Erfahrungsweg zur Entfaltung der Sinne in Brakel-Bellersen

Hugo Kükelhausen develops sophisticated play and experience equipment that can be seen in many places and can now be experienced as a permanent installation in Bellersen.

We describe the individual stations below:

Rotating disc: Depending on the direction of rotation, the spiral shape narrows or expands. If you look at the spiral for a while as it slowly rotates in one direction and then look at a point in the surroundings, everything seems to contract or expand away from this point.

Graveling disc: The large disc is filled with various granular materials. Barriers allow slow trickling from one side to the other. The grains are constantly rearranged so that a uniform mixture is never created. The order and shape of the individual layers are reminiscent of geological formations, which can also be found in the earth's crust. If you turn too quickly, you will not give the mixture time to arrange itself into layers and chaos will ensue. It needs time to find a new order again.

Sound column: This stone block makes a sound when it is moistened with water on its head surfaces and rubbed vigorously. This takes some practice. Musicians utilise the same effect when they play a water organ. The sound can also be heard and felt by striking the stone with the ball of your hand or a wooden stick. The stone sounds like a tuning fork.

Current stones: Water forms eddies and whirlpools at obstacles. The bodies placed in the current form different flow patterns due to their different shapes. If you watch this for a while, you will absorb the pulsating rhythm. This can have a relaxing effect, which is created by observing a moving body of water.

Water column: The crank is used to make the water rotate slowly at first, then faster and faster, thus creating a whirlpool. The spiral shape of the water vortex is one of the primal phenomena of nature. The spiral also characterises the developmental movements of nascent life, the embryo in miniature and in space, where spiral nebulae extend over light years.

Chain walkway: You will first cross the chain walkway using the handrail. If you have some practice here, you may be able to do it without. Here, the sense of balance and the mobility of the whole body is utilised.

Swinging plank: Here, players can train their sense of balance on a springy surface. Similar to free-swinging, felled tree trunks, the whole body has to mediate the interplay between gravity, the restoring force of the springy elements and their own reactions. Initially with a handrail, later perhaps without.

Buzz hole: A cavity in a block of stone, big enough to stick your head in and hum. After a short trial and error, you will hit the note that causes the air space between your head and the cave wall to vibrate. The resonance created by your own voice is transmitted from your head to your entire body, creating an inner massage. This allows you to experience your own voice in a new, very intense way.

Parabolic mirror pair: This installation is used for communication and can naturally only be experienced by several people. You speak into the shell at a normal volume and your speech is understood at the opposite point and at every point in between. This pair of parabolic mirrors demonstrates the directional radiation, focussing and bundling of sound waves. What is understandable to many for television reception, but nevertheless remains incomprehensible, can be discovered here with a little of your own initiative and with other players. They understand themselves over 30 to 40 metres.

Octoscope: The view through the octoscope provides a multi-faceted view of the southern part of Bellersen and the rest of the surrounding area. Kükelhaus compares the reproduction of the selected motif with the help of several mirrors inside the device to cell division, the process that underlies all living things.

Swinging rope: In the swinging rope device, a rope is attached horizontally between two masts. Three swinging ropes hang from it. When two ropes are used at the same time, the respective oscillations influence each other. A process that can already give an impression of coupled vibrations.

Balance blocks: The timbers are strung on two parallel steel cables. They are sometimes unstable, sometimes stable due to different centre of gravity heights. This trains the sense of balance.

Large swing: On the large swing, adults can also rediscover the joy of the smooth, steady swinging motion. In the interaction of rising and falling, opposites are experienced that are mutually dependent. The person becomes a pendulum weight and feels the rising and falling forces on their own body.

Balancing discs: Practise your sense of balance with the small balancing discs. Try it out in pairs by holding hands and then trying to keep your balance on your own.

S seesaw: Balance can be achieved on the seesaw like on a pair of scales. Lighter people sit further out in order to balance a heavier person. Conversely, heavier people sit further inwards so that they can teeter on an equal footing with the lighter person.

Rotating disc 2: This disc is rotated slowly and observed from a distance of approx. 6 metres. The players have the impression that the previously flat, two-dimensional drawing then appears three-dimensional. The centre of the disc is difficult to see when the disc is at rest, as the numerous eccentric arcs distract from it. When the disc rotates, the centre becomes visible as the only stationary point. The inertia of the eye causes the crescent-shaped surfaces to merge into bands drawn in perspective. They describe the outer surface of a truncated cone and its crater. Because the central axis of the seemingly spatial spherical crater coincides at its base with the centre of the discs , the upper edge of the structure revolves around the axis of rotation of the disc. Hugo Kükelhaus explains this phenomenon as follows: "The impression is inescapable because the spatiality is one created exclusively by myself."

Kaleidoscope: The view through the kaleidoscope shows a random pattern of variously mirrored, colourful glass stones. New symmetries and new orders are created again and again when the large slide is rotated.