• Lars Schmidt
• Martin Gemeinholzer

Lars Schmidt

Ecoartist/Dancer, Facilitator, Dipl. Permaculture Designer //
Passive Activist

As founder of Art, Ecology & Education and The Natural Circus, initiator/co-developer of Integral Ecoawarenss Training and Practice and author of the Declaration of Cultural Revolutionaries 2009, Lars is a pioneer and visionary in the field of creating and facilitating transformative processes and projects for integrated, sustainable living.

He has explored the creative process in many different art forms. He studied acting, dance and singing, as well as photography, in Germany and the US, worked internationally as actor for film, television and theater, as acting coach, photographer, musician/singer/songwriter, filmmaker and poet.
Due to his love for nature and curiousity about personal processes he has been living and working on organic farms in France and Italy, and is engaged in permaculture and living systems theory for several years.

Through his work with Art, Ecology & Education and the following projects, as well as his travels and enquiries into urban, rural and nomadic life, he managed to establish himself as a quite respected facilitator of ‚working with, rather than against nature’.
As networker/‘pollinator', he has created an international community/network at the margins of art, (deep) ecological thinking and practical know-how for sustainable living.

Lars continues to be a researcher and learner, engaging in fields as versatile as argentine tango, forest gardens and nature restauration, the work with horses.

His work would like to inspire authentic access to knowledge and insight about an integrated way of perceiving, thinking, acting and relating – regarding life as a creative, self-organizing process and providing the opportunity to develop a lifestyle which is sustainable, meaning- and joyful.

Personal website: www.passiveactivism.net

Martin Gemeinholzer

B.Sc. Agricultural Sciences, Webdesigner, Musician

Martin studied agricultural sciences and worked during and after his university time on several organic farms and communities in Germany and New Zealand. He gained deep knowledge of permaculture principles on the famous Rainbow Valley Farm and later on applied these methods on a vegan-organic gardening project. Now berlin-based he works as a freelance webdesigner. He maintains the AEE-website as administrator.