some first real steps in practical exercises.

8 Prof. Perger and Prof. Elke Huth – Skin Protection
German only
We will demonstrate practical aids for people who want to communicate with staff, wanting to do more than give the legally required brief instructions and implement health-education to improve staff member’s performance at work and their well-being. – We will provide you with material for arranging learning situations (instructions) adapted to the individuals concerned and the work situation, with staff actively involved in the learning process. The aim is to make learning holistic. 9 Klaus Saelzer/Steven Thomas –Cleaning institutions – calculation rethoughtGerman / English What should the cost of cleaning be?You will be able to learn how cleaning costs and effort can be calculated in real terms. We will give tips on how to start a project cleaning your school with pupils.

9 Klaus Saelzer/Steven Thomas
Cleaning institutions – calculation rethought
German / English
What should the cost of cleaning be? You will be able to learn how cleaning costs and effort can be calculated in real terms. We will give tips on how to start a project cleaning your school with pupils.

10 Peter Strauch – Factors that play a role in cleaning
German only
Providing in-house cleaning staff. ‘Ergonomic’ methods. Selection/use of cleaning materials and tools. Training and further training of cleaning staff. Procedures. 

11 Linda Thomas – Creating spaces and caring for them.
German / English / Français
Let us talk about how spaces arise and practise the gesture in practical work. How can materials, means and method help to make daily routine simple and enjoyable?

12 Inge van der Ploeg
Workshop on the balance between objects and free space
German only
Both of these support life. How do we ourselves find the individual balance between living with objects ad with free space and emptiness, so that the unknown may also enter into life. With tips for tidying up and help in letting go of things. Tidying up is to make room for the future.

13 Freek Veneman – Quality in cleaning
German only
What actually is quality? Ingredients for quality management in cleaning.What would be acceptable costs? Making quality measurable? Principles of properly functioning quality management.

14 Katharina Zaugg – The art of wiping blackboards
German / English
The blackboard is the focal point for written communication in the classroom. Care of the blackboard is often remarkably lackadaisical. We’ll do exercises and talk about alternative ways of cleaning in schools. Careful attention in cleaning the blackboard leads to profound changes in the way we care for the ‘spatial skin’. Can there be a gentler way of social change than wiping chalk clouds off the board with a happy smile?

22 Veronika Schröter - Workshop on the Messie Phenomenon (A NEW WORKSHOP!)
When people live in paralysing disorder and chaos yet long for a harmonious environment, and if practical support for order and structure do not get them out of it, we must look for the deeper causes. Messie states point to a hidden aspect that needs to be integrated into life. The workshop is designed to trace those inner situations.
We will consider the messie syndrome from the point of view of the messies themselves, family members, and people they work with in the fields of education, therapy and care provision. Different methods of approaching the problem will be presented and illustrated by examples from my own practice. Workshop members may also add examples from their own experience.