Working Groups

The project focuses on the learning process of the students, the acquisition of inter- and transdisciplinary skills and social cooperation and transformation. In a participatory experimental laboratory, the students work on problems affecting society as a whole and actively shape the society of the future. In a first step, mobile units are to be designed, which are designed and equipped by students of the university in an interdisciplinary project. In a second step, the students and teachers explore the regions and get in touch with local actors to identify initiatives and projects for sustainable transformation. In the third step, the implementation of corresponding projects will be promoted in the form of real laboratories with the significant participation of local groups.

The project promotes social transformation on several levels: In the spirit of "service learning", (1) a contemporary teaching and learning culture is created in which the disciplinary academic education is expanded by (2) key competencies that meet future requirements in science, art and technology taken into account. In addition, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (3) faces up to its social responsibility and promotes knowledge transfer to (4) promote social commitment and democratic awareness in the rural regions of Thuringia. The students leave the academic shelter and develop ideas and concepts for a sustainable transformation with the appreciative involvement of social, political and economic actors.

   «We propose the mobile participatory experimental laboratory as an idea that can be realized in collaboration with other working groups. It has the potential to counteract a growing disintegration of democratic society, as we are observing in rural areas based on current election results: if local initiatives and groups are taken seriously, their ideas and knowledge are recognized and implemented in cooperation with young people be brought, then it could be demonstrated not least that the university assumes responsibility for all parts of the society that supports and finances it.» 

Participating persons: 

Prof. Dr. Christian Koch (Vice-President of Academic Affairs), Ronny Schüler, Larissa Barth, Dr. Andreas Mai sowie die AG Bauhaus Studium   

Contact:

Intellectual Technical Design
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Koch
Phone: +49 (0) 3643 / 58-4960
c.koch[at]uni-weimar.de

The term biophilia was created by the German psychoanalyst, philosopher and social psychologist Erich Fromm and further developed by Edward O. Wilson, an American biologist and entomologist who is known for his contributions
to evolutionary theory and sociobiology. They postulate that every human being has a love for life and nature. From Erich Fromm's point of view, another precondition for biophilia is the abolition of injustice and human freedom,
freedom from political shackles and the 

«freedom to create and build something, to be amazed and to dare something.»

Erich Fromm, Die Seele des Menschen, dtv, 2016, S. 59

The questions we want to deal with are, among other things, how can the health-promoting effects of nature be given greater consideration in architecture and urban development? Where do you find questions in art, in the media and
in literature about the relationship between man and nature? How can the relationship and the connection between humans and nature be revitalized and positively shaped and is this not a fundamental prerequisite for answering
questions about climate change, CO2 emissions and the preservation of biological diversity?
Beyond the general consensus that nature is beautiful and a walk in the forest is good, there is an ever increasing movement that studies the health-promoting effects of nature and researches it with scientific methods. Various
studies provide information about which vital parameters and functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, breathing rate, body temperature, adrenaline level, cortisone value, the immune system and, last but not least, the psychological well-being improve and are strengthened when staying in and in contact with nature, flora and fauna.
What does this mean for architecture and urban planning? How can and should these findings be taken into account in the planning of buildings and in urban planning? What are the design consequences, but also economic and business aspects?

For project documentation: Biophilic Architecture an Urbanism (uni-weimar.de)

Current seminars: 

"Building with wood, straw and clay", moodle.uni-weimar.de/course/view.php

"Campus planning, laboratory and research building", moodle.uni-weimar.de/course/view.php

International project Leipzig - Helmholtz Research Center CLAIRE Centre for Climate Action and Innovation - Research & Engineering, moodle.uni-weimar.de/course/view.php

Contact:

Professorship for construction management and construction industry

Klaus Schmitz-Gielsdorf M.Sc.urb.man. Dipl.-Ing. arcitect
Phone +49 3643 58-3286
klaus.schmitz-gielsdorf[at]uni-weimar.de

