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Das Jahr 2021 war für die Absolventinnen und Absolventen im Studiengang Medienkunst / Mediengestaltung besonders erfolgreich: Gleich vier Produktionen haben es in die Hörspiel- und Feature-Planung von Deutschlandfunk geschafft und werden ausgestrahlt. Zwei der Abschlussarbeiten werden zusätzlich im Rahmen einer neuen Kooperation der Professur »Experimentelles Radio« mit dem Theater Erfurt in einem neuen Format unter dem Titel »Hör.Box« im Frühjahr zur Aufführung gebracht.

»MateriaLab« are experimental kits on the topic of waste and recycling for children, which Florian Henschel, a product design graduate from the Faculty of Art and Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, developed as part of his bachelor's thesis. The set offers young pupils the opportunity to carry out various recycling and waste processes themselves. The aim of the experiments is to give children a playful awareness of the value and characteristics of waste and to introduce them to responsible waste handling.

The documentary film project »Handmade in Bangladesh« by Prof. Liz Bachhuber, long-time professor of the Fine Art degree programme, and Florian Wehking, artistic associate of the Professorship of Urban Water Management at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, have been awarded the prize for the best feature-length documentary film in the category »No Planet B« at the film festival »Cinema e Ambiente Avezzano« in Avezzano (Italy) on 30 October 2021.

The graduates of the degree programme Media Art and Design and music producers and DJs Mario Weise and Matthias Tanzmann celebrate the 20th anniversary of the label "Moonharbour Recordings" with a compilation in the familiar sound typical of the label.

The master's thesis »Saravá« by Brazilian media artist Pedro Rodolpho Ramos will be shown in the programme of one of the most important documentary film festivals, the IDFA, in Amsterdam. Likewise, the film was selected as one of ten productions for the IDFA DocLab Spotlight, a special category for interactive and immersive highlights and fulldome films.