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Jahresausstellung 2026: Halle (Saale) 17. bis 19.07.2026
Die Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle öffnet wieder ihre Türen und Tore und lädt zum Besuch der Jahresausstellung ein. In den zu Ausstellungsräumen gewandelten Ateliers, Werkstätten und Seminarräumen der Hochschule und an weiteren Orten in Halle zeigen Studierende Arbeitsergebnisse aus den vergangenen zwei Semestern und geben Einblicke in die vielfältigen Schaffensprozesse. Auch aktuelle…
Dallmayr sorgt für Kaffeegenuss mit Verantwortung am Campus Coburg
Dallmayr Vending & Office Bayreuth setzt sich gemeinsam mit dem Studierendenwerk Oberfranken für mehr Nachhaltigkeit auf dem Campus ein. Ab sofort versorgt der Automatenservice auch die Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in Coburg mit Mehrwegbechern aus recyclingfähigem Kunststoff. Damit folgt die Hochschule Coburg dem guten Beispiel der Universität Bayreuth, die bereits seit Oktober 2019…
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How not to design a university: UIC's Circle Campus and the Medical District
Yesterday, we went down to Pilsen to check out the Molé de Mayo festival (crowded, hot, fun!) and then drove around a bit to explore this part of the city.
We somehow ended up around the UIC campus. Most of it was built around 1965 on a 100-acre parcel near the Chicago Circle interchange, hence, its name as the 'Circle Campus'.
The history of UIC on their website fails to mention that to build it, the city demolished much of old Greektown and Little Italy. It merged with the older, 1920s medical campus a few blocks away to form a single campus in 1982.
The edges of the campus are the definition of "liminal space." The blocks are very long - about a half mile (!) in length, a ten-minute walk in ideal conditions.
Most of the buildings present blank walls, loading docks, or are otherwise set back from the street. All of these are wide, high-speed roads, which makes it much less inviting for pedestrians.
The sidewalks are decent, and at least there are trees, but there's absolutely no inducement for human beings to be in these places. There's no "there" there.
Similarly, the medical campus, which retains a fragment or two of the old street grid around its nicer 1920s buildings, is mostly a bunch of blank-faced hospital buildings, loading docks and parking lots.
It's only as you go outside of the campus that South Halsted starts to resemble an actual city neighborhood again, with human-scaled urban form - narrowing down to two travel lanes, buildings built to the edge of the sidewalk, storefronts.
There's also an older neighborhood cross-street where all the restaurants and bars are, but the campus itself is just intensely problematic, and the way the medical district is set up, even with its many teaching hospitals, I'm stunned how little there is in walking distance - no shops, housing, groceries - and how forbidding the streetscapes are.
I realize that universities have unique needs in terms of land use, facilities and so on. But this is an exemplar of post-war "suburban campus" design, created in a car-centric mindset. While inside the campus, it might appear to be a parklike setting, in reality it's more like a sprawling outlet mall literally next to a highway.
From a transit perspective, it's served by a few stations on the Blue Line, which are, tragically, all in the center of the Eisenhower expressway, and located at the edge, rather than on campus themselves; and the Polk station on the Pink Line which is centered nearer the Rush Medical campus. There are buses, but none that actually cross through both campus' centers.
Due to how the CTA lines are designed, to get to the campus at around 8am from where I live via the Red Line and Blue Line would take an hour, but half that time if I took a car, and that seems true of most neighborhoods outside the central core.
Could UIC "re-urbanize" itself by imposing smaller blocks, allowing more variety/density on those edges, adding more pedestrian plazas around campus, arguing for more/better transit, and calming traffic?
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Das Wissen über Materialien: Forschungsprojekt BurgMaterial bis 30. 11. 2023
Das Wissen über Materialien: Forschungsprojekt BurgMaterial bis 30. 11. 2023
Die Themenkomplexe Narration und Vermittlung werden in der Materialsammlung der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle künftig stärker ins Zentrum rücken. Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes BurgMaterial wird das Wissen über Materialien um verschiedene Aspekte erweitert: Was erzählen Materialien? Inwiefern sind narrative Aspekte in Kunst und Design bedeutsam? Wie lassen sich Materialien mit…
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Monster U.'s oddball campus
Monster U.’s oddball campus
The prestigious School of Scaring at Monster University. (Pixar)
Imprisoned in our own home, we decided (that is, Billy, 11, decided, with Mom’s backing) that we’d watch Monster University, a 2013 Disney animated prequel to 2001’s Monster Inc.by Pixar. Monster U. features six cute young frat monsters led by a scare-thee-not cyclops voiced by Billy Crystal. The plot unfolds on a campus whose…
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Jahresausstellung 2019: Halle/ Saale, 13. & 14.07.2019
Jahresausstellung 2019: Halle/ Saale, 13. & 14.07.2019
Am Samstag, 13. Juli und Sonntag, 14. Juli öffnet die Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Hallezwischen 10 und 18 Uhr ihre Türen und Tore und lädt zum Besuch der Jahresausstellung ein. In den zu Ausstellungsräumen gewandelten Ateliers, Werkstätten und Seminarräumen der Hochschule und an anderen Orten in Halle zeigen Studierende Arbeitsergebnisse aus den vergangenen zwei Semestern und geben…
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Leading Universities and Colleges adopt PlanGrid to efficiently build and maintain campuses
Forty higher education institutions now use PlanGrid to enhance the campus experience for generations to come
San Francisco, CA – March 19, 2019 – PlanGrid, an Autodesk company and a leader in construction productivity software, today announced it gained 15 higher education institutions as customers within the last year. PlanGrid’s solution is now used by 40 colleges and universities, schools…
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