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Architekt Bernd Nentwig
Phone +49 3643 58-4625
bernd.nentwig[at]uni-weimar.de

Projects:

1. Under the asphalt of the campus - design module bachelor summer semester 2021

The south campus of the Bauhaus University was completely asphalted in 2015 to make room for parking spaces. It is the perfect example of how urban planning should NOT look like in the context of the climate crisis. The task in the urban design for the 2021 summer semester was to transform this place into its opposite: a prime example of decarbonization and sustainable building.
A hybrid open-air exhibition showed the designs developed by the 37 students in the parking lot. QR codes on the south campus connected the real locations with the visualizations of the students. As part of the Bauhaus-Uni Weimar's summer work show "The SUM", the potential of the site was tested for an evening and the south campus was brought to life.

The design project also discussed the question of which images sustainable building creates that make what is absolutely necessary - the radical reduction of CO2 - appear desirable and desirable. In this sense, the students interpreted the south campus as a meeting point for the entire university, as a campus worthy of the name, as a communal place with great functional and spatial qualities.

«The students are active users of the south campus, they are the ones who benefit from the range of free spaces and activities. After two semesters of online teaching, it was therefore obvious to reflect on the role of the campus together with the students.»

Links:

• video of the project
• project website
• draft »Of Bees and Ribbons«
• draft »At home on campus«
• draft »M18 Rising«
• draft »Campus Mix«

Participating teachers and professors:
Steffen de Rudder, Pola Rebecca Koch, Stefan Signer, Martina Jacobi, Benjamin Schatz

Participating students:Katharina Colbatzky, Paula Koerber, Marlene Zwilgmeyer, Caspar Wille, Paula Liz Stockburger, Lennart Trisl, Svenja Ikels, Simon Kliem, Aylin Dattner, Muborakkhon Yusupova, Anna Lotta Philippi, Nils Ophoff, Johanna Kruse, Emanuel Sandritter, Arvid Meyer-Gerit, Joachim Brönner, Madita Pyschik, Mina Lucille Pommeranz, Louisa Müller-Naendrup, Hanna Tost, Piet Krause, Thomas Krannich, Cora Sauré, Kensia Bellvie Klingert, Frederike Eckstein, Jannis Martens, Anais Rana Tenur, Lilli Walter, Mona Rauch, Joel Schülin, Nina Treppe, Anastasia Gnetova, Maria Winkler, Judith Platte, Marian Bötzl, Julian Wobst, Eric Roman Stehr

2. Reconstruction of the south campus

The south campus of the Bauhaus University essentially consists of a large car park. It was built just a few years ago, along with a few new buildings and an underground car park. Several hundred square meters of green space were sealed in the process. The result is a dead area, asphalted right up to the edges of the building.The parking lot is now to become a usable and inviting place. It should be available to all members and visitors of the university, should offer space for experiments, test buildings and prototypes, for art and architecture, for sports and doing nothing. In addition to its practical use, the new campus must also become part of a strategy for a climate-neutral university.

In the 1970s, places of this kind sparked criticism of car-friendly cities, gluttony and environmental destruction. Traffic reduction, unsealing and greening have been part of the standard repertoire in architecture and urban planning since the 1980s. In 2002, almost twenty years ago, the federal government decided to reduce daily land use to thirty hectares by 2020. And in 2014, the Bauhaus University, which refers to a school that was far ahead of its time, built a storage area for more than a hundred cars that embodies everything that has been recognized as wrong and harmful for decades. A better object for a conversion is hard to find. Simply removing the parking spaces and the asphalt would only correct one grievance. The aim is to turn the parking lot into a «green research campus».

«As users and active designers of the future urban culture, it is important to us that our campus is not only perceived as a world heritage site, but also as a beacon, as a model for sustainable further development and knowledge generation.»

