A Gumball Machine at the German Museum of Books and Writing
From April to June 2026, there will be a chewing gum machine for visitors at the German Museum of Books and Writing (German National Library in Leipzig).
Instead of chewing gum, it provides thoughts to chew over: each capsule contains a question from one of the categories “Reflecting on media use“, “Politics and political education“ or “Thinking the impossible“.
Based on the principle of “take one – give one“, you take a question with you and, when you return the ball, leave a note indicating where you’re from (Leipzig, within a 20 km radius, or further afield). The chewing gum machine is on loan from the John Dewey Research Center for the Didactics of Democracy (JoDDiD) and works without coins.
