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.

Save the date: On 14 November 2025, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will be hosting the Innovators Homecoming event for the first time. The event unites individuals who deal with questions on founding, innovating, and shaping society. It also presents potential career paths after graduation.

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.

Ob Medieninformation, Online.Journal-Beitrag oder Instagram-Posting – auf den Kanälen der Universität tragen wir Themen aus Forschung, Lehre, Studien- und Campusleben nach innen und außen. Was ›leicht‹ und gut lesbar auf Website und Social Media erscheint, ist vorher oft viele Wege gegangen, hat einige Überarbeitungsschleifen und Absprachen hinter sich. Doch die Vorstellungen davon, wie etwas veröffentlicht wird und welche Inhalte es dazu braucht, unterscheiden sich oft sehr von unseren tatsächlichen Arbeitsschritten. Hinzu kommt: Die (digitalen) Medien und Tools verändern sich derzeit so rasant, wir bleiben »dran«.

Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2025, eröffnete die Outdoor-Ausstellung eines außergewöhnlichen Projektes: Fotografien von drei Studierenden der Visuellen Kommunikation, die in Zusammenarbeit mit sechs inhaftierten Frauen aus der JVA Chemnitz entstanden, sind bis Ende September auf den Außenmauern der Haftanstalt zu sehen. Ein zweiter Ausstellungsteil wird nur an einem Tag im Herbst zum Tag der offenen Tür der JVA zugänglich sein. Richard Schött hat sowohl die Eröffnung als auch alle Teile der Ausstellung für uns eingefangen.

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.

The BAUHAUS4EU European University Alliance ended last Friday, 13 June, after a three-day forum event. It was the first of four planned forums that will be organised by a different partner university every year during the project period from 2025 to 2028. The event centred around familiarising members of the various teams and committees of the Alliance with each other and holding collaborative work meetings. Industry and cultural partners from the Portuguese region of Castelo Branco and from other university alliances also participated.

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.

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?

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.

As part of the long-standing collaboration between the NHRE master degree program at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), our students had the opportunity yesterday to participate in the annual academic excursion to Potsdam. This tradition, now running for over a decade, provides the students with an invaluable blend of historical, scientific, and interdisciplinary insight.

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.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is expanding its range of international courses with the »Media Ecologies« Master’s degree programme: The innovative, research-based programme explores the complex relationships between media and ecological systems, teaching students to understand media not just as isolated technology, but as complex networks and environments that significantly influence our perception and understanding of the environment.

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.

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.

Since 1 March 2025, Prof. Schmutz has been Professor of Building Morphology at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.