News about »Beyond Now«

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.

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 sixth edition of the event series looks at a fundamental aspect of human existence: Culture.

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.

The fifth edition of the event series centres around global survival. No transformation process will have more existential consequences than anthropogenic climate change.

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.

What happens when a forest changes? Students from the »PostCompost – Forest Reset« research project are examining the transformation of the Thuringian Forest with instructors Klaus Fritze-Herbst and Christian Doeller. Using artistic and scientific methods, the group is making it possible to understand how nature, landscapes, and habitats are evolving and reshaping themselves.

The fourth event in this series looks at the past: There is no future without history.

As part of the artistic research project »PostCompost - Forest Reset«, we welcome Agnes Meyer-Brandis to an artist talk entitled »Have a Tea with a Tree« on Thursday, 15 May 2025 at 4 pm. The lecture is one of the projects funded by the Presidential Board from the »Beyond Now Fund«. Interested parties are cordially invited to the Performance Platform in the Digital Bauhaus Lab.

The third edition of the event series centres around artificial intelligence (AI). The possibilities offered by artificial intelligence AI seem incredible, even magical. Digitalised aspects of life are developing at lightning speed – AI seems omnipresent and omnipotent. This brings up questions that refer to the fundamental relationship between technology and society and can only be answered from an interdisciplinary perspective, a task that guests will attempt during the event.