Floating University Berlin ^(DE)

Floating University Berlin is a self-organised natureculture-learning site located within an overgrown and contaminated rainwater retention basin in the heart of Berlin, Germany, where practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds meet to collaborate, co-create and imaginatively work towards possible futures alongside a wetland ecosystem. On the site of the Floating University, the rainwater retention basin serving the former Tempelhof airport, a variety of animals, plants and algae have settled. A unique landscape has emerged: a human-made environment reclaimed by nature, where polluted water coexists with the relatively new presence of Floating University’s temporary architecture and program, forming a natureculture site (Haraway) or a third landscape (Clément). Since 2018, Floating University Berlin has been an inner-city laboratory for collective, experiential learning and transdisciplinary exchange. Our mission is to open, maintain and take care of this unique site while bringing non-disciplinary and collaborative programs to the public. It is a place to learn about and experiment with ecology, social equity and new ways of collectively imagining the city. A place to learn to engage, to embrace complexity, to navigate the entanglements of the world, to imagine and create different forms of living. 

This profile was last updated on 19 November 2025.