Participating persons:
Steffen de Rudder, Simon Steffen, Benjamin Schatz, Robert Mitzenheim

Related Links:

Campus Transformation

3. Pavilion 10m2 City - A design-build project on the south campus of the Bauhaus University Weimar

A piece of town instead of a parking lot!
In a two-week workshop, 17 students from the bachelor's and master's courses in architecture and urban planning designed and built a test room for alternative uses of the campus site. By upcycling wood and canvas, a sustainable meeting place was created: it can be dismantled, reused and, thanks to the use of solar modules, it is self-sufficient in terms of energy supply. With a floor area of ​​ten square meters, this pavilion, called »Parklet«, fits exactly into a single parking space and thus gives the unused space a meaningful use – as an outdoor workspace, as a campus lounge or simply as a seat for the break.

Its architecture combines sustainable building and renewable energy, wood and high-tech, and the fun of building together. The pavilion is a workplace, sun deck, bar, recreation area, event location, stage... A piece of the city is created on 10m2 - and an idea of ​​how a parking lot can become a campus.

«With »10m2 Stadt« we want to demonstrate the potential of the space wasted with parking spaces. At the same time, the project is a practical exercise in sustainable construction that combines recycled building materials with modern technology»

Participating persons:
Steffen de Rudder, Pola Rebecca Koch, Stefan Signer, Gerda Seidelmann, Christian Hanke, Ringo Gunkel, Hiroshi Kato, Solarwatt-Group
Franka Maria Fetzer, Tillmann Gebauer, Flora Hagedorn, Alisha Sylvia Hauk, Alma Kaltenhäuser, Luisa Krämer, Hannah Kruse, Ruth März, Mia Naja Mücke, Valentin Siegfried Müller, Paul Jonathan Räpple, Joel Schülin, Gerda Seidelmann, Sina Skibbe, Valentin Topp, Leonard Weber, Malte Philipp Wiegand

Related Links:

• video of the project
• project website
• project documentation
• Instagram

4. Car-free day - Theme day on mobility, movement and space justice

For the Europe-wide "car-free day" on September 22, 2021, the Urban Planning Professorship at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar invited children, students, employees and residents to a theme day on mobility, exercise and space justice. The university car park on the south campus between Bauhausstraße, Berkaer Straße and Belvederer Allee was brought to life with various activities such as asphalt chalk painting, table tennis, Frisbee golf, cargo bike test rides, exhibition, music and open-air cinema.

The car-free day was introduced in 2000 by the then EU Commissioner for the Environment, Margot Wallström. The city and the Bauhaus University of Weimar took part for the first time in 2021. The event took place as part of the European Mobility Week, which has developed into an action week for sustainable transport projects across Europe

«Mobility-led urban redevelopment is a gain for the city: it creates space for the residents, who benefit from the recovery of public space. The professorship in urban planning deals with the question of how this change is taking place, how the city is changing as a result of new models of urban mobility»

Participating persons:
Steffen de Rudder, Pola Rebecca Koch, Stefan Signer, Martina Jacobi, Gerda Seidelmann, Paula Gotthard, Universitätssport, Uwe Türk-Noack, Ivonne Hartmann, Kindertagesstätte Campus.Kinder, Professur Städtebau, Professur für Experimentelles Radio, Professur Verkehrssystemplanung, WeLa Weimar

Related Links:

• Invitation of the Car Free Day 2021

5. Climate Action: Permaculture and local economies in urban areas

What measures can be taken to counteract the advancing climate crisis? How can permaculture in urban areas help to close local nutrient cycles and thus restore a sustainable balance? These questions were part of the interdisciplinary Bauhaus module »Climate Action: Permaculture and local economies in urban areas«, which was offered to students from all four faculties in the 2021 summer semester with the participation of various professorships at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

The students worked in mixed teams to find solutions to the climate crisis and created an exhibition project for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Great Britain.

Future urban development must be sustainable and climate-neutral. An important element is the idea of ​​a cycle, which led to the development of permaculture. This instrument of sustainable construction must be used more frequently and become a stronger part of university teaching.

