CEU Resided

By Lilit Hakobyan and Nhi Le
In 2020, Central European University (CEU) was forced out of Budapest by the Hungarian government. The university settled in Vienna, in a building which once housed a bank. This short documentary explores how a former bank was redesigned to serve as an educational institution. It offers a dialogue between the professional who worked on the building redesign project, and a student who reflects on her lived experience of studying there. The conversation revolves around two different perspectives, by revealing the contradiction between a commercial space and a study space.