Three students from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured with this year's Medienkunstpreis (Media Arts and Design Award) on Saturday, 26 November 2022: Fernanda Caicedo, Sandra Rücker and Nik Dommermuth received the prize for the best final projects in the degree programme Media Art / Media Design (Media Art and Design). The award ceremony took place in the EIGENHEIM Weimar gallery in the Weimarhallenpark.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is this year’s recipient of the Ladislav Sutnar Prize, a prize which has been awarded by the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, since 2021 and recognises the »Gropiusian vision of art and technology«. Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, accepted the award on behalf of the Presidium during a ceremony held in Pilsen on 15 November 2022.

On Tuesday, 22 November 2022, the prizes were conferred at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar for the best work submitted for the »OPEN HORIZONS« photo competition. International Office conferred the prizes in cooperation with University Communications. Photographs were sought that reflected students’ impressions of their place of study or internship abroad. International students’ impressions of their new place of study, Weimar, were also sought.

Eine Anerkennung im Helmut-Rhode-Förderpreis für Architekturzeichnungen haben 13 Studierende erhalten, die im Sommersemester 2022 an dem von der Professur Entwerfen und Wohnungsbau angebotenen Seminar »A Room with a View« teilgenommen haben.

Outstanding final theses were awarded prizes at this year’s graduation ceremony in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism on 11 November 2022. A total of 51 projects were submitted and the jury awarded three prizes and eight honourable mentions Following the presentation at the Eiermannbau, all award-winning projects will be displayed in the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Main Building from 17 to 30 November 2022.

Product design graduate Felix Sittner has been awarded a support in the »Publication« category of the German Design Graduates 2022 (GDG). His recyclable, circular school backpack »Loopy« will be supported by the platform for child-friendly design »afilii«.

On the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar website, a large number of videos and PDF files have now been made available in a way that makes them accessible to all.

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.

Masks used as protection against the coronavirus have produced millions of tonnes of plastic waste. What if this waste could be recycled, even those masks contaminated by the virus? Two Bauhaus-Universität Weimar students could not stop asking themselves this question. Using a 3D printer, they showed what would be possible and created a toothbrush using recycled mask material. Their work is currently on display at the Marta Herford Museum or Art, Architecture, Design.

Mit drei Preisen und einer Anerkennung erzielten Studierende der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar im diesjährigen Konrad Wachsmann-Studienpreis überragende Erfolge. Preise erhielten die gemeinsamen Abschlussarbeiten von Amelie Steffen/Julius Baumanns, Marie Heyer/Nora Iannone sowie die Einzelarbeit von Vincent Mank. Eine Anerkennung ging an die Gemeinschaftsarbeit von Lisa Maßel und Lia Zinngrebe.

With a total of six works from various artistic degree programmes at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, students and teaching staff will be presenting themselves at the renowned »Ars Electronica« media art festival in Linz from 7 to 11 September 2022. The installations, concerts and experiments were created in the »Media Art and Design« and »Media Architecture« degree programmes.

Martin Siegler, who is a research associate within the Professorship for Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has been awarded second prize in the humanities and cultural studies section of the 2022 German Study Prize for his dissertation on the subject of media articulations of human existence in emergency and catastrophe situations. Conferred by the Körber Foundation, this award honours outstanding work of particular social significance.

From this autumn, Prof. Dr. Andrea Dreyer (Professor of Art Education, Faculty of Art and Design) and Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich (Professor of Virtual Reality Systems, Faculty of Media) will receive funding from the »Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre« joint fellowship programme of the donors’ association (Stifterverband) of the German initiative to promote education, science and innovation (Deutsche Wissenschaft e. V.) and the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society. The state of Thuringia is supporting teaching concepts with up to €50,000 to encourage innovations in digital university teaching.

On Friday 15 July 2022, Hannes Dünnebier was honoured with the Lyonel Art Prize during the »summaery2022« annual show at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The award for outstanding young artists is endowed with €2,000 and has been conferred to artistic dissertations from the Faculty of Art and Design since 2019 by the Lyonel e. V. association for the promotion of art, design and culture.

Die Architekturstudentinnen Marie Heyer und Nora Iannone haben für ihre Masterthesis »Materialgeschichten« (Betreuung: Professur Bauformenlehre) einen Sonderpreis in der Kategorie Forschung in der diesjährigen Sustainability Challenge der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen (DGNB) erhalten.

Works by no less than three students of Visual Communication, Faculty of Art and Design, were chosen among the 29 best posters in the competition, which was held under the motto »Campus life digital«. Hanyi Kim took second place with her poster »Studying at Home«. Further awards went to Leela Dutta for »Behind the Scenes« and Hannes Naumann with his poster »In the Window«.

Die Masterthesis »Das Kooperative Haus« von Danny Liu und Kai Pieper ist im Neighbourhood Index der Oslo Architecture Triennale veröffentlicht worden.
Der digital zugängliche Index ist eine Sammlung von projects, practices, perspectives mit Vorschlägen, wie Nachbarschaft unter verschiedenen Punkten der Nachhaltigkeit, der Diversität und der Gesellschaft lebenswerter gestaltet werden kann.

Den Green Concept Award 2022 in der Rubrik Neue Materialien hat das Produkt »Bau.Salz Deutschland« von Fiona Zimmer, Jonathan Peters und Johannes Dörfer erhalten. Die Produktentwicklung haben 2020/21 gemeinsam die Professur Konstruktives Entwerfen und Tragwerkslehre und das FA Finger-Institut für Baustoffkunde an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar als freies Projekt betreut.

At this year's ADC Young Talent Competition, the master's thesis »Man störe mir meine Kreise nicht« (Don't disturb my circles) by Masihne Rasuli was awarded a Silver Nail. Another three awards for publications went to Leela Dutta for »Die Nachtwachtel« (The Night Quail), to Annika Daub, Hanna Hofmann and Simon Geistlinger for »Drei Esel, Sizilien« (Three donkeys, Sicily) and to Leoni Hommel, Emily Grawitter, Johanna Mehner, Hannah Röbisch and Lina Unger for »Type & Feminisms«.

Die Abschlussarbeiten »Alles Libero« von Hai Tom Nguyen sowie »Unearthing« von Minh Nghi Lisa Vuong haben erfolgreich in der ersten Ausgabe der diesjährigen »Campus Masters« abgeschnitten.