«The project topic itself tries to think about something visionary: Permaculture has so far only existed in rural areas. With the student projects, however, we wanted to show the potential of permaculture in an urban context. Here, in addition to the circular idea of ​​material flows and energy, it is also about important questions of social coexistence. In addition, the students should be trained to be creative beyond the boundaries of their own subjects and to consider whether the urban space to be redesigned allows the cycle to be natural at all.»  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Kraft

Participating teachers and professors:

Professorship of Urban Design - Prof. Dr. Steffen de Rudder, Pola R. Koch
Professorship Arts and Research - Prof. A. Toland;
Chair of Biotechnology in Resources Management - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Kraft;
Professor of Marketing and Media - Prof. Dr. J. Emes

Participating students:
Hans Kaspar Brandt, Julia Durkopp, Janina Hain, Dominik Heigener, Maren Kaczor, Henrike Kramer, Isabell Maria Lange, Nele Friederike Sophie Mangels, Sisu Satrawaha, Lukas Seifert, Philipp Tommrich, Lena Vogel, Emma Claire Von Helden, Suna Mathilde Yoo

Related Links:

• Video of the project
• project website
• Massage on attanding the climate conference

• Interview with participants of the climate conference

6. Transform website

How can we become carbon neutral? What do we have to do to achieve this?
Transform is a catalog of projects on sustainability, decarbonization and climate change developed at the Bauhaus University Weimar. The projects are presented with short texts in English, with pictures and further links.
The platform was created as an instrument to bring together the various parallel projects at the Bauhaus University Weimar on one website and to make them visible internally and externally.

The visualization of the diverse projects on the subject of sustainability enables the formation of a community of practice and creates opportunities for internal and external cooperation. Under the motto "Transform - Translate - Transfer" we want to make the relevant research and design activities of the Bauhaus University accessible to an international public in a way that is easy to read and easy to grasp. The university should thus become known as a player in the field of sustainability and CO2 reduction.

«The complex demands of climate change can only be tackled through a multidisciplinary approach. Many interesting and innovative projects are created at the university, but these are often only known within the respective subject area. With Transform-Website we want to promote interdisciplinary cooperation.»

Participating teachers and professors:
Professur Städtebau, Professur Produktdesign, Professur Siedlungswasserwirtschaft, Professur Biotechnologie in der Ressourcenwirtschaft, Professur Bauphysik, Professur Verkehrssystemplanung, Junior Professorship Computational Architecture, Professur Modellierung und Simulation-Konstruktion, Professur Computer Vision in Engineering, Campus Garten, Klima AG, Anniek Vetter

Related Links:

• project website

Current seminars:

• Utopsie B7B
• Bauhaus.Modul Solar Talks
• Bauhaus.Modul Ping Pong Pocket

Contact Campus:

Professorship of Urban Design Dr. Steffen de Rudder

Martina Jacobi
Scientific Associate
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 6
99423 Weimar
Phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 26 24
martina.maldaner.jacobi[at]uni-weimar.de

Contact City:

Professorship for transport system planning
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Plank-Wiedenbeck
Phone: +49 (0) 3643 / 58 44 72
Marienstraße 13D
uwe.plank-wiedenbeck[at]uni-weimar.de

M. Sc. Lena Klopfstein
Phone +49 (0) 3643 / 58 - 4464
Marienstr. 13C
lena.klopfstein[at]uni-weimar.de

The AG Equity@Bauhaus understands topics of diversity, equality and equal opportunities as interdisciplinary topics. In the course of the NEB Weimar, collaboration with all departments and working groups is therefore sought in this context. In the NEBW, the topics covered by the term "equity" should be at the forefront and actively considered in all projects - both in terms of content and the institutional framework.
Advice and training offers support the implementation of diversity and equality aspects within the framework of the NEBW. The aim here is to inform those responsible for the project about relevant topics at the interface of diversity, equality and climate change and to support them in implementing subject- and project-specific aspects in research and teaching. To do this, it is necessary to build up a pool of external speakers who are familiar with the area of ​​diversity, equality and the respective discipline, and workshops and individual advice on specific topics (e.g. gender and diversity data gap, but also gender and diversity in teaching ) able to offer.

