Modular Interventions

Course Title

Modular Interventions for a Green and Inclusive University

Course Description of Student-Led Course

The course focuses on the design and production of modular interventions for the POLIS University campus. Its main subject is campus transformation through small-scale architectural and design structures that can improve the everyday use of shared outdoor spaces. Students will work on movable modules that can function as seating elements, vegetation containers, and possibly shading devices. These elements will be designed to be combined, separated, relocated, reused, and adapted over time according to different spatial and social needs. The course connects architecture, product design, public space design, sustainability, and hands-on fabrication. Students will investigate how modular design can create flexible campus environments that support social interaction, informal learning, rest, greenery, and collective use. The subject is not only the final object, but also the process of understanding the campus as a living and changing environment. The course directly responds to the BAUHAUS4EU call by focusing on campus transformation into a green and inclusive campus. It supports the idea of students acting as change agents through practical, interdisciplinary, and challenge-based learning. The course outcome will be both educational and physical: students will gain design and fabrication skills while producing usable campus elements with long-term value.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of the module, students will be able to understand the university campus as a shared, transformable environment and identify spatial, social, and ecological needs within it. They will know how to analyse outdoor campus spaces, define user needs, develop modular design strategies, and translate concepts into buildable structures. Students will be able to design and produce flexible elements that can function as seating, vegetation containers, and possible shading devices, while considering material efficiency, reuse, mobility, durability, and collective use.

Students will also learn to work collaboratively across architecture, design, fabrication, sustainability, and public-space thinking. They will be able to test ideas through sketches, models, prototypes, and full-scale construction, and evaluate how small interventions can improve everyday campus life. The learning outcomes align with the New European Bauhaus Compass through its values of sustainable, beautiful, and together, and especially through its principles of participatory process and transdisciplinary approach.

The course also supports SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities, by creating inclusive, green, and accessible shared spaces, and SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, by encouraging reuse, recycling, modularity, and responsible material choices. This directly responds to the call's aim of student-led campus transformation.

Prerequisites for the Course 

No

Registration Info and Deadline

September

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