SPATH

Society for the Promotion of Appropriate Technology and Housing, Cameroon

Experiments and Experiences with Alternative Techniques and Adapted Building Methods
Friday, November 25, 2022

Background – Examples – Affects / Conclusion

Professor Doctor Norbert Pintsch

Architect, Civil and Industrial Engineer

IPC, FBTC, FPAC, RUC


BACKGROUND

Various activities were undertaken in the Berlin period by the IPC (Charly, Johnny, etc.), which can be disregarded in the present consideration. A special project was the Power Box, a joint effort between Germany and Malaysia (see: www. ...).

With increasing international activity from 1990, which started in Pakistan and then continued into Cameroon, Colombia, etc., new challenges were encountered in the field of construction methods and technology.

EXAMPLES

In the TTTC of the AeFeA (NGO) in Pakistan, solar cookers, solar dryers, windmills (Savonius principle), hot water heaters, also a power box, for applications in rural areas and able to be locally produced, i.e. also without electricity and special tools, were made available and accessible not only to the villagers, but also to student visitors for educational purpose.

The objects were made in small quantities, distributed and sold and explained in lectures and workshops - from Adamkot in the south to Bahawalnagar to Abbottabad.

In the case of building methods, foremost the “women's center”, a competition for building samples was carried out, with a jury, awards and an exhibition. Not only experiences from excavations in the ancient city of Harappa by M. Kenoyer (three-layer wall construction used 5000 years ago, today referred to as passive solar architecture) were used, but also tests carried out in the wind tunnel of the TU Berlin before building, in order to ensure natural ventilation and air circulation cycles; The village and the planned development were modeled in accordance with the results of the study.

Different materials were used for the buildings (mud bricks, hollow bricks, solid wall and combinations with insulating material, also upside-down clay pots). The temperature was measured regularly at fixed points in order to use the experiences for later buildings (Lahore, D.I.K.). The experimental buildings in Lahore (PCC and BNU) were financed by the German Embassy and the IPC, the one for DIK (flood victims) by the Rotarians and with the help of the SES. The objects for the flood victims also considered results of developments in adapted technology. The building experiments in the BNU led to establishment of an Institute for Experimental Buildings (IEC, see www. ...).

The requirements for AT (alternative technology) and AB (adapted, climate-friendly construction) were different in Pakistan, Cameroon, Colombia, but similar in prevailing conditions (lack of tools, lack of electricity, etc.).

In Bamenda/Cameroon a permanent exhibition for AT and AB was created in the Center for Adapted Techniques (CAT, NGO), with workshops, lectures and presentations from Douala to Bafoussam to Maroua. A cooperation with the BUST led to the founding of the IAM; CAT's work has received several awards and it has been praised in press articles, the crown was thereby the establishment of RUC / Royal University Centre.

With the support of the then GTZ, as well as the IPC, also with the support of the SES, Misereor, etc., CAT-clubs were established in the districts of the former NW province; the Kids-Club in Bamenda conducted and still conducts environmental workshops, despite the turbulent situation in the English-speaking areas.

In Colombia, TM (ONG) Saboya was able to bring awareness about AT to the people in the town; Through cooperation with a workshop in Chiquinquira, equipment was manufactured for schools (to explain and raise awareness of the students about AT) and remote Fincas (independent of power supply) and introduced for use. A particular success was the branch in Leticia on the Amazon with the assistance of the National University in Bogota (including a course for environmental technology as a run-up to an exhibition in the Museum Leopoldo Rother with material from Germany ). IdEpeT, an institution for like-minded people, was established in project and partner locations. In Colombia, the project work was supported by IPC, DGFK, Misereor and SES.

EFFECTS

If one asks about the achievements of the activities outlined, then, according to spectacular reports in the media, they are visible in everyday life. Everyday life includes coping with the normal demands of life and dealing with other developments. People in rural areas in particular are subject to enormous information pressure from the cities. In order to appear open minded, ideas are being adopted which are usually not compatible with the environment. There is a certain tragedy in the subsequent realizations of the townsfolk, whose previous influence on the rural population had already had a negative impact on the environment. A certain traditional conservative attitude can be helpful here, but it will be difficult for the willing and affected to maintain it.

