Programm Freitag 19.00 Uhr Platforms of Urban Imagination: City, Art, Planning – Making Participation more Clever. Introduction by Margit Czenki und Christoph Schäfer 19.30 Uhr Learning from Tijuana: Global relevant urban development by the many Teddy Cruz Samstag 10.30 Uhr short Intro Margit Czenki and Christoph Schäfer Block 1: Utopian Surplus 10:45 Uhr Wiring up [...]
“It’s like minecraft in the real world” For ZU Students only – incomings and Newbies are welcome. No ECTS points. KickOff brainstorming meeting with a glass of champagne on Friday January 17, 19:00 at OTH Saturday 12:00 brunch and work at OTH Sunday 11:00 the same. Register / Anmeldung bitte / please via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/containeruniversity/events [...]
“Make use of the provisorical solution – and ensure that everybody will beweep the makeshift situation in 4 years time.” ContainerUni is a complete temporary campus for Zeppelin Universität at Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen. Over 160 standard Containers and a Hangar were transformed into a complex work that connects art, architecture, urban planning & academic [...]
All Inserts, the little folly-like elements that fall out of the function of university, have been placed in their final locations. In the foreground: the GDR built luxury Caravan Nagetusch, in the background the Mooncontainer. The replica of George Bernhard Shaw’s rotating writing shed “London” is up on the roof of the Gardenhouse. Thx to [...]
What a kind of privilege my job as artistic subcurator of ContainerUni is, really struck me when Christina Ehringshausen, took me on a free ride with her Lifter.
Construction time again: Artistic Subdirection Assistant Sascia shot by Steffi in the ultra cool CU-CI-blue-collar-overall. Guided construction site tours (for insurance reasons only for ZU members and students) can be booked now Wednesdays & Fridays @ 10 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. Get registered at Natalia Matis – natalia.matis@zeppelin-university.de
For approximately 2 years, the ContainerUni will be the temporary home of Zeppelin University at Fallenbrunnen – until we will move into the new Main-Campus at Fallenbrunnen 3.
„There has never been more >garage< than now“ Stephan A. Jansen* ContainerUni – do-it-yourself: Taking Zeppelin University‘s demand of space and the architects layout as a starting point, students and employees begin to appropriate the planning-process, followed by the actual spaces of this temporary campus in Fallenbrunnen. An experimental design process gets going. Especially the [...]
Use the temporary situation – and make sure that everyone will miss the make-shift University in four years. Christoph Schäfer and Margit Czenki With this slogan, the two artists Margit Czenki and Christoph Schäfer, launched a production of desires with ZU students and employees in autumn 2011. An intense exchange started between the artists, architects [...]
| Site: Fallenbrunnen 17/2, Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance, Germany | approx. 2.500 qm | 4 Container-Buildings and a „Hangar“ from readymade parts | 11 lecture-halls, approx 60 offices for scientists and administration , 5 project- and group-rooms, spaces for work and leisure with Café Mundvoll (in the Hangar), OpenTestHaus with work spaces for students (self-admistered and [...]
The Open Test Haus (OTH) is the silver container building in the center of the new campus. The name of it refers to its inherent experimental character: It will be designed and selfadministred by the students themselves within the upcoming weeks. This process of constant change and renewal shall not end once the students move [...]
…in spring 2012. Thilo Schultz “Superchunk”, the loungy installation at Seemooser Horn Campus, is transformed into an Open Planning Studio:Student’s desires, ready to jump out of the box:
Some of the background and thinking behind ContainerUni reflected avant la lettre in a Talk by Christoph Schaefer at the MIT in 2009.
