a meeting place for collaborative & open learning within a former brewery

  • Year: 2019
  • Location: Fribourg (CH)

In March 2019, a team from Constructlab lived and worked in the unoccupied old bottling hall of the former Cardinal brewery in the blueFACTORY innovation park. As they settled in, the group created functional equipment to serve the needs of the temporary community, such as eating, sleeping, working, cleaning up, discussing and playing. This process of inhabitation slowly domesticated the wide, cold and empty space, creating new patterns and evolving the settlement. This process of inhabitation is seen as a collective and applied moment of 'unlearning'; an opportunity to reflect on our habits, ask specific questions and speculate on unusual solutions.

The Unlearning Centre is a space for action and reflection, open to local initiatives and individuals seeking a different approach to knowledge.

Project developed within constructLab by Jonas Brand, Agnès Collaud, Patrick Hubmann, Alex Lambert, Jean-Michaël Taillebois, Sébastien Tripod, Vincent Yersin

In collaboration with Marjorie Collaud (anthropologist), Isabelle Raeber (cook), Martin Schick (cultural manager)

Commissioned by Culture Bluefactory