How do we want to live in the future?
Open call for a new »European Bauhaus Weimar«
In October 2020, Ursula von der Leyen issued a call for a new European Bauhaus. In the call, von der Leyen describes the current global challenges and the need for a new movement aimed towards creating more sustainable cities and more worthwhile living. While the »Green Deal« is focussed on conserving our resources and reducing CO2 emissions, it is also intended to be a new cultural project for Europe. von der Leyen cites the historic Bauhaus as a source of inspiration that brought together art, craft and technology a hundred years ago. And that’s what it’s still about today: in light of the global challenge of climate change, the question is how can we shape the future together through the interaction of technology, science, art and design?
The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is applying to be one of the five locations for the new »European Bauhaus«. An interdisciplinary team will be formulating a cross-university approach in early 2021 for the application, which will then be expanded into a concept made up of a broad range of content together with a number of partners from Thuringia, Germany, and around the world. All instructors, students and staff at the university are welcome to participate in and contribute their ideas to this major undertaking and future-oriented project.
»Here at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, we combine shaping the future with a living cultural heritage. We work together closely every day here in teaching and research to develop and implement new ideas and concepts for a sustainable environment worth living in. All of the faculties are united in asking the questions: How are society and the environment changing as a result of modern technology? What does the relationship between humans, the environment and technology need to look like in the future? How can we live together today and in the future? And how do we want to live together?«
Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp
President of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
May 2021 | Application as partner of the NEB
15.05.2021 | Submission of first concept sketches by the working groups
31.05.2021 | Deadline for submission of entries for the New European Bauhaus Prize
June-September 2021 | Cooperative writing process
02.07.2021 | Consultation between steering group and text group
September 2021 | Call for proposals by the EU
16.09.2021 | Award ceremony NEB-Prize
November 2021 | Symposium at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
until March 2022 | Finalization of the application
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At the New European Bauhaus Conference, prizes were presented for particularly forward-looking and meaningful projects for inclusive, aesthetic and sustainable transformation.
Prizes will be awarded in 10 different categories. In each of the categories, there are two parallel strands of competition:
- New European Bauhaus Awards for completed examples/projects.
- New European Bauhaus Rising Stars for concepts or ideas submitted by young people under 30 years of age.
The winners in each category will receive:
- 30,000 EUR and a communication package for the New European Bauhaus Awards.
- 15,000 EUR and a communication package for the New European Bauhaus Rising Stars
The categories address projects in the following areas:
- Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design
- Buildings renovated in the spirit of circularity
- Solutions for the co-evolution of the built environment and nature
- Regenerated urban and rural spaces
- Products and life style
- Preserved and transformed cultural heritage
- Reinvented places to meet and share
- Mobilization of culture, arts and communities
- Modular, adaptable and mobile living solutions
- Interdisciplinary education models
We encourage you to apply for this award with your projects, teaching experiences, study achievements and visions. With our application as the New European Bauhaus, we also want to perspectively create a novel platform and the resources to further develop your concepts, plans and projects in an application-oriented way and in exchange with other disciplines.
The deadline for submitting your project was on 31.05.2021. After a public voting process, the jury of partners will evaluate the preselected projects until 6.07.2021.
Prizes will be awarded on 16. September 2021.
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Internal University Idea Pitch for the new »European Bauhaus Weimar«
In order to jointly advance the project of the new »European Bauhaus Weimar«, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has called on all teachers, students and employees to participate in an open call. With about 70 contributions from students and teachers from all faculties, the response has been remarkable. A wide range of designs and ideas were submitted, which deal creatively, artistically and critically with climate change, CO2 reduction and, in connection with this, the self-image of our university.
The aim of the university-wide exchange was to bring together topics in and after the digital events, to expand existing groups and to bring together actors in new groups in order to develop a common vision of the European Bauhaus.
The contributions and results are available in the Moodle room "New European Bauhaus" and can be discussed and further thought about there.
Various existing research projects were presented at the Ideas Lab on 9 May. You can find a selection of the contributions here (German language videos):
Beton & CO2 – Ideenlabor Weimar 2021
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Künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit Ökologie – Ideenlabor Weimar 2021
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Lehmtafelbauweise – Ideenlabor Weimar 2021
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8 Hektar – Ideenlabor Weimar 2021
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Hudson Valley – Ideenlabor Weimar 2021
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With this teaching research project, the university also participates in the Green New Deal Superstudio www.gndsuperstudio.com.
Textilwerkstatt – Ideenlabor Weimar 2021
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Various formats will be used throughout the progress and development of the project. Work groups, public events and a variety of participation formats will offer a broad range of opportunities for you to contribute your own ideas and to get involved in the work process.
Currently the following work groups have been formed:
- Shared Habitat
- Campus
- City
- Country
- International Cooperation
- Teaching of the Future
- Bauhaus Studies
- Biophilia
- Textile Workshop
- Critique of growth
- equity@Bauhaus
- Buildings, energy and climate-neutral city
- Heritage
- Housing
The NEB steering group consists of
- Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp (head)
- Prof. Dr. Max Welch Guerra (Fak. A&U) (scientific coordinator between text group, steering group and working groups)
- Marina Glaser, M.A., M.P.A. (coordination; partners/Thuringian state representatives, TMIL, KSW, Goethe-Institut)
Professors
- Prof. Dr. Bernd Rudolf (Fak. A&U)
- Prof. Dr. Eckhard Kraft (Fak. B)
- Prof. Dr. Uwe Plank-Wiedenbeck (Fak. B)
- Prof. Wolfgang Kissel (Fak. K&G)
- Prof. Dr. Jutta Emes (VPID, Fak. M)
- Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen (Fak. M)
academic staff
- Dr. Steffen de Rudder (Fak. A&U)
- Julia Heinemann (Fak. A&U)
- Martina Mellenthin Filardo (Fak. B)
employees in technology and administration
- Dr. Christian Kästner (DIB)
- Dr. Kristina Schönherr (DFO)
students
- Emilia Fuchs (Fak. A&U)
- Friederike Kamm (Fak. A&U)
- Hermine Sprenger (Fak. A&U)