The Wormhotel

Every day, tonnes of organic waste are indistinctly thrown away in the waste bin, transported, buried or burned, resulting in greenhouse emissions with a high social and ecological price. But organic waste is not a waste, it is a resource! Our project aims to give communities access to shared vermicomposting systems, easy to use and to maintain: the WormHotels.

The WormHotel is an outdoor composting system hosting compost worms capable of turning the organic waste of 20 households into a valuable humus that can be used as a fertilizer.
We will establish 5 WormHotels in Vienna, in various urban contexts, in order to experiment from the scientific, social and artistic perspectives. We will focus on creating a bond between the WormHotel, the worms and the communities (users, local dwellers, schools, etc).

The long term objective of our project is to propose a scalable methodology for implementing community-scale vermicomposting solutions in many cities in Europe.

Contact

info@wurmhotel.com
www.wurmkiste.at

Cooperation partners

• Rosie Benn, Michel Gölz, Katharina Spanlang (social designers)
• BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences - Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems - Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Christian R. Vogl