Architecture

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Sam Jacob
Deputy Head of Institute: Sen.Art. Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Börner
I oA Coordinator: Claudia Rüssli, BA
 
Increasing complexities in our society are yielding enormous challenges, which become all the more urgent due to globalisation, shortages of resources, and continuous digitalisation. Hence, it will be crucial to break with overly linear ways of thinking in the future and generate new concepts and realities tailored to these specific challenges through architectural education, teaching, research, and practice.

With the international orientation of the Institute of Architecture (IoA) the focus is placed on profound technical training as well as strategies to respond to the most urgent questions we are facing in the future. Accordingly, the IoA studio programme concentrates on the development of conceptual, practical, and critical skills and means for the creation of new, compelling and forward thinking architecture.
By integrating technical fields (Building Design, Energy Design, Structural Design) into the studio, students have an opportunity to develop and deepen their understanding of construction and technical knowledge in work on own projects. Content and formal supplements are offered in the Departments of the History of Architecture and Theory of Architecture, Digital Techniques, and Urban and Social Strategies.

ioa.angewandte.at

 
Contact
+43-1-71133-2331

Website
ioa.angewandte.at

Architectural Design 1

Studio Sam Chermayeff

Head: Univ.-Prof. BSA Sam Chermayeff

Architecture is not a profession on the margins. We have agency.
 
We can work toward a celebration of the extraordinary in the ordinary. (Or, just celebrate the ordinary.)
 
We are part of a cultural shift here and now. The 20th century was about serving, if not actually helping, masses of people, who were the same, a constituent community in the best sense. This notion gave rise to functional design aspirations. Now, a generation after Thatcher and Reagan, no one wants to be the same as anyone else. Our aspirations, for better or worse, are not about keeping up with our neighbors; they are about becoming singular. We need to embrace this in the hopes of making change in a diverse world. We do not all need the same (better) toaster. We must now grasp the agency afforded by our profession to think about different points of view and different ways of life. We need to address the particular and hopefully discover that the search is universally resonant.
 
We will not have all the answers. We will be looking to new people with new points of view and new places with different needs. We are going to need artists, politicians and thinkers to help us understand the word as it is and to imagine how it might be different.
We are weighing cultural perception along with metric tons of concrete or timber. We are considering the nature, shape, size of consumption in our lives and by extension the life of things. Architecture and design tell a story about a life and vice versa.
 
To be clear we are making physical things. We are designing propositions while researching the existing. Those things, interventions and buildings will be about people (and their impact on the environment) from a meal to the table, to the house, to the community, to the neighborhood and so on.

Chermayeff was born in New York in 1981 and studied at the University of Texas and the Architectural Association in London. He is a founding partner of the offices June 14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff and Sam Chermayeff Office, which realise projects in Berlin and New York. His best-known works include the Serpentine Pavilion 2009 and his participation in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2
 
He has also taught at renowned institutions such as Columbia University and Cornell University. His research focuses on the social and ecological responsibility of architecture and the design of communal living spaces.

Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2310

Location
Schwanzer Wing
2nd floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Architectural Design 2

Studio Space Popular

Head: Univ.-Prof. MArch Lara Lesmes
Head: Univ.-Prof. Fredrik Hellberg

Studio Space Popular is focussed on Transmedia Architecture through design and theory. Transmedia Architecture defines the experience of space through multiple means: physical and virtual. We develop architecture that considers physical bodies and virtual beings equally.

Studio Space Popular works at the intersection of the built and the virtual environments. We imagine alternatives towards responsibility and solidarity in the ways we design, build and inhabit our buildings, cities, towns and villages, enabled by media.

Studio Space Popular is concerned with the civic implications of media in the built environment. Our social lives occur across media – in transmedia spaces whose design and regulation nobody takes responsibility for. Meanwhile our community ties online are becoming as valuable and consequential as those offline. In the same way that we fight for the safeguarding of social housing, public space, civic infrastructures, and overall public services, we must take care of the civic dimension of our virtual environments.

The studio briefs are organised under four key themes: virtual craft, spatial data libraries, transmedia gatherings, and virtual civic infrastructure. These topics involve architectural design of both physical and virtual spaces, introducing a variety of tools and methods that bridge the digital and analog in architecture.

