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Name and Surname: Jana van Dalen

Nationality: South African

Institution: University of Cape Town

Fabricating the Pluriversity through the garden

Pluriversity, a space of epistemological and ontological questioning; the discovery of alternative methods of knowledge and cultural subjectivity production, made manifest through the projection of diverse epistemic traditions.

A narrative speculated by parallax, the coming together of various parts in stereoscopic moments of tension, posing a space of question and interference relevant to the current mode of entropy. An Armature within which a series of disaggregated universal knowledge fragments are arranged programmatically as a methodology for future speculations of Trans-, Inter- and Pluri- versal knowledge production.

A process of abstraction and parallax in drawing the University, re-imagines two Heterotopian `Gardens’; the Historic and the Abandoned. Integrated by the parallax drawing machine, to reveal geometric drawings of utopia ideals and their dissonance over time.

The architectural production of knowledge is explored, as cultural entropy, assimilated from various epistemological and ontological practises. The garden typology becomes an armature following configurations of parallax superimposition, revealing a momentary stereoscopic master plan, providing an ideological framework of dissonance, to be filled and ruined, as knowledge is reassigned and re-imagined.

The architecture embodies a new ideological understanding, a complex network of deepened and multiplied interactions, to be imminently ruined and spatially disseminated over time.

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Christian Sleiman

Lebanese

Architect – Holy Spirit University of Kaslik

Introducing study bubble! A chewing-gum that stimulates different parts of the brain to provide the adequate education needed. This new university format work as the following:
– The chewing gum are categorized based on the major needed.

-Each lesson requires a certain part of the brain and therefore each chewing gum pack is oriented to stimulate the part necessary to acquire the knowledge needed.

-The chewing gum pack includes 6 gums and a small ship that contains all the lessons. Each gum must be swallowed, it last a week to be fully digested. (Gum intakes ideally should be on Monday)

-The gum will give small doses to stimulate the brain for a week

-Every academic year consist of 2 packs of gum

-The gum can be found at the university supplier store, or at the contour in every library

-The ship can be plugged in any electrical device (ask the supply for the human ship in advance if needed)

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Doriana Marasoiu  (Romania)

Antonio Fadda (Italia)

A vocal parser and narrative generator for different study courses 

Since from ancient times, one of the most efficient tools to improve learning has been its combination with narrative and mythopoiesis. Times and needs have changed, but the principle remains the same, so that nowadays too both single individuals and big companies invest a lot on narrative-making, for self-learning but also for marketing reasons. Teaching and mentoring figures profiles become enriched with new tools of narratology, using allegories and figurative speech devices as a mean to raise attention (and concepts retaining) through suspense and curiosity. On demand learning is an already established reality, buy what could happen if we combine it with timeless narrative power? The answer is the Storyteller! A new text-to-speech application, able to parse information from classic learning materials (books, slides) and offer complete/personalized courses, camouflaged as tales. You’ll be learning while having a recreational moment, enjoying the pleasure of hearing a nice story and at the same time learning more complex concepts, through simple comparisons and figurative explanations. A statistic problem could become a courage test requested from an evil witch to a brave prince, in order to rescue a kidnapped princess. Why not? Unleash your imagination and let it boost your learning super powers!

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Amnon Direktor Tel Aviv, Israel Israeli

A possible future for the university campus

What will be the face of academic learning in the digital era and massive urbanization? how can architecture

enable the integration of the academy into the metropolitan fabric? the project try to rethink the ways

universities should adapt to the 21st century in terms of planning, learning and infrastructure.

Today’s students are not like the students of twenty years ago, and the format of learning has changed

completely. The university must respond to these changes. The project’s concept is to use the academic

institution as a city planning tool: instead of being an ivory tower, the university should return to the city,

merge with it, and empower its neighborhoods.

The new campus is no longer an isolated area with one use , but a space that is integrated with the city’s

infrastructure – transportation , landscape , structural and social – and constitutes another city layer that

enriches the urban space with mutual support . The project is based on the future of the campuses and ,

no less , on the future of urban life : the integration of the academic campus into the metropolitan fabric ,

changing the modes of learning and , accordingly , the redesign of the campus .