People involved:
Miriam Benteler (Equal Opportunities Office), Judith Krischler (Professorship Intelligent Technical Design), Tina Meinhardt (Equal Opportunities Office), Martina Mellenthin Filardo (Professorship Construction Management and Construction Processes), Christin Sirtl (Professorship Steel and Hybrid Construction).

Contact:

Professorship in construction operations and construction methods
MSc Martina Mellenthin Filardo
Scientific Associate
Phone: (+49) 03643 - 58 45 72
martina.mellenthin.filardo[at]uni-weimar.de

The key challenge of this project is the development of new and advanced methods for data acquisition and determining the energy demands for buildings and neighborhoods. The project intends to demonstrate that a climate-neutral building stock can be realized while preserving existing buildings, in particular historical monuments. The goal of the project is to implement a demonstrator that embodies both climate neutrality and climate resilience.

The project demonstrates nationally as well as internationally which steps in terms of building physics are necessary for the realization of a climate resilient and livable city. By applying machine learning methods in the phase of data acquisition and planning, the demand of resources for construction projects can be reduced and the transformation of the building stock can be accelerated. Smart adaptations of existing buildings and targeted interventions in neighborhoods also offer the opportunity to use previously wasted energy potentials.

«In order to show ways out of the climate crisis and assume social responsibility, the Bauhaus must set an example - away from uninspired architecture and towards climate-friendly cities. These paths require acceleration through appropriate methods and simultaneously have to enforce thoughtful renovations.»

Participating persons:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Conrad Völker (Professorship of building physics), Alexander Benz (Research Associate at the Professorship of Building Physics, Working Group Energy), Jonas Schmelz (Research Associate at the Professorship of Building Physics, Working Group Energy)

Project

1. 300m Science: From the hidden university to the Science Mile

To the west of Goetheplatz, in the center of Weimar, is the 300 meter long Coudraystrasse. Starting at the Ackerburgerscheunen, Coudraystraße runs parallel to this square between Schwanseestraße and Sophienstiftsplatz. In addition, large parts of Coudraystraße are under monument protection. Despite numerous research institutes, lecture halls and laboratories, the Coudray campus has so far been in the shadow of the campus around the main building. Also due to the online teaching caused by the pandemic, many students do not get to know this part of the Bauhaus University during their studies. Extensive new buildings, renovations and modernizations make the importance of this street clear. Despite this importance for the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the street does not yet radiate the character of a campus, nor does the outdoor space invite you to use it or linger.
In the future, Coudraystraße is to be put in the right light as the "Science Mile". The research taking place here should be made visible, the outdoor spaces should be able to be used sensibly by students and employees, ideas should be exchanged and contacts made. This requires sensible concepts, including: areas for research demonstrators in public space and for the transformation from the street to the campus (e.g. entrance situations, road traffic, inner courtyards, green spaces, the effect of the building on visitors). In addition to this redesign, climate neutrality must also be taken into account as a central concern of the Bauhaus University Weimar. Within the course, all measures are therefore also evaluated with regard to the CO2 balance of the campus.

Participating teachers:
Conrad Völker, Alexander Benz, Moritz Pollack

Contact:

Professorship of building physics
Civil Engineering & Architecture and Urbanistics
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Conrad Völker
Phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 47 00
conrad.voelker[at]uni-weimar.de

Contact

Dipl.-Ing. Julia Heineman
Scientific Associate

Phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 31 06
julia.heinemann[at]uni-weimar.de

More information at:
International Heritage Center

Contact:
International Heritage Center
Bauhaus University Weimar
Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 8th
99423 Weimar

Office: Marienstrasse 9
99423 Weimar
Phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 35 29
heritage[at]uni-weimar.de

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Hans Rudolf Meier

Scientific management:
Dr. Jenny price
jenny.price[at]uni-weimar.de

As a university, we educate the decision-makers of the future, handing down world concepts that shape the thinking and structures of future societies. On the threshold of a comprehensive transformation, in addition to the purely technical implementation of climate goals, there is also a need for a change in people's consciousness. The Real.Sense.Lab, as an institute for perception skills and awareness-raising, refers to processes of self- and environmental appropriation, to the training of motivational and emotional skills with the aim of providing people inside and outside the university with a repertoire of methods , which enables them to deal independently and responsibly with the challenges of the future.

