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We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Georg Trogemann to the Faculty of Art and Design for a lecture on »Will we ever understand AI?« on Thursday, 21 November at 7 pm. Anyone interested is cordially invited to attend!

Wir freuen uns, das Vertr.-Prof. Stephanie Specht am Dienstag, 5. November 2024, 18.30 Uhr, den Auftakt zur Bauhaus Master Lecture im Studiengang Visuelle Kommunikation macht. Interessierte sind herzlich zum Vortrag eingeladen!

From 7 to 9 November 2024, the »International, Dialogue-Free SalSa Film Festival« will take place in Weimar. Following last year’s successful première, the Festival will, for the first time, be organised by Faculty of Art and Design students at CineStar Weimar. The event will include screenings of short, dialogue-free films from all over the world. Entrance is free of charge.

For the second year in a row, the outstanding achievements of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Faculty of Art and Design students have secured third place for the State of Thuringia in the »ADC Hochschul-Kreativindex«. Ranking in the index is based on awards received over the last three years.

Product design alumna Lola Behrens has been honoured with a University Prize for students for her final thesis ‘Inclusive product design in the context of demographic change’. Pio Rahner, Artistic Associate at the Professorship of Photography, was awarded one of the University Prizes for early-career scientists and artists.

Die emeritierte Professorin der Freien Kunst, Barbara Nemitz, wird von der Stiftung Kunstfonds bei der Sicherung ihres künstlerischen Werkes unterstützt. Insgesamt 25.000 Euro aus dem »KUNSTFONDS_Werkverzeichnung« stehen zur Verfügung, um ein digitales Werkverzeichnis zu erstellen.

A new publication from the student-organised »LUCIA Verlag« showcases typefaces and typographic designs created by Bauhaus-Universität Weimar students under the direction of Stefanie Schwarz in her »Typography and Typeface Design«. The book is supplemented by texts by over 20 designers on »New Typography«, including personal perspectives and approaches in the field of typography and typeface design.

A new and useful educational format awaits first-semester students at the Faculty of Art and Design at the start of the winter semester: for the first time, they are required to complete an exciting, instructive but also entertainingly informative course on the topic of »safety«. The training programme is designed to make learning and working on campus safer.

The head of »Experimental Radio« at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is publishing a new kind of website in the form of a »Transcultural Listening Map«. The Map makes the interactive exploration of international projects based on cultural techniques of hearing and listening to radio possible. Artists and researchers are invited to participate by adding their own projects to the platform.