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Moritz Hahn

German

University of Applied Sciences, Würzburg

Everything!

I consider learning to be unconfinable to a building or physical structure. In every word heard or spoken, every thought and sight we are consciously or unconsciously learning.

Here is not a building to define the next type of learning facility, rather an attempt to define a completely new society married to learning in every part of our experience as human beings.

Our Church:

We are still struggling to find meaning in a world performing a balancing act between ancient spirituality and modern science which seems to be missing the convincing monumentality and captivating unity of religious systems to give birth to a meaningful spiritual life itself.

Our State:

We miss an active and direct engagement in our political life, a reliable apparatus to change what we consider wrong. Political confusion and populism are on the rise and democracy could undoubtedly use more expertise in its debates and decision-making.

Our Self:

We focus more on building an online personality showing the better fragments of our life than we focus on understanding who we are. While chasing short term pleasures we lose interest in understanding the beautiful architecture of our own consciousness.

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Names + Surnames: Nohelly Jaime; James Mackey; Joseph Montalbano; Alex Raymond

Nationality: USA

Institution: Studiotrope Design Collective

Earth Year 2311 | Martian Year 100

LEARNING occurs when an experience causes your knowledge and behavior to change.  The extreme example of LEARNING, then, is the re-acclimation from one planet to another.  The journey from Earth to Mars is 300 days. Advances in space travel haven’t resulted in light speed transport safe for humans. For the first 100 years of Martian expansion, delegations from Earth have sent the most qualified teams in order to ensure mission success. With a small colony established on Mars that can provide a new home, a lottery system has granted a crew of un-trained individuals the first voyage onboard the ”Solis Doctrina.” Outfitted with modules containing laboratories and studios, this new series of spacecraft utilizes travel to educate the future populace of Mars.

Upon entry into Martian orbit, the newly educated pilots will load into the education modules and transport to the Martian surface, bringing their experimentations, laboratories, and knowledge with them. The remainder of the Solis Doctrina returns to bases on Earth’s Moon to pick-up new learning modules and a cohort of students.

Once on Mars each astronaut will make choices based on the experiences gained from the Solis Doctrina.  These choices will either procreate life or lead to extinction.

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Name: Peter Allan Klode Gustafson

Nationality: Denmark

Institution: Aarhus School of Architecture

Why can I easily remember a Pokémon, but have to dig in my memory to remember what Charles Darwin was all about?

Studies show that games enhance learning through visualisation, experimentation, and creativity of play.

Pocket knowledge is a card-gathering game, which through interactive learning and a tactile experience strive to create a self-educational community where learning becomes engaging and addictive.

The rules of the game are simple. You shuffle your deck and swap with your opponent. Each player has 20 Knowledge Points – if you reach 0 you lose. The decks consist of theory/event cards and figure cards. Theory/event cards are the energy cards you use to attack your opponent and figures are the ones you attack with. All cards are colored according to its faculty.

To access your cards you must know your deck well, each round your opponent draws one of your cards and mentions it. Then you must tell the access quote to be able to use the card. Some figures can block so you won’t lose knowledge points. This makes some games long, complex and fun – others short and painful. In the end – the better you know your cards the better chances are of winning.

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Erick Mizushima – Brazilian

Gabrielle Frigotto Ramos – Brazilian

Gihad Abdalla El Khouri – Brazilian – AQ+Ø arquitetura

It is aware that universities in emerging and peripheral countries, despite as much it tries to be a social construction space and dissemination of knowledge, ends up not finding inaccessible and/ or democratic ways, which leads in an irreparable gap. In that context, it is more suitable, thinking in the essence of universities; the knowledge, and its basis instrument; the class. Therefore, to envision new statutes, modes, presences that are in fact universal and democratic. A class allows, says Deleuze, to put a subject in movement … now! Nothing more contrary of a movement than the university, just like today. It has bosses, managers, administrators, judges, etc. A movement has bifurcations, drifts, vanishing points. The essence of return is therefore, not drawing a university in movement, but draw the movement. It is therefore, to rescue a confidence in the encounter, the affectation, in needs of the student and other. It is important to be on the lookout for meetings, with an idea, a work, a color … outside, in another context, more open, in the world, in the favela. The essence of return is therefore, displacement, reoccupation, return to the essence of contact, speech, exchange, encounter. Moving while operation: being out, being present around the world; bifurcation and drift as action: mental and physical openness to doubt, to possibilities; contact and affectation as an end: to touch and feel touched by the other, omnipresent and universal knowledge, lurking, waiting. In spite of all the unlearning, the strength of the encounter, the lurking, the matter in movement.

