Project ‘Oerlinghausen Climate Experience Trail
A 5-kilometre circular trail with nine stations is planned to be created in the natural area adjacent to the Climate Experience World Oerlinghausen. The stations will be designed with minimal structures, without hands-on elements or analogue interactions, and will instead provide information to enable digital interpretation through, for example, QR or numeric codes.
As a special interactive feature, one station will offer a perspective on the Senne and forest landscape, illustrating its past, present and future. In addition, a game concept will be developed to actively involve young people and children.
A total of nine stations with the following (working) titles are planned:
- Start: Climate Experience World
- Reforestation in Progress
- Measuring Temperature – Senne Sand
- Climate Change and Biodiversity
- New Forest – The Forest of Tomorrow?
- Measuring Temperature in the Shaded Forest
- Comparison: Monoculture vs. Mixed Forest
- Woodruff and Wood Barley Beech Forest
- Oerlinghausen Open-Air Archaeological Museum
Climate is one of the most central issues in current public debate and will continue to shape society for decades to come. Alongside the awareness of the need to protect the environment, there is also a growing desire to experience nature actively — especially during leisure time — making it one of the defining themes of our era.
The Climate Experience Trail draws on these two fundamental needs. Another objective of the project is to reach new target groups according to the Sinus-Milieus model, while continuing to address the audiences already identified.
