Courses and Seminars for Students
The integration and involvement of students into the process of change underway at Leuphana University has long been a strong tradition. Each semester, students have the opportunity to commit themselves to a particular issue, especially within the scope of the Complementary Studies program offered at Leuphana College - whether by participating in architectural or design projects or by exploring aspects of sustainability.
Even students at Graduate School have the opportunity to get engaged in the process underway by, for example, focusing their final thesis on issues related to the campus development – provided they are adequately supervised. This will not only benefit the University but also the students.
Fresh ideas and new proposals for design will contribute to the campus development. Students will get an insight into various aspects of a project such as the campus development.
In the seminars offered by Prof. Libeskind, students had many opportunities to look into complex issues related to the individual planning stages, to bring their own perspectives into the discussion, and to develop solutions which, for a great part, have also been implemented.
Topics covered in the seminars included the following:
- designing free spaces,
- developing a guidance system,
- designing interior rooms.
- Another topic dealt with in a seminar was the design of an inter-religious room of silence in the central building.
- Within the scope of a project week, a forum was established to explore and discuss potential perspectives of developing university life.