The pupils at IGS Maifeld are offered an interactive installation. They can generate images themselves. This is very easy and is done very quickly. They only need to handle a row of rotating columns. By doing so, they produce images as high as the room that are much taller than they are themselves. In this way the pupils can create countless variations on an abstract total image, either individually or in cooperation, and thus invent new images in accordance with their own imagination and creativity.

The abstract overall image is imbued with a specific content: impulses for learning, with their diverse effects. Yellow lines of varying thickness and varying direction grow upwards from below and demonstrate individual development. White lines of varying thickness and varying direction grow downwards from above and show the influences on youthful development.

Two visual narratives, the one from above and the one from below, meet at a varying eye-level height corresponding to the pupils’ age. This meeting at eye level represents the dialogue that takes place in school education in general, and in the everyday life of the school individually. This is a living process that the pupils experience in a creative way because they can depict it anew again and again. The result thus offers perception in a participatory manner. The interactive and participatory mural can be a subject for lessons, especially in art classes.

The colour scheme corresponds to the coat of arms of the town of Polch. In this way the art object is rooted all the more strongly in the location of the school. The columns integrate with the architecture by taking up the columnar shape of the existing supports.