The art programme tre kunstrom explores how to establish and maintain free spaces, starting from the framework of art. I.e. Spaces which are kept physically and ideologically open, that invite shared exploration, and where the freedom to think and to create is preserved and strengthened. In line with this process, KORO collaborates with Protestpub on the event Action for Free Space.

Together with the students' Skiboli committee, they invite all interested parties to debate and party, to celebrate the fact that the university belongs to us all! You can expect installations, performative contributions, creative expressions, food and drink – presented by and with students, artists and other professionals. Some are planned, some are spontaneous – as is often the case in spaces like Skiboli.

How can we all take ownership of the university's local and physical dimensions, detached from the bureaucracy of room bookings and constricted functional frameworks? ProtestPub has put a critical spotlight on governance in the sector, leading to the question of how physical spaces on campus should be used. For what? By whom? Why and how? Can new campuses offer more community, curiosity, criticism and creativity and not just even more streamlining?

Students and staff must be allowed to feel ownership of NTNU's physical campus. Students end up not coming to campus because they simply cannot find their place. Must all areas have a designated function or do we also need places where students and staff can meet, explore, interact and take up space, even spontaneously and without a plan? How can campus contribute to academic and artistic freedom if everything is mapped out for optimal space utilisation?

Skiboli is precisely a place that is not assigned a specific function, but is a beacon for creativity, collaboration and student activity. It is is these kind of open, informal and student-run spaces that are now in danger of being sacrificed in a calculation of available area where value is measured in square meter prices. Skiboli, a historic building with great significance for the student community, is to be demolished as part of the campus development. One of KORO's first steps is to try to preserve and relocate Skiboli before it is demolished, and build on the commitment from student forces in, among others, the Skiboli Committee.

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