The city of Weimar and the Weimarer Land region, together with commercial enterprises and scientific institutions, invite you to the Long Night of Science on Friday, 15 November 2024 from 6 pm to midnight. Visitors can take a look behind the scenes of the participating institutions, research facilities and companies and gain insights into the latest scientific findings at numerous lectures, exhibitions, presentations and experiments.
This was the Long Night of Science at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2024
On Friday evening, numerous guests found their way to the workshops and laboratories on the Q3 Science Mile in Coudraystrasse or to lectures and hands-on activities on the university campus. Our photographer Matthias Eckert was also out and about:
University Library | Steubenstraße 6
6 - midnight
University Library is open
6 - 11 pm | Foyer, Ground Floor
Information Stand | Studying at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Student Advising
6:30 - 7:15 | Meeting Room, ground floor
Lecture | Norms & Standards - Origin and Handling, Martina Mellenthin Filardo M.Sc.
In the course of scientific work, dealing with norms and standards as an expression of the state of the art is unavoidable, depending on the subject area. In this lecture, the institutions and the development process of a standard are briefly presented. Finally, tips on reading and citing standards will be given.
8 - 10 pm | | Meeting Room, Ground Floor
Exhibition and Tour | What is the car when it is not driving? Dimensions of stationary traffic
Presentation of the project, keynote speech, discussion with visitors, tour of Steubenstraße and Schützengasse with joint discussion of the parking situation there
tba | GRAMA Lounge, Ground Floor
Presentation of the Cluster of Excellence initiative and discussion | Imaginamics. Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagination
Prof. Dr. Christina Brandt and Dr. Samuel Strehle, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Prof Dr Henning Schmidgen, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
6 - 11 pm | Foyer, Basement
Scholarship Exhibition | AUSGEWÄHLT #2
The scholarship holders of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar present their work in a joint exhibition during the Long Night of Science.
6 - 11 pm | Foyer, Ground Floor
Photo Exhibition | »READING THE WORLD | DIE WELT LESEN«
The International Office of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar presents a selection of entries to the photo competition for students, which this year focussed on places of knowledge, reading and learning.
Shuttle bus stop Poseckscher Garten
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
6 - 10 pm | Bar run by the Bauhaus.Atelier team
HYBRID LEARNING STUDIO | Amalienstraße 13
6 – 8.30 pm | room 003
The impossible space | open workshop
AI text analysis enables large text bodies to be displayed in multidimensional vector spaces and arranged depending on the semantic meaning of the words.
In our experimental installation, texts are transformed into immersive spaces that expand the visible boundaries of the hybrid learning studio by adding subharmonic layers of sound.
max. 10 people at the same time
suitable for children
German and English
barrier-free
Shuttle bus stop Poseckscher Garten
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
barrierefrei via Campus entrance
MAIN BUILDING | Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8
6 - 9 pm | ground floor
Participation programme | What does my »city of the future« look like? Help design the research showcase
The IfEU showcase is a display case that presents teaching and research projects during the institute's 20th anniversary year. Before it is dismantled, guests young and old can draw their ideas for the ‘City of the Future’ on the 10 metre-long glass window in the Main Muilding.
Suitable for children
German and English
6 - 12 pm | 1st floor
Exhibition | SPP 2255 Cultural Heritage Construction: Impressions and Findings
The exhibition provides an overview of the sub-projects of the 1st phase of the DFG Priority Programme »Cultural Heritage Construction - Foundations of an engineering-based and networked heritage conservation for the architectural heritage of the High Modern Age’«
6.30 - 7 pm.| 1st floor
Short lecture | What can construction-inherent heritage values be?, Jonatan Anders, International Heritage Centre
The lecture provides an insight into an ongoing research project. It sheds light on the evaluation of historical engineering services from the perspective of heritage conservation. Here we explore the question: What is a ‘design-inherent heritage value’?
German
Shuttle bus stop Poseckscher Garten
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
barrierefrei via back entrance
KUBUS | Belvederer Allee 1a
6 pm - midnight | Blue Pool, ground floor
Introducing the ‘Bauhaus Participation Lab’ project
To enable citizens to actively participate in municipal planning processes, they need to understand the planning problems and solutions. The »Bauhaus Participation Lab« is developing digital methods to activate different target groups to participate in the planning process using virtual reality (VR). This enables participants to explore, discuss and adapt planning variants together.
