Reminder: Re-registration until February 15th

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Dear DIA students,

Please remember that the deadline for re-registration for the Summer Semester is Sunday, February 15th.

After this date, you would need to pay a late fee. The deadline for late re-registration is the 30th of March.

All the information about the process can be found here: https://www.hs-anhalt.de/en/study/during-your-studies/formalities/re-registration.html

After the re-registration you can download your semester payment confirmation from your SSC account (not on HISQIS).

Please enter your SSC-Portal and check for the documents here: The documents are in German language only. Sorry for that. But as most of it are fees you should be able to understand it (see attached image).

We wish you a good semester break!

Your DIA Team

Studio Finals - Material Matters

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Final presentations, Studio Material Matters with Prof. Peter Apel.

February 16th, 2026 / 12:20h. 
Building 8, Room 154.

For further information about the schedule, please check the poster.

Studio Finals - Island Matter

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Final presentations, Studio Island Matter with Alexine Sammut.

January 29th, 2026 / 9:00 am. 
Building 3, Room 106.

For further information about the schedule, please check the PDF.

Studio Finals - Alternative Blocks

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Final presentations, Studio Alternative Blocks with Philip Rieseberg.

January 29th, 2026 / 10:00 am.
Building 8, Room 174.

Studio Finals - “Hard and Soft: The Architecture of Layered Life Cycles”

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Final presentations, Studio „Hard and Soft: The Architecture of Layered Life Cycles“ with Julian Meisen.

January 29th, 2026, 10:00 am.
Building 8, Room 022.

Studio Finals - New Now: Typologies of Climate Regimes

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Final presentations, Studio “New Now: Typologies of Climate Regimes” with Prof. Bilyana Asenova.

Studio Finals - O+ Ocean Observatory

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Final presentations, Studio “O+ Ocean Observatory” with Huong Vu.

Studio Finals - Housework

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Final presentations, Studio „Housework“ with Jennifer O'Donnell and Jonathan Janssens.

STUDIO FINALS WiSe2025/26

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Tomorrow begins the semester's final exam period, and we would like to invite you to visit the different presentations, discover new projects, and support your friends and classmates.

On the PDF, you may find the schedule for all the Studios, including the rooms and, in some cases, the guests.

We'll also be publishing the posters, so that you may have a more detailed view of the presentations.

We wish you a very successful end of semester!  
Your DIA Team

"Playing a Day" - Dance Performance from the DIA elective course "art techniques"

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We're happy to invite you to the presentation of „Playing a Day“, a dance performance by our DIA students from the elective „Cosmically Eccentric“ - Tribute to Xanti Schawinsky, taught by Torsten Blume, Matthias Lipeck and Tomoya Kawamura.

Since 2024, the elective course “Performative Architectonics” (Art Techniques) has been negotiating and experimenting with the question of how human bodies can transform themselves into different materials and spatial concepts and express these transformations performatively on the Bauhaus stage. In the winter semester of 2025/26, the course focused primarily on the Bauhaus stage experiments of Xanti (Alexander) Schwawinsky. 

Date: Monday, February 2nd, 2026. 
Time: 5:00 pm. 
Place: Bauhaus Aula.

IMPORTANT: Register for your final evaluations now!

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As we approach the end of the semester, we would like to remind you of a simple yet vital process: registering for your evaluations on the HIS-QIS portal.

Registration to-, as well as deregistration from- an examination is possible up to 5 days before the recorded examination date.

Deregistration after the 5-day-period is possible only by submitting the request-form: „Request to de-register from an exam“, including a valid excuse (e.g a sick note).

Please don't miss the 5-day regulation, as this would lead to a failed attempt.

For the German language electives, in addition to registering for the exam itself, you must also register for the TN80. Please check that you have done this.

By regulation, your Electives are connected to specific categories. During your entire studies, each category can only be chosen twice.

