Floating University Berlin in Germany by raumlaborberlin

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From May to September 2018 raumlaborberlin creates a visionary inner city offshore laboratory for collective, experimental learning: Floating University Berlin. Students and scientists from more than twenty international universities come together with artists from all over the world, local experts, architects, musicians, dancers, neighbors and visitors for this experiment of applied science to challenge routines and habits of urban practices.

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• Architects: raumlaborberlin
• Project: Floating University Berlin
• Location: Berlin, Germany

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It is an „enchanted place on a terrestrial site where cross-disciplinary, field-generated knowledge of the transformation processes of our urban environment is applied and processed in a way that will allow future generations of citizens to use this knowledge as fertilizer for the development of communal and individual urban practice“ states project initiator Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius.

During the Summer Open Weeks (29 June to 15 July) Floating University invites the public for an array of more than twenty workshops and discussions, concerts and performances into an old concrete rainwater basin right next to the Tempelhof airfield, filled with a generic structure, a drilling platform for a scarce urban resource: sensitivity for decision-making.

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In the workshops participants may learn how to construct solar ovens and bacteria water filters, research for collective performances and analyze the possibilities nature holds for architectural practice. Jeanne van Heeswijk and Annet van Otterloo (artists, Rotterdam) investigate in their workshop which local and self-organized support and community structures can be built at the Floating University. geheimagentur (performance collective, Hamburg) explores the possibilities of hydrarchies today. Young people can take a walk around the neighborhood with Tucké Royale (performer, Berlin) to learn about the history of the neighborhood in the Nazi era and families built an Andalusian water playground with Basurama (art collective, Madrid/Mailand/Bilbao) and ALAS (architects, Berlin).

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Tags: Berlin, Germany

Categories: Laboratory, University

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