In the Real.Sense.Lab, grown environments (nature and urbanity) as well as social spaces are rediscovered and negotiated with current, performative perception techniques and strategies. The focus is on training listening, seeing and spatial perception through movement and articulation. Consecutively new formats will be derived from this, which, in the sense of a living laboratory, aim to implement new products and designs for a socially and ecologically oriented society. Taking into account the acoustic, visual-haptic and spatial sensory experience, it is about a process and personality-oriented ecology that can have a lasting effect on all educational institutions and environmental design.

«Because I am convinced that the ability to listening properly is not only important for sound artists, but can also make an important contribution to self-knowledge, to a social and responsible society and to international understanding.» Nathalie Singer

«The questions of the future cannot be thought of without the future generation! At the Bauhaus University, the focus must be on teaching: in analytical and process-oriented action, in participatory and interdisciplinary action! This requires the Real.Sense.Lab.» Luise Nerlich

«Because I think it's important that, in addition to language, visual skills are promoted and taught in all areas of education. Visual competence enables self-awareness and perception of the environment and is a necessary resource for the development of judgment and communication skills.» Francis Zeischegg

«For me, dealing with one's own perception and the perception of others is the prerequisite for recognizing each other's own needs. In this experience of empathy, in turn, lies an important, perhaps decisive impulse for social transformation processes towards ecological and economic fairness.» » Alexandra Abel

Participating persons:

Alexandra Abel, Luise Nerlich, Nathalie Singer, Franzis Zeischegg

Projects:

In the creative design process, the acquisition of skills and knowledge for approaching the questions of a New European Bauhaus is a prerequisite. In addition to analytical and participatory action, interdisciplinary action is a central idea of ​​the REAL-SENS-LAB.

Only after strengthening one's own discipline can interdisciplinary research, thinking and action be stimulated, in which experts* in their respective disciplines work together on relevant topics, such as here at the interface between space and movement: www.uni-weimar.de /en/architecture-and-urbanism/professorships/construction-types-teaching/teaching-bachelor/seminar-stage/

Another central idea of ​​the REAL-SENS-LAB is process-oriented action. Here the students are enabled to act as generalists and to assume the corresponding responsibility. Real experience in the respective disciplines and the meta-reflection of processes during the course are required here, accompanied by the acquisition of relevant skills and methods - a guiding principle in the project: The island of Hiddensee as a creative place in architecture teaching: www. uni-weimar.de/de/architektur-und-urbanistik/aktuell/aktuelles/titel/die-insel-hiddensee-als-kreativer-ort-in-architektur-lehre/

Current seminar:

I'm not sitting in a room – urban, social and political resonances
Responsible: Prof. Nathalie Singer, Frederike Leonie Moormann, Elena Zieser
The module "I'm not sitting in a room" aims to re-explore various urban, social and political spaces through the interaction of theory and practice, based on the investigation of diverse resonance phenomena. First the module focusses on conveying theoretical foundations in the field of resonance theories, spatial acoustics, urban sound design, ecosphere and politics of listening.

Contact:

Faculty of Art and Design
Prof. Nathalie Singer
Experimental Radio

Phone: +49 (0) 36 43/58 38 90
nathalie.singer[at]uni-weimar.de

The rural knowledge network serves as a platform for collective knowledge production between rural and urban areas. Actors, residents and experts in rural areas as well as researchers, students and lecturers at the university are dedicated to climate-friendly development and resilient design of the common environment in teaching, learning and research formats with equal rights. Those involved in the knowledge network can find the resources they urgently need in rural areas. The resulting knowledge and experience of various participants with diverse spatial backgrounds is exchanged and further developed in a spatially localized manner, resulting in new future perspectives.