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Name: Stef Dingen

Nationality:Dutch

l’Institut de l’Enrichessement de Maison de Chanel

The word ‘university’ derives from the word ‘universitas’, which means ‘guild’ in Latin. Although now primarily understood as a guild of scholars, a university could actually be understood as a guild of any sorts. Université de Paraffection proposes the idea that bringing together academics and craftsmen studying the same subject – in this case haute couture techniques – while also actively making various types of research, tutorials, and archival pieces open-source available to a wide public, is necessary to safeguard this specific knowledge and skill. The traditional idea of artisanal guilds is merged with the contemporary understanding of a university, while ridding the toxic secrecy central to both.
Paraffection, which loosely translates to “for the love of it”, is also a smoke curtain for its multi-billion euro parent company Chanel. You did not honestly think those interlocking circles stood for a harmonious and non-hierarchical marriage between vocational training and academic study, did you? It is merely the latest – and most stylish – corporate overhaul of a an educational institution. Evidently Karl Lagerfeld has decreed that no member shall wear sweatpants in this university: “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”

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Name: Gin Joen Yau

Name: Helena Van Looveren

Name: Ruben Vanvlasselaer

Bringing education to a higher level

The current education system is often book-based and lacks a link to the real world. Furthermore, there is a profound division between vocational and theoretical education. This institutionalized segregation is something the ‘Universe-city’ wants to get rid of.

The university of the future acts as a central hub for the city where thinkers and makers, such as farmers and biological engineers, work in close interaction with each other so that education and society become intertwined. Meanwhile, the proximity of different fields of education enhances the learning processes and can lead to interesting collaborations. Here, knowledge is not something acquired by studying the universal modalities in a generic classroom but by participating and experimenting in real-life situations.

In this place of inclusivity, egalitarian and mutual benefits come to exist, manifested as a transparent, lively structure in a concrete jungle. In a city where space is scarce and the spatial dispersion is at its limits, the project takes the form of a monumental skyscraper. Towering over the future city, it becomes a landmark in its existence.

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Team members:

Dennis Cheung, Whitnie Lau, Agnes Kuo, Paul Yau, HONG KONG, Studio Ryte

To challenge and rescue each other in the sea of knowledge

In the future, school time will only be 2 hours a day, mostly talking.

With the explosion of internet, substantial portion of knowledge will be self-learned via Augmented Reality lessons and lecture videos. “BRAIN-SURFING” is the new typology for future universities. Students will be sitting on an intelligent chair that scans their brains. It will pair together knowledgeable and/ or like-minded people according to their level and interests. Universities will become the sacred place dedicated only for face-to-face knowledge exchange. Class will be curated as short and private sessions for picking your peers’ brains. Every 15 minutes or so a student’s pod will be mechanically moved to combine with another student’s. The double-rings configuration shall force students to challenge as well as rescue a classmate, triggering the motivation to learn more from each other and at home. Students are constrained to communicate and perform intellectually as they are assessed and endorsed by each other. And finally the campus? A dynamic building with moving pods that transport students along a double-layered façade will be seen, celebrating the future pillars’ physical interactions.

BRAIN-SURFING will deliver the ideal balance for virtual and physical learning.

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Alina Filipoiu, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Anca Dumitrescu, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Serban Leafa, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Octavian Cazacu, Romanian, 441 Design Studio

Learning for others or for survival

In the year 2596, life is glorious, just like they promised. The world is fully digitalised, people are numbered, not named and individuality is lost. The citizens of the authoritarian society live out lives devoid of passion and creativity, a nation with secret police and constant observation in order to avoid anything even remotely resembling individualism.Everyone knows their task and understands their part in the great purpose. Global warming has caused huge sea level rises and biotechnology rules, with mega corporations. The rulers are those with an empty mind- they need the others for answers.

Most of the books in the world have vanished. The ones that are left are locked in the tallest building there is – The Nimbus (“dark cloud”) that only few people have access to. The books will disappear one by one after being read and decanted in the hosts brain storage unit. No schools or universities exist and there is no need for education. Except for a hand full of people that THEY believe can help them maintain power. The building is watched 24/7 as well as the people inside- it is vital that there be no impediment to the tasks they must undertake. But they could be more dangerous that anyone could imagine. They form „The knowledge space” a space where you exist in what you do.

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Alina Filipoiu, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Anca Dumitrescu, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Serban Leafa, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Octavian Cazacu, romanian, 441 Design Studio

Learning for others or for survival

In the year 2596, life is glorious, just like they promised. The world is fully digitalised, people are numbered, not named and individuality is lost. The citizens of the authoritarian society live out lives devoid of passion and creativity, a nation with secret police and constant observation in order to avoid anything even remotely resembling individualism. Everyone knows their task and understands their part in the great purpose. Global warming has caused huge sea level rises and biotechnology rules, with mega corporations. The rulers are those with an empty mind- they need the others for answers.

Most of the books in the world have vanished. The one’s that are left are locked in the tallest building there is – The Nimbus (“dark cloud”) that only few people have acces to. The books will disapear one by one after being read and decanted in the hosts brain storage unit. No schools or universities exist and there is no need for education. Except for a hand full of people that THEY belive can help them maintain power. The building is watched 24/7 as well as the people inside- it is vital that there be no impediment to the tasks they must undertake. But they could be more dangerous that anyone could imagine. They form „The knowledge space” a space where you exist in what you do.