Living Pasts – Exploring Futures: Stations

The second edition of ELTE and Utrecht University’s joint course reached the prototyping stage, and the semester-closing presentation session of Living Pasts – Exploring Futures seminar is approaching. This event is a milestone for the students who elaborated projects that aim at raising attention to the cultural heritage of Budapest, Dutch–Hungarian relations and the importance of insisting on Humanistic ideas.

The students from various master’s and scholarship programmes attend classes on campus, in the city and in a hybrid format with fellows from Utrecht, focusing on the roles of actual and metaphorical “stations” in urban life. This year’s case studies were Budapest’s Keleti Railway Station and Utrecht Central Station, and the course explored questions such as: How do stations shape a city’s identity? What determines their location? What cultural and archaeological heritage surrounds them? How have they influenced the flow of people?