Bauhaus University Weimar | XV. International Bauhaus Colloquium
The XV. International Bauhaus Colloquium invites researchers from the humanities, arts, and architecture, from across different discourses and geographies to critically examine the politics that underlie, shape, or result from research. The event takes place 4–7 November 2026 in Weimar and the call for contributions is open.
Topic
As an interdisciplinary academic event, it aims to create a platform for exploring how research deals with power relations, institutional structures, funding systems, epistemologies, socio-cultural contexts, and dynamic publics. Politics of research manifest themselves on the level of specific research projects as well as on the level of procedures and frameworks as such. In addition to issues of access, representation, and ethics, the Colloquium will address critical and criticising practices. It will also highlight the ways in which research may both reinforce and challenge dominant hierarchies.
The XV. International Bauhaus Colloquium seeks to pause daily research routines and common conference formats to reflect on the complex and contingent dynamics guiding research in a multi-perspective world. In line with Bauhaus tradition, the goal is to foster inter- and transdisciplinary exchange between theoretical, creative, and technical/empirical approaches to address the multi-layered politics of research: How do institutional, epistemological, ethical, or aesthetic factors shape research practice? What hegemonial and counter-hegemonial frameworks define research today? How do traditions, structures, and relationships sustain or endanger research? What agency does research still have? And how do these topics manifest themselves differently in philosophically, historically, artistically, or scientifically oriented disciplines?
Submission
Contributions may include current and historical case studies, conceptual reflections, and analyses of institutional, social, political, and affective conditions that influence research practices, design, and outcomes. We welcome both traditional and innovative research formats—papers, presentations, panels, design prototypes, installations, performances, audio-visual essays, interactive media, and other practice-based submissions.
The submission deadline is 15 December 2025.
More information available on the call website.