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.

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.

Am Montag, 30. Juni 2025, lädt das nächste Weimarer Stadtgespräch ein. Unter dem Titel »Spielräume um den Berkaer Bahnhof« stehen städtebauliche Perspektiven und Nutzungsideen für das Umfeld des Berkaer Bahnhofs im Mittelpunkt.

Immer wieder wird der gesellschaftliche Diskurs von einzelnen Begriffen schier überrollt. Die Urbanistik bleibt davon nicht unberührt, ja sie nimmt manche dankbar auf und verhilft ihnen zu einer präziseren Bedeutung für ihre Handlungsfelder. So geschehen in den letzten 20 Jahren mit Schrumpfung, Partizipation und soziale Mischung. Durch solche Begriffe begreifen wir die gesellschaftliche Realität besser, wie können sie analytisch erfassen und sogar verändern.

This year, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is again celebrating its Campus Pride Week with a multifaceted programme and is committed to queer visibility and gender equality: From Monday, 16 June to Saturday, 21 June, numerous initiatives, representatives, and university departments are inviting all university members and interested guests to events on queer topics.

Vom 18. bis 21. Juni 2025 organisieren Wissenschaftler*innen der Fakultät Medien der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar gemeinsam mit dem Department of Comparative Thought and Literature der Johns-Hopkins University, Baltimore, ihr erstes Summer Lab in Weimar. Dieser Auftakt ist der Beginn einer fortdauernden Kooperation zwischen den beiden Institutionen, die Forschende aus beiden Ländern zusammenbringen möchte, um sich aus philosophischer, medien-, politik- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit dem Begriff der Natur auseinanderzusetzen. Teilnehmen wird auch Jane Bennett, renommierte Politikwissenschaftlerin der Johns-Hopkins University, die bereits 2023 als Bauhaus-Gastprofessorin in Weimar gastierte.

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.

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

Nach 18 Jahren an der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik sowie in diversen Funktionen in der Universität scheidet Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier zum Ende des Sommersemesters 2025 aus dem aktiven Universitätsbetrieb aus. Er verabschiedet sich am 9. Juli mit einer Vorlesung »(M)Ein halbes Jahrhundert ›Zukunft unserer Vergangenheit‹«.

Since the beginning of the year, Christian Tischner has led the Thuringian Ministry of »Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur«. He is currently on a tour engaging in discussions with numerous educational and cultural sites, including: kindergartens, schools and universities, institutes, foundations, cultural organisations, and other associations. The tour brought him to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on Friday, 6 June 2025, which was also his first visit to the university. For nearly two hours, the Minister met with the Presidential Board, who has assembled an ambitious and comprehensive programme that presented the university as an institution that is working on important topics for the future beyond its core subject areas.

The BAUHAUS4EU European University Alliance will be holding its first forum from 11 to 13 June in Castelo Branco, Portugal. In addition to the ten participating universities, important partners from the region have also been invited. The forum is intended to strengthen cooperation at regional level, enable exchange with various European University Alliances, and offer a space for efficient working sessions in small groups and at all levels. Around 200 attendees are expected. President Prof. Peter Benz, Chancellor Dr. Horst Henrici and other senior staff from the departments, faculties, and project teams at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be travelling to Portugal for the event.

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.

During a campus tour on Friday, 6 June 2025, the Thuringian Minister of »Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur«, Christian Tischner, will learn about the university's key research projects, innovative teaching concepts, and strategic developments.

On 4 June 2025, the fourth annual »Tag der Ingenieurwissenschaften« (Engineering Day) will be held in the auditorium of the Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena. The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Bauhaus-Institute for Infrastructure Solutions (b.is) will be participating with several expert lectures and an exhibition on current innovation projects on mobility, circular economies, water, and energy. All those interested are cordially invited to the event starting at 9:30 am!

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.