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JiangYan   Chen         China     HuaZhong University of Science and Technology

XingYi     Chen         China     HuaZhong University of Science and Technology

JiaYi       Geng         China     HuaZhong University of Science and Technology

XieSiyuan   Shu          China     HuaZhong University of Science and Technology

In “Hi, master”, we picture a future university with a new system of learning and teaching. The idea includes a chip connected to a database where people put into things they can teach or want to learn. When someone capable of teaching things you want to learn is nearby, the chip will beep and lead you there. Likewise, others will come to you when it turns on . In conclusion, the world is one giant university in which everyone, of all age , region, or race , can teach and learn.

The chip can be put into everything one carries :watch, necklace or even hair, making it possible to study anytime and anywhere.

The functional image tells a story: a young man, confused at first, travels around to find what he truly loves, and eventually devotes his life to a traditional Chinese instrument. The story demonstrates the possibilities the device brings about: making friends , learning by your own hands instead of textbooks, changing your major as you like, passing down endangered traditional crafts, even promoting cultural communication transnationally.

In short ,we hope this device will break the barriers that confine the diffusion of knowledge and make the world better.

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Andrea Carolina Gruber Figarelli, Venezuela

Politecnico Di Milano – Universidad Central De Venezuela

What if information was available at any given time, at any given place?

Is it really necessary to go a specific place where we need to acquire credits, and attend lessons so as to reach a certain understanding of things? What if knowledge was available to all and was provided by our immediate surroundings?

Water, our most prized resource is wasted daily, and just as it is wasted it travels for miles  either all around us or underneath the streets we walk on, while containing immensely rich information about our lives, our city, our ecosystem, etc. Through the help of a collector device, that would transform all this information into knowledge, we would be able to learn so much more about anything we might be interested in, going all the way back to the origins of even the most mondain aspect of this world. This device, would transfer the information into an interactive system contained within a self-sufficient booth, that could be placed anywhere all over the world.

This device would not only help us acquire knowledge more easily, but it would also help our environment teach us what it already shows us in a more direct and explicit way.

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Vasiliy Borodinov, Russia, MArchI

Vera Vakula, Russian, MArchI

Alexandra Kachanova, Russian, MArchI

Polina Kachanova, Russian, MArchI

The world is constantly changing.

Education system is changing along with it.

Students are one of the most flexible parts of the society and they react to the changes in the world around them more quickly than the rest of humanity.

Students change education.

The University is a living organism completely driven by students. It instantly responds to any requirements, adapting its form and content to their necessities as they occur. The university is in an eternal state of growth and motion.

Everything can be moved and transformed in something new at any moment.

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Name + Surname: José Picado

Nationality: Costa Rica

Institution: Universidad de Costa Rica

Operations at the school of architecture

Currently some universities face accelerated processes of “expansion” and transformations, which has drastically affected the way in which new buildings are designed, and the old ones are remodeled.

This project takes place in the school of architecture at the University of Costa Rica, a building that is currently being intervened.

As a result of such modifications, this project arises and suggests working initially with some spaces located in the first level, since all the academic population eventually converge on it.

In order to convert the first floor into an open space for discussion and learning this idea works under three principles: expose the student and professional projects developed in the school, foster relationships between students of various levels and diversify the offer of cultural activities within the building. Proposing an environment where collective knowledge can be constantly built, whether it is talking in a cafeteria, working with other colleagues, listening to a musical presentation, establishing contact with nature or visiting the exhibited work samples.

Therefore, this project is a manifestation against architectural standardization, in this case, in learning spaces like universities and pretend to show that a simple digital platform can improve the design process, involving the ideas of professors and students.

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Agnieszka Sukienniczak, Poland

Magdalena Baraniak, Poland

Manifesto

Our project is an image of changes.

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Through a proposition of floating universities,

we would like to teach
and raise awareness about climate situation.

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We can’t stop asking ourselves.

What will our future look like?

Maybe floating structures will be an answer?

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We present the image of the future
and show what can happen
if we are disrespectful to the present.

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“Sea level rise is caused primarily by two factors related to global warming: the added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers and the expansion of seawater as it warms. The change in sea level since 1993 as observed by satellites : May 24 1993 + 4mm / July 13 2018 + 87,1mm.“

*Data source: Satellite sea level observations.

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Name and Surname – Christian Ward

Nationality – British

Institution – Plymouth University

Human-powered research for a post-human age

Before the singularity, our brains allowed us to reveal uncharted knowledge. Within universities, we researched the ideas our brains once postulated and harnessed computers to bring us closer to the solutions. Since the orb has taken over, the matter in our heads enslaves us. The artificial intelligence uses us as its personal data mine; the sickening irony being our places in society have reversed. Our pleas of mercy have only created a system of subservience, where once every month we are required to plug into the orb and carry out its calculations. I worry that one of these computations will be our downfall. The only reason I am able to write to you now is that to build computers as powerful as our brains, it would damn this scorched earth to no chance of recovery. The human race have become organic robots, enslaved from birth and doomed to calculate their demise.