A remarkable example was the experience in a Pakistani village - one lived there, in today's sense very environmentally friendly, was economical with water and fuel! And all this without much dependence on the urban areas.

CONCLUSION

All in all one can say: Good ideas require the right point in time and a minority that lives what it considers right and environmentally friendly!


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Spending-oriented leisure activities
Monday, December 27, 2021

Income-generating measures

A long overdue lesson

to the DGFK societies

by

Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, IPC-DGFK


The circle of terminologies is closing!

It is not easy to remain focused in the sea of meaningless terminologies and constantly repeating everyday occurrences.

The progressive fragmentation of society and the consequent development of new terminologies suggests a new development , which however on closer look proves to be merely a changed look.

The past in the form of the old generation seems to be losing its justification.

The youth representing what is still to come is pressing for recognition.

Between them the army of middle-aged persons.

One has to deal with everyday issues, living like a beetle between tree and bark and cannot really do how or what one would like to do.

Awakening, progress and future, these are the battle cries of the army leaders at the zenith of the overview, but they cannot perceive the emerging fog; the mixture of feet on the ground and reaching for the sky prevents this!

While the forefathers understood only the principle of work, in the course of industrialization this evolved into a mixture of working hours and free time, from which non-industrialized countries remained less affected.

Until then, life was still shaped by local character and was actually analogue, but with time it became increasingly international and also affected the less industrialized countries.

Actually escape from the limitation in own country by venturing into foreign lands.

Meanwhile, it is no longer possible to escape from the digital, global village. Even traditional work methods exist lesser and lesser and is iincreasingly infected with occupations of trivialities.

The sense of achievement through well defined tasks exist no longer and they are replaced by occupations that no longer lead to sense of achievement in the traditional sense. Free time exists no longer, the entire time becoming a conglomerate of income-generating measures and expenditure-oriented employments.

Classic profiling is becoming less well known, training and further education is part of consumerism. Despite the calls for growth restrictions, the environment is ruined - not without constant, but quite entertaining Cassandra music.

Nature, for some, a mystical power, for others - they prevail as terminology and pseudo-scientific curiosity occupy the content of their heads ... SEQUITUR ET It goes on and on - Et ca continue, encore et encore - Lo sigue y sigue

Activités de loisirs axées sur les dépenses

Mesures génératrices de revenus 

Une leçon attendue depuis longtemps

pour les sociétés DGFK

de

Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, IPC-DGFK

Le cercle des terminologies se referme !

Il n'est pas facile de rester concentré dans un océan de terminologies dénuées de sens et de répétitions constantes d'événements quotidiens.

La fragmentation progressive de la société et le développement conséquent de nouvelles terminologies suggèrent une nouvelle approche, qui cependant, à y regarder de plus près, s'avère n'être qu'un changement de regard.

Le passé sous la forme de l'ancienne génération semble perdre sa justification.

La jeunesse qui représente ce qui est encore à venir fait pression pour être reconnue.

Entre eux, une armée des personnes d'âge moyen.

Nous nous devons de faire face à ces problèmes au quotidien, vivre comme un scarabée entre l'arbre et l'écorce et ne pas vraiment faire comme ou ce que l'on aimerait faire.

Éveil, progrès et avenir, tels sont les cris de guerre des chefs d'armée au zénith de la vue d'ensemble, mais ils ne peuvent percevoir le brouillard naissant ; le mélange de pieds sur terre et d'atteindre le ciel empêche cela !

Alors que les ancêtres ne comprenaient que le principe du travail, au cours de l'industrialisation, celui-ci a évolué vers un mélange d'heures de travail et de temps libre, dont les pays non industrialisés sont restés moins touchés.

Jusque-là, la vie était encore façonnée par le caractère local et était en fait analogue, mais avec le temps, elle est devenue de plus en plus internationale et a également touché les pays les moins industrialisés. Échapper réellement à la limitation dans son propre pays en s'aventurant dans des terres étrangères.

