Campus Realities

In the two-semester seminar project ‘CampusRealities,’ students from various disciplines use ethnographic surveys and artistic interventions on the Westend Campus to highlight the diversity of student experiences and encourage discussion about how belonging and diversity are experienced at Goethe University.

The results will be presented in June 2026 in an exhibition with an accompanying programme on campus. Campus Realities is funded by central funds for quality assurance in teaching at Goethe University (QSL funds) and by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. 

Students participating in the seminar project ‘Campus Realities’ were conducting ethnographic-artistic surveys in the following sub-projects:

1. Mapping the Campus

2. Echoed Voices

3. Academic style? Incomprehensible terms in everyday university life

4. Voices of the Campus

5. Studying with a child/care responsibilities

The results of the sub-projects will be anonymised during the course of the project, artistically processed and displayed on campus. 

Among other things, the seminar project offers a space to discuss experiences of discrimination on campus. The project seminar takes place in a mindful environment: respectful interaction, diversity of perspectives, no room for discrimination, confidential safe space.

We recommend that those affected by discrimination contact the representatives at Goethe University's Office for Equal Opportunities for advice.

You can find representatives for various diversity topics in the faculty on our diversity website.