Campus de la Transition
Project information
submitted by
Verena von Beckerath
Mentors
Verena von Beckerath, Till Hoffmann, Hanna Schlösser
Faculty:
Architecture and Urbanism
Degree programme:
Architecture (Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)),
Architecture (Master of Science (M.Sc.))
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Summer semester 2023
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8 - Hauptgebäude / Main Building
(Flur 1. Obergeschoss, Raum 108)
Links
http://www.placeswe.live
https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/arc...
Project description
"At schools known for ambition, not activism, students are calling for climate change to be at the heart of the curriculum, and telling the companies that recruit them to change their ways. (...) Frustrated by the disparity between the world they dream of and the one they are offered, students are pressuring universities to put climate change and other environmental issues at the core of their curriculums.
Cécile Renouard, a philosopher who teaches at several universities, said that courses on the environment in higher education “are not always radical enough and not systemic enough.” “The challenge is also to show how ecological questioning invites us to revisit all our subjects,” she added. In 2018, Ms. Renouard founded the Campus de la Transition, or the Transition Campus, an alternative academic institution where a range of subjects, from economics to law, are taught through environmental lenses."
Constant Méheut: At Elite French Universities, Students Demand Environmental Action, in: The New York Times 30.01.2021
The Campus de la Transition forms the conceptual and spatial starting point for the design studio. The campus is a 12-hectare site at Domaine de Forges to the south-east of Paris, comprising a Baroque palace, a potager and a woodland. The goal of the design studio is to examine design approaches to the various spatial, social and programmatic features of the campus "through environmental lenses".
Email: till.hoffmann[at]uni-weimar.de