How can public service broadcasters remain relevant in a digital world, amid misinformation, platform logics and increasingly fragmented media usage? Students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the University of Erfurt addressed just this question during the »Digital Environments« interdisciplinary module. Their ideas, questions and theories will be discussed and developed further together with experts during a public panel discussion and workshop on Friday, 11 July 2025.

How can we rethink spaces to make them sustainable for the future? What social and environmental needs must tomorrow’s homes and communal spaces meet? And how can architecture not just reflect change, but also help shape it? From 10 to 13 July, more than 35 projects will show how students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism tackled these questions. Many projects focus on existing buildings, take a resource-conscious, sensitive approach and often have a strong local or regional focus.

There’s a lot of building work going on at the Coudray campus and in the lecture hall building right now, hence the engineers will show their work elsewhere between 10 and 13 July. There will be a pop-up exhibition on Goetheplatz, a straw bale tower on the outskirts of Weimar, plant walls with sensor technology in the seminar building and an outdoor clothes exchange on the campus. All this and much more awaits visitors to this year’s annual exhibition at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. It’s well worth taking a look at the programme, as some venues will only be open for a short time.

Masihne Rasuli, artistic staff member in Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication), has long been interested in scientific topics. To get her students interested in the world of research, she will be offering a new course in the upcoming 2025/2026 winter semester: »Science, Bitch!«. In this course, design and science meet on an even playing field. It is not about explaining from an outside perspective, but rather about understanding and communicating from the inside.

Die nächsten Tage werden sommerlich, sommerlich heiß. Gerade in Städten mit zahlreichen versiegelten Flächen machen sich Hitzetage sehr schnell sehr unangenehm bemerkbar – viele Menschen leider darunter und vermissen kühlende Grünflächen. MDR Thüringen-Redakteur Thomas Becker hat zu diesem Thema recherchiert und Forschende der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar interviewt. Die Architekt*innen und Ingenieur*innen zeigen Lösungen auf, wie Städte sich in Zukunft besser auf Hitzetage vorbereiten könnten.

Housing in changing. Increasing urbanisation and social evolution mean the pressure on housing forms and structures is growing. How can housing be designed in the future so that it is socially just and ecologically sustainable? The »Transformation des Wohnens – Herausforderungen und Zugänge im praxisorientierten Dialog« symposium is dedicated to addressing these challenges. On 11 and 12 September, experts from academia, the industry, and civil society will meet in Berlin to analyse current developments, discuss new approaches, and present perspectives on housing design.

From 26 to 28 June, the »Dimensionen des ruhenden Verkehrs« conference will be taking place at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. This will include: Architect and author Martin Maleschka, who initiated the art project »#3000Garagen« for the European Capital of Culture of 2025, Chemnitz. The event centres around multi-perspective exchange on the question of: What is a car when it isn’t driving? All those interested are cordially invited to the event.

The PARFORCE project, led by the Professorship of Advanced Structures at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, was awarded the PROFFORMANCE Higher Education Teacher Award 2025, as well as 1st place in the digitalisation category for its innovative »Experimental Testing Based on Impact and Resistance: Wind, Fire and Earthquake« course. The award ceremony took place on 4 June as part of the »Teacher Power! - Hochschulpolitik in Aktion« online event. Of the 161 submissions, 17 projects were awarded prizes.

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.

Vom 21. bis 29. Juni 2025 laden zahlreiche Unternehmen, Hochschulen, Netzwerke, Initiativen sowie Städte und Gemeinden zur »WOCHE DES WASSERSTOFFS« ein. Mit einem Online-Vortrag für Studieninteressierte sowie einem zweitägigen Fachworkshop für Entscheidungsträger*innen ist erstmalig auch die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar bei an der deutschlandweiten Aktion dabei. Ziel ist es, über das Potenzial der zukunftsweisenden Technologie aufzuklären und die vielfältigen Forschungsaktivitäten erlebbar zu machen.

Exhibitions, biennials, and festivals: When art temporarily takes over spaces, intense and often elaborately staged encounters occur between art, audience, and venue. But what is left over once the art disappears, the audience moves on, and the space is emptied? What social, material, and ecological traces does art leave behind? And who is responsible for taking care of them?

From a building component to a house using a 3D printer: Additive manufacturing offers huge potential for architecture and construction. But how is technology changing the craft? How do these new forms affect individuals and the environment? And what is behind all the hype? Dr. Fabian Ehle, M. Sc. Timon Echt and Jr. Prof. Dr. Luise Göbel want to shed light on this using 3D-printed objects made of concrete, making the manufacturing process tangible as part of the »Print4PR« project.

Our environment doesn’t stop at the front door or at the gate to the garden. It extends beyond city boundaries and into digital networks, reshaping itself with each click. It is both physical and digital, analogue and networked, a social space and at the same time a political playing field and ecological influence factor. In the »Digital Environments: The Role of Public Service Broadcasting in Transforming Digital Information and Communication Spaces« course, Jr. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rösch (Faculty of Media) and Dr. Markus Seifert (University of Erfurt) examine whether and how public service broadcasting (ÖRR) can contribute to creating new spaces that are organised around the common good and promote democracy.

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.

Wie können Städte trotz knapper Wasserressourcen grüne Oasen erhalten? Zum Beispiel mit aufbereitetem Grauwasser aus Waschbecken, Duschen, Badewannen und Küchen, einer infrastrukturellen Anpassung sowie intelligenten Speicher- und Regelungskonzepten, welche die Ressourcen effizient und bedarfsgerecht verfügbar machen. Das von der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar unter Professor Silvio Beier initiierte und geleitete Verbundprojekt »Innovative und wissensbasierte Quartiersentwicklung für ein energie- und ressourceneffizientes Wohnen« (INNOWATER) wurde von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) gefördert. Welches Potenzial in den Forschungsergebnissen steckt, fasst die DBU anlässlich des bundesweiten Hitzeaktionstages unter dem Motto »Hitzeschutz für alle« in einer aktuellen Meldung zusammen.

Researchers at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are required to clearly state their affiliation with the university in their publications. This reflects good academic practice and allows research to be clearly attributed, which ultimately supports the visibility of researchers and the university in the global research community. A set of regulations has been implemented that specifies how authors should properly indicate their affiliation with the university in their publications.

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!

Yesterday evening, 22 May 2025, it was confirmed that the »Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining« Cluster of Excellence, submitted under the leadership of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, has been awarded funding within the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. This is also significant for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which is involved in the project through three of its leading researchers.

The Thuringian Forest is a myth, habitat, recreational area, and economic factor – but how much of it is left in times of climate crisis, urbanisation, and demographic change? What kind of future can be developed in this symbolic landscape in the former Green Heart of Germany? The »Landscape in the Anthropocene: Thuringian Forest - Between Imagination, Resources, and Reality« project is seeking to answer these questions, specifically in the Masserberg region.