Same but Different: The Floating University Berlin (FUB) and the Making of Another University
Journal
Architecture and Culture
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2020-06-24
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
While architecture has surfaced in recent years as a key resource in shaping the entrepreneurial university both programmatic- ally and aesthetically, the Floating University Berlin has taken architec- tural design as the starting point for developing a temporary space for creating and reflecting upon the future of urban societies and the role universities might play therein. In its unfolding the FUB resonates with some of the processes of neoliberal city and campus development, and at the same time turns these into potentialities for overcoming the imagination of the entrepreneurial university. The article shows how the exploration of potentialities within existing spaces and discourses might be understood as one way of resisting and transforming them. It points to potential roles that architecture could play in enacting this form of affirmative critique and presents five tactics of making space for another university.
Language
English
Keywords
Floating University Berlin
campus development
community of practice
spatial tactics
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Routledge
Pages
23
Official URL
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
262447