Building at Full Scale – Learning through Experience, Cooperation and Exchange in the Academic Context

The Craft & Making symposium understands 1:1 making as a central strategy for learning and research within the academic environment. Studying, in this sense, does not merely involve the acquisition of theoretical knowledge, but rather the exploration, reflection, and understanding that emerge through direct, lived experience. Working at full scale opens up a unique mode of learning: material becomes tangible, structures can be tested, constructions are experienced – and built.

Through the collective process of designing, building, and discussing together, collaborations unfold that transcend disciplinary and cultural boundaries. Students, teachers, and experts engage in an open exchange in which knowledge is not only transmitted but also jointly generated through practice.

In this way, the symposium becomes an academic laboratory that dissolves the boundaries between research, teaching, and practice – a space where craft and theory, structure and experience, community and insight intertwine, and where a new form of studying at full scale begins to take shape.

The symposium will be held in English.