Free Spirits in Freiburg

Promoting a culture of openness with specially-designed spaces that enable every member of the university to abandon well-worn frames of reference and strengthen the exchange of ideas with one another: that is one of the key measures that the University of Freiburg is using to realize its credo “Connecting Creative Minds”. So it is creating more seating groups and spaces for meetings and shared working in its buildings. There are already some examples: this gallery of pictures shows ten of the existing “Creative Spaces” at the University of Freiburg.

The “Signalhaus”
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

Common Room, Institute of Physics
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

FRIAS Lounge, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
Photo: Jörg Blum

Faculty of Theology
Photo: Uwe Nüssle

Common Room, University College Freiburg (UCF)
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

Level 9, Freiburg University Medical Center
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

The “Parlatorium”, University Library Freiburg
Photo: Jörg Blum

Freiburg Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologies (FIT)
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

The “Doktorandenlounge” for post-doctoral students
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

The Center for Systems Biology (ZBSA) (soon to be known as the Centre for Integrative Signalling Analysis (CISA))
Photo: Ingeborg F. Lehmann

“Room for Ideas” interview with psychologist Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel