Zum Beginn des Wintersemesters kehren nicht nur die bereits immatrikulierten Studierenden an die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar zurück, auch zahlreiche Studienanfänger*innen starten mit dem Wintersemester 2022/2023 einen neuen Lebensabschnitt. Mit der Immatrikulationsfeier am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2022, ab 17 Uhr, heißt die Universität die neuen Studierenden herzlich willkommen.

Steven Mac Nelly is the new central contact person for sustainability issues at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Since 1 September 2022, he has been responsible for, among other things, assessing the energy footprint of university buildings.

Under the title »Virtual Tinkering«, students from a total of six universities worldwide present the results of the »Public Arts Garage« project. Working together in teams, they realised artistic projects in virtual exchange exploring different approaches to work with and in public spaces. Now a selection of artistic interventions and performances will be presented in a poster exhibition in the university library of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

From 2 to 31 October 2022, visitors will be able to explore outstanding final projects from the Product and Industrial Design departments of the most renowned German design and art colleges at the Design Campus of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden [SKD]). Milena Huber, Maren Klamser and Antonia Ney of the Faculty of Art and Design are participating in the exhibition. Artistic staff member Almut Nowack will also be represented with her Master’s thesis from HAWK Hildesheim.

A pilot project affecting Line 3 is being launched in Weimar on 4 October 2022. Instead of the hourly service provided up until now, the city buses between the Main Station and Industrial Area West will operate every 30 minutes. This will be a boon particularly for the students and employees of the Faculty of Media as well as employees of the local businesses, but local residents also stand to benefit. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, real-estate company Nexus and its tenants Antenne Thüringen, AWO Regionalverband Mitte-West Thüringen and Desay SV Automotive Europe each contributed 50,000 euros to the financing of the project.

Research is an abstract concept. But how does it actually happen? What do researchers experience on the way to new knowledge? What challenges do they have to overcome? With diaries, researchers at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar provide us an insight into their projects – so that others can participate in challenging times and the joy of success.

How can we successfully reduce our energy use, both to save costs and protect the climate by releasing less CO2? These are among the questions that will be asked by 150 guests from science and the industry from across Europe during the BauSIM Conference at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar from 20 to 22 September 2022.

Caroline Ektander, born in Sweden in 1982, has been living in Berlin and working as a curator and architect for over ten years. Her work deals with the complex conditions of environmentally hazardous substances, poisons and toxins. She is currently working on her doctorate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in the Faculty of Art and Design, focussing on the restoration of contaminated sites in Bitterfeld-Wolfen. In addition to this, she will be artistically exploring the contaminated ground water at the chemical site through support from the university’s Kreativfonds. Science editor Stephanie Waske asked Ektander about the context of this unusual research field.

A new subject area was launched on 1 September in the Produktdesign (Product Design) degree programme at the Faculty of Art and Design: »Emerging Technologies and Design«. Dr. Thomas Pearce was appointed to the newly created tenure track junior professor position. What does this title mean and how does this >newbie< intend to shape the field in the Produktdesign (Product Design) degree programme?

Warum über Wissenschaft reden? Diese Frage stellt Dr. Jan-Martin Wiarda, Journalist, Autor und Wissenschaftsblogger in seinem Vortrag am Donnerstag, 22. September 2022, im Audimax an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Er hält den Austausch von Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft für unverzichtbar – für beide Seiten. Darüber diskutiert er an dem Abend mit der Vorläufigen Leiterin der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Prof. Dr. Jutta Emes, und Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christopher Buschow aus der Fakultät Medien.