On Thursday, 19 January 2023, the Design Zentrum Hamburg presented Produktdesign (Product Design) graduate Maximilian Schatz with the »Silberstreifen Award« for his bachelor's thesis »Lauchstoff«. The award comes with a 2,000 euro prize.

Das Bewertungsportal studyCheck.de vergibt jährlich den Category Award an die beliebtesten deutschen Hochschulen. In diesem Jahr setzte sich die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar im Ranking der Universitäten mit weniger als 5.000 Studierenden durch und erreichte den 2. Platz.

Ab dem 1. Januar 2023 darf sich die freie Fotografin und Alumna im Studiengang Medienkunst / Mediengestaltung Dominique Wollniok über die Förderung der Stiftung Kunstfonds freuen. Im Rahmen des sechsmonatigen NEUSTARTplus-Stipendiums soll ihr vor der Pandemie gestartetes Projekt »Mentalitätenwechsel in der Lausitz« weitergeführt werden.

Das Forschungsprojekt »Stadtwende« hat den gleichnamigen im Ch.Links Verlag veröffentlicht.

Alumnus Lorenz Bell gewinnt den 2. Preis des gif Immobilien Forschungspreises 2022 in der Kategorie Bachelorarbeiten mit seiner an der Professur Baumanagement und Bauwirtschaft betreuten Bachelorarbeit zum Thema »Hält der Beleihungswert, was er verspricht? – Eine Einführung und Analyse«.

Product design graduate Maren Klamser has been awarded the prestigious »Bundespreis Ecodesign« (German Ecodesign Award) in the »Nachwuchs« (Newcomer) category. As part of her final thesis, she developed a recyclable mineral solid from building rubble and transferred it into a deconstructable masonry system. The prize is endowed with 1,000 euros in prize money.

Unprecedented research projects and different scientific and personal experiences – this is how new professors enrich their universities. Hence it was particularly exciting to be introduced to four junior professors and professors from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar at this year’s »Wissenschaftstag«. On Wednesday, 30 November 2022, they shared insights into their latest research. Several awards were also conferred.

Three students from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar were honoured with this year's Medienkunstpreis (Media Arts and Design Award) on Saturday, 26 November 2022: Fernanda Caicedo, Sandra Rücker and Nik Dommermuth received the prize for the best final projects in the degree programme Media Art / Media Design (Media Art and Design). The award ceremony took place in the EIGENHEIM Weimar gallery in the Weimarhallenpark.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is this year’s recipient of the Ladislav Sutnar Prize, a prize which has been awarded by the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic, since 2021 and recognises the »Gropiusian vision of art and technology«. Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, accepted the award on behalf of the Presidium during a ceremony held in Pilsen on 15 November 2022.

On Tuesday, 22 November 2022, the prizes were conferred at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar for the best work submitted for the »OPEN HORIZONS« photo competition. International Office conferred the prizes in cooperation with University Communications. Photographs were sought that reflected students’ impressions of their place of study or internship abroad. International students’ impressions of their new place of study, Weimar, were also sought.

Eine Anerkennung im Helmut-Rhode-Förderpreis für Architekturzeichnungen haben 13 Studierende erhalten, die im Sommersemester 2022 an dem von der Professur Entwerfen und Wohnungsbau angebotenen Seminar »A Room with a View« teilgenommen haben.

Outstanding final theses were awarded prizes at this year’s graduation ceremony in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism on 11 November 2022. A total of 51 projects were submitted and the jury awarded three prizes and eight honourable mentions Following the presentation at the Eiermannbau, all award-winning projects will be displayed in the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Main Building from 17 to 30 November 2022.

Product design graduate Felix Sittner has been awarded a support in the »Publication« category of the German Design Graduates 2022 (GDG). His recyclable, circular school backpack »Loopy« will be supported by the platform for child-friendly design »afilii«.

On the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar website, a large number of videos and PDF files have now been made available in a way that makes them accessible to all.

From 2 to 31 October 2022, visitors will be able to explore outstanding final projects from the Product and Industrial Design departments of the most renowned German design and art colleges at the Design Campus of the Dresden State Art Collections (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden [SKD]). Milena Huber, Maren Klamser and Antonia Ney of the Faculty of Art and Design are participating in the exhibition. Artistic staff member Almut Nowack will also be represented with her Master’s thesis from HAWK Hildesheim.

Masks used as protection against the coronavirus have produced millions of tonnes of plastic waste. What if this waste could be recycled, even those masks contaminated by the virus? Two Bauhaus-Universität Weimar students could not stop asking themselves this question. Using a 3D printer, they showed what would be possible and created a toothbrush using recycled mask material. Their work is currently on display at the Marta Herford Museum or Art, Architecture, Design.

Mit drei Preisen und einer Anerkennung erzielten Studierende der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar im diesjährigen Konrad Wachsmann-Studienpreis überragende Erfolge. Preise erhielten die gemeinsamen Abschlussarbeiten von Amelie Steffen/Julius Baumanns, Marie Heyer/Nora Iannone sowie die Einzelarbeit von Vincent Mank. Eine Anerkennung ging an die Gemeinschaftsarbeit von Lisa Maßel und Lia Zinngrebe.

With a total of six works from various artistic degree programmes at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, students and teaching staff will be presenting themselves at the renowned »Ars Electronica« media art festival in Linz from 7 to 11 September 2022. The installations, concerts and experiments were created in the »Media Art and Design« and »Media Architecture« degree programmes.

Martin Siegler, who is a research associate within the Professorship for Media Philosophy at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has been awarded second prize in the humanities and cultural studies section of the 2022 German Study Prize for his dissertation on the subject of media articulations of human existence in emergency and catastrophe situations. Conferred by the Körber Foundation, this award honours outstanding work of particular social significance.

From this autumn, Prof. Dr. Andrea Dreyer (Professor of Art Education, Faculty of Art and Design) and Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich (Professor of Virtual Reality Systems, Faculty of Media) will receive funding from the »Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre« joint fellowship programme of the donors’ association (Stifterverband) of the German initiative to promote education, science and innovation (Deutsche Wissenschaft e. V.) and the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society. The state of Thuringia is supporting teaching concepts with up to €50,000 to encourage innovations in digital university teaching.