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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.

From 18 to 21 June 2025, scientists from the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns-Hopkins University in Baltimore are organising their first Summer Lab in Weimar. The event marks the beginning of an ongoing cooperation between the two institutions, which is aiming to bring researchers from both countries together to explore the concept of nature from philosophical, media, political, and literary perspectives. Jane Bennett, renowned political scientist at Johns Hopkins University, was already a Bauhaus Guest Professor in Weimar in 2023, and will also be taking part.

The sixth edition of the event series looks at a fundamental aspect of human existence: Culture.

In the 2024/2025 winter semester, three Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar had the rare opportunity to get to know six women who were incarcerated at the Chemnitz Prison and to carry out a photography project together. The results of this project will be exhibited on the outside wall of the Chemnitz Prison starting on 13 June 2025.

With one Silver Nail and two Bronze Nails as well as two additional awards, design students from the Faculty of Art and Design have once again impressed at the renowned ADC Talent Award. The award-winning projects were designed in the Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) and Media Art and Design degree programmes and display a broad range of design and content, from biodiversity and typography to collective authorship, protest culture, and philosophically motivated forms of publication.

The fifth edition of the event series centres around global survival. No transformation process will have more existential consequences than anthropogenic climate change.

The »nova space« University Gallery is breaking new ground: With the »Liebe in Zeiten der Bürokratie« (love in times of bureaucracy) exhibition, it is relocating the classic exhibition space to somewhere you might least expect it – the offices of administrative staff. Tea kitchens and meeting rooms are also transformed into exhibition spaces, administrative staff become hosts, and works of art become flatmates in everyday office life. The exhibition will be accessible at set times as part of guided tours.

Yesterday evening, 22 May 2025, it was confirmed that the »Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining« Cluster of Excellence, submitted under the leadership of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, has been awarded funding within the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. This is also significant for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which is involved in the project through three of its leading researchers.