The climate crisis and associated transformation processes pose a significant challenge for urban and rural regions alike, which cannot be mastered without integrating the previously neglected rural perspective. The associated transformation of agricultural value creation, energy infrastructure, resource use or mobility is closely linked to questions of quality of life, services of general interest and nature and landscape development as well as their multidimensional design. The knowledge network meets these tensions with a variety of topics, focal points and new forms of cooperative exchange between rural and urban perspectives.

«Due to its location, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has a special responsibility and must become effective with innovative forms of cooperative knowledge production on questions of climate justice »on the doorstep« and understand this as a significant potential.»

Participating persons:

Andrea Dreyer, Anna Paulina Graf, Till Hoffmann, Jessica Christoph, Sebastian Händschke, Noa Wilhelmi, Christine Leonie Dörner, Barbara Schönig, Johann Michael Schwind, Joern Hintzer, Andrea Lück, Atidh Jonas Langbein, Marvin Krämer, Carlo Bohlen, Leo Bockelmann, Annemieke Jansen, Nicolas Goez, Elodie Vittu, Ludwig Lorenz, Sigrun Langner, Fridtjof Florian Dossin, Maria Frölich-Kulik

Contact:

Professorship of landscape architecture and planning
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigrun Langner

landscape architect

Phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 32 59
sigrun.langner[at]uni-weimar.de

«Shared Habitats / Expanded Ecologies« (SHEE) is a critical initiative that aims to change teaching and learning habits. Drawing on historical experiments and the current European agenda, SHEE is developing a modular system of toolkits that both reflect experiments and apply them on new proposals. The project looks into tools that measure air pollution, solar intensity, gravitational waves or wind. The toolkits created will include DIY tools combined with papers, manuals, descriptions of historical experiments, and video tutorials on how to use them. All results will be presented and disseminated in the final phase in the form of a publication and an exhibition.

By referring to historical experiments, the project attempts to re-evaluate humans in their umwelts from today’s perspective. While experiments provide curious people with knowledge, the new proposals encourage dialogue with fellow students, professors, makers and lay people. Because the toolkits are scalable, they can be duplicated and used in multiple locations simultaneously. Through the experimental combination of artistic, scientific and design approaches, the project wishes to engage with innovative forms of coexistence so that our posthuman and postcolonial society as a whole becomes comprehensible as a shared habitat.

Participating persons:
Prof. Ursula Damm, Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen, Mindaugas Gapsevicius, Martin Schmidt, Jenny Brockmann, Alexandra Abel

Contact:

Mindaugas Gapševičius
Artistic assistant at the Chair of Design of Media Environments
Phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 38 71
mindaugas.gapsevicius[at]uni-weimar.de

The working group TUN (Textiles and Sustainability) intends to reactivate the focus on textiles at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar due to the great interest shown by students, lecturers and those outside the university. The formative textile history of the Weimar location and the associated importance of the Bauhaus women should be included with this initiative and with a view to future teaching and
research-related developments are promoted. The textile is representative of the interdisciplinary orientation of the university and offers a lot of space for the development of sustainable
and innovative design solutions.

The need has been met for several years by a student initiative and is to be systematically anchored and expanded in research and teaching. This requires two actions:

1. Establishment and anchoring of professorial teaching with a focus on "Textiles and Sustainability" at the Faculty of Art and Design
2. Substantial expansion of the existing textile workshop and embedding it in the central workshop areas

The aim is therefore to create a spatial nucleus for textiles and sustainability in the sense of a "Textile Lab" in the next few years. The focus is on bringing together relevant topics and work areas and the associated joint development and communication of textile concepts, tools and methods with a special emphasis on sustainable and material approaches.

