Repurposing and reconstructing – Your Career Service

The way ideas form and find their way to people can sometimes be quite fascinating. A seemingly unsuccessful idea, or even a simple test run, could produce new and surprising results. But how can an idea be repurposed and how can it be developed? The blog post „Gute Ideen und eine Heftmaschine“ from the jt2026 blog answers this question, you can find it on the csnd website: https://csnd.de/gute-ideen-und-eine-heftmaschine/. Here is a little teaser: it includes an innovative startegy on developing a persepctive on your future job through a writing exercise. The Blog is in German. Make it a part of your German in an Nutshell Program or feel free to use an automatic translator.

Perheps there are other examples of unexpected results popping in your head up, maybe not only of ideas but also of objects. Have you ever seen someone picking up an object from ‚Sperrmüll‘ with a certain calculating look on their face, where you just know they know exactly how they will repurpose this object? While writing this blog, my eyes stumbled around the room and landed on this artwork assembled from items found on Sperrmüll, which I would like to share with you. Enjoy!

On an old wooden board, which has scratches on the top and the bottom sections, there is a sqaured piece of white cloth. To the left side of it, there is a building painted in different shades of pink, its shadow in a shade of dark red. The background of the painting is in the same two shades of pink and dark red. In the top section of the paining, close to the centre, is a figure, which appears to be floating. It is vertical, with arms outstretched to its sides, as if it is flying, one of the legs and one of the arms are abnormally prolonged till the borders of the piece of cloth. On the left side, the endpiece of the cloth is folded on the painting, covering a small section of the building and the prolonged arm.
UNderneath the piece of cloth there is a sentence, written in the same shade of dark red. It reads: What inside my skull is a list of names, wouldn't add yours, they were thought to be irrelavent.

Titled 32.10.2023, this is an artwork by Jan Ole Schneider where he repurposed an old piece of wood and an old bed sheet into an artwork. Perheps the materials were also found in Sperrmüll?