SAVE THE DATE: Campus Fest 2025!

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On Friday, July 11th, we'll celebrate our traditional Campus Fest in Dessau.
It will be a day to visit exhibitions and see academic projects from different programs, a day to enjoy good music and good food, a day to celebrate our DIA graduation ceremony (more information coming soon), and to share with all your Dessau colleagues and friends.

If you're interested in having an active participation, we're looking for:

• Bands / musicians who can play during the festival on one of the stages. You require previous inscription.
• People interested in making henna tattoos (The uni also provides the materials)
• People interested in painting children's faces/ doing artistic makeup for kids. (The uni also provides the materials)
• People interested in selling their art (illustrations, ceramics, paintings, embroidery, etc.)
• People interested in selling their food.

If you would like to participate, please email me: [mauricio.sosa-norena@hs-anhalt.de](mailto: mauricio.sosa-norena@hs-anhalt.de)

We're looking forward to your messages!

Procedere for Blue Keys

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Dear All,

The procedure for blue keys for this summer semester has been updated again. If you still need a Blue Key, please proceed as follows.

1) Fill out the application for a Blue Key (available here), signed by your studio professor

2) pay a deposit of 50 EUR to the following account;

Deutsche Bundesbank

BAN: DE69 8100 0000 0081 0015 09

BIC: MARKDEF1810

Reference: 9210 4402 01 + Name_First Name

3) To pick up your blue key for Building 8, please submit the application and the payment receipt to Mr. Emir-Han Aslan, Building 8, Room 185.

Office hours:

Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

For the other buildings (2 and 3), you will receive an email from Mr. Patrick Lehretz informing you that you can pick up your key at the Security Center/Post Office in Building 4 once your key has been programmed.

All keys must be returned by July 31, 2025. Please hand in your key together with the completed return form (available here)) to Mr. Emir-Han Aslan in Building 8, Room 185.

The deposit will be refunded upon return. Workstation keys that are not returned on time will be invalidated and removed from the system; the deposit will then not be refunded but used to obtain a new key. After 31.7.2025, all workstation keys will be reprogrammed and will then be available again for the following semester.

Best regards

Heike

Midterm Presentations: Studio Huong Vu

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You're all invited to attend the midterm presentations from Studio „C+ Culinary Culture - Designing a Museum of Taste“ with Huong Vu on Thursday, May 22nd.

Guest: Tuan Dung Nguyen (IKE- TU Braunschweig).
Place: Room 03/103
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. / 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm.

Midterm Presentations: Studio Förster

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Studio „Come Together“ with Prof. Catharina Förster will be presenting their Midterms today.

Guest: Pastor Grötzsch from Christuskirche Dessau Ziebigk.
Place: Room 08/152
Time: 10:00 am. - 2:00 pm.

Midterm Presentations: Studio Lee + Wilms

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Tomorrow, 22nd of May, we'll have the Midterm Presentations of Studio: „ETA: ADAPTIVE REUSE: RETHINKING DOMESTIC SERVICES AS A HEATSHIELD“ - Jolene Lee and Malte Wilms

Guest: Arina Yanovych, RRRArchitecture

Program:

09:00 Introduction

09:05 Presentations

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Presentations

15:00 Group Discussion

Date: 22.05.2025, 09:00-15:30
Room: 08/155

DIA 1st-Year Studio Midterm Presentations

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This week, we continue with our DIA Midterm Presentations.

1st-Year Studios will present on May 21st-22nd and May 28th.

Place:

Studios in Building 08, rooms 152, 153 and 155

Building 03 - Rooms 103

Time: Starting at 9:00 am.

You're all cordially invited.
For further information on rooms and times, please check the schedule, or our Incom account, where we'll publish more detailed information.

24 Days - 16 People - 4 Designs | Architecture Workshops at aac Academy for Architectural Culture, Hamburg

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Apply to the acc workshop in Hamburg.

