Mindscape

How are ASL students faring in their studies? How do their motivation and experience of stress change over the course of a semester? What kinds of stress do students experience in their day-to-day academic lives—and what factors help them cope? During the winter semester of 2025/26, students in the Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning programs participated in Mindscape . The survey tracked various aspects of their mental health over the course of the semester.

Image: Lucie Georges / Margarete Arnold

The results of the Mindscape survey are now available. The analysis shows which stressors and sources of support are particularly relevant to students, how perceptions change over the course of the semester, and what action points this implies for the ASL faculty.

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The complete analysis, including the survey results, is available for download here.

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Mindscape was developed to shed light on the experiences, stressors, and needs of students in the Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, and Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning programs over the course of a semester. The results are intended to help highlight current challenges and identify areas for further developing support services and academic conditions within the ASL faculty.

The Mindscape survey was developed and conducted by studio.mentale* in collaboration with the ASL Student Council and with the support of the Office of the Dean of Studies.

 

*studio.mentale is an independent group of students and researchers at the University of Kassel: Sinan Bilgin (Architecture program, Student Council), Lucie Georges (Urban and Regional Planning program), Leonie Butterweck (Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning program), Lina Günther, Leonie Kühlborn, and Jana Guschlbauer (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy program), Margarete Arnold and Annette Voigt (Open Space Planning Research Group, PeTiWe externally funded project), Dr. Sebastian Vogel (Department II “Student and Academic Affairs” at the University of Kassel) and Prof. Dr. Florian Scharf (Research Group on Psychological Research Methods) and was financially supported by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education as part of the PerspekTIERwechsel project.