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New Issue of the University Magazine Published

How can you capture the sound of Lisbon? Which problems can be better solved using highly complex technologies? What role do civil engineers play in the energy transition? And how can digital cultural heritage be permanently archived? – Technological change and its opportunities and risks are the focus of several projects featured in the current issue of the university magazine “Forum.”

Other highlights include a look back at the Bauhaus Year 2019 and a preview of the 2029 Federal Horticultural Show, to which Mainz University of Applied Sciences contributed innovative ideas.

FORUM

Hartmut Jahn, Paolo Ferreira-Lopes, Anja Stöffler:

Even Sounds Shine in Broad Daylight

Three events featuring international participants from the Time-Based Media program and the Institute for Media Design at the LUX Pavilion.

Ivana Oruc:

Open Library

The Mainz University of Applied Sciences Library is the first German university library to introduce a modern system that maximizes its opening hours.

Daniel Bayer, Anett Mehler-Bicher, Katharina Kluge:

Digital Tandems

Testing innovative teaching and learning scenarios: Two case studies from two departments.

Florence De Boni:

SmILe – Ideas for Teaching

For the second time, students had the opportunity to help shape the teaching and learning environment at their university and submit their ideas to a competition.

FROM THE DEPARTMENTS

Othmane Wagdi:

To the Pilots of Spaceship Earth

In the coming decades, civil engineers will play a key role in the energy transition. We are all called upon to rethink our actions.
An appeal.

Kerstin Molter:

“Hüttchen” Minimalist Dwelling

The Federal Horticultural Show will take place in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley in 2029—Mainz University of Applied Sciences is serving as a source of ideas for the region.

Oliver Mauroner, Sven Pagel, Gunter Piller, Matthias Brunnbauer:

Digital Innovation—From AI to UX

What added value do highly complex technologies offer, which problems can they help solve more effectively, and what new opportunities do they create? These questions were the focus of an event organized by the Digital Innovation Research Cluster.

First-semester students in the Communication Design program:

To the Eselsweg with a dart

In the course “Copywriting Can Be Learned,” 23 design students aimed darts at a map of Mainz and then made their way to the targeted locations. Twelve unusual perspectives on Mainz.

Petra Eisele, Isabel Naegele, Mareike Knevels:

Bauhaus 2020 – Type Designers in the Global Village

In focus: future-oriented technologies and design issues. Seven master’s students presented their design statements for the anniversary year at the bauhaus.labor.

MAINZ UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL

Johanna Weichhart:

Between Crisis Zones and the Open Sea

A semester in Tel Aviv—falling in love with a city where peace is the goal and survival is the path.

Paula Welsch:

A Year in Colombia

The International Civil Engineering student chose to study abroad in a country about which there are still many prejudices.

Matthias Eickhoff:

15 Years of Business Creativity

This year’s COEUR workshop in Wrocław focused on the rapidly growing eSports market.

INTERVIEW

“Students are at the heart of everything we do.”
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Muth taught and worked at Mainz University of Applied Sciences for 26 years; for nearly 13 years, he served as the university’s president, helping to implement forward-looking changes. A look back and forward in an interview with Gerd Blase.