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Doriana Marasoiu  (Romania)

Antonio Fadda (Italia)

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world”, said Louis Pasteur. How would it be if, each time you have a drink, you could be learning something new? Our “Drinking Knowledge Pub” wants to make this possible. Conceived to give the comfort of a pub and the meditative atmosphere expected from a library, DKP offers a great selection of soft and hard drinks, as well as a complete library (both with paper and digital contents), so that each time you get a drink you may choose as side a learning content on the subject and argument that you prefer. Within its warm walls, you may stay alone or with friends, combining the need of recreation with something extremely precious as self-learning. Let your mind be tempted from our House’s Specials or build by yourself the best combination between drinking and learning materials! Get ready – no matter what option or subject you may prefer –  to transform your hangout moments  in productive and enlightening learning sessions!

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Seeker of knowledge, welcome to a university not established in ancient times, one which cannot boast about famous students. Why should you put your trust in an institution like this one?

It’s simple:  this is the first and only university of the future. Nothing like this has ever existed before.
We are in and of the city. From the physical public infrastructure to the theoretical realm, the city is always at the heart of the university. All the departments are interlinked via the enormous endless infrastructure facilitating the mobility of people and ideas. The platform works as a bridge which is part of a web of structures that unfolds throughout all the cities that host our universities.

We conceive the university as the most important public institution. As an intrinsically public infrastructure, it is able to build strong ties not only with the students, but also with the entire population living in the city. Finally, as pertaining to the public domain, its aim is to delete the differences and to overcome the existing barriers. Through its yet discreet diffused presence, this urban dispositive would create an endless flow inside and outside the city. It would thus change its inhabitants’ way of living and experiencing the urban space. Parallel to a more connected city, the neverending platforms would represent a perpetual exchange of knowledge and information that could overcome the obstacles that prevent a virtuous relationship between the multiple cultural and educational areas from taking place.

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Until a certain age, we look at things similar. We learn our whole lives but choosing a profession affects our way of seeing. We see people differently, our interests changes.

We don’t realize when it happens to us. This is not something wrong, it makes us individuals Only the sum of this combined images is an objective vision of reality. Every single one of those views is valuable no more no less than the other.

If you are a doctor, waitress, painter or firefighter it is OK!

Now learn from each other.

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Athanasia Margariti, Greek, School of Architecture / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Eftihia Simoglaki, Greek, School of Medicine / Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Equal access to knowledge as the precondition for human evolution

Neuroscience has recently highlighted the importance of the Limbic System and the Hippocampus in the human brain, in the function of memory and the acquirement of knowledge. Decoding the function of other areas of the human brain, involved in processing incoming information and the general synthesis/composition of knowledge, has provided the scientific community with evidence that with the use of implants (e.g. microchips) we can intervene in the connection of neurons and boost the flow of data processed by human brains.

Based on this evidence, we have designed a process of future learning, away from fixed academic environments, big amphitheaters and white classrooms. In particular, users of all ages, statuses and backgrounds are provided with an implanted brain microchip. In every public space they are coming across educational devices, designed to stimulate their imagination and provide them with information about everything (Science, Arts, Literature et. al.). This process includes interaction with other users and data  downloading about the subject examined. Teamwork and access to knowledge sources lead to the creation of new ideas, which are then uploaded to the ‘Knowledge Cloud’, completing the circle by distributing the updated knowledge database to the users. The procedure described is continuously repeated.

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Valentina Peyronel, Italy

Valentina Simonetta, Italy

In a future where the mobility will be extremely rapid and sustainable, humans will be able to move easily around the world, among the worlds.

Peripatetic is a transliteration of the ancient Greek peripatêtikos, which means “walking” and refers to the legend that Aristotle was in the habit of teaching walking under the peripatoi (colonnade).

Inspired by his Peripatetic School and the first Latin meaning of University as a “whole”, the University of the future is an itinerant school, “universal”, where learning is strictly connected to the sense of movement and hence of experience. Digitalisation belongs to time, going forward, humanity will invest in direct human interaction and experience as the main vehicles for education. Everybody will directly experience the objects of their studies, wherever they are.

Spatial qualities that can support and empower the process of learning is not a question of shape, but of “what and who”. Classrooms will be devices adapted to students and matters: helping the focus on a single object (pyramids), children’s creativity (colourful and modifiable spaces), improving the experience of multiple objects (spiral classroom).