En attendant, il n'est plus possible d'échapper au village numérique mondial. Même les méthodes de travail traditionnelles existent de moins en moins et sont de plus en plus contaminées par des occupations futiles.

Le sentiment d'accomplissement à travers des tâches bien définies n'existe plus et elles sont remplacées par des occupations qui ne conduisent plus au sentiment d'accomplissement au sens traditionnel du terme. Le temps libre n'existe plus, tout le temps devenant un conglomérat de mesures génératrices de revenus et d'emplois axés sur les dépenses.

Le profilage classique est de moins en moins connu, la formation et le perfectionnement font partie du consumérisme. Malgré les appels à des restrictions de croissance, l'environnement est pollué - non sans une musique de Cassandra constante mais assez divertissante.

Nature, pour certains, pouvoir mystique, pour d'autres - ils l'emportent tant la terminologie et la curiosité pseudo-scientifique occupent le contenu de leur tête...SEQUITUR ET ça continue encore et encore - Et ça continue, encore et encore - Lo sigue y sigue

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Digitization is eating away at its creators and helpers / La digitalisation ronge ses créateurs et ses adeptes
Saturday, May 22, 2021

When reality and pseudo-reality alienate each other

by Norbert Pintsch

INTRODUCTION

Literature and quotations are deliberately avoided here

So that it becomes easier to ignore

One can confidently dedicate oneself to pleasant things of the virtuality.

The short text is dedicated to the few students and open minds in the RUC.

SCIENCE AS SUPERFICIALITY

Sensitive or explosive topics attract interested parties. They want to learn more and the especially the good ones want to have a list of publications in order to control, discard, expose the author of a challenging article, to accuse of unscientific approach, - and by the way to convey; everything is in the best of order, and if not, then it will be soon!

EARLY CHILDHOOD WEANING

Children should learn to use the tools of the future as early as possible. The fascination of the virtual world has captured all areas. Its implementation in industrial production process is evident. Use of computers for designing, constructing and developing work is very common, previously income generation tools for freelance professions such as lawyers, tax consultants, auditors, - in the industry you get used to the use of algorithms (Industry 2.0).

ERRORS AS IMPOSSIBILITY

It is inevitable that the curious - wise ones are hardly available in this branch and they have no voice in business life - good and enthusiastic develop further. Economic success counts and what can then be consumed. Scenarios are developed unrestrainedly, but also lived, so that the thought of a wrong approach becomes impossible to imagine!.

STUDY AS CONSUMABLE ITEM

What you don't know, you can't forget, and so you live in vegan nirvana as a novelty, which has long been known to the wise. Digitization covers all the differences on the planet. This is industry-friendly, therefore economical and, if you firmly believe in it, also environmentally friendly and resource-saving.

NO THEORY WITHOUT PRACTICE

No names are deliberately given here, but the model of permanent alienation from reality should stimulate thinking: each period of time relates to previous, practical experiences and development of a new theory. If the practice level is omitted, then a theory level develops which is falsely taken to be practice, etc. The production of errors becomes so immense that recognizing them is increasingly difficult!

NETWORKING AS A FLOSCLE

The euphoric nerds and Knights of Unworldliness, hardly have they gotten to know real life, have moved from one country to the next, without having gained experience with the peculiarities of the respective cultures.

UNIFORMITY REPLACES INDIVIDUALITY

Without having touched a piece of material in reality, they develop on the screen, have robot-friendly products calculated, test drugs without knowing life, they feel themselves qualified to advise others on conflicts, without ever having experienced a real conflict!

INTELLECTUAL EMPTYNESS AS TOOL FOR EVALUATION

Do the developers and their helpers notice how they are embedded in consumption themselves? - Why is that so? There is no need or interest for reflecting on their behaviour, besides, there is no time!

Terms like morality and ethics do not appear in the world of program developers and improvers, which makes intellectual cannibalism easier.

The attentive reader will have definitely discovered parallels in his environment!

