After breakfast, we head to the Fair Fashion Factory located at Campus Klybeck in Basel. FFF operates as a sustainable textile hub that brings ecological and ethical garment production back into the urban space. By combining traditional craftsmanship with modern technology, it serves as an innovative network for training, networking, and developing circular, transparent supply chains in the fashion industry.

Following the FFF visit, we depart for Dornach in the canton of Solothurn. The Goetheanum, established by Rudolf Steiner, is the world center for the anthroposophical movement. The Goetheanum refers to two structures: the first, featuring a massive wooden dome, was in use from 1919 to 1922 and was destroyed by fire; the second, completed in 1928, remains a useful and impressive concrete structure that continues to inspire generations of architects. Notably, Steiner’s anthroposophical approach influenced Wharton Esherick, an American artist who foregrounded a creative path that valued thinking through making and the grounding nature of working directly with materials.