In three and a half weeks (24 days), you will work intensively in four international groups of 4 students each (16 participants in total) on a contribution to a future-relevant architectural topic (4 designs in total). Supported by your own tutor and under the guidance of a gmp partner, you will be able to develop your design in discussion with prestigious architects.

**Costs:
**aac candidates can apply for two main benefits. The first is the gmp Foundation scholarship, which covers the tuition fees for the course in Hamburg and the excursion location, including all working materials. The second is free accommodation in Hamburg (shared room) during the workshop and at the excursion site, provided by aac. More information: www.aac-hamburg.com/education/apply/

aac autumn workshop 2025
Date: 03 September – 26 September
Application deadline: 10 June 2025

Further information: https://www.aac-hamburg.com/education/next-courses/ 

Text: aac / gmp Stiftung

Saxon University Sports Festival

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Dear students and staff,

On 13th and 14th of June, the Saxon University Sports Festival will take place at the Police University in Rothenburg. Teams from all of Saxony's universities will be meeting up over the weekend.

Various competitions are on offer, including the Neisse Adventure Race on Friday 13th of June. This involves a 6 km run, a 5 km boat trip and a short obstacle course.

There will also be an archery duathlon on Saturday 14th of June. A team of two will cycle and run alternately to the shooting range and do archery there.

Experience has shown that there will also be an evening event.

There are still places available for the Neisse Adventure Race. If you are interested, please contact Christian Pfütze [Christian.Pfuetze@hs-anhalt.de](mailto: Christian.Pfuetze@hs-anhalt.de)

Accommodation would take place in a tent on the grounds of the police academy.

For further information, please visit: https://www.lhs-shsf.de  

Text: Christian Pfütze

Conference: Contested Spaces Researching Heritage, Identity & the Politics of Urban Development

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You're all cordially invited to today's talk by Karan Saharya organised by  COOP Master's Program.

How can we analyse spatial transformations in places that are shaped by deep cultural histories and contemporary political contestations? Drawing on years of research at the intersection of heritage and urbanism, this talk explores how grounded, site-based inquiry can open up new ways of thinking about space and architecture. Insights from ongoing doctoral work in Varanasi, India will be presented, where different research methods, from spatial mapping, textual analysis and ethnography, are used to understand sacred and contested sites. The lecture will also reflect on how to design, structure and effectively communicate a research project – from framing questions, to forming methodologies, and working with diverse sources. The session is especially relevant for students developing their graduate thesis projects or contemplating further research.

Speaker Bio

Karan Saharya is an architect from New Delhi, based in Berlin. He is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism, Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar, on a DAAD Doctoral Research Scholarship. His current research focuses on contested religious spaces, heritage and urban displacement. He is also an Associated Researcher with the DFG Graduiertenkolleg 2227 ‘Identity & Heritage’ at Technische Universität Berlin, and teaches at the DIA Hochschule Anhalt in Dessau.

Previously, he was affiliated with the City Science group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, taught at the Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, and consulted with UN-HABITAT in Nairobi. Karan received a Master in Design Studies with Distinction from Harvard University, where he was awarded grants from the South Asia Institute, the Best Thesis Prize, and the Gerald M. McCue Medal which is the highest honour for academic excellence at the Graduate School of Design.

Place: Bauhaus Studio (2nd Floor, Bauhaus Building, Gropiusallee 38, Dessau)
Time: 5:00 PM

Interested guests are welcome, but space is limited - there’s also a meeting link below for online participation.

Contact: [elke.beyer@hs-anhalt.de](mailto: elke.beyer@hs-anhalt.de)

Meeting-Link:

https://hs-anhalt.webex.com/hs-anhalt/j.php?MTID=mf7657d1af9f36d4df1fb49be4750c86d

Meeting-Number: 2741 607 4881

Meeting-Password: 57reN4hgA8i

Midterm Presentations: Studio "Cultural sustainability at the old dockyards, Ghent"

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You're cordially invited to attend tomorrow's Midterm Presentations from Studio “Cultural sustainability at the old dockyards, Ghent” - Fredrik Skåtar.

