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Spaces as a Process: Jan Kampshoff on the JUNG Talk Podcast

What happens when architecture is conceived not as a finished product, but as a space for social negotiation? Jan Kampshoff has been exploring this question for years—as an architect, urban researcher, and founder of the firm modulorbeat in Münster, and as a professor of spatial conception and design at the University of Siegen.

Jan Kampshoff im JUNG Podcast

Kampshoff’s projects consistently operate at the intersection of architecture, art, and cultural practice. Through the Freihaus MS, temporary installations in public spaces, and experimental interim uses, he explores formats that facilitate encounters, highlight social contradictions, and support processes of transformation—far removed from traditional architectural projects.

In his teaching as well, Kampshoff emphasizes collaboration and openness: Instead of canonical design theory, he seeks out experimental formats that help students see themselves as active co-creators of urban realities.

In the latest JUNG Talk podcast, he discusses collective processes, the aesthetics of the unfinished, temporary architecture as a political tool—and a provocative thesis: Perhaps the world has long since been built. What, then, remains to be done?

https://www.jung-group.com/de-DE/104523/KURATIEREN-STATT-BAUEN

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