Shuttle bus stop Poseckscher Garten
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
6 - 10 pm
Take a science break with fresh drinks and coffee
In our Bauhaus.Atelier in the courtyard between the Kubus and the Main Building, you can find out more about our university, buy university souvenirs and creative gifts or enjoy freshly brewed coffee and cold drinks in our café. Just drop by!
Shuttle bus stop Poseckscher Garten
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
Faculty of Media | Bauhausstraße 11
7 - 8 pm | seminar room L, ground floor
Lecture and multimedia presentation | Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Diaries Rediscovered, Dr Elena Vogman
Sergei Eisenstein's planned film version of Karl Marx's Das Kapital (1927-1928) is considered a phantom project: never realised, it has nevertheless inspired many filmmakers and theorists to this day - from Guy Debord to Alexander Kluge. Media scholar Elena Vogman presents the extensive translation from the archives of the Soviet director and theorist, newly published in the journal October. The Capital Diaries: A New Selection is based on over five hundred pages of notes, images and sketches from Eisenstein's Capital project. This new publication emphasises the experimental, auto-theoretical and visual character of the material. The presentation is accompanied by Uliana Bychenkova's (Bauhaus-University Weimar) visual and acoustic work on Eisenstein's Capital Project, which has been exhibited in Paris and Berlin, among other places.
Presentation of the magazine issue (ed. Vogman) - October 188
Digital Bauhaus Lab
6 pm - midmight | VR-Lab
Experience virtual worlds: Insight into the virtual reality lab and current research projects
During the Long Night of Science, the VR Lab offers insights into current research results. Experience how virtual worlds can be used to make real knowledge spaces more accessible. Communicate with the furniture in Walter Gropius' office to learn more about it or take a short, guided tour through the digital twin of Goethe's apartment building.
Shuttle bus stop Poseckscher Garten
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
Schülerforschungszentrum | Marienstraße 7b
6 – 11 pm | 001
Guided tours and hands-on activities | MINT Experimental Course
Welcome to the newly opened Schülerforschungszentrum: here you can expect a changing range of practical science activities to try out and do yourself: make your own non-Newtonian fluid (slime), test your technical skills in the tower building competition, build your own toothbrush robot, design a paper circuit or try out our STEM course.
max. 15-20 participants per guided tour
especially for children
German and English
Shuttle bus stop Wielandplatz
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Parking with parking ticket
barrier-free
6 pm - midnight | Coudraystraße
Interactive offer | Clear the way! Accessibility trail
The course allows visitors to experience the challenges faced by people with limited mobility. It simulates everyday situations for wheelchair users and visually impaired people, such as uneven surfaces or kerbs, and raises awareness of accessibility.
Suitable for children
German and English
6 - 10 pm | Coudraystraße 4
Ground floor corridor
Information stand and photo box | Studying at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Discover the study opportunities at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Our students will answer your questions and give you an insight into their everyday life as a student. Get into conversation and capture your visit with our photo box.
6 pm - midnight | Coudraystraße 4 - Hall of the Experimental Facility of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (VTE), ground floor
Presentation and experiments | Structural Engineering
Current research results, laboratory experiments and teaching programmes will be presented.
Exhibition and hands-on activities | Current natural hazards - what we can learn from the damage
Damage events hit us again and again. In Germany and Europe, we also see damage to residential buildings and important infrastructure caused by earthquakes, floods, heavy rain and storms. What can we learn from this? How can we deal with them? And how can we prepare ourselves better? We show examples from current events and offer you the opportunity to experience for yourself how shocks can be visualised.
Suitable for children
Exhibition | Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for Costa Rica
The posters present the results of a final thesis and an assignment abroad in Costa Rica. The focus is on the vulnerability of buildings in Costa Rica. Various construction methods were identified and classified as part of a building survey. Until now, residential buildings in Costa Rica have only been partially analysed. This project contributes to expanding the existing knowledge in order to make it usable for seismic hazard analyses.
englisch
Coudraystraße 9 A - Abwasserlabor
Discover the b.is Abwasserlabor (wastewater laboratory) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar!
