At Flussbad, its creative campus on the banks of the river Spree, Slowness has launched a multidisciplinary knowledge academy to assist the evolution of hospitality, the award-winning performance space Reethaus, and the cult Berlin bakery Sofi. A local membership brings Berliners into this state-of-the-art complex where they can engage in more intentional ways to live, work and interact.
The community-supported agriculture project Friends of a Farmer in Portugal hosts a celebrated summer market dedicated to reviving culinary craft. In Thailand, Slowness partners with Wonderfruit Festival to produce a genre-expanding programme at Slow Wonder. Beyond these locations, Slowness advises a select roster of projects that share its matrix of values. From Northern Africa to the Himalayas, and from the Alps to the Luberon, Slowness is articulating a collective of deeply held places.
Behind Slowness is Slow Capital, an independent holding company founded by Claus Sendlinger, a hospitality pioneer whose previous companies include the world’s first boutique hotel marketing consortium, Design Hotels, and Peter Conrads, whose long career in consultancy and investment includes the re-organization of the United Nations in the early 1990s. Slow was established not only to redirect capital flows towards a slower, more satisfying future, but to cultivate the human, intellectual and cultural capital required to invent it.