Floating University Berlin is a self-organized space and group, where practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds meet to experiment, learn, exchange and imaginatively work towards possible futures. It is run as an association, the Floating e.V.
Floating’s temporary architecture is built on a 1930s rainwater retention basin. A fully functioning urban infrastructure, that simultaneously is home to a diverse range of animals, plants and algae who have taken root and given birth to a unique landscape: a human-made environment reclaimed by nature, where polluted water coexists with the relatively new presence of Floating University, forming a *natureculture* (Haraway) or a *third landscape* (Clément).
Since 2018, Floating University Berlin has been present on site as an inner-city laboratory for collective, experiential learning and transdisciplinary exchange. It is in solidarity with the history of the site and within the lineage of alternative narratives for urban development in Berlin, that the Floating e.V. situates its mission: to open, maintain, and take care of this unique place while bringing non-disciplinary, radical, and collaborative educational programs to the public. In other words, it is a place to learn to engage, to embrace complexity and navigate the entanglements of the world, to imagine and create different forms of living on a planet in transformation.