Johannes Schuster
Johannes Schuster is one of the founders, first class Teacher and long-time School-Coordinator of the Little Yarra Steiner School. (www.lyss.vic.edu.au ) Over the 20 years of his involvement, he helped guide the school’s development, designed and project managed its buildings and oversaw its growth from a handful of children in a hired public hall, to a K-12 School on its own 60 acre property. Forty years later, the school stands as a testament to that founding vision of an inspiring, purpose-built cultural educational centre in the Yarra Valley, outer Melbourne, Australia.
Transformative Art and Architecture (TAA) Course Creator
As Johannes grappled with the design of the LYSS buildings, his question was how spirit could be meaningfully expressed in form. His interest in the 4 Ethers eventually led him to formulate an Anthroposophically grounded theory and practical methodology of Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA) , which placed the morally transformative power of inspired artistic form as its central aim. It was this approach which brought the Little Yarra Steiner School to the attention of colleagues from the European Anthroposophical Architecture Movement. The school was featured in a book on Organic Architecture and became part of an Architectural traveling exhibition displayed in various capital cities in Europe and Asia.
The principles of TAA have since grown into an 8 Module course which Johannes and his wife Sue have been teaching for the last 15 years in full and part-time seminars in Australia, Argentina, Switzerland (at the Goetheanum in 2015 , 2016 , 2025 and 2026) Malaysia, China and Taiwan, having gone online during the Covid years. Their students have come from a broad spectrum of professions form teachers, artists, designers and architects to farmers, therapists, and entrepreneurs.
Biosculptural Design Consultants
In addition to lecturing and tutoring, Johannes and his wife Sue also work internationally as Biosculptural Design Consultants, collaborating with organisational and private clients interested a spiritual form perspective. As Biosculptural Consultants they collaborate with the client and the leading architect to formulate and give tangible expression to a spiritual higher purpose unifying the overall forms of the design.
Book Project – Lecture Series
Johannes is currently working on a three volume Spirit in Matter book project and lecture series of the same title:
Creativity, Meaning and Transformation in the Age of AI
seen through the lens of Rudolf Steiner’s Spiritual Science and other esoteric traditions
The first Volume explores the nature ofAI in connection with the Universal Creative Process and is expected to be published in 2027. The second book looks at AI in the context of the Spiritual Evolution of Humanity. The third book explores a practical approach to Transformative Art & Architecture, with the aim of raising the bar of artistic relativism to a different set of criteria grounded in “goodness, truth and beauty”.
The fortnightly lectures explore and discuss the many different angles which the three books, after their final edits, will bring together in the form of an integrated whole. Click here for more details.