The equity@bauhaus project looks at the topics of diversity, equality and inclusion from different academic disciplines and perspectives. In the period from the winter semester 2022/23 to the winter semester 2024/25, four lecture series were implemented in cooperation between the Equal Opportunities Office/ Diversity Department and the faculties of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

I. Equity@bauhaus - winter semester 22/23

in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Mona Mahall, Chair of Representation Methodology in Design, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism

Equity at Bauhaus is an open format for discussing the urgent questions of our time: How can we live and learn together in a careful and just way - in the world and at the university? How do we design, plan and shape spaces, processes, relationships and knowledge for the planet and the survival of all its living beings? What sustainable and holistic transformation processes in the areas of living, learning, movement and management are we setting in motion, and what do we need for these?

with presentations by

• Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Sabine Hark (TU Berlin) - »Den Geistern folgen. Epistemische Gewalt und die Aufgabe der Kritik?«
• Dr.ⁱⁿ Lorena Juan (Kunstlerin, Berlin) - »The queer feminist art collective COVEN BERLIN and the ecosystem bog as a metaphor for the queer community.«
• Wendelien van Oldenborgh (Hfk Bremen), Filmvorführung von Two Stones (2019) und Diskussion mit der Regisseurin.
• Dr.ⁱⁿ Dagmar Pelger (Udk Berlin) - »Mapping of physical and social barriers on campus and adjacent areas of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.«
• Niloufar Tajeri  (TU Berlin) - »Intersectionality and space: A critique of built architectural practices.«
• Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ-Ing. Dipl. Math. Corinna Bath (TU Braunschweig) - »Towards (Gender) Just Technological Artifacts and Intelligent Technology. Analyses, Methods, Case Studies«
• Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Jiré Emine Gözen (University of Europe) - »Racism and Academic Freedom.«
  

II Equity at Bauhaus II: Media Edition - summer semester 2023

with Dr. Irina Kaldrack, Lecturer in Society and Digitalization, Faculty of Media

The lecture series “Equity at Bauhaus II: Media Edition” explores new impulses at the interface between digitalization and sustainability in their ecological and social dimensions, including gender-specific, cultural and media studies as well as ethnological perspectives and practices. The aim is to redesign and rethink our future coexistence and also our collective working and learning. How can we use the ecological, social and digital challenges to shape just and sustainable transformation processes?

with presentations by

• Dr.ⁱⁿ Laura Hille (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg): The exit of silicon valley: „Survival of the richest“
• Arpana Aischa Berndt (Autorin für Prosa, Lyrik & Drehbuch): Race and gender in TV and film productions: Clichés, stereotypes and microagressions
• Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Jiré Emine Gözen (University of Europe),  Anti-Racist practics in media studies
• Dr.ⁱⁿ Mary Shnayien  (Universität Paderborn), IT Security and the AIDS crisis: On insecure channels and queer safety
•  Prof.ⁱⁿ Dr.ⁱⁿ Beate Ochsner (Universität Konstanz): Videao games and dis/ability: en-/disabling modes of digital gaming.
• Arijit Bhattacharyya (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), Men in black and the consideration of the other

III. Equity@bauhaus: looking forward - Wintersemester 2023/24

in cooperation with Arijit Bhattacharyya and Lea Wittich, academic staff, MFA, Faculty of Art and Design

In the centenary year of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition our contemporary understanding of artistic and architectural modernism has long been put into question and into a global perspective. Yet, we see a modern era that has drastically changed throughout the years. Far-right extremism and nationalism have become a tolerated political position again. We are surviving through an epoch of spiralling ecological devastation and multispecies extinction and face this planetary crisis with military extractivism and my-nation-first fantasies. There is a strong dis-acknowledgement of structural patriarchal, colonial and racist hierarchies – even in academic structures. The understanding of a collective and more-than-human present and future for our planet is still a far imagination. As a university for design, engineering, art and theory, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar has to move beyond the reputation of the historical Staatliche Bauhaus and reinvent its interdisciplinary and transformative ambitions.

with presentations of:

• Miguel Buonrostro
• Finn Dittmer | Contemporary &
• Ülkü Süngün
• Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu
• Mila Panic
• Natasha Sadr Haghighian
• Lalit Vachani

VI. Equity and AI - winter semester 2024/25

in cooperation with the decentral equal opportunities officers of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mara Geske, Gabi Seifert and Judith Krischle

The lecture series “Equity and AI” focuses on equal opportunities and artificial intelligence (AI) and deals with aspects of digital colonialism, the reproduction of prejudices through AI and the question of ethics in technology. The lecture series aims to initiate a dialog about one of the greatest social challenges of our time and to show how AI can shape our future coexistence, both online and offline. Discrimination and racism through AI will be addressed as well as the opportunities that AI offers for teaching and learning. It will also examine how a participatory design process can be successful.

with presentations by

• Gabriele Bolek-Fügl: »Von Technik zu Werten: Die transformative Kraft der KI«
• Lucie Jacquet-Malo: »Equity of AI in Teaching«
• Martin Mundt: »Why Participation is essential to AI, but not yet part of its design process«
• Aisha Kadiri: »Digital Colonialism and Algorithmic Alienation«
• Cécile Favre: »Equity in AI — A Focus on Data Categorization«
• Anja Bodenschatz: »How do autonomous systems alter the way we approach dilemmas?«
• Theresa Züger: »Public Interest AI«

Contact:

Dr. Miriam Benteler,

Equal opportunity office and diversity department

miriam.benteler@uni-weimar.de