Please check the poster for further information.

Co-Op! Young architecture - What's possible? Discussion forum and exhibition. Berlin - Hamburg

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BDA Berlin and BDA Hamburg are presenting the joint exhibition Co-Op! as a critical statement on current professional practice.

Young architects have a special innovative power to think outside the box, are not afraid to take unconventional paths and enter into diverse co-operations. This gives them an opportunity to survive in a difficult market and make an important contribution to the urban community and building culture. What paths are young offices taking today to successfully obtain commissions, and what role do co-operations play as a strategic instrument?

The co-operations initiated by young colleagues that are the subject of the exhibition are exemplary and can be a stimulus for all architects to reflect on the conventional architecture business. After all, these young people often take paths that lie outside the canon of rules and demonstrate that new perspectives can be opened up despite the many regulations and guidelines.

From conventional planning to ecological process thinking. A contribution about shifting roles, shared thinking, and new perspectives. At the center: landscape architecture as a unifying force. A collective design – open, ecological, future-oriented.

The exhibition will open on May 16th at 7 pm at the BDA Galerie Berlin with presentations by the participating offices followed by an open discussion.

The exhibition will be on show at the BDA Galerie Hamburg from September 2025.

Further Information: https://www.bda-berlin.de/events/co-op-berlin/

Midterm Presentations - Studio "Density: The Beauty and the Agony"

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You're cordially invited to attend today's Midterm Presentations from Studio „Density: The Beauty and the Agony“ - Roger Bundschuh.

Please check the poster for further information.

PROMPT–Counter-narratives for Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin

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Together with Arts of the Working Class, Architects4THF is launching a call for contributions to a flipside of September 2025 Issue № 38, “Choreography”—presenting counter-narratives for the future of Tempelhofer Feld

This is not just about Berlin. It is about land, power, public space, climate and the future of our cities. This is about us.

We are looking for 10–15 contributions—completed works or abstracts—that respond critically to the following themes:

• Public Green Spaces
• Land and Building Market
• Climate and Ecology
• Policy Instruments

Let us use this moment to reflect and resist. Let us shape the conversation from the ground up—starting with 75,000 copies on the street, shared by those most affected by the housing crisis.

Every copy sold will directly support the vendor—100% of the proceeds go to them. Your contribution makes that possible.

We invite everyone to contribute—architects, planners, writers, artists, researchers, activists, and critical thinkers. Be part of this international, multilingual publication.

Submit your contributions to prompt@architects4thf.com by 23 May 2025 23:59.

Download poster here.

For more information, please visit our Instagram or Website.

Text: Architects4THF

Special Exhibition - Planetarische Bauern [Planetary Peasants] Agriculture, Art, Revolution 23.05.2025 — 14.09.2025

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In 2025, the end of the German Peasants’ War marks its 500th anniversary. This serves as the occasion for a contemporary artistic exploration. Based on the conditions and unresolved questions of the historical events, the project examines the state of globalized agriculture, the realities of farmers' lives today, and the relevance of the demands made in 1525.

The exhibition Planetary Peasants, a collaboration between the Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Werkleitz, presents 30 contemporary artistic positions from May 23 to September 14, 2025, at Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale). Internationally active artists and collectives are invited to develop new works during a residency in Saxony-Anhalt or to expand existing works site-specifically. Their projects explore the production conditions and emancipatory potential of today’s agricultural practices while addressing societal issues and challenges that led to the Peasants' War 500 years ago—many of which remain relevant in different societies worldwide today.

This exhibition is part of the Landesausstellung Sachsen-Anhalt „Gerechtigkeyt“ 2025.

Text: Wekleitz

Further Information: https://planetarische-bauern.werkleitz.de/en/planetarische-bauern-ausstellung-2025

Midterm Presentations: Studio “Re_Sourcing”

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You're cordially invited to attend today's Midterm Presentations from Studio “Re_Sourcing” - Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh.

Please check the poster for further information.

