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This October will mark 20 years since the new University Library building opened its doors. To celebrate this occasion, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be holding a ceremony in the Maurice-Halbwachs-Auditorium on 10 October 2025 at 11 am. Media representatives are warmly invited to attend the event.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is participating in this year's Campus Exhibition at Ars Electronica 2025 in Linz with several contributions. In keeping with the festival motto »Panic«, students and faculty from the departments of Art and Design as well as Architecture and Urbanism are presenting artistic works that critically examine digital technologies, ecological contexts, and social issues.

A short TikTok clip, a provoking comment below the Instagram post – shared and liked thousands of times. This is then followed by a flood of support, outrage, and hatred: Radical anti-feminist and queerphobic voices are becoming dominant in social media discourse. Algorithms, filter bubbles, and targeted campaigns reinforce these tendencies and influence political attitudes. But how do we fight hate and hate speech on social media platforms? From 2 to 7 September, the »Künstlerisch forschende Strategien zur De-Radikalisierung auf Social Media« block seminar invites students to explore digital networks and develop creative counter-strategies to online hate. The results will be presented as part of the finissage of the Kunstfest Weimar.

Unter dem Motto »Wider den Bluff! Filme der Weimarer Republik in den Weimarer Kinos 1925« zeigt die VII. Weimarer Stummfilm-Retrospektive unter Beteiligung des Fachbereichs Medienwissenschaft und der Universitätsbibliothek vom 25. August bis 5. September 2025 ein ausgewähltes Stummfilmprogramm mit Live-Musik. Als etablierter Teil des Weimarer Kunstfest wird eine der bedeutendsten Phasen der Filmgeschichte kontextualisiert. An zehn Abenden sind insgesamt 13 verschiedene Filme zu sehen, die 1925 in den Weimarer Kinos gezeigt wurden.

From 6 to 31 August 2025, around 250 students from over 50 countries will take part in two to three-and-a-half week language and specialist courses at the Bauhaus Summer School. Guests are warmly invited to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar campus for the final presentation on 29 August beginning at 2 pm.

Dr. Ulrike Kuch, Vice President for Social Transformation at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has been appointed to a position in Vienna. On Thursday, 24 July, the University of Applied Arts Vienna committees confirmed Ulrike Kuch’s election to the position of Rector at the renowned Viennese art academy. She is set to take office in fall of 2025.

For some Freie Kunst and Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) students, there will be no summer break this year. This is good news, however, for Potsdam residents and for art enthusiasts who enjoy travelling, as a highlight has been added to their holiday plans: Under the title »UNBOXING BAUHAUS«, students are leaving their »Weimar bubble« and taking up residence with their works at two Potsdam exhibition venues from 17 July to 24 August 2025.

On Friday 11 July 2025, the Fine Arts graduate Jakob Nickels was awarded the 2025 Lyonel Art Award for his final project entitled »Gentle Strength«. The award honours the final projects of up-and-coming young talents from the Faculty of Art & Design and is endowed with 2,000 euros in prize money. It has been conferred by the Lyonel Verein zur Förderung von Kunst, Gestaltung und Kultur (Lyonel e. V.)« every year since 2019.

Admittedly, no one has ever been able to visit all the summaery venues and »take in« all the events. With 50 venues and countless openings, presentations, celebrations, award ceremonies and panel discussions, the programme is simply too packed for that.

During the summaery2025 annual exhibition, a panel discussion will take place at 5–6:30 p.m. on Saturday12 July 2025 on the annual theme of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Media representatives are cordially invited to the award ceremony for the Lyonel Art Prize, which will take place at Berkaer Straße 11 at 6 p.m. on Friday 11 July 2024. This award recognising the final theses of talented young artists will be conferred for what is now the sixth time.

The ten state universities in Thuringia have launched the Thuringian University Network for Sustainability. Through this strategic alliance, the universities are actively tackling global challenges such as climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and social inequalities. On 3 July, the presidents will sign a declaration of intent at Schloss Tinz in Gera, in which they commit to the long-term protection of natural resources, creating humane living conditions for present and future generations, and achieving global justice. Media representatives are warmly invited to attend.

Crisis or a source of strength? The seventh and final instalment of the event series in the 2025 summer semester will look at the future of Europe.

Housing in changing. Increasing urbanisation and social evolution mean the pressure on housing forms and structures is growing. How can housing be designed in the future so that it is socially just and ecologically sustainable? The »Transformation des Wohnens – Herausforderungen und Zugänge im praxisorientierten Dialog« symposium is dedicated to addressing these challenges. On 11 and 12 September, experts from academia, the industry, and civil society will meet in Berlin to analyse current developments, discuss new approaches, and present perspectives on housing design.

The Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is welcoming first-year Computer Science students with something special in the 2025/2026 winter semester: Their own VR headsets. The Meta Quest 3 headset can be used flexibly throughout the degree programme in courses, group projects, individual research, or experiments at home. The »VR Ready for You« campaign aims to familiarise students with the latest computer science research ad to actively prepare them for working with current and future technologies.

From 26 to 28 June, the »Dimensionen des ruhenden Verkehrs« conference will be taking place at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. This will include: Architect and author Martin Maleschka, who initiated the art project »#3000Garagen« for the European Capital of Culture of 2025, Chemnitz. The event centres around multi-perspective exchange on the question of: What is a car when it isn’t driving? All those interested are cordially invited to the event.

Weimar Architecture graduate Andreas Stanzel is one of four winners of this year's »EUmies Awards Young Talent«. He was honoured for his Master's thesis »Hotel Interim«, which looks at the potential of temporary forms of housing in the context of urban changes. The work was completed during the 2024 summer semester at the Professorship of Housing Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The award ceremony was held on 19 June 2025 as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Vom 21. bis 29. Juni 2025 laden zahlreiche Unternehmen, Hochschulen, Netzwerke, Initiativen sowie Städte und Gemeinden zur »WOCHE DES WASSERSTOFFS« ein. Mit einem Online-Vortrag für Studieninteressierte sowie einem zweitägigen Fachworkshop für Entscheidungsträger*innen ist erstmalig auch die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar bei an der deutschlandweiten Aktion dabei. Ziel ist es, über das Potenzial der zukunftsweisenden Technologie aufzuklären und die vielfältigen Forschungsaktivitäten erlebbar zu machen.

ATTENTION, summer is finally here and that means: Attention, it's finally almost summaery time. The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is once again inviting all interested guests to its annual exhibition, summaery2025. The event will be spread across campus and visitors can discover projects and topics that students from the four faculties of Architecture and Urbanism, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Art and Design, and Media have been working on over the past academic year.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is expanding its range of international courses with the »Media Ecologies« Master’s degree programme: The innovative, research-based programme explores the complex relationships between media and ecological systems, teaching students to understand media not just as isolated technology, but as complex networks and environments that significantly influence our perception and understanding of the environment.