Introductory lecture in the IPC, on the occasion of the pandemic development

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Progress and development, an illusion
Friday, September 25, 2020

When illusions are understood as reality

by Prof. Dr. Norbert Pintsch

When day in and day out it is spoken about progress and developments, it is inevitable to not believe this and see it as a reality.

There is a long way to go to understand this all around as a mistake. It is very difficult, actually impossible to exclude yourself. You are part of the overall system.

The only option is to look at yourself and limit obvious undesirable developments through your own behavior.

To recognize greed in one own self, who can happily admit to that? - You had only wanted to improve a technology, wanted to optimize a process flow, wanted to help the general public through improved medical care.

The chain of wanting to do something can go on endlessly.

-whether new ways are found in the food production in which artificial meat is used and animals that are pumped full with medicines so they do not have to be kept for long,

-whether food is no longer carted over long distances and large amounts and is now replaced by local solutions,

-whether computers are increasingly used in the educational sector to improve the -supposed- educational level,

-whether the mobility is made more environmentally friendly through the use of other energies,

A look at what was originally called culture and which, due to global industrialization, now represents a fantastic civilization, actually prevents us from acknowledging the basic reality of existence: transience!

Through the mutation from childlike belief to supposed solid knowledge, from religion to science, essential basic elements of the unchangeable existence on this planet have been lost and replaced by fictitious numbers. Fiction is reflected, intentionally or unintentionally, in greed and greediness. We assume, that whatever can be numerically outlined, it exists!

At the lowest level there is poverty and hunger - values ​​that are oriented towards the upper levels and the urge and compulsion to reach to the upper levels, with better living conditions. The upper level is supposed to represent the success of a so-called research and development schemes.

Progress and development live in the transparency of the invisible mist, curiosity is mistaken for prudence and wisdom!

Everything is possible...

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Progrès et développement, une illusion

Quand les illusions sont comprises comme des réalités

Professeur Norbert Pintsch

Lorsque l’on parle jour après jour de progrès et de développements, il est inévitable de ne pas y croire et de le voir comme une réalité.

Il y a un long chemin à parcourir pour comprendre tout cela comme une erreur. Il est très difficile, voire impossible de s'exclure. Vous faites partie du système global.

La seule option est de vous regarder et de limiter les évolutions indésirables évidentes par votre propre comportement.

Reconnaître la cupidité en soi-même, qui peut l'admettre avec fierté? - Vous vouliez seulement améliorer une technologie, vous vouliez optimiser un processus, vous vouliez aider le grand public par une meilleure prise en charge médicale.

La chaîne du désir de faire quelque chose peut se prolonger indéfiniment. -s'il existe de nouvelles méthodes de production alimentaire dans lesquelles de la viande artificielle est utilisée et des animaux qui sont remplis de médicaments pour qu'ils n'aient pas à être conservés longtemps,

- si les aliments ne sont plus transportés sur de longues distances et en grandes quantités et sont désormais remplacés par des solutions locales,

- si les ordinateurs sont de plus en plus utilisés dans le secteur de l'éducation pour améliorer le niveau d'éducation - supposé -,

-si la mobilité est rendue plus respectueuse de l'environnement grâce à l'utilisation d'autres énergies,

Un regard sur ce qu'on appelait à l'origine la culture et qui, du fait de l'industrialisation mondiale, représente aujourd'hui une civilisation fantastique, nous empêche en fait de reconnaître la réalité fondamentale de l'existence: l'éphémère!

Par la mutation de la croyance enfantine à la supposée forte connaissance, de la religion à la science, les éléments de base essentiels de l'existence immuable sur cette planète ont été perdus et remplacés par des nombres fictifs. La fiction se reflète, intentionnellement ou non, dans l'avidité et la cupidité. Nous supposons que tout ce qui peut être défini numériquement, il existe!

Au niveau le plus bas, il y a la pauvreté et la faim - des valeurs qui sont orientées vers les niveaux supérieurs et le besoin et la contrainte d'atteindre les niveaux supérieurs, avec de meilleures conditions de vie. Le niveau supérieur est censé représenter le succès d'un soi-disant programme de recherche et développement.

