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The climate crisis, increasing social and spatial polarisation, and the deterioration of democratic decision-making processes are among the most critical challenges we are facing in the 21st century. Urban spaces are central to addressing these issues and others.

The Institute for European Urban Studies works and carries out research in the field of socio-environmental transformation, social
participation and heritage based on the principle of spatial justice. The Institute combines expertise in urban and spatial development, urban planning, and urban and rural life, focussing on – but not limited to – European regions. The Institute's work centres around dealing with these issues within the context of global processes, power relations, as well as researching sociological and ecologically just methods and
strategies.

The Institute for European Urban Studies was founded in 2004 as a research and teaching centre in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. It acts as a space for dealing with questions concerning urban and rural spaces and their interrelationships within an international context and from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Institute’s strength lies in its ability to interweave research and design approaches: The nine professorships associated with the Institute – Urban Planning, Spatial Planning and Spatial Research, Urban Studies and Social Research, Landscape Architecture and Planning, Design and Urban Architecture, Urban Design I, »Stadt Raum Entwerfen«, Conservation and History of Architecture, and European Cities and Urban Heritage – contribute to the development of research from various scientific perspectives and through different methodological approaches based on material,
social and discursive spaces.

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Annoucement of the Performance (Design: Professorship »Bauformenlehre«)
Annoucement of the Performance (Design: Professorship »Bauformenlehre«)
Published: 21 October 2019

»Upstairs-Downstairs«: performance by first-semester students

On Thursday 24 October 2019, first-semester students from the »Architektur«, »Urbanistik« and »Medienkultur« bachelor’s degree courses presented the results of their introductory course on a guided tour.

In the place where Johannes Itten laid the foundations for Bauhaus education 100 years ago with his pre-course, over the past few decades the introductory course has served as a bridge between diverse educational backgrounds and the challenges of architectural studies at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The course is taking an interdisciplinary approach for the second time: in the 2019/20 winter semester, it is incorporating two faculties, three degree programmes and four professorships.

»Students spend the initial week getting graphically attuned to their new place of study. Following this, they work intensively during the second week in teams on a staircase in the city or park, surveying it, experimenting with movement patterns and developing group choreography that culminates in a performance at the end of the introductory course«, explains Professor Bernd Rudolf, director of the »Architektur« Bachelor’s degree programme at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. 

On 24 October 2019 at 12 pm, around 100 newly matriculated students guided visitors on a special tour entitled »Upstairs-Downstairs«. 

»Upstairs-Downstairs« performance
Thursday 24 October, 12 pm

Starting point: Belvederer Allee 6, 99423 Weimar 

Tour: taking in ten different staircases in Weimar (incl. the Roman House, Sternbrücke bridge, atrium, Herdergymnasium school, Wittumspalais, DNT, Audimax) 

free entry