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Date added: 2025-12-02

ENHANCE Winter School – Commons-based Adaptive Reuse for Student Accommodation

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We invite students to join the ENHANCE Winter School focused on the collective and adaptive reuse of existing buildings to create affordable student housing.

The programme (3 + 1 ECTS) combines design, hands-on prototyping and work on governance and self-organisation models within the broader project “Reuse for Affordable Student Housing”.

Participants will engage with a real case — the partially vacant Mathematics Building at TU Berlin — exploring how it can be transformed through minimal interventions and commons-based approaches. The Winter School introduces key debates on the student housing crisis, adaptive reuse, urban commons and real-lab methodologies.

Dates:
– Online phase: 2 & 4 February 2026 (6 PM)
– On-site phase in Berlin: 16–20 February 2026
Location: TU Berlin, Campus Charlottenburg
ECTS: 3 (+1 optional)
Places available: 30
Application period: 1 December 2025 – 11 January 2026

Who can apply?
Bachelor and Master students in architecture, planning, urban design, civil engineering, housing/real estate, social sciences and related disciplines from ENHANCE universities. Motivation for hands-on international teamwork and English level B2/C1 required.

Organisers: TU Berlin, Politecnico di Milano, Gdańsk Tech

For more information please visit the event page.

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