Le progrès et le développement vivent dans la transparence de la brume invisible, la curiosité se confond avec la prudence et la sagesse!

Tout est possible...

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About redeployments
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

An ignored or suppressed facet of economics

by Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / DGFK-IPC

Neither the micro (business administration) nor the macro (national) economic theories waste any thoughts on the topic of reallocations. If the available tools were to be used, the results would be unusable because they would either contradict or oppose the prevailing models or remain unnoticed.

Thanks to the corresponding educational institutions, the medium-sized enterprise has spread, which is based on the global ideology of growth - without asking whether the mere addition of artificial systems and structures really makes sense. There is no answer to the question of possibility changing the prevailing position. One can say philosophically: What is not allowed to be, cannot be!

Another question, how can one reduce the bogus resources, the question which is almost obsolete, so that there are also no answers.

The idea of armed conflict has not developed further and still follows archaic ideas. This is not entirely wrong, because life is not a peaceful coexistence of plant and animal beings, but always a struggle for food, which is banned from the visual field of the humans due to cultural terminology, like greed, envy, ambition, courtship, etc., which are still the fuel of life.

The thought is allowed: warfare is still prevalent but it is different now. Pure Show of strength with winners and losers is still a tradition; however nowadays it takes place in what is called sport and means the destruction of resources on a different economic level.

The sociological lower class, not exactly a perfect term, to cut down on its possibilities is not successful, since the potential for suffering seems to be limitless there. When looking at regions of crisis, it is easy to think that an eruption point has been reached there - but there is always a hope for small and medium-sized companies, which arises out of global media influence and hope of improvement.

No change or redeployment can be expected from the upper class, a superficial, but nevertheless befitting term - that to assume is almost grotesque. The above character traits, greed, etc. have always generated an internal pecking order and leader positions – which have now - washed up on the surface. The following applies: Nothing lasts forever!

What remains in the globalized world? - The middle class, which is willing enough for any manipulation if there is a trace of improvement in life.

This could be applied, if there were one common sense; it will take some time and in Fragments before the need for a shift or change is suspected.

These thoughts of becoming conscious always arise from the past, take place in a now which is not prepared for the future.

Helpful is the limitless unteachability, which arises from the proverb: suffering a loss makes one wiser, and leads to short-sighted and short-termed hope into the game of everyday life. The unteachability fits seamlessly into the so-called science of micro- and macro-economics, the game and speculation elements of which are reflected in stock market news in which marketing is to be carried out with the end result of resources being reduced.

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À propos des redéploiements

Une facette de l'économie ignorée ou supprimée

Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / DGFK-IPC

Ni les théories microéconomiques (administration des affaires) ni macroéconomiques (nationales) les théories économiques gaspillent toute réflexion sur le thème des réaffectations. Si les outils disponibles devaient être utilisés, les résultats seraient inutilisables car ils contrediraient ou s'opposeraient aux modèles en vigueur ou resteraient inaperçus.

Grâce aux établissements d'enseignements correspondants, la petite et moyenne entreprise s'est propagée, basée sur l'idéologie mondiale de la croissance - sans se demander si le simple ajout de systèmes et de structures artificielles a vraiment du sens. Il n'y a pas de réponse à la question de la possibilité de changer la position actuelle. On peut dire philosophiquement: ce qui ne peut pas être ne peut pas être!

Une autre question, comment peut-on réduire les fausses ressources, une question qui est presque obsolète, de sorte qu'il n'y a pas non plus de réponses.

L'idée de conflit armé ne s'est pas développée davantage et suit toujours des principes archaïques. Ce n'est pas tout à fait faux, car la vie n'est pas une coexistence pacifique de végétaux et animaux, mais toujours une lutte pour de la nourriture, qui est interdite au champ visuel des humains en raison des terminologies culturelles, comme la cupidité, l'envie, l'ambition, la courtoisie, etc., qui sont toujours le carburant de la vie.

