HsCo, HsKl, HsM, HfT – what sounds like precious degradation products and space chemicals is, in our earthly realm, the link-up of four universities: Coburg, Kaiserslautern, Mainz and Stuttgart. Their interior architecture and design courses are using the title Space Mining to present themselves as part of an atmospheric spatial instal- lation, deep down in a tunnel located in the Belgian quarter, referencing the dual meaning of the term ‘space’.