Immerse yourself in the world of laboratories, great research projects and state-of-the-art equipment, where innovative solutions in the field of urban water management are developed. Learn more about our work and the importance of sustainable wastewater treatment, water utilisation and reuse and the search for animals in wastewater. We look forward to your visit!
Guided tours on the half hour
max. 15-20 participants per tour
Limited accessibility
6 pm - midnight | Coudraystraße 10 - b.is Technikum
Circular Solutions: Circular economy for a sustainable future
The Bauhaus-Institut für zukunftsweisende Infrastruktursysteme (b.is) invites you to the Long Night of Science at the Technikum. Find out how grey water can contribute to climate-friendly urban development. Test your sense of smell with the scientific detection of odours using olfactometry, try out digital teaching concepts and experience a wide range of test facilities for removing pollutants from air and wastewater.
You can expect guided tours, insights into current projects and experimental set-ups, digital hands-on activities and spectacular illumination of our building.
Suitable for children
Presentation and guided tours | VertiKKA - The vertical climate and wastewater treatment plant
The VertiKKA test facility will be open to the public for the first time on the Long Night of Science. VertiKKA is a unique façade greening module that combines three components: the treatment of grey water, the greening of façades and the use of renewable energy through photovoltaics.
ongoing group tours
barrier-free
6 - 10 pm | Coudraystraße 11 A - Laboratories of the F.A. Finger-Institutes für Baustoffkunde
Foyer ground floorPr
esentation, experiments, hands-on activities | Magnetic concrete - building materials become attractive
The Junior Professorship of Mechanics of Materials introduces itself and the BMBF-funded research project »Stimucrete«. The project investigates the influence of externally activated additives on the properties of fresh concrete. Children can paint kitchen magnets from cement stone and take part in games with magnets.
Suitable for children
not barrier-free
Meeting point Foyer ground floor
Guided tour | CSI Building Materials - an excursion into building materials research
Demonstration experiments are shown to give an insight into building materials research.
Guided tours start: 6, 7, 8 and 9 pm
6 - 10 pm | Coudraystraße 11 A and 11 C - inner courtyard
Exhibition and guided tours | Bauhaus Energy Hub
The Bauhaus Energy Hub opens its doors!
Students at the Chair of Building Physics designed, planned and built the small experimental building, which represents sustainable and forward-looking architecture, energy and utilisation systems.
Inside not barrier-free
6 - 10 pm | Coudraystraße 11 B - Holzlabor, 107
Demonstrations, modern and historical timber constructions and short lectures
Find out, for example, how historical buildings and supporting structures can be assessed, renovated and repaired. Let us show you the low-destructive drilling resistance method. Get to know selected, modern and future-orientated timber construction methods. There are also wood-destroying fungi and insects to touch...
Suitable for children
limited accessibility
6 - 8 pm | Coudraystraße 11 - Klimalabor, 012
Open laboratory, presentation and guided tours
Discover the climate chamber and the thermal manikin Feelix. In the climate laboratory at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, scientists investigate the influence of the indoor climate on the human body. Is it cold on the back, is the face too warm? Measuring devices record temperature, humidity and air currents. The aim of the research is to air-condition living and working spaces as energy-efficiently as possible and at the same time to ensure comfort.
max. 6 participants per tour
German and English
Shuttle bus stop Goetheplatz
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Parking with parking ticket
partially barrier-free
Stadtwirtschaft Weimar GmbH | Industiestraße 14
6 p.m. - midnight | 5th floor
Exhibition, presentation and guided tour | NEP2N - The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle as a guest of Stadtwirtschaft Weimar
NEP2N is a robotic platform powered by hydrogen (H2). It is designed to help develop innovative solutions to the challenges posed by sustainable and renewable energies. Stadtwirtschaft Weimar also offers an H2 tour.
Meeting point for the tour in front of the entrance
Shuttle bus stop Industriestraße
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car park
barrier-free