The theoretical framework of the studio involves an array of topics currently organised in the following sections:

PERCEPTION & EXPERIENCE
Affordances 
Semiotics		BODIES & CROWDS
Haptics & Interaction
Representation of Self		SPACE & GEOMETRY
Non-euclidean Spaces
Navigation Systems
CRAFT & FABRICATION
Digital/Analog loops 
Effort heuristics		VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES 
Social VR/Virtual Gatherings 
Hybrid Gatherings 
(Venn Rooms & Global Homes)		VIRTUAL URBANISM
Virtual & Augmented Cities
Civic Infrastructure design & policy
REUSE & ADAPTATION
Media-driven lifestyle transformations
Implications on geopolitical entities		ENERGY & RESOURCES
Internet Infrastructure
Internet Politics		HISTORY & CONTEXT
Media & Architecture
Aesthetic Ideologies in Architecture


During the three year MArch programme students will have the opportunity of exploring these four key topics during semesters 1 to 4, leaving semesters 5 and 6 for pre-thesis and thesis work. Each semester starts with three to four weeks of collective work in the form of workshops and seminars that contribute to an ongoing research archive. Students are encouraged to shape their thesis around individual interests and draw from the collective research archive.

The studio alternates yearly between two types of design and research: practical and speculative. Semesters dedicated to practical work involve: experimental research, local community engagement, and prototyping design projects; while semesters that are dedicated to speculative work involve: historical and descriptive research, disciplinary community engagement, and speculative design projects.

Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg lead the practice Space Popular; an architecture studio that explores the relationships between media and the built environment through research, design and artworks. The studio has realised buildings, exhibitions, public artworks, furniture collections, and interiors in Asia and Europe, as well as virtual architecture for the immersive web. Lesmes and Hellberg have previously held academic positions at UCLA AUD in Los Angeles, the Architectural Association in London, the University of Toronto, and INDA Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Clients, collaborators and commissioners include national institutions such as MAK—Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, MAXXI—National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden, the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, as well as independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna, Austria, and Sto Werkstatt, London, UK.

Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2320

Location
Schwanzer Wing
2nd floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Architectural Design 3

Studio Jacob

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Sam Jacob
Studio Jacob explores architecture as representation. For architecture, representation is simultaneously a technical, cultural and political question. It raises questions about: 1. Who is represented (publics, communities, civicness etc.) 2. What is represented (narratives, symbolism, histories, content etc) and 3. How things are represented (techniques, material, construction methods etc).
We are interested in the medium of architecture itself. We think making is a good way to think  and use working through design processes as ways of developing ideas and proposals. We  understand ways of drawing, for example, are not only ways to depict the world, but systems that themselves organise the world.
We like drawings and models, we like materials and different ways of making, we like to organise space. We like combinations: History and speculation, the everyday and the fantastical, figures and abstraction.  
We are interested in the kind of architectural meanings these combinations and processes might create. What kind of social proposals might they generate. What kinds of ecologies they might manifest. What kind of cultures they might address.
Through this we explore how architecture can be relevant and imaginative, responsive to culture and context, ideas that are also things (and vice versa).
Studio Jacob acts as a framework that supports ideas developing into projects, finding ways to turn progressive architectural ideas into propositions.  
 
Sam Jacob is principal of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design, a practice whose work ranges from urban design through architecture, design, art to curation.
 
Sam is interested in how architecture and design makes ideas real as socially, formally and materially. From nightclubs to social housing, from community centres to exhibitions, his projects are striking yet also are full of familiar references, creating places and spaces with character and surprising beauty. Inspired by context, his projects try to embody stories, sensations and feelings in space, form and materials.
 
His work has been shown at institutions including the Art Institute Chicago, the MAK, the V&A, and the Venice Biennale where he was co-curator of the British Pavilion in 2016. He has worked with museums including Design Museum, the Science Museum, Tate and MK Gallery, and has contributed to events including the London Design Festival, the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Lisbon Triennale.
 
Sam was professor of architecture at UIC and also taught at the University of Hong Kong, Yale, Karlsruhe HfG, ABK Stuttgart, TU VIenna and the AA. He was a columnist for the Architects Journal and Dezeen and resurrected Reyner Banham’s Shape of Things column for Art Review.
 
