Focus Scientific Research

Elemental Alchemy in Experimental Cinema

Project lead: Borbála Máté
Duration: 01.10.2025 - 30.09.2028
Funding Agency: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Grant DOI: 10.55776/ESP5442324
Funding Program: ESPRIT
Project no.: ESP5442324

Female Perspectives on Living, Learning and Working

Poject lead: Julia Edthofer
Department Social Design
Duration: 01.09.2022 - 31.05.2027 (since 01.09.2024 at University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Funding Agency: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Grant DOI: 10.55776/ESP84
Funding program: ESPRIT
Project no.: ESP 84

DesignAnthropology: Cold War Industrial Design & Development

Project lead: Alison Clarke
Department Design History and Theory
Duration: 01.05.2024 - 30.04.2027
Funding Agency: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Grant-DOI: 10.55776/PAT4411223
Funding program: Principal Investigator Projects
Project no.: PAT 4411223

Albert Drach’s Dramatic Art & Edition of His Late Dramas

Project lead: Alexandra Millner
Institute of Language Arts
Duration: 01.07.2022 - 30.06.2027
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 35306 Einzelprojekte

Discovering patterns of damage and conservation practice

Project lead: Gabriela Krist
Institute of Conservation
Duration: 01.01.2021 - 31.12.2023
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): P 33985 Einzelprojekte

Situating Cinesonics

Project lead: Kristina Pia Hofer
Institute of Fine Arts & Media Art
Duration: 01.04.2020 - 31.08.2023
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V 770 Richter-Programm (inkl. Richter-PEEK)
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Professionalisation and its Discontents: Design, 1930-1980

Visionary Vienna: Design and Society 1918–1934

Project lead: Elana Shapira
Theory and History of Design
Duration: 01.09.2017 - 30.09.2021
Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V 619 Richter-Programm (inkl. Richter-PEEK)

A Matter of Historicity

Eva Kernbauer

Art History

Jewish Sports Officials in Interwar Vienna

Roman Horak

Institute of Art Sciences and Art Education

Victor J. Papanek: Émigré Cultural Networks and the Founding of Social Design

Alison Clarke

Institute of Design

Flexible search and optimization in parametric design

Klaus Bollinger

Institute of Architecture

Asian Interior Decoration in Schönbrunn Palace

Gabriela Krist

Institute for Conservation and Restauration

Hermann Czech - Architecture and critic of language in postwar Vienna

Liane Lefaivre

Institute of Architecture

Strategic design as value creation factor for enterprises

Hartmut Esslinger

Institute of Design

Another cinema: The films of Marguerite Duras

Edith Futscher

Institute of Art Sciences

Algorithmic Generation of Complex Space Frames

Klaus Bollinger, Arne Hofmann. Clemens Preisinger

Institute of Architecture, Structural Design

Dyeing techniques of the prehistoric Hallstatt textiles

Regina Hofmann-De Keijzer

Institute of Art and Technology / Archeometry

Scientific study of the artwork at Nako, India

Gabriela Krist

Institute for Conservation and Restoration

Formation and Persistence of Popular Music Scene in Vienna

Wolfgang Fichna, Rosa Reitsamer, Roman Horak

Sociology of Art and Culture

Wiener Kinetismus (Vienna Kinetism) 1920-25

Patrik Werkner. Collaboration: Ulrike Matzer

Collections of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

(De-)Construction of The Invisible

Maria Bussmann

Chair for cultural and intellectual history

CyberPoiesis. A theoretical and empirical approach to net mediality

Manfred Fassler

Communication Theory

Reception history of Oskar Kokoschka's work since 1945

Patrick Werkner. Collaboration: Gloria Sultano

Collections of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

CINÈMA BRUT - An alternative genealogy of the film avant-garde

Gabriele Jutz

Institute for Fine and Media Arts

Formation and Persistence Process of Music Scenes

Bertold Löffler - the work of the artist