Student House Project Office
We want to build a nest - what could a student house on our campus look like?
We are working on this as part of the Student House project,
which follows on from the previous Project Office for Student Space (December 2022 to June 2024).
The “Student space” results report is here!
Here you can find the results from Carlotta and Julian (Project Office Student Space).
Download the project report data package
Archive for the project “Student Space”
You can find all further information on the past Student Space project here.
Imagine...
... student life would have just as much a place at the university as lectures and seminars.
Imagine if there was a place at the CAU with rooms for students to relax, to meet, for university groups, to eat & drink, to study & work, for engagement & projects...
A student house as the beating heart for students at the CAU.
This is what it can look like!
... it exists elsewhere! This building belongs to the student body of UBC Vancouver.
There's everything from workstations, cafeterias, rooms for projects, an art gallery and even a climbing wall! But watch the video and see for yourself!
(If the video is not displayed, watch it here: UBC AMS “Building the Student Nest”)
Why?
This project arose from the lack of student space at our university.
In many places, our university is reminiscent of a concrete jungle where the campus dies out after 4 p.m. and at weekends.
Our campus is practically screaming: "Go home!".
Students, like employees, spend a large part of their lives at the university, so the campus is a fundamental part of our everyday lives.
That's why this place should invite you to stay, make learning and working as pleasant as possible and allow you to play an active role in shaping it!
Our university campus must/should meet the demands of everyday life.
University can be so much more than just lectures and seminars. Or what do you think? What does it need for that? Student space!
Where does student life currently take place on campus? Where do we students find space to study and do group work? Where can we hang out, exchange ideas and relax after or between classes? Where can we eat and drink? Where do university groups, initiatives and student councils meet to get involved and organize? There is a lack of opportunities for this on every corner of the campus.
Student life needs space for a lively and diverse campus. We want to create and demand this space! In addition to decentralized student space, we dream of a student house as the center of student life at our university.
In order to make this dream a reality, the Student House project office is looking at what such a place should look like on our campus and how a student house can actually be implemented.
How?
Was?
The aim of this project is a complete conceptualization of a student house that is designed to meet the needs and wishes of Kiel CAU students. Based on the scientific data collected by the previous “Student Space” project unit, we are creating a project folder that will be presented to decision-makers and ultimately lead to the construction of a student house.
You will spend at least 3 years of your life on the campus of the university you are studying at. And there are almost no limits to the length of your studies. As the largest status group at the university, with around 27,500 students, the rooms you move around in are usually a triangle of seminar room/lecture hall, library and canteen/cafés. But imagine there are other things happening on campus.
Together with the 3,800 employees, we are a total of 31,300 people at the CAU and therefore the size of a small town. And yet the opportunities to get involved in life on campus are very limited. But when 27,500 students have enough space, great things can happen.
And that's exactly what it should be! With a student house by us and for us.
The best campus is the one you only want to leave to sleep. Because there's plenty of space to study, meet up with study and work groups - or simply with friends. You are well catered for from breakfast to dinner and you can pursue hobbies here, whether it's politics, sport or art & culture. You can participate by actively shaping the university or joining a university group with its own room and enough space for the next meeting. Everyone from interest groups, initiatives, student councils to advice centers have enough space to represent and support all students.
This is exactly what we now want to realize in a student house!
Inspiration
The Nestbau-Team
We, Verena (PhD Lifestyle Research Institute of Sociology) and Helena (Master of Environmental Geography and Management), are the new nest-building team. We study at the CAU and are allowed to represent the interests of the student body as part of the AStA's Studierendenhaus project position!
“There is so much more to studying than seminars, lectures and learning. It is a time in which we develop our personality and our goals. We need spaces that support this. Spaces in which we can develop, grow and get to know each other. This only works if we have a place that adapts to us students, not us to it.”
Verena
“If a university only offers space for lectures and seminars, then it is doing something wrong. We students need a place of our own: a place where we can feel comfortable, exchange ideas and get involved. A place that not only contributes to successful studies but also to personal development.”
Helena
Contact
Do you have any questions or ideas? Write us a Mail an nestbau@asta.uni-kiel.de.
