At nearly 30 percent, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has a higher than average proportion of international students. Some of these students stay in Thuringia and join the workforce, but this is by no mean the majority. Just one third are successful in starting a career in Germany, specifically in Thuringia. In order to increase these numbers and integrate more international graduates into the local and national job market, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be receiving over one million euros in funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) »FIT - Promoting Academic Success and Labour Market Integration of International Talents« programme.
Vom 18. bis 19. April 2024 veranstaltet das bauhaus.institut für experimentelle Architektur (bauhaus.ifex) das XXIV. Modellprojekteforum »Reflective Urban Practice«. 17 Studierende und acht Praxispartner des internationalen Masterstudiengangs »Integrated Urban Development and Design« (IUDD) stellen an zwei Tagen aktuelle Projekte der Stadtentwicklung aus Praxis und Forschung im Oberlichtsaal der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar vor.
Am Dienstag, 9. April 2024, 18.30 Uhr, eröffnet Ewa Majewska, feministische Kulturtheoretikerin und außerordentliche Professorin an der SWPS-Universität in Warschau, die Ringvorlesung im Sommersemester 2024. Weiterhin werden in der Reihe Philipp Oswalt, Sharon MacDonald, Bengü Kocatürk-Schuster, Alia Mossallam, Jörn Düwel, Marion Steiner, Tilman Walther, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Sophie Stackmann, Uta Bretschneider und Ariella Azoulay an den Standorten des Graduiertenkollegs in Berlin, Weimar und Erfurt vortragen.
Dr. Luise Nerlich, kommissarische Leiterin der Professur Bauformenlehre an der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, vertritt Deutschland in der Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). Für die Legislaturperiode 2023 bis 2026 wurde sie neben Dr. Tillman Prinz, Geschäftsführer der Bundesarchitektenkammer, für die Arbeitsgruppe »Architecture and Children« nominiert und übernimmt damit als festes Mitglied das Amt von Dr. Hannes Hubrich, der die Arbeitsgruppe viele Jahre als Gast begleitet hat.
After two successful workshops in Montevideo (Uruguay) and Sagada (Philippines), the third Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop will now take place in Johannesburg from 17 to 22 March 2024. It will bring together sound practitioners and theorists from Southern Africa to exchange ideas about listening cultures and radio history in the region.
From 14 to 23 March, 171 students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and its European partner universities will be taking part in the third Bauhaus Spring School. Participants will be able to collaborate creatively and engage in intercultural networking in eight courses relating to the topics of architecture, urbanism, art, design, media, culture, technology and the environment. The international short-term programme began in January 2024 with online courses and will now continue with a nine-day in-person phase in Weimar.
Im Februar 2024 jährt sich die Gründung des Instituts für Europäische Urbanistik (IfEU) zum 20. Mal. Seit 2004 widmet sich das Institut in Lehre und Forschung Fragestellungen zu städtischen und ländlichen Räumen und deren Wechselwirkungen.
As part of the Bauhaus.Module »After the Co(al)lapse: Envision the Future!«, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar students were tasked with developing creative concepts for the ecological restoration of a former lignite (sometimes referred to as brown coal) power plant. In December 2023, the student group presented their results at the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai.
During the nomination process for the 2023 DAAD Prize, the attention of the International Office was brought to a group of international students who are helping refugees from Ukraine in Weimar. The group has been awarded a special prize recognising their dedication. The award includes a cash prize of 1000 euros.
This year’s DAAD Prize goes to Betül Peker from Türkiye. In addition to her outstanding academic achievements in her Media Art and Design Master's programme, she has demonstrated an impressive range of intercultural and social commitment both within and outside of the University.
Radio in Germany is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2023. To mark this occasion, the artistic research project »Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio« is exploring listening as a global phenomenon. Sound artists and researchers as well as radio practitioners and theorists came together in Montevideo (March 2023) and Manila/Sagada (August 2023) to examine the past, present and future of regional and transregional listening during workshops. On 21 and 22 October 2023, the preliminary outcomes of the cooperative project between the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Goethe-Institut and Deutschlandfunk Kultur will now be presented at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin.
Die französische Soziologin, Fotografin und Stadtplanerin Dr. habil. Cécile Cuny ist vom 1. September bis 31. Dezember 2023 DAAD-Gastdozentin am Institut für Europäische Urbanistik. In diesem Zeitraum wird sie unter anderem die Lehre an der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik durch ein Seminar zum Thema »Stadtlogistik in Krisenzeiten« bereichern und ein Kolloquium zu Stadtlogistik in deutsch-französischer Perspektive organisieren.
Under the motto »Open.Ateliers«, the students of this year's Bauhaus Summer School will exhibit their work on 1 September, starting at 3 pm, and give visitors the opportunity to get to know their ideas, concepts and artistic works.
Twelve young scientists and their mentors from the USA, Poland, Austria and Germany will come to Weimar this August for the »Media Philology 2023« Summer Academy The event will be held from 28 to 30 August in the Bibliothek Julius Petersen of the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv and will address questions on media studies and philology.
From 13 August to 2 September 2023, experimentation, learning and building will be taking over the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar campus once more: 215 participants from 50 different countries will be attending various one- to three-week language and tech-nical courses at the Bauhaus Summer School.
Im Rahmen eines speziellen und erstmals stattfindenden Gästeprogramms, das vom Dezernat Internationale Beziehungen koordiniert wurde, waren Vertreter*innen internationaler Partnerhochschulen während der summaery2023 an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar zu Gast. Vom 12. bis 14. Juli 2023 erhielten die Partner*innen Einblick in studentische Projekte und Themen und kamen mit Mitarbeitenden sowie Studierenden ins Gespräch.
Der Bachelor-Architekturstudent Joachim Brönner ist für sein einjähriges Entwurfsprojekt »The Urban Food Exchange«, entstanden während seines Auslandsjahres an der schottischen Glasgow School of Art, mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden.
As coordinating university of the BAUHAUS4EU University Alliance, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar – together with six partner universities – received the European Commission’s Seal of Excellence in June 2023. It was awarded to the University Alliance for its proposal within the scope of the »European Universities« initiative. The overarching goal of the University Alliance is to promote the sustainable and inclusive development of European regions.
On Saturday, 10 June 2023, the Gropius Room Pavilion will be handed over to Weimar’s Finnish partner city of Hämeenlinna during an opening ceremony. The Gropius Room Pavilion, which has been travelling around Weimar’s partner cities as an ambassador for the Bauhaus and democracy since 2019, will form part of public life in Hämeenlinna this summer before returning to the founding site of the Bauhaus in mid-August after a journey that has lasted four years. In Weimar, the original director’s room will set up outside the Bauhaus-Museum Weimar to celebrate »100 Years of Bauhaus Exhibition«.