Freiheitsgrade

The walk-in sculpture “Degrees of Freedom” provides diverse impulses with different aspects, perspectives, and views. The scrolls, which are mainly hidden but still perceptible, point to the universal European values and human rights. At the same time the people live in their individuality their degrees of freedom with their different points of view, represented by the stone circle of the big ellipse. The further development of the European idea is made possible by a new solution impulse, represented by a small ellipse around the large central stone. On the backside of the big stone is represented a backbone to strengthen the idea, which finds its continuation in the steel arch. A long journey and maturation begins under the pioneering steel arch of freedom that spans from west to east, or vice versa. The solution space underneath is filled by a discourse in a for and against from different worlds of experience, in the best case by a constructive appreciative wrestling on the elliptical playing field of degrees of freedom. The human being depicted as graffiti conveys dynamism and a visionary view.  In this awareness, in the tension between individual freedom and freedom as a society, we can continue to work on the realization o