Previously, Sam was a director of FAT Architecture.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2330

Location
Schwanzer Wing
2nd floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
studiojacob.at

Building Construction

Head: Univ. Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr.techn. Petra Gruber
Social and cultural transformations necessitate the permanent conceptual advancement of architecture, while technical innovations introduce new design possibilities. Given this technological dynamic, the discipline of Building Construction is also in a state of constant change. Our objectives are to complement the conceptual and formal renewal of architecture as propelled in the design studios with innovations in building technology and to provide support through teaching and research. Building Construction is taught integratively, i.e. as an embedded aspect of architectural design. The spatialarchitectural and constructive concepts are developed together in an iterative process so that they have an optimal reciprocal effect. In this way students acquire technical expertise parallel to design competence.

We convey general principles of construction, but our aim is also to develop the students’ capacity to find innovative and customised technical solutions through problem analysis and the consequent evolution of the design idea. Construction is seen as a chance to highlight and refine the carrying ideas of the design.

 
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2350

Location
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
buildingconstruction.at

Energy Design

Head: Gastprof. Brian Cody
Without doubt, the energy question is the greatest problem that we currently face. The share of global energy consumption, that can be traced directly back to buildings, amounts to approximately 50 per cent. Moreover, if one takes into consideration the share of the remaining 50 per cent, which is caused indirectly by buildings (transport and industry), this figure is actually far higher.

It would appear that virtually over night, architects have been allocated a leading role in the solution of a problem that can only be regarded as purely technical when considered superficially.

This is because more precise scrutiny shows that since Le Corbusier, architects can also point to solutions for more energy-efficient architecture, while in older autochthonic concepts, efficiency questions were already considered for reasons of economy alone.

The problem itself goes far beyond technical considerations. Good designers are in special demand as solutions must not only recognise, comprehend and process the cultural identity of the users and regions, but must also inculcate them on a content and sensory level.

The world cannot be saved by reason and understanding, but with thrilling design. A school such as the "Angewandte" bears a special responsibility in this connection, because here architecture is created with an exceptional aesthetic power to convince.

Seminars and lectures (Language: English) admintistrated by ED_energy design, please register here: Current teaching (Language: German).
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2372

Location
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
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Downloads

Structural Design

Head: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Wolf Mangelsdorf

Structural Design – the next chapter
 
We are faced with fundamental global challenges—climate change, growing inequality, and the need to design for rapid urbanization in a human centric and sustainable way—to which architecture has yet to develop consistent answers. Shaping those will be an exciting journey. The design process is becoming more complex. It requires more transdisciplinary collaboration and at the same time strong design leadership. Questions of material, structure, shape, organization, cultural value, and formal expressions will need to be redefined. Structural Design plays a key role in this.

Using a combination of research, focused studies, and on-project design work, the Structural Design department is exploring and shaping the structural engineering aspects of this next chapter in the development of architecture. 
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2360

Location
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Theory and History of Architecture





Courses

Website
www.i-o-a.at/organisation/departments/history-and-theory-architecture/

Digital Methods

Univ.-Ass. Arch. Dipl.-Ing. Armin Hess
Univ.-Ass. MArch. Afshin Koupaei
Univ.-Ass. Mag. arch. Daniela Kröhnert

The Digital Design and Production Lab (DDPLab) investigates the manifold possibilities of new methods and tools in the field of digital design and fabrication.

Besides courses, which enable students to operate digital tools and prototyping machinery, the DDPLab explores the reciprocal relationships amongst design, science and industry.

All activities are thereby centered around the work with a 3D model – digital and physical.
Courses
T: +43-1-71133-2390

Location
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna
1st floor, room 130
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Website
www.ddplab.com

Fine Arts & Media Art

Chair: Jakob Lena Knebl
Vice Chairs: Anya Triestram (Maternity leave), Paul Petritsch
Office: Susanne Geiger

The Institute of Fine Arts and Media Arts comprises twelve departments, each with a different artistic and scientific focus. All its departments are oriented to relevant movements in the fine arts and to digital and trans-media art forms. Teaching and art practice within the institute open up and dynamize the artistic disciplines of today, furnish an artistic-theoretical approach to various visualization cultures in art and science, and offer an examination of relevant theoretical and historical principles.

