Third Places: Hospitality in Flux is a transatlantic co-learning program aimed at exploring the ever-evolving concept of hospitality through the lens of the third space. This program will focus on how these environments shape our understanding of community, belonging, and service. Our discussions will examine the commodification of hospitality and challenge traditional hierarchies in gastronomical education and service, advocating for inclusive, co-learning models that prioritize personal experience over rigid certification.

This program invites professionals in the hospitality industry, educators, and cultural theorists to rethink the spaces we create and inhabit, with the goal of fostering genuine connections in an increasingly commodified world.

hypha_etc announces its open call for educators seeking a remote space suitable for short-term pedagogical activities. Our goal is to promote experiential learning practices outside of traditional academic boundaries, providing a platform for educational projects that deepen the connection with theoretical ideas and real-world applications, while embracing engagement and inclusivity. We aim to support educators in empowering students to explore and expand their knowledge within a natural environment, fostering a sense of community.

hypha_etc welcomed Katalin Erdődi, a curator, dramaturge, and writer based in Budapest, as our resident in December 2024. During her stay, Katalin worked on her dissertation as part of the PhD-in-Practice in Curating program at ZHdK (Zurich University of Arts) and the University of Reading (UK).

This workshop aims to broaden students' perspectives on art's role in addressing societal and environmental issues, fostering civic consciousness through creative practice. It will include presentations on major art movements from 1945 onward, with a focus on Romanian art from the 1970s and 80s.

The workshop brought together doctoral students and recent graduates from the Doctoral School of Philosophy at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, particularly those researching and writing in Hungarian. This event marked the initial step of a long-term research project on Hungarian philosophy in 20th-century Romania, with a focus on the socialist era.

hypha_etc announces its open call for educators seeking a remote space suitable for short-term pedagogical activities. Our goal is to promote experiential learning practices outside of traditional academic boundaries, providing a platform for educational projects that deepen the connection with theoretical ideas and real-world applications, while embracing engagement and inclusivity. We aim to support educators in empowering students to explore and expand their knowledge within a natural environment, fostering a sense of community.

This school is organized by Historical Materialism Journal and Book Series in partnership with tranzit.ro/Cluj, Romania. Câmpu Cetății, Hypha_etc camp

The Summer School "Ecologies of Emancipation" is organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj, hypha.etc and the Faculty of Theatre and Film of Babeș-Bolyai University within the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis".

The project is organized by tranzit.ro/Cluj in partnership with hypha_etc, as well as Fundația 9 (Scena 9), National Institute of Materials Physics, Dezarticulat, Mindcraft Stories, TLTXT

In partnership with NECC (Nature Education Community Center) and Milvus Group.

The Cluj Architecture Students’ Association (A.St.A) team was the second organization to benefit from the 2024 hypha_workshop program.

From April 24-26, we hosted the first participants of the 2024 hypha_workshop program: a group of students and their tutors from the Ornithology course, an elective course within the Biology and Ecology undergraduate program at Babeș-Bolyai University. They held their annual field ornithology workshop at hypha_etc, Câmpu Cetății.

In partnership with NECC (Nature Education Community Center) and Milvus Group.

Virág Lődi, an educator and cultural worker, used this residency to work on her doctoral thesis, Situations and Commitments - Specific Aspects of the Pedagogical Turn of the 1970s in Hungary / The Work of Péter Forgács, István Sinkó & István Rév, and Educational Films of the Balázs Béla Studio.

The project was organised by tranzit.ro/Cluj in partnership with Foundation 9 (Scena 9), National Institute for Research and Development in Materials Physics and Dezaticulat.

The 3rd edition of the “Ecologies of Emancipation” summer school investigated the old revolutionary slogan of 1917 – „Bread, Land, and Peace” – from a double perspective. Firstly, through a series of investigations on the contemporary state of polycrisis affecting the global production and distribution of basic social necessities, the climate meltdown, and the militarization and fascization of political life. Secondly, from a historical perspective, by revisiting the way in which the initial revolutionary movements and ensuing communist states that sprung in Eastern Europe from that 1917 context dealt with these questions and handled their own polycrisis in their final decades.

The residency offered architect Alex Whitton the opportunity to explore building design and engage in teaching sessions with students (both current students and recent graduates in architecture, architectural engineering, and landscape architecture).

The first edition of Zero Point Summer School, curated by Virág Bogyó and Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják, took place from August 6-11, 2023, in Câmpu Cetăţii, Mureş County. Over 45 young professionals and students from fields like design, architecture, social sciences, and humanities attended.