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.

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.

Unsere Umwelt endet nicht an der Haustür oder dem Gartentor. Sie überschreitet Stadtgrenzen, erstreckt sich in digitale Netzwerke und formt sich mit jedem Klick neu. Sie ist sowohl physisch als auch digital, analog und vernetzt − und damit zugleich sozialer Raum, politisches Spielfeld und ökologischer Einflussfaktor. In der Lehrveranstaltung »Digitale Umwelten: Die Rolle des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in veränderten digitalen Informations- und Kommunikationsräumen« untersuchen Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rösch (Fakultät Medien), Maxi-Josephine Rauch (Fakultät Medien) und Dr. Markus Seifert (Universität Erfurt), ob und wie der öffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunk (ÖRR) dazu beitragen kann, neue gemeinwohlorientierte und demokratiefördernde Räume zu schaffen.

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.

During a campus tour on Friday, 6 June 2025, the Thuringian Minister of »Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur«, Christian Tischner, will learn about the university's key research projects, innovative teaching concepts, and strategic developments.

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.

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.

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.

In the second »Sonic Talk« of the Semester on Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 19 h, Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman will present their artistic research project »SiestAria«. It revolves around listening as a method for accessing transitional states between sleep and wakefulness, and for reimagining rest and dreaming as ways of resisting the logics of urgency and optimization.

As part of the course »Queering Spaces«, a queer ephemeral archive will be created in the University Library of Weimar for Campus Pride Week and summaery2025. We are seeking artistic contributions that make queer knowledge and personal experiences visible. The works will be displayed in transparent acrylic boxes, entering into direct dialogue with the library’s holdings as forms of »lived experience«. Submissions are possible until Thursday, 12 June 2025.

Two final theses by students from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured in the national 2024/2025 »JOANES-Preis« competition for cooperative housing construction.