As an integral part of the spatial nucleus, an experimental room offers students and researchers the opportunity to work with new/unconventional materials, constructions and
Experimenting with open-ended processes and addressing material-technological issues in order to develop future and new perspectives in textile design.

Through unbiased collecting and observation, an experimental confrontation with material, environment and everyday phenomena can take place. In cooperation with the economic and cultural environment, design processes should be questioned and socially relevant topics should be taken into account conceptually. In order to develop new perspectives in textile design, the teaching of a sustainable design language and specialist knowledge of textile techniques and the use of responsible production methods form an important basis.

At the same time, the area of ​​sustainable design is to be significantly strengthened and further cooperation projects with institutions, companies and research facilities (regional/national/international) are to be initiated. The same applies to the transfer of knowledge and technology in corresponding areas of application and practice.

Participating persons:

Katrin Steiger (artistic assistant at the faculty of art and design, artist and founder of the textile workshop initiative), Nadine Göpfert (textile designer and lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design on several occasions), Anne Marx (textile artist, former student leader of the textile workshop, lecturer at the Faculty of Art and Design)

Contact:

Katrin Steiger, M.F.A.
Artistic assistant at the Chair of Art and Social Space
Phone: +49 36 43 / 58 38 74
katrin.steiger[at]uni-weimar.de

A New European Bauhaus drives a socially and ecologically sustainable societal transformation. The interface topic »housing« represents an important field of action for this transformation, as it brings together global questions and questions of everyday life. The AG Wohnen proposes the establishment of a transdisciplinary platform on the housing issue, which combines different disciplines within the university and integrates non-university social actors in housing. The platform fulfills three functions: transfer (education and knowledge transfer from the university to society and vice versa), development of model projects and bundled presentation of projects in an archive.

The platform integrates a large number of social groups and sees itself as transdisciplinary. Partners from politics and administration, from civil society or the private sector (oriented towards the common good) each have their own wealth of knowledge and skills for socio-ecological transformation and are an integral part of the project. The platform thus leaves the purely academic area and is intended to bundle, expand and represent university and non-university knowledge.
 

«We want to design a future for the question «How do we want to live?». The idea of ​​such a platform has been driving us for years, as we work on the topic of "living" in many different ways: in our teaching, practice as planners/architects and research as scientists.»

Participating persons:
Prof. Verena von Beckerath (Housing, Fac. A+U), Prof. Dr. Thorsten Beckers (Infrastructure Economics and Management, Fac. C.E.), Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt (social science urban research, Faculty A+U), Prof. Andreas Garkisch (design and city, architecture, Fac. A+U), M. Sc. Kassandra Löffler (constructive design and testing, Fac. A+U), PD. Dr. Heike Oevermann (monument preservation and building history,Fac. A+U), Hanna Schlösser (housing,Fac. A+U), Prof. Dr. Barbara Schönig (Urban planning,, Fac. A+U), M. Sc. Michael Schwind (Urban planning, Fak A+U (Koordination NEB-AG Wohnen)), Dr. Elodie Vittu (Institute for European Urban Studies, Fac. A+U (Coordination NEB-AG Housing), Vistiing Prof. Lisa Vollmer (Urban planning, Fac. A+U (Coordination NEB-AG Housing), Dr. Julia von Mende (Institute for European Urban Studies, Fac. A+U), Jun.-Prof. Dr. Daniela Zupan (European Cities and Urban Heritage, Fac. A+U)

Kontakt:

Institute for European Urban Studies

Dr. Elodie Vittu

Phone: +49 (0) 3643  58 26 52
elodie.vittu[at]uni-weimar.de

Visiting Prof. Dr. Lisa Vollmer
Post-Doc IfEU (Visiting Professor Urban planning)

Phone: +49 (0) 3643  58 32 64
lisa.vollmer[at]uni-weimar.de

Michael Schwind M.Sc.
scientific Assistant

Phone:  +49 (0)3643 58 26 36
johann.michael.schwind[at]uni-weimar.de