The Free International University (''FIU'') for Creativity and Interdisciplinary Research was a support organization founded by the German artist Joseph Beuys. He founded it together with writer Heinrich Böll, Klaus Staeck (1st chairman),

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(2nd chairman) and Willi Bongard (secretary), Caroline Tisdall and Robert McDowell who wrote the FIU's feasibility report for the EC's Ralph Dahrendorf, and Enrico Wolleb, R.D. Laing, Tapio Varis, Dorothy Walker, Conrad Atkinson, Dr. Rhea Thöngens, and many others, based on principles laid down in a manifesto written by Joseph Beuys and Heinrich Böll and the 1975/6 feasibility study by art critic Caroline Tisdall. It was founded as a "organizational place of research, work, and communication" to ponder the future of society including political-economy.www.dreigliederung.de
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'', 23 December 1978) As a free University it was intended to supplement the state educational system with interdisciplinary work and cooperation between the sciences and the arts while at the same time campaigning for legal equality within educational systems. The FIU was founded on 27 April 1973 in the Düsseldorf studio of Joseph Beuys. Major presentations of FIU occurred in Kassel Documenta (1977 & 1982), London Battersea Arts Centre (1978), Guggenheim Museum Gallery New York (1979), Edinburgh Festival (1974, 1976, 1980), Abruzzo Italy (1984), plus conferences in Erice Sicily (1975), Cambridge (1978), and others. The Free International University was revisited and taken further by various people and groups, including in Edinburgh (Demarco Foundation and Summerhall), Belfast (Troubled Image Group and Art & Research Exchange), and London by Robert McDowell,

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, and Caroline Tisdall, by Renee Block, the author Rainer Rappmann under the FIU-Verlag and the F.I.U.s in

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, which were begun by students of Beuys. They also include the organization Mehr Demokratie e.V.www.mehr-demokratie.de
Towards the birth of Mehr Demokratie e.V. and the Omnibus for direct Democracy.

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* Susanne Anna (Ed.): ''Joseph Beuys, Düsseldorf'', Hatje Cantz, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, 29 September to 30. December 2007, Ostfildern 2008, *

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and Joseph Beuys: ''Kunst und Politik – Ein Gespräch.'' FIU-Verlag, Wangen 1989, * Flensburger Hefte 24, ''1789–1989 Direkte Demokratie.'' Interviews with

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(SPD), Heiko Hoffmann (CDU),

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(Grüne), Joseph Beuys and ''Direkte Demokratie, das Kunstwerk Omnibus für Direkte Demokratie'' approx. 226 pages, 1989. * Rainer Rappmann (Ed.): ''Denker, Künstler, Revolutionäre – Beuys, Dutschke, Schilinski, Schmundt – Vier Leben für Freiheit, Demokratie u. Sozialismus'', Wangen 1996, FIU-Verlag, *

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, Winfried Konnertz and Karin Thomas: ''Joseph Beuys''; New printing, Cologne, DuMont (1994),

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Josephbeuysraum20.com
– Photos of students in the class of Beuys from 1961–1978
F.I.U.-Amsterdam

Free International University World Art Collection

FIU-Munich

Freie Kunstschule Hamburg FIU
(Free Art School Hamburg FIU)
Empresas Malucaco
{{Joseph Beuys Joseph Beuys 1973 establishments in Germany Educational institutions disestablished in 1988 __NOTOC__

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