La pensée est admise: la guerre est toujours d’actualité mais elle est différente maintenant. La démonstration pure de force avec les gagnants et les perdants est toujours une tradition; mais de nos jours, elle se déroule dans ce qu'on appelle le sport et signifie la destruction des ressources à un niveau économique différent.

La classe inférieure sur le plan sociologique, qui n'est pas exactement un terme parfait, pour réduire ses possibilités ne réussit pas, car le potentiel de souffrance y semble illimité. Lorsque l'on regarde les régions en crise, il est facile de penser qu'un point d'éruption y a été atteint- mais il y a toujours un espoir pour les petites et moyennes entreprises, qui découle de l'influence des médias mondiaux et d'un espoir d'amélioration.

Aucun changement ou redéploiement ne peut être attendu de la classe supérieure, terme superficiel mais néanmoins approprié - qui pour assumer est presque grotesque. Les traits de caractère, l'avidité, etc. ci-dessus mentionnés ont toujours généré un ordre hiérarchique interne et des positions de leader-qui ont maintenant-été lessivés à la surface. Ce qui suit s'applique: Rien ne dure éternellement!

Que reste-t-il dans le monde globalisé? - La classe moyenne, qui est suffisamment disposée à toute manipulation lorsqu’il y a une trace d'amélioration de la vie.

Cela pourrait être appliqué, s'il y avait du bon sens; il faudra du temps et des Fragments avant de soupçonner la nécessité d'une amélioration ou d'un changement.

Ces pensées de devenir conscient viennent toujours du passé, ont lieu dans un maintenant qui n'est pas préparé pour l'avenir.

Utile est l'inaccessibilité illimitée, qui découle du proverbe: subir une perte rend plus sage et conduit à un espoir à courte vue et à court terme dans le jeu de la vie quotidienne. L'inaccessibilité s'intègre parfaitement à la soi-disant science de la micro et macro-économie, dont les éléments de jeu et de spéculation se reflètent dans les nouvelles des bourses financières dans lesquelles le marketing doit être effectué avec le résultat final de la réduction des ressources.

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About the Think Tank Project
Sunday, January 20, 2019

by Norbert Pintsch IPC, FPAC

TTP / FBTC and FPAC are networked with SPARC-SPAET-SPATH-SPOCA-SEMOL-SUTOL

After sketching the topic HOUSING in three publications (Housing, Population and Housing, Systems and Housing), TTP is now entering a new phase.

Although the topic of communication and information has been treated in various essays over the years, experience has also been gained with contemporary techniques, but now the problems arising from the cultural model and its inter-dependencies, as well as system considerations on general housing meed to be discussed.

There are misunderstandings from small groups to large groups, and it is more than a miracle that an exchange is possible at all.

It is not only the basic communication, which is a problem.

If one were to orient oneself towards Wittgenstein (which one is not supposed to talk about, one has to be silent about it), then hardly any communication and information should be taking place.

In the assumption of better understanding, new terms are invented, which instead of closer definition create still new questions and thus new answers with new terms and for improvement with the same, similar or different concepts or ideas.
Already the analogue exchange of ideas on earth is more than problematic, but when the digital exchange comes into play with additional time or distance factors, then arise the real problems!

Housing in the closed system is the protection, the material protection, - the immateriality that demands the traditional humanity!

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Informal Think Tank
Sunday, January 6, 2019

By Norbert Pintsch, IPC, FPAC

The idea of cooperating with others, i.e. to exchange ideas with others and to stimulate each other, this thought is not exactly new!

In the United States of America (USA), company representatives came together and established privately funded socalled Think Tanks!

In the 20th century, this idea was implemented under president Franklin Roosevelt and a new form of advice emerged.

In politics, technological and economic interests are transferred into governance process in a lobby-like manner.

Such examples are presently implemented in many countries for selfish interests and they influence politics, usually with a certain lobby in the background.

The DGFK is an altruistic example of an informal Think Tank in which SUTOL, SEMOL, SPARC, SPATH, SPAET, SPOCA, but also FPAC and FBTC exist; however they operate in a subtle and discreet manner!

