Floating Links
Name + Surname : Victor Eduard Serbanescu
Nationality : Romanian
Institution : UAUIM Bucharest
The future of learning is up in the air
What good is a university when education is moving online? When students can learn everything from product design to data science on Udemy or Coursera the old brick-and-mortar university seems to be left without a purpose. Or not.
Floating links seeks to foster the interactions, debates and the teamwork that massive open online courses could not successfully replicate. This hovering machine with a complex learning infrastructure picks up people from around the world. In this hop on hop off cluster of knowledge students dwell, develop and perform together in a holistic environment.
Public spaces that facilitate synergy and cooperation are intertwined with smaller, private spaces that aim to preserve the emergence of original ideas, that are then put to challenge.
The social aspect seems to be the only feature of traditional education that is still relevant in this digital age. The university of the future is interdisciplinary and cross – platform. Floating links takes students to uncanny, but also familiar places in a continuous frenzy of intellectual interactions.