1. University Aid for Ukraine

We support the measures of the Bauhaus University Weimar for people affected by the war in Ukraine. You can find detailed information on aid offered by the Bauhaus University Weimar at www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/aktuell/ukraine-hilfe-der-universitaet/. 

2. Concentrated Help 

Numerous and diverse offers of help have already been established and we call on all those willing to help to make use of them. In view of these well-functioning support channels, setting up our own activities would not seem to be very productive. On the other hand, we provide active support where we can and where we are technically competent.

• Deutsch-Ukrainische Gesellschaft für Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft 
• UNESCO World Heritage Assistance 
• Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online 
• Prince Claus Fund – Cultural Emergency Response 
• Global Heritage Fund 
• Network of European Museums Organisations – Museums support Ukraine 

3. Platform for Academics

As an international research centre, we are happy to support scholars from Ukraine or Russia who are conducting research on heritage topics and are looking for a connection to a research centre abroad. Scholars who need institutional support can contact us. We will help you find funding for your stay in Germany.

4. Making Research Visible

As a research centre, it is important for us to continue to support research on heritage topics related to Ukraine, Russia and the former Soviet Union. We want to make research in this area visible on our website and in our work. 

• Architecture at Work : Institutional Landscapes of Socialist Design and Construction
  The upcoming workshop will focus on the organisation and management of architectural production and work in the socialist world - on institutional structures, hierarchies and networks, the interaction of architectural science, research, planning, design and construction in and between socialist countries, and their relations to those in power.
  
  
• Authoritarian Urbanism
  The seminar in the summer semester will deal with the questions of how authoritarianism is exercised and perceived in urban spatial production and how it shapes the relations between state and society. During the seminar, students will acquire profound knowledge about the interplay of power, politics and urban design. They get to know innovative theoretical positions, conceptual approaches and methods for the academic examination of the topic of authoritarian urbanism.
  
  
• Stories from the Collection - Archive of Soviet Architecture in Georgia
  When the former Soviet republic of Georgia plunged into a severe political, economic and social crisis after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the already weakened building sector also collapsed. Since then, several buildings and monuments have been demolished and alienated. State planning and research institutes were also closed one after the other, and plan inventories that were housed in these institutions are now partly untraceable or have not been indexed until now. Within the framework of the dissertation, new methods will be directly tested on the website Tbilisi Architecture Archive. Based on the knowledge of historical contexts, this alternative architecture archive is intended to address current issues and tasks in architecture, to stimulate new discourses and to pursue them in research in a sustainable manner.
  
  
• The Bauhaus in the Urals
  Under the professional guidance of Larissa Schaschkina and Dr.-Ing. Mark Escherich, Russian and German architecture students worked together in August 2008 on problems of preserving Soviet Constructivist architecture in general and specifically on the former canteen and canteen complex of the residential town of the Uralmash factory in Yekaterinburg.
  
  
• University Library
  UkrainianLIT: The university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar offers numerous specialised information and media on the history, politics and society of Ukraine as well as on peace research via its online catalogue (OPAC). Here you will find a bibliography with selected books, e-books, DVDs or databases that you can borrow or use online. The list is continuously updated. Selected books and DVDs are available on a separate shelf in the new building, level -1.