Floating e.V.

The founding year of the Floating University saw a diverse breadth of visitors involved to varying degrees with the activity on site, creating a unique ecosystem. The program consolidated a network of practitioners, who towards the end of 2018 decided to continue the experiment by transitioning from a ‘temporary’ project into an association: Floating e.V.

Floating e.V. is a self organized space and group, where practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds meet to collaborate, co-create and imaginatively work towards futures.

It is in solidarity with the history of the site and with the lineage of alternative narratives for urban development that the Floating e.V. situates its mission: to open, maintain, and take care of this unique site while bringing non-disciplinary, radical, and collaborative programs to the public. In other words, it is a place to learn to engage, to embrace the complexity and navigate the entanglements of the world, to imagine and create different forms of living.

Floating e.V.  is organized in working groups that work on specific tasks and topics driven by interest and desires – or what we also like to call Fields of Knowledge and Action: from maintaining and developing the site to gardening, cultivating collaborations and taking care of neighborhood connections.

Executive Board: Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Sarah Bovelett, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius

Members: Alexis de Raphelis, Andrea Hofmann, Andrew Wu, Anna Kokalanova, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Benjamin Frick, Benoît Verjat, Berit Fischer, Camilla Bausch, Carla Kienz, Carmen Staiano Christof Mayer, Coco Wiss, David Morsi, Dorothee Halbrock, Eliza Chojnacka, Erika Mayr, Felix Wierschbitzki, Florian Foerster, Florian Kurzenberger, Florian Stirnemann, Franzisko Matthis, Garance Maurer, Gilly Karjevsky, Gülsüm Güler, Hannah Lu Verse, Inci Güler, Jade Dreyfuss, Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Joanne Pouzenc, Jöran Mandik, Katherine Ball, Katja Szymczak, Kristin Lazarova, Laura Raber, Leonard Struebin, Lorène Blanche Goesele, Lorenz Kuschnig Leford, Maddalena Pornaro, Markus Bader, Martin Kaltwasser ✝, Martina Kolarek, Mauricio Corbalan, Nina Peters, Raul Walch, Roman Karrer, Ronja Schratzenstaller, Rosario Talevi, Sabine Zahn, Sarah Bovelett, Serena Abbondanza, Sophia Tabatadze, Stefan Klopfer, Stefan Kreft, Teresa Huppertz, Tobias Florek, Ute Lindenbeck