The institute’s foremost aim is to provide its students with a profound education in an atmosphere permeated by intensive debate and communication. Instruction in the departments takes into account the wide spectrum of advanced artistic concepts and methods available, and places equal stress on the synergies produced by a transdisciplinary approach and essential differentiations within each artistic discipline. The heightened emphasis on exchange and collaboration with universities and cultural institutions abroad generates opportunities for international mobility, promotes competent participation in international discourse and creates important preconditions for defining a position in the art world.


Location
Annex Paulusplatz
2nd floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Downloads
Institute Brochure Fine Arts & Media Art
Monday and Wednesday from 2pm until 6pm

Art & Science

Head: Univ.-Prof. Virgil Widrich
Art & Science is a four-semester, English-language master’s program that takes an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to fields of study drawn from the arts and sciences. As a result, it is suitable for students who have completed artistic or non-artistic studies, who have an active curiosity and a willingness to experiment, and seek to expand their skills through trans-disciplinarity.
 
Central to the program’s approach is the appropriation of different academic discourses - aesthetic, scientific, economic or technological - that provide a critical understanding of social developments and are useful for the students’ own projects. A central element of the Master's program are the annual cooperations with partner institutions; past examples include CERN in Geneva or the Royal College of Art in London. The students develop works in relation to the thematic concerns of the partner institutions, while being free to choose the formats and artistic methods that best suit their project. A constant exchange between the participants and the teaching team accompanies this process. 
 
The Art & Science department is located in Otto Wagner's Postsparkasse from 1906, one of the most important buildings in Vienna’s architectural history. The Art & Science program involves the formation and elaboration of universal knowledge that is produced through a high degree of internationalism and student diversity. This provides a context in which all our students are recognized as experts through the professional experience they bring with them. The great openness of the program and the breadth of issues it addresses reflect a transforming world whose social challenges clearly cannot be regulated and solved by specialists of a single field, but by people who think and work in an interdisciplinary way. 
 
Detailed information about the whole programme, open guest lectures, entrance exam and info-meetings in the year before is found on our direct webpage: https://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/art__science/admission


Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2250

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
Raised ground floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/
Office opening times: Monday to Thursday, 9:30 am – 1:00 pm

Groundfloor, Room Nos 038–044 (H5–H9)

Stage and Film Design

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag. art. Bernhard Kleber
On the basis of a precise analysis of the historical practice and theory of stage and film design and its contextual links to fine art, the Stage and Film Design Department develops a (new) definition of the profession, which is in transition, and pursues the integration of the increasingly evident medial forms of expression within the theatrical context of space/body/text. Using fundamental theatrical and craft skills positions as platform, the aim is to integrate the neighbouring arts and interdisciplinary forms of expression in theoretical, methodological and practical terms into the process of creating spaces for the stage and film.

Word and sound (literature and music), light, movement and bodies in the constantly changing stage and film ambience are searching for flexible-experimental, theatrical venues, which are also found beyond the bounds of established theatres. Installations, performances, events and multimedia exhibition architecture form the modules with which the classic area of activity of the stage designer is expanded. The declared aim is to furnish students with the content-related, technical and formal tools, which will provide them with access to all existing theatrical situations, as well as those awaiting development, and enhance their market and competitive capabilities.

Practical internships and assistant posts in the film and theatre industries offer the possibility to examine the lessons learned and to originate flexible strategies for the creation of an individual positioning within the context of global competition. The practical experience gained in the theatre also serves as feedback for the training available at the university. Not only are synergies created between the teaching on offer within the Institute and international university relationships, but also the differing levels of experience of the students.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2523

Location
Schwanzer Wing
5th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
buehne.dieangewandte.at

Digital Arts

UBERMORGEN
Univ.-Prof. Mag. rer. soc. oec. Liz Haas (Head)
Univ.-Prof. Mag. art. Luzius Bernhard

Rise up!
The UBERMORGEN Class revolutionizes Digital Art to pave the way for the new proletariat. Focusing on content, intuition, and imagination - reflection, ambition & contemplation. Symbols of oppression by the neoliberal regime are rejected: teaching staff wear blue work coats and technical staff white lab coats. Short-term results are overrated! Content, intuition, