- Spatial, relational, critical and constructivist thinking
- Aesthetic perception through and in conjunction with analogue and digital approaches and media
Upon successful completion, participants will receive 3 ECTS.
Democratic thinking through building blocks – potential of space
Democratic thinking through building blocks – potential of space
The course will generate creative proposals on how and where people meet and strike up conversations in urban and rural public spaces. It will explore how digital technologies can enhance or support their communication and sense of comfort. What will these future encounter places for diverse interactions look like, and what functions will they fulfil that we find difficult to imagine today?
In this course, participants will be familiarised with the spatial concepts and ideas of the young Bauhaus in order to identify possible solutions for current challenges, as well as to identify parallels between that time and current developments and derive possible courses of action. What is the common denominator and how can creative design potential be individually encouraged in diverse communities?
An innovative mediation tool will be used to test approaches to individual and collective design approaches and problem-solving strategies in order to apply them experimentally to situations and places relevant to everyday life, both in the respective home towns and together in Weimar.
The mediation tool to be tested is a construction kit that, as a modular system but also as a metaphor, makes critical constructivist systemic and relational thinking tangible. And a forward-looking homage to the young Bauhaus with a view to an open democratic society.
Everyone interested in the topic
- Graduate Engineer (Architect), Graduate Artist, Educator, Designer.
- PhD candidate 2017–2023 within the team at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where she works, teaches and conducts research as a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Chairs of Building Form Theory and Representation Methodology.
- 2023–2026: Project lead for DigiProSMK at the Weimar campus, at the Chair of Art and its Didactics (Prof. Dr A. Dreyer). The project focuses on radical understanding and democratic educational formats using spatial design methods.
Your application should be submitted until November 2nd, 2026. It should include:
- Letter of Nomination (applicants financed by the BIP scholarship from the partner universities)
- CV
- Portfolio (optional)
- English language certificate (optional)
In addition to the documents listed above, you will be asked to answer questions and/or complete tasks related to your motivation as part of the online application process.
The course fee is 300 EURO and includes:
- Orientation & Support
- Programme according to description
- Teaching materials
- Certificate
- Free use of library
The course fee does not include:
- Travel costs
- Accommodation
- Insurance
Participants, coming from the partner universites in the framework of Erasmus BIP scholarship and BUW students don't pay the course fee.
Service Package
In addition to the Spring School courses, we offer a comprehensive Service Package. The booking of the Service Package for €70 is optional. It includes: *
- participation in one excursion
- participation in one guided tour
- free entrance to one movie night
- free lunch at the University’s cafeteria
- free entrance to all museums belonging to Klassik Stiftung Weimar
- Spring School welcome gift
Students who do not take up the Service Package are automatically required to pay a course deposit of €100. This is to protect us against costs incurred by non-participation. Since in this case, the universities will not receive any funding from the European Commission. The deposit will be refunded as soon as the participants start the course in Weimar.
* the total value of the services included in the service package is around 150€.