Projects

The archive shows works by students from the master studies “Digital Technologies in Architecture and Design”, "MediaArchitecture" and the double-degree programme “IMAMS”. Results from the special exhibition Bauhaus.Orbits are also presented here.

Published: 01 April 2005

Mobilitätsassistent

Auf verschiedene Reisen nimmt man unterschiedliche Objekte mit. Geht man einkaufen, braucht man Kleidung, Schuhe, Geld und eine leere Tüte. Eine kleine Reise mit voraussehbarem Ausgang.

Auf verschiedene Reisen nimmt man unterschiedliche Objekte mit. Geht man einkaufen, braucht man Kleidung, Schuhe, Geld und eine leere Tüte. Eine kleine Reise mit voraussehbarem Ausgang.
Was jedoch nimmt man mit, wenn man für längere Zeit in ein anderes Land zieht?
Die Richtlinien der Fluggesellschaften geben ein klares Maß vor: Zwanzig Kilogramm sind das Maximalgewicht des Reisegepäcks. Was passt in diese zwanzig Kilo?

Anders als die alltägliche „Reise“ in den Supermarkt, ist der Umzug in ein anderes Land eine große Herausforderung. Um sein Leben andernorts einrichten zu können, braucht man eine gewisse Grundausstattung. Neben materiellen Dingen wie Kleidung, den Pass und einem Fotoapparat nimmt man jedoch vor allem sich selbst mit auf die Reise.
Alles was man gesehen, gelernt und erfahren hat kommt mit als Teil der eigenen Identität.
Aber wieviel Heimat passt in zwanzig Kilo?
Wie schwer ist Mobilität?

 

Wintersemester 2005
1. Projektmodul

 

Lorena Diaz Stephens

 

Professur Bauformenlehre
Prof. Dip.-Ing., Dipl.-Des. Bernd Rudolf

Studio Projects

Studios are the main semester projects in terms of workload and ECTS. Students are encouraged to develop artistic, experimental work following the research-based studio outline. IMAMS students in Buffalo join the Situated Technologies Research Group, one of four research studios at the core of UB's architectural graduate studies. Students in Weimar join the MediaArchitecture studio as part of their foundation semester.

Seminars

Seminars cover a broad range of research based, technical and/or artistic practice. The general topic outline is flexible as defined by the study regulations. Students are generally encouraged to attend a balanced mix of media as well as architecture seminars. Between both faculties at both universities is where the interdisciplinary nature of IMAMS really comes to light.

Thesis Projects

Thesis projects are undertaken after the completion of all mandatory coursework and are handed in at both universities under the supervision of interfaculty staff. A general differentiation is made between scientific / research-based and artistic / experimental theses. Further details on thesis and academic degrees here.

From July 3 to 14, 2019, students in the MediaArchitecture course exhibited the installation "Bauhaus Orbits" in the foyer of the university library of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which makes historical Bauhaus discourses come alive with contemporary means. In the artistic-academic project, the students classified and analyzed design and teaching concepts from Bauhaus masters such as Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Paul Klee. They then transformed the elements of discourse practices at the Bauhaus contained in selected historical sources into an algorithmically applicable data set and integrated them into a digital network. This was reflected on the surface of the installation »Bauhaus Orbits«, the geometry of which is inspired by the historic skylight hall in the main building of the Bauhaus University Weimar.

 »With the Bauhaus Orbits we want to enable users to experience the historical discourse immersively by using digital means to create a new unity of visual, auditory, tactile and intellectual experience. Students will find a form of Bauhaus discourse that is appropriate for the 21st century«, says Dr. Sabine Zierold, spokeswoman for the MediaArchitecture course. The Bauhaus Orbits project was supervised and worked on in an interdisciplinary manner by professors, staff and students from the faculties of architecture and urbanism, media, civil engineering, and art and design.

Get more information: cargocollective.com/projektbauhausorbits

or by Dr. Sabine Zierold - E-Mail