Für den schriftlichen Teil ihrer Diplomarbeit »Kartografie summender Rückstände – Im Schlick wühlen« wurde die Freie-Kunst-Absolventin Laura Wiemers mit dem mit 3.500 Euro dotierten Förderpreis »Junge Kunst« der VerbundVolksbank OWL Stiftung in der Kategorie »Literatur/Sprache« ausgezeichnet.

Die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar hat vier Erfindungen der Professur Konstruktives Entwerfen und Tragwerkslehre für ressourcenschonende Mauerwerks- und Bauverfahren zum Patent angemeldet. Die Entwicklungen ermöglichen eine CO₂-arme Produktion und eröffnen neue Perspektiven für das nachhaltige Bauen. Auf der internationalen Fachmesse »Ideen – Erfindungen – Neuheiten« (iENA) in Nürnberg vom 1. bis 3. November 2025 stellt das Team der Professur die innovativen Erfindungen (Konzepte, Forschungsergebnisse und erste Praxisbeispiele)an einer eigens gestalteten Ausstellungswand vor.

Produktdesign (Product Design) graduate Louise Richter has been awarded prizes in two categories for her piece of furniture for the final stages of life, »BeiStand«. Her piece impressed judges in both the Expert« and the »Consumer« categories. With »BeiStand«, Richter recognised a field that receives little attention: the side table in palliative care settings.

Architecture graduates Henrike Gosda and Felix Iburg were awarded third place in the national JOANES-Preis 2025. Their Master’s thesis »Ein genossenschaftliches Haus an der Fliegersiedlung«, written in the 2024/2025 winter semester, impressed the judges with its boldness, creativity, and consistent honing of cooperative housing designs. The prize is endowed with 1,500 euros and will be presented on 4 November 2025 at the Aedes Architekturforum Berlin.

The »Preis der Stiftung Buchkunst«, which comes with a 10,000-euro prize, has been awarded to Christian Rothe for his book »Buchenwald – Im Dickicht vom Ettersberg«. We are delighted that our graduate has achieved yet another success and offer him our warmest congratulations. In 2015, Christian Rothe was honoured in the prestigious competition for final project »Weil er er war, weil ich ich war« in the category of most beautiful German books.

A teaching project in the semester break? That’s certainly unusual. And it’s being held in Potsdam, rather than in Weimar? How interesting! We wanted to take a closer look. The successful double exhibition »UNBOXING BAUHAUS« has just closed with a finissage and the participants can consider themselves enriched by the countless experiences. We asked how the project came about.

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.

This year, the Herder Prize, which is endowed with 2,000 euros, is being conferred to students from the teacher training programme in Fine Art Education (Secondary School) (»Lehramt an Gymnasien Kunst«). In the programme’s introductory project entitled »Almost Perfect« (Fast Perfekt), the prospective teachers explored the topic of »Perfection«. The prize acknowledges artistically sophisticated and innovative work offering contemporary interpretations of Johann Gottfried Herder’s ideas, which addresses social challenges and proposes creative long-term solutions.

Wie verändern sich Gestaltungsprozesse, wenn nicht einzelne Akteur*innen entscheiden, was gemacht wird, sondern wenn das Material selbst, der Körper in Bewegung und das gemeinsame Tun eine Rolle spielen? An diesem Punkt setzt das neue Forschungsprojekt »IN TUNE« an, das im Rahmen der Forschungswerkstatt 2025 von der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar gefördert wird.

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.

On Thursday 10 July 2025, the Student Council (StuKo) conferred Teaching Awards to six teaching formats at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar that students consider particularly good. The award ceremony took place during the Summaery opening event, which was held behind the main university building.

Im Rahmen des bundesweiten Digitaltags sowie der Woche des Wasserstoffs fand in Weimar ein zweitägiger Praxisworkshop für Fachleute aus Wissenschaft, Verwaltung und Praxis statt, um zentrale Zukunftsthemen des öffentlichen Verkehrs (ÖV) zu diskutieren: Digitalisierung und alternative Antriebe.

Die Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft (GiB) hat Tobias Held mit dem diesjährigen Wissenschaftspreis in der Kategorie »Dissertation« ausgezeichnet. Seine Arbeit mit dem Titel »Einblick: Gestalterische Potentiale und Perspektiven der Videotelefonie im Kontext von Nähe und Distanz. Eine praxis-basierte, (re-)kontextualisierende und diskursanalytische Studie« wurde im Rahmen der Mitgliederversammlung der GiB am 29. Juni 2025 in Münster feierlich gewürdigt.

Pascal Stappen has received the 2025 iF Design Student Award in the »Quality Education« category for his final project »Avito«, a bird station to be used in daycare centres and primary schools. The award ceremony was held at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

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.

Two final theses by students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured in the national 2024/2025 »JOANES-Preis« competition for cooperative housing construction.

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 Centre for Higher Education Development’s (CHE) latest ranking recognises several outstanding degree programmes in the Faculties of Architecture and Urbanism as well as Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The general study situation and organisation as well as the university's support and facilities in particular were rated very highly by the students. The results were published in May 2025 in the »ZEIT Studienführer« and DIE ZEIT’s HeyStudium online portal.

Niels Cremer and Tom Kemter received an honourable mention at the Rimowa Design Prize ceremony on Tuesday, 13 May 2025. Their »Standalone« redesign of the traditional crutch won over the jury. The Produktdesign (Product Design) students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar received a total of 10,000 euros in prize money for their design.

Two projects with connections to the Faculty of Media at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured last week at the Laval Virtual 2025 in France, the most important European event for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.