An interesting project is the so called Closed System, which outlines possibilities and tendencies, also of an uncomfortable kind, which is characterized by financial independence and the personal refrain from self-projection by the co-thinkers.

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Royal Development Corporation
Thursday, May 24, 2018

The hospital project is finished as a shell construction and is an excellent example of local, environmentally conscious, resource-saving construction technique (see pic and as a counter sample an advanced hospital construction!).


It takes strong account of traditional building skills with local materials.

Now, in extension of the project, a new project will be initiated, in which the possibilities of the modern times shall be intewgrated, e.g. GPS and use of drones.

At the same time, the Royal University Center with the Appropriate Technology department would also be giving a boost to giving high-tech hands-on experience and passing it on to students.

Successfully outsourced and now independent are the areas of pharmacy in Douala and the practice of therapy in Alahkie, which will have a positive effect on the further development of the hospital project.


Royal University Centre

The Department of Appropriate Technology of the University will take up the idea of the Royal Development Corporation and give the students new hands-on experience, because not the theory is the hurdle, but the practical experience for the activity of the next generation.


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Volunteers in Bamenda
Thursday, May 25, 2017

Volunteers again on site, In Bamenda at CAT, As well as in Alahkie at RDC (May2017):


Renate Perner and Lutz Fluegge coach Trainers, who pass on their knowledge to the Kids Club children. This time, as handicraft, chains were made from old paper. and in the context of Appropriate Technology, a toy with a reaction-drive.


Marlis Bartkiewitz-Schmid has worked in Alahkie at the RDC, as well as RUC in the area of treatment with traditional medicine.


Professor Pintsch was active in Bamenda and Alahkie. A proposal for infra-structure development between Bamenda and Malabo has been developed and a wood-saving furnace system introduced by CAT and the RUC in Alahkie. A presentation will take place in the next days at the Ministry in Yaounde.


The infrastructure proposal is to be seen in the context of the situation between the French and the British backgrounds and shows new ways, no matter how the current situation develops.


Additionally, a discussion took place between the departmental head for traditional medicine and the department head for Appropriate Technology of the RUC and its Vice Chancellor , Prof Pintsch, with the involvement of journalists.


For this year, another film is planned, the local participants would like to carry out an exhibition of the project in 2018.

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Royal Guest House in Cameroon - A sample of Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Wednesday, April 12, 2017


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Radio TV RUC
Tuesday, March 22, 2016



Consequences of technology input
Monopoly status
Environment pollution (air-design-sound-advertisement-etc)
During the inital phase please contact Mr Victor/ CAT-IPC


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Use of SES expert in Bamenda
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Once again it has been possible to win through the support of the SES experts in Basic Health + Traditional Medicine (Marlis Bartkiewitz-Schmid) and Upcycling + Environment Protection (Renate Perner).

Test of pH of Drinking Water
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch/SES supports construction activities with the help of Lutz Fluegge of the DGFK. He also helps in the development of C + I.
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About the end of handicrafts
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / SPATH, IPC

I may clarify right in the beginning: There will not be an end as long as the handicraft worker is an expert in his trade and maintains his cultural roots,- without losing the spirit of time.

At this point I may point to Art Nouveau and as one of its excellent example the Palais Stoclet in Brussels; it only proves: Excellence keeps standing!

For everything else is valid: When mass production predominates and the hope is to find consumers, who are less informed and more inclined to snap up anything offered at a super price, in the hope to be able to call something special as their own, then it is surely the rightful end of this article, which was anyway not real but a pseudo handicraft.

It is not a problem to scan and reproduce a unique article with help of CNC. This may sadden, but it is only a matter of getting used to it, like the 2-D copies.Even an experienced buyer cannot differentiate between the copy and the original piece. Only absolute experts with taste, knowledge and money know to appreciate it!

All others remain silent in the spirit of delusion!

The absolute majority vanishes, in the industrial uniformity and run for trade marks, wish for a seeming regular change through fashion and other such actions.

Insofar, this picture depicts not only the situation of handicrafts but also of everything which can be designed, including body products, clothing, internal and external designing up to the whole spectrum of industrially designed products.

Environmental protection and wastage of resources remain stuck at discussion level only.

Conclusion: There is no reason for sadness. In each period of time, only little remained back of cultural heritage; the meaningless taking the transitory path,- like the falling leaves in autumn, which vanish as dirt in the course of the year.

In the course of a human life, the direct relationship between the creator and the created is important and has its special value,- the economic relationship is an income generating measure and a charade. To see through it is left to the future generations!

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Unique Item vs. Industrial Production
Friday, September 18, 2015

Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / SPATH, IPC

As soon as the infrastructure allows it, manufacturing of various items of daily use but also handicrafts are started to be produced through industrial methods.

The argument here is normally: It must be worthwhile to produce the item, this refers to the economic level, which has and must have its short term and short sighted approach to problem resolution. The cultural aspect here is totally ignored, because an evaluation of something neither tangible nor calculable is hardly possible.

This dilemma is clearly visible in the development of share prices. They increase in totality according to general situation, because they represent the industrial production. It does not reflect the destruction of resources and the environmental damage, on which it is based.

As a graphical depiction, the industrial growth can be put in comparison to the loss of resources. Regarding manufacturing of unique pieces and requirement of the customers to purchase something very individual, the comparison would be with the estimated loss of the ability to manufacture the piece of handicraft.

Why should a unique piece be manufactured at a higher cost, if it can be manufactured industrially in a much larger quantity,- so the opinion and expectation of the purchasers.

In the field of the art market, runaways from the artistic scene suggest a demand for the items with unique characteristics. The specialty has a price. Participation in its production creates imitators, so the price continues to slide downward and withy that also the value.

This phenomena is actually not a phenomena but rather a result of the economic oriented approach.
Work places, resources, cultural values are regulated in this way and cause damage in social and political field.

It is remarkable, how little attention is given to the effects and causes. The industrial product with a logo has a higher value as compared to the unique product, especially then, when it is not communicated industrially.

The possibility of marketing unique items and small series is made difficult and obstructed through certification sectors, which in the context of value addition suggest safety, environmental protection and work protection.

Result is, that the unique product gradually falls away from perception for financial reasons through the missing value addition. The special thing is, that the richness of culture of a country gradually disappears.

Innovation and creativity are promoted, but limited due to economic arguments. The connections between climate, environment and culture are lost in the process of globalization. The forgotten and the lost differences however remain.

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Analog and digital action
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch / SES, Njini King Caro / SPATH-Project

Times of transformation are times of change and change always comes.

In the present time, change is brought about through the use of and effects of Information and Communication. At the same time, the factor is ignored, although it is there all the time.

The manufacturing of a unique piece requires time and demands Initiative, Creativity and Innovation. Terms, which are precondition in the analog as well as in the digital world. The big danger here is of acting as Either-Or, because it is more sensible to act as This-As well as this. Otherwise the ground reality goes lost and the digital reality is considered the only reality. The production of errors is increased exponentially. These again lead to Pseudo-Solutions, which contain new faults!

The production of errors is enormous due to the factor time and technological speed. They can be equalized or reduced through adjustments, which create uniformity and stand opposite to evolutionary development, which also works with the factor Time but in completely different dimensions and Mega-Systems, the extent and complexity of which in spite of digital possibilities can only be imagined.

The understanding here is the duplicity of our self. We are subject and object at the same time and are not able to equalize in the digital world. Add to that in a solely digital consideration the processing of the Affects, not the Cause, which is to be found on the analog level.

This can e explained with a simple example. A Thing can be made as analog, i.e. a really unique piece, which as explained above, requires and demands -among others- creativity.

To make this Thing digitally, e.g through 3-D-Printer, requires more than the technical-scientific knowledge, it requires Creativity from the analogue world. Otherwise, the progress will only be pseudo-progress and in spite of general belief and assumptions, they contain concealed errors and only pseudo-success.

Environmental protection, Resource protection, Nature protection remain hollow slogans in short term economic thinking and false value addition.

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Triple Decoration Dr Senta Siller
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