As microcosms, they will guarantee the experience in the Universe(-ity), discovering, and maybe influencing, its dynamics and space time dimensions.

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Ingredients:

• ½ box of freshmen excitement (as an alternative curiosity, feeling like every day is a first day minus the stress of the unknown )
• 1 cup of motivation, passion, encouragement
• 2 sachets of travel, explore, discover
• 1 pinch of people net

method

Prepare the big bowl, beat freshmen excitement with a cup of motivation and passion, slowly add some encouragement. When ingredients combine sprinkle two sachets of travel, explore and discover (equal quantities).  It’s quite a dry mixture, but don’t worry –  it’s meant to be a bit raw, so you can’t really go wrong! Add a pinch… ups a bucket of people net. This is a group of like minded people who are willing to share and exchange knowledge (Actually, the more the better).

preheat oven to 200°C and wait

You should get a fresh, pale golden flying university. A game platform that brings together excited humans who can share bites of their wisdom. Using an online platform they collect the skills and teach/learn themselves all around world. No age limit, no place limit, couchsurfing your knowledge, take your time to discover.

University not as a place, but as a people, enjoy when still warm!

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Alexandra Hernandez       Dominican (Dominican Republic)

Luis Fondeur                    Dominican (Dominican Republic)

Welcome to Playground for Learning,

Our specially designed system of tunnels, that we call tunnels of life, will take you on a revolutionary path of learning like you’ve never seen before. Not only can you pursue a professional career like any other University but also you can become a professional in moral, ethics, citizenship, wildlife, or just about anything you can think of.

To make things even simpler, we have developed a very user-friendly interface to help you create your unique learning experience. A highly advanced array of sensors and cameras determine exactly what you wish to learn, aided by a number of interactive screens and virtual teachers which are at your disposal at any given time and will guide you through the tunnels of life. To start, please give us your age, nationality and a brief list of interests. You can choose the virtual teacher that best suits you. Last but not least please write a short paragraph describing what do you expect to achieve with your journey.

All you need now is to start walking through the tunnels of life and learn all the world has to offer.

The future is in your hands,

Playground of Learning University.

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Alexandra Maria Vitan , Romanian, Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Is this the end or just a new beginning?

As a consequence of the advancement in the digital area, biotechnology, bioengineering and the easy access to information and knowledge on the internet, the need for physical space for learning becomes obsolete and useless.  After 200 000 years of existence of the modern form of human on Earth, the desire of eternal life has been achieved due to the recent developments in bioengineering, biotechnology and artificial intelligence.  As a result, the augmented human has been developed. A human that is immortal and that possess all the knowledge in the world.

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Name: Rasha ZenEddin

Nationality: Syrian Cypriot

Institution: University of Nicosia

Universities are known to be the place where you get your higher education from. At the same time, students are not only asked to learn, they are also asked to find a job, take responsibility, socialize and be healthy. Having a strict educational program causes a lot of problems when it comes to life style because you are demanded with your time and is a leading cause for depression and other mental problems.

so why not to offer all in one? a university where you can manage your timetable by yourself. It’s the place where you can work, be healthy, socialize and learn. The building provides students with job opportunities, swimming passages and pools for keeping their physical and emotional states healthy, and also an educational system that contains capsules. These capsules work based on when you order them and therefore will turn into projectors providing the class that you want to attend at that specific time. this concept in intended to provide students with a stress-free experience through their higher education years.

Elderly are also welcomed in the building to share their experiences while the youth benefit for that. This can develop a give-take relationship between the two generations.

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Name: Yevgen Gozhenko

Nationality: British

Institution: Robert Gordon University

In the world where knowledge becomes more accessible through platforms such as TED, SkillsShare and YouTube, we must question the old school notion of learning/teaching through universities and adapt to the today’s needs of the student.

Learning should not stop once we get our final certification. Our life journey could be about self-improvement and adapting as the demand arises. The strict ideology of studying set material, in set place with set timescales, to receive a set degree, not to mention the cost, limits the potential and defers people from gaining further education.

The Universal Education is an ecosystem which brings knowledge from around the world under one unified educational network. The students are designated a Universal DigiTank (UDT), an online database of their completed courses and professional achievements. The learner has the freedom to pick and choose exactly what to study, how fast to go through the material and where. With a unique DigiTank of knowledge, skills and undertaken work, the students will no longer be pigeon hold by the degrees to stay in the specific fields. The time has come to adapt the educational system to the needs of the student, rather than restricting the student’s potential within system.