Current Research Projects
Further development of fluorescence excitation spectroscopy
Philipp Bokatius, Gudrun Mende, Matthias Rang & Peter Stolz
Project status after the project's first year
The research project, which started as a…
Free will and brain physiology
Carolin Schürer, Tiffany Huber, Siegward M. Elsas & Matthias Rang
Neurophysiological research today is increasingly in search of an empirical…
Traditional medicinal plant with current potential
Ruth Richter
A joint project with Artemisia annua.
The Chinese medicinal plant Artemisia annua has been successfully used for centuries to treat…
Torsten Arncken
Anthroposophy is a science that begins with the word. Through Rudolf Steiner's words we first get to know spiritual-scientific…
Progress in the research and pedagogy of Goethean botany
João Felipe Ginefra Toni
In collaboration with Dr Louis Ronse De Craene (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) and with a group of Chinese researchers from…
Johannes Wirz
For years, my everyday work at the Research Institute has been characterised by projects, (too) many seminars, a lot of paperwork and…
Ruth Richter
Astragalus exscapus, the stalkless tragacanth, which is only found today in the Valais in Switzerland in a few sometimes very small…
The basic atmosphere of imagination
Torsten Arncken
In books for the training of supernatural knowledge, Rudolf Steiner describes two fundamentally different approaches. One is the…
Further development of fluorescence excitation spectroscopy
Matthias Rang & Peter Stolz
In Goethean science there is a distinction between organic and inorganic science which goes back to Goethe and was…
Goethe Garden, flower morphology and pedagogy
João Felipe Ginefra Toni
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe came to Weimar in 1775. After he had moved into his new home just outside the city in the…
Climate change and agriculture
Lin Bautze & Ueli Hurter
This article is a slightly abridged version of the dialogue article from Newsletter No 116 of the Section for Agriculture…
Exhibits on Goethe's theory of colours in the Bundekunsthalle Bonn
Johannes Grebe-Ellis
Just in time for the 200th anniversary of the "West-Eastern Divan", the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn presented a new exhibition…
Medicinal plants – biodynamic seed line maintenance and breeding
Ruth Richter
Here we are referring to a knowledge transfer interface at which the scientific attitude to knowledge actually contributes towards…
Rhythmic changes in shape of mistletoe berries connected with moon-zodiacal constellations
Renatus Derbidge
In a modest cottage in the village of Strontian (the element Strontium was discovered nearby and named after the place) in the…
The anthroposophical rationale of medicinal plants and of plants used in cosmetics
Torsten Arncken
Rudolf Steiner developed "Cinis capsella comp" an alchemical preparation for treating wounds which contains three plant species. We…
Johannes Wirz
Goethe's theory of the living world postulates anong other things that inheritance is not a cause but a consequence of life processes.…
Johannes Kühl
Twentieth-century physics has produced some astonishing discoveries that make thinking about its models confusing. In classical terms,…
Emission and absorption phenomena
Matthias Rang, Jiri Arion Rose and Johannes Kühl
A supplementary project to the project "Understanding quantum physics". Next to the photo effect,…
Improving the health of bees by using plant extracts
Johannes Wirz
In all parts of the world, people are trying with all available means to improve the situation for honey bees. But in doing so,…
Laura Liska
«To be able to perceive how with the yellowing of the leaves there is a descent of the springing and sprouting life, but how the…