Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Verena von Beckerath

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Verena von Beckerath is an architect based in Berlin and a co-founder of the architecture practice Heide & von Beckerath. She studied sociology, art theory and psychology in Paris and Hamburg and architecture at TU Berlin. After her studies, she was a teaching and research assistant at UDK Berlin, held a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude and won the Rome Prize Villa Massimo 2013. She was a visiting professor at TU Braunschweig and Comell University, lthaca, NY. Verena von Beckerath is a professor of architecture at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where she has held the Chair of Design and Housing since 2016.

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Not Quite but Close

The environmental crisis and deepening political and economic division in society lend the concept of the public as well as the anthropocene a central part in the artistic and architectural discourse. This gives the transformation and adaptation of existing built structures and spaces particular significance. Observations on the south-eastern periphery of Rome, where post-war housing meets Parco degli Acquedotti, are placed side by side with those on Inujima, an island in the Japanese Seto Inland Sea, where the effects of its industrial past are superimposed and infused with artistic and architectural interventions. In these transitional spaces, architecture and nature coexist, absorbing forms of everyday and public life alike. Are these spaces with their specific characteristics and forms of appropriation an expression of an increasing dissolution of the public realm? Or do they imply a differentiated, ambiguous and equally collective understanding of publicness against the background of a fragmented social and political environment?

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