Midterm Presentations: Bioclimatic Typologies toward an architecture of the “positive anthropocene”

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You're cordially invited to attend today's Midterm Presentations from Studio Bioclimatic Typologies toward an architecture of the “positive anthropocene” - Lévêque-Tzarowsky.

Please check the poster for further information.

DIA Studio Midterm Presentations

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Today begin our DIA Midterm Presentations.
Thesis Studios will present this week, from Wednesday to Friday (14th-16th of May), and 1st-Year Studios will present next week (May 21st-22nd).

Place:
Studios in Building 08.
Building 03 - Rooms 103 and 106
Building 02 - Room 205

Time:
Starting at 10:00 am.

For further information on rooms and times, please check the schedule, or our Incom account, where we'll publish more detailed information.

"Simply Complex” a ‘Dessauer Gespräch’ with Prof. Dr. Hartmut Niederwöhrmeier and Dr. Heidi Kief-Niederwöhrmeier

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„... The question of values ​​is an essential benchmark for all actions. Because buildings embody a publicly visible attitude, not only that of the commissioned office, but also of the client(s). Both bear responsibility here. [ ] Because architecture is linked to the constantly new question of how people want to live and therefore whether and how social identity can be generated through the art of architecture and building culture.“ Since it was founded in 1980, the Niederwöhrmeier + Kief office has stood for a consistent development towards an “architecture of complex simplicity,” as the architecture critic Klaus-Dieter Weiss writes.

Hartmut Niederwöhrmeier and Heidi Kief-Niederwöhrmeier describe their goal when designing to create a piece of architecture and thus building culture with each new building. The most important catalysts are the task itself and the examination of place and time. Reduction, intensity, sustainability and participation as well as the use of passive solar energy and the use of natural materials are important and self-evident building blocks for them. As a result, they say, architecture can become more diverse, more considerate, but also more independent.

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.

Date: May 14th, 2025.
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Further events in Summer Semester 2025:

June 04 Duplex Architects, Hamburg

June 11 Fabian Onneken, KO/OK Architecture Leipzig

June 18 Inaugural lecture Prof. Julia Köpper, Urban Development and Structural Change

June 25 Inaugural lecture Prof. Bilyana Asenova, Building Theory and Design

Application to DIA - New deadline

Applications to the DIA Master Program have been extended until May 31st, 2025

For those interested, please check our website ( https://www.hs-anhalt.de/studiengaenge/mad/applytodia.html ) and follow the procedure through uni-assist ( https://www.uni-assist.de/ )

‘Dessauer Gespräche regional’ with Wolfgang Sattler

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At the joint lecture series by the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences - Department of Architecture, Facility Management and Geoinformation - and the Saxony-Anhalt Chamber of Architects since 2015, architects have been reporting on their plans and projects, on everyday working life and on the opportunities and challenges of freelance work.

Wolfgang Sattler is a native of Magdeburg. After studying architecture at the Bauhaus in Dessau, 5 years of permanent employment and his first attempts at self-employment, he founded Sattler + Täger Architekten GmbH with his long-time student friend in 2014. After a successful start, her office is now present primarily in Magdeburg through extraordinary buildings. Her Luisencarré received from the Architects and Engineers Association of Magdeburg from 1876 e. V. the “Building of the Year 2023” award.

The journey into unplanned self-employment and how one still becomes a sought-after architect will be the topic on May 7, 2025, as well as the presentation of current lighthouse projects and the role trust plays in this.

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.

Date: May 7th, 2025.
Time: 6.30 p.m.
Place: Lecture Hall of Building 08.

Further events in Summer Semester 2025:

May 14 Heidi Kief-Niederwöhrmeier, Nuremberg

May 21 collectif studiolada, Nancy/ FR

June 04 Duplex Architects, Hamburg

June 11 Fabian Onneken, KO/OK Architecture Leipzig

June 18 Inaugural lecture Prof. Julia Köpper, Urban Development and Structural Change

June 25 Inaugural lecture Prof. Bilyana Asenova, Building Theory and Design