Jan Lünig awarded the Schöck Innovation Prize digital for his Master’s thesis.

Die Neuerscheinung »A Room with a View« wird am 10. Juli in der Berliner Buchhandlung pro qm vorgestellt.

As part of the »100 Years of Bauhaus« centenary exhibition, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is organising the artistic-scientific symposium »Heterotopie Ilmpark. Raum für Neue Umweltästhetik«. The symposium will use Weimar’s Ilmpark as a spatial-historical basis for discussion and will address concepts of nature and environmental aesthetics inscribed therein. In this context, the Park itself will serve as the venue for some of the conference.

Which projects will be on exhibit at this year’s summaery? We’re giving you a sneak peek. Next up is the interdisciplinary »PostCompost« project from the Department of Media Environments. Four students show us how they are transforming industrial the EOW industrial ruin into an ecological laboratory and establishing their own perspective on renaturalising the area.

Which projects will be on exhibit at this year’s summaery? We’re giving you a sneak peek. We kick things off with Architecture students Wiebke Meyer and Joost Jansohn who report on their semester project »Next Generation Park« in the Department of »Konstruktives Entwerfen und Tragwerkslehre« (Construction Design and Structural Design).

From 6 to 16 July, sibings Hala and Ghida Masri will showcase their installation and dance performance at Jorge-Semprún-Platz, the former so-called »Gauforum«. With her final project, Hala Masri – architect and student of the international Master’s degree programme »Public Art and New Artistic Strategies« at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar – wants to make a statement, together with her deaf sister, against normative and discriminatory structures and provoke a dialogue about how such structures influence our lives and daily behaviours.

What role does university instruction play when it comes to supporting a sustainable society? And what individual role do I play in this?

At the height of the summer, when nature is blooming, the campus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is also metaphorically in »full bloom». Everyone is busy designing, displaying, clearing, building – and entirely focused on the end of the lecture period and the »summaery2023«. This year, the annual show will take place from 13 to 16 July 2023 according to the motto of »23:gardens« and present smart ideas, practical solutions for everyday life, projects that look far into the future, performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. Almost 200 individual projects and study outcomes can be viewed and experienced on the university campus and throughout Weimar over a four-day period.

What are the themes and motif behind the graphics for summaery2023? To kick off this year’s annual exhibition at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar from 13 to 16 July 2023, Beatrice Girth and Frederik Sukop get to talking about the design ideas behind the posters and media taht will soon be visible everywhere. Beatrice Girth is a Master’s student in Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) and is also a graphic designer for this year’s summaery. Frederik Sukop is one of the instructors of the Bauhaus.Module »Party101 – Claim Your Campus«, which is organising the opening ceremony for summaery on 13 July. Beatrice responds to Frederik’s five questions and talks about her ideas and motivation for her graphic contributions to summaery2023.

Ein Buch- und Ausstellungsprojekt widmet sich dem Leben von Else Goldschmidt, der ersten Börsenmaklerin der Welt, und wird am 13. Juli 2023 um 19 Uhr in der LiteraturEtage Weimar präsentiert.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar announced the 80,000 euro »23:ideas fund« this spring to promote student projects and ideas. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first major Bauhaus Exhibition in 1923. A total of 95 teams applied and 23 were selected by the jury at the beginning of June. The projects will be exhibited in the coming months and will be highlighted at the summaery2023 in July and the Bauhaus Weeks in August.

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable und Reusable, zu Deutsch: auffindbar, zugänglich, anwendbar und wiederverwendbar – das sind die FAIR-Prinzipien, die beim »FAIRest Dataset«-Preis geehrt werden, um für ein stärkeres Bewusstsein zu schaffen, wie mit Forschungsdaten umzugehen ist. Diesjähriger Gewinner des Preises ist David Tschirschwitz, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Bereich Computer Vision in Engineering, einer Brückenprofessur an den Fakultäten Bauingenieurwesen und Medien.

From Monday 26 June to Sunday 2 July, the second »Campus Pride Week« will take place at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in parallel to »Christopher Street Day (CSD) Weimar« on 1 July. A week-long celebration of sexual and gender diversity on campus highlighting queer history, art and culture. The varied programme invites all university members and affiliates to engage with the multi-layered realities of queer people’s lives and also offers members of the queer communities countless opportunities to exchange and network.

While Episode 02 explores the topics of localisation, belonging and identification within the context of living, Episode 03 entitled »can’t stop won’t stop« examines aspects of settling down, movement and the fleeting nature of our lives. The third part of the exhibition series is being curated by »marke.6« student initiative and marks the halfway point in the year-long »POWER HOUSE« programme with which the »nova space« university gallery of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is currently a guest at the Schiller-Museum.

»A night where the magic of writing unites with the mysteries of technology« – this is what this year’s Long Night of Academic Writing promises. Under the motto of »who is writing?«, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar warmly invites to a night-time foray into the new world of writing from 5 pm on Thursday, 22 June 2023.

Professor Peter Benz has been President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since the beginning of March. At the start of June, the Presidium team was then completed with appointment by the Senate of three new vice presidents. What plans does the university’s new management team have? Does it wish to set any particular emphasis in its work? And how has Professor Peter Benz found life at the university so far? We spoke with him.

Mit Architektur forschen – was dies heißen kann, demonstriert anschaulich die Werkstattausstellung »13 Positionen« im Hauptgebäude der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Vom 14. Juni bis 6. Juli 2023 präsentiert die Ausstellung der der Fakultät Architektur und Urbanistik Projekte, die sich in unterschiedlichen Formaten dem Wohnen forschend widmen. Anlass für die Schau sind das Themenjahr »Wohnen« der Klassik Stiftung Weimar als auch das 100-jährige Jubiläum der Ausstellungen am Staatlichen Bauhaus Weimar.

116 Türen, 26 Gründungsprojekte und -alumni und 16 knifflige Fragen im Startup-Bingo: Das neudeli Open am 8. Juni 2023 bot für große und kleine Besucher*innen viel zu erkunden. In der Galerie finden Sie die Bilder des Tages.

On 21–22 July 2023, the conference »Non-Machines: Playground of Perspectives« will take place within the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. The conference aims to prompt a change of perspectives and to re-explore the relationships between machines and »non-machines«. Interested parties are able to register for this free event up until Friday, 7 July 2023. The focus is on technical integration: »non-machines« include human and non-human actors or tools that are not yet integrated into a machine network. This can for example be a creature evolving freely in nature or a human who is not connected to digital networks.

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«.