Climate, micromobility and the deep sea

With its ‘GUTES KLIMA’ (GOOD CLIMATE) campaign, the Bremen-based association Climacity e.V. calls for a climate protection month once a year. Like many other Bremen-based companies and institutions, the University of the Arts Bremen participate with a banner at its Speicher XI location to draw attention to the campaign. Companies and private individuals are invited to set themselves an individual climate goal in November in the areas of mobility, energy, climate justice, nutrition and consumption. Participants can choose a suitable challenge for the campaign month in an accompanying app. The next campaign will take place in September 2026. 

According to Dr Ulrich Wischnath, climate protection manager at HfK Bremen, the university is currently converting to LED lighting for emergency and pathway lighting. The sub-project at Speicher XI will be completed shortly and then implemented in Dechanatstraße. Another important measure was the switch from cars to electric cargo bikes for the many small deliveries made by students and teachers.

In the field of mobility, or rather micro-mobility, Ingo Vetter, professor of sculpture using classical materials, has been researching with his students since January 2023 as part of the sub-project ‘Sharing Ecologies – Research and Teaching on Anchoring Sustainable Mobility Strategies in Higher Education and its Environment’ how new prototypes can respond to the needs of a neighbourhood in an exemplary and model-like manner. Fundamental questions of mobility are also being explored from an artistic perspective in the accompanying project ‘MAP 2025’. Thanks to international cooperation with Heritage Space in Hanoi, Vietnam's second largest city, the project is looking beyond Bremen's horizons. After more than three years, the project is now coming to an end with two exhibitions in Berlin and Hanoi under the title ‘MAP 2025 – Arrival’.

Climate and environmental protection are directly linked. Deep-sea biotopes are increasingly at risk, as humans are now increasingly interfering in these areas in their search for new resources and energy sources. Lisa Han Min will explain the impact of developments in imaging and sensor technology on the world's oceans in her online lecture ‘Deepwater Alchemy and the Ocean Pacemaker’ on 11 December 2025 at 4:30 p.m.