The business world and society are currently in the midst of a digital transformation. From summer 2023, the »Bauhaus.Mobility Hub« will make a variety of support services available to Thuringia-based companies and public institutions to enable them to take advantage of the opportunities digitalisation brings with it. The transfer initiative is coordinated by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and connects Thuringia with a new, European network of digitalisation centres. The European Union and the Free State of Thuringia are funding the regional centre with the aim of generating local impetus for digitalisation.

All over Germany, you can find friends living far away from one another, couples in long-distance relationships and grandparents living far away from their grandchildren. While spending time together in video conferences is a possibility, this form of shared experience has its limits. Social Virtual Reality provides extended potential for these interactions. But how can interactions that foster social intimacy be further improved in virtual spaces? This question is the focal point of the »GROOVE« research project. Together with researchers from the Technischen Universität Ilmenau, Brandenburg Labs GmbH and Consensive GmbH, researchers from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be receiving 1.5 million euros in funding over 1.5 years from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

As part of the Artistic Research Project »Listening to the World - 100 Years of Radio«, sound artists and researchers are networking at the first Bauhaus.Listening.Workshop in Uruguay. Together they will explore the past, present and future of regional and national listening.

Nach dem großen Erdbeben der Stärke 7,8 im Südosten der Türkei und in Teilen Syriens wird die Frage nach erdbebensicheren Bauten aktuell wieder lauter. Dr.-Ing. Jochen Schwarz, Leiter des Erdbebenzentrums an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, befasst sich seit Jahrzehnten mit der Risikobewertung in erdbebengefährdeten Regionen. Gemeinsam mit Studierenden und Kooperationspartnern aus der Türkei entwickelte er bereits 2006 einen Masterplan für erdbebensicheres Bauen in dem betroffenen Gebiet Hatay. Aus aktuellem Anlass steht er als Experte für verschiedene Medienanfragen zur Verfügung.

Was gehört eigentlich in den Bioabfall und was nicht? Wo landet der Abfall, nachdem er in der braunen Tonne entsorgt wurde? Wer holt ihn ab und was passiert damit? Mit einem interaktiven 360°-Rundgang klärt die Professur für Biotechnologie in der Ressourcenwirtschaft auf. Entwickelt wurde das virtuelle Lernszenario von Rieke Schneider im Rahmen ihrer Bachelorarbeit an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Single-use plastics have officially been banned in Bangladesh. But they are still part of the urban landscape. Researchers from the »SCIP plastics« project in Bangladesh and Germany, however, are seeking alternatives. Research associate Susanne Kühlewindt reports on this in the third instalment of the research log.

Mit innovativen Audioformaten wollen Maximilian Netter, Rafael Jové und Mario Weise den Hörfunkmarkt revolutionieren. Dafür haben die Medienkunst-Alumni der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar »FUNKHAUS ost« gegründet und werden seit Januar 2023 durch die Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) im Rahmen des Gründungsprogramms MEDIAstart unterstützt.

As of Friday, 6 January 2023, Weimar is one playground richer: A new social meeting space in the city centre was unveiled at Obergraben. The »Baukasten« architectural structure was designed by students Helene Sophia Krause and Sophie Littmann as part of their Produktdesign (Product Design) degree programme and realised with support from the Rotary Club Weimar-Bauhaus.

Am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2022, 17 Uhr, lädt der Fachbereich Medieninformatik an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar alle Interessierten zur Weihnachtsvorlesung in das Audimax in der Steubenstraße 6 ein. Mit dem Thema »Der gefühlvolle Computer: Eine Einführung in das Physiological Computing« gibt Dr. Jan Ehlers, Juniorprofessor für Usability, einen spannenden Einblick in die noch junge Teildisziplin der Informatik.

Das Forschungsprojekt »Stadtwende« hat den gleichnamigen im Ch.Links Verlag veröffentlicht.

Starting on 1 January 2023, researchers at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar’s Faculty of Media will be working together with philosophers and artist on a DFG-funded research project that investigates the critical relationship between animism and machinism.

In 2023, radio in Germany will be 100 years old. To mark this anniversary, the project »Listening to the World - 100 Years of Radio« has now been launched as a cooperation between the Professorship »Experimental Radio« at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Goethe-Institut, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (House of World Cultures).

The posts that appear on our social media feeds seem to have mostly been compiled randomly. However, the image feeds – which is to say the visual sequences – in the background actually follow very specific criteria and are tailored precisely to each individual user. Which factors influence this composition? From 1 February 2023, researchers will investigate just this question within the interdisciplinary research project on »Curating the Feed« funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and identify and analyse the various factors.

On Saturday, 3 December 2023, 7 p.m., the final exhibition of video and sonic art by current Radio Art Residency fellow Warrick Swinney will open. All interested parties are cordially invited to the exhibition rooms of Galerie EIGENHEIM Weimar in the gardener's cottage in Weimarhallenpark! The artist will guide through the exhibition.

Whether it’s cars, bicycles or pedestrians, Julius Uhlmann is analysing how users behave at crosswalks as part of his PhD at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. With the help of video recordings from Germany, Poland and Latvia, the project investigates the risks posed at crosswalks and whether cultural differences affect road traffic behaviour. Starting in mid-November, assessments will be made in cooperation with the City of Weimar.

At an invitation from the United Nations (UN), Weimar students will be presenting their ideas for sustainable textile use at the COP27 in Egypt on 11 November 2022. They will discuss with international textile industry retailers and manufacturers how to optimise the recycling of old clothing. The concepts were developed as part of the interdisciplinary Bauhaus.Module »Textile.Umwelten«, in which the students closely examined, questioned and rethought textile supply chains.

Das DFG-Netzwerk »Bauforschung Baubestände 1945plus« präsentiert zum Ende des Förderzeitraumes die Ergebnisse der gemeinsamen Arbeit: Unter der Überschrift »Reallabor Nachkriegsmoderne – Zum Umgang mit jungen Denkmalen« findet zunächst vom 17. bis 19. November 2022 in Augsburg ein Symposium statt. Im Februar 2023 wird dann die gleichnamige Buchpublikation erscheinen. In dem Netzwerk sind neben der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar mit der Professur Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte die TU Braunschweig, Universität Innsbruck und TU München vertreten.

New beginnings are always special: People get to know one another, share ideas and inspire one another. This year’s »Wissenschaftstag« at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar focusses on just this. Six new professors from all four faculties will introduce themselves on Wednesday 30 November 2022. They will share their inspiration and motivation for research, art and teaching.

Two events taking place in Berlin and Weimar will focus on »Das Synagogen-Projekt« (The Synagogue Project). Architecture students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Technical University of Darmstadt, the Technische Universität Dresden and the HafenCity Universität Hamburg have developed designs for the reconstruction of synagogues as part of this project. The foundation for this project was the reconstruction of the Fraenkelufer Synagogue in Berlin and the Joseph-Carlebach-Platz Synagogue in Hamburg, as well as the Jewish temple on Poolstraße in Hamburg.