Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Drawing on the famous Bauhaus movement, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is one of Germany‘s most unique and truly interdisciplinary universities, with over 40 courses ranging from art to civil engineering.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar specialises in four disciplines: Architecture, Art and Design, Civil Engineering, and Media. The university builds on the foundations of the Bauhaus movement to offer an interdisciplinary approach to arts and sciences. Its main aim is to help conceive, create, experiment with, design, and construct future living spaces.

Therefore, it is no surprise that the university prides itself on core concepts specific to Bauhaus: experimentation, creativity, openness, curiosity, and an eye to the world at large. The university’s research efforts reach further than ‘typical’ institutions by combing research, art, and technology. It offers the opportunity to conduct research in fields such as ‘Digital Engineering’, ‘Media and Cultural Studies’, ‘Art, Design, and Media Arts’, ‘City, Architecture, and Environment’ and ‘Materials and Construction’.

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar stands for new urban concepts that focus on closed matter and energy cycles. In addition, in the field of residential water management, the Bauhaus-Universtität Weimar offers research on waste water drainage and treatment, sampling and analysis of sewage treatment plants, and process development for making use of sewage and faecal sludge.

Additionally, the university maintains close ties to other research institutes such as KNOTEN WEIMAR (the International Transfer Centre Environmental Technology), which specialises in providing sustainable and environmentally-conscious technology and infrastructure development.

Short summary of the visit to the Bauhaus Univesität Weimar on 30. October 2013

Third location on the tour is Weimar, a city famous for its cultural heritage, especially known for the cultural and literary movement “Weimar Classicism”, involving famous writers such as Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. The university building itself is a UNESCO world heritage site.

Prof. Dr. Karl Beuke, president of the Bauhaus University as well as members of the faculty of civil engineering (Prof. Jörg Londong and Prof. Eckhard Kraft) welcomed the Green Talents on the third day of the science forum before they were taken on a guided tour through the world-famous university buildings. After lunch, the research project “KREIS - Linking renewable energy generation with innovative urban sewerage”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), was presented by Prof Londong. The urban waste water treatment topic was then even deepened by a tour through the anaerobe laboratory of Prof. Kraft. Coming back from these technical aspects of waste management to more general sustainability issues the Green Talents were asked to develop scientific questions of sustainable urban lifestyle by subsequent discussions with fellows from both professors’ research groups.