For the exam registration, both categories (I and II) are available for each Elective/Teacher (e.g. Design and Society I and II with Roger Bundschuh).

In case you already have a grade in one category (e.g. Design and Society I), please register for category II (depending on what you haven't recorded yet).

For 1st semester students:

In case you're participating in two different Electives that have the same category, please register one of them for category I and the other for category II.

In this case, please note that you can't choose this category again during your entire studies.

We wish you all the best in your finals!

Your DIA Team

“AFF - generative fundus” a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Ulrike Dix

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Ulrike Dix, born in Chemnitz in 1980, studied architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the B_erlin University of the Arts_. She has been part of the AFF collective since 2006, currently as a partner and managing director.

AFF - founded in Weimar, now based in Berlin and Lausanne - works as a collective of architects, craftspeople, and researchers. The firm understands craftsmanship and the joining of materials as central components of sustainable building practice. Their design strategy is based on interpretation and the use of metaphors: existing typologies are questioned, traditional constructions are rethought, and they are aligned with contemporary requirements.

Projects such as the mountain refuge on the Fichtelberg, the Saxon Mining Archive in Freiberg, and the listed grain testing silo in Berlin have been published internationally and have received numerous awards. In addition to their expertise in building within existing structures, AFF has extensive experience in educational buildings.

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English. 
It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the lecture hall of building 08, Dessau.

Date: January 21st, 2026. 
Time: 6.30 p.m. 
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

"Form follows Process - Open-end Planning, Experiments, Co-Production" a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Marta Toscano + Exhibition

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Marta Toscano is an architect, urban planner, and founding partner of Studio Malta. Her work focuses on the interplay of planning, participation, and education, with an emphasis on co-creative and performative planning processes. She currently works as a project collaborator in the research department of the German Association for Housing and Urban Development (vhw e.V.), focusing on actor and governance research within the framework of the City Makers Academy.

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English.

It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the lecture hall of building 08, Dessau.

Date: January 14th, 2026. 
Time: 6.30 p.m. 
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Following the lecture, the BDA (Association of German Architects) invites you to the opening of the exhibition for the 2025 Konrad Wachsmann Study Prize. (Beginning at 8:00 p.m.)

The Konrad Wachsmann Study Prize has been awarded annually since 2018 by the BDA regional associations of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Brandenburg. Eligible entries are outstanding bachelor's, master's, and diploma theses completed within the last three semesters at universities in these four states.

The submissions covered many current topics, including greening, regionalization, alternative energy systems, and cradle-to-cradle concepts. In addition, there was a growing focus on densifying existing building structures, their reuse and transformation instead of new construction, as well as innovative functional and spatial typologies.

The works will be on display from January 14–30, 2026, in the foyer of Building 08 at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau.

Further events in Winter Semester 2025/2026:
January 21st: Ulrike Dix, AFF Architekten Berlin.

Happy New Year and Important message

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Warmest wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous, and productive New Year to all of you! 

As the year begins, we would like to take a moment to express our gratitude to all of our students and teachers for their hard work and dedication. We hope you've had a wonderful break and enjoyed some well-deserved time off with family and friends. 

Please note that Tuesday, January 6th is a holiday in Saxony-Anhalt, and there will be no lectures until January 7th, 2026. 
Officially, lectures will resume on January 8th, 2026. 

Our DIA Office will also reopen on Thursday, January 8th. 

We look forward to seeing you all back on campus this week, refreshed and ready to tackle new challenges. 

With our best wishes,
Your DIA Team. 

Christmas Party - Let's support “Juntos” project!

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„Juntos“, in Portuguese and Spanish, means „together“. 

And this is what we invite you to do today: to celebrate together for a good cause.

The „Juntos“ Project is organized by students and members of Hochschule-Anhalt. Their goal is to build a new pre-school for around 75 children in the rural district of Agua Izé, in the Republic of São Tomé e Príncipe. 

This African country, one of the smallest in the world, faces major challenges: decades of colonial rule, economic dependence and limited resources. Despite fertile soil and exports of cocoa and coffee, there is a lack of a sustainable education system – and thus a lack of opportunities for the next generation. 

AG Kultur has joined „Juntos“ to organize this year's Christmas Party.
There will be music, food (Bratwurst and grilled Halloumi), sweets (caramelized almonds), soft drinks, beer, Glühwein, Punsch (alcohol free), among other options. All profits from the sales will go to „Juntos“.
Together with you, we can make this project come true!

For further information on „Juntos“, please visit https://www.hs-anhalt.de/unity/projekte/projekt-sao-tome-2025.html 

Date: Wednesday, December 17th.
Time: 6:00 pm.
Place: Lobby of building 8.

News: Dessauer Gespräche and Christmas Party

Sadly, today's „Dessauer Gespräche“ had to be cancelled.

However, the Christmas Party will still take place. 
It begins at 6:00 pm (instead of 8:00 pm.) in building 8.

More information will be published soon!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Christmas Party - Architecture Faculty

Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 17th, our Faculty celebrates its traditional Christmas Party.

In this yearly event, students from all the programs come together and have a nice time before the winter break.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Place: Lobby of building 08.
Time: 8:00 pm. (after the Dessauer Gespräche)

“Theory and Praxis” a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Catharina Förster

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Inaugural lecture professorship for Interior Planning and Design 

Catharina Förster studied architecture and sculpture at the HfbK Hamburg and the UdK Berlin. She worked for Weinmiller Grossmann Architects and Zanderroth Architects in Berlin, among others, and was a research assistant at Leibniz University Hannover in the Department of Design and Building Science Prof. Hilde Léon. Since 2006, Catharina Förster has been realizing competitions and projects as a freelance architect and has worked on art in architecture projects together with the artist Jeppe Hein. In 2022 she became a partner in the Reichwald Schultz office and partner in Berlin. In 2024 she was appointed to the BDA Berlin. 

Since 2023, she has held the position of substitute professor for interior planning and design at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences on the Dessau campus, and was appointed to this position for the winter semester of 2025/26.

The lecture will be held in German and translated into English. 
It starts at 6.30 p.m. in the lecture hall of building 08, Dessau.

Date: December 17th, 2025.
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.  

Further events in Winter Semester 2025:
January 14th: Marta Toscano, Studio Malta Stuttgart Berlin.
January 21st: Ulrike Dix, AFF Architekten Berlin.

Advent Market in VorOrt

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This Saturday, December 6th, VorOrt will hold its annual Advent Market at VorOrt Haus! 

The Advent Market is a great opportunity to find unique pieces of art, design, and handmade goods for yourself or as Christmas presents, while supporting local artists and designers. 

There will also be music, food, and drinks.

🗓 6th December

📍 VorOrt Haus, Wolfgangstr. 13, Dessau

🕐 13:00 – 18:00

TOMORROW: Guest lecture with Giuseppe Dotto - BIM and Design Technology Manager at OMA

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At this conference, you can discover how a top international architecture office actually works behind the scenes. It highlights the crucial role of database management in a leading architectural firm while integrating BIM and digital tools across global offices. It delves into the firm’s digital journey, focusing on standardized BIM content, templates, and a newly introduced web platform for knowledge sharing and BIM model management.

Giuseppe Dotto is a BIM and Design Technology Manager at
OMA, holding a double Master of Architecture from Italy and
Brazil, Università di Ferrara and PUC/PR Curitiba. He brings
extensive expertise in Building Information Modeling (BIM) to the
table, having worked on large-scale international projects across many
typologies, from residential to institutional, including museal,
healthcare, and sport. 

Additionally, his passion for computer science drives him to continually
explore cutting-edge technologies and develop digital strategies that
push the boundaries of standard AEC workflows. 

Date: Friday, December 5. 
Time: 5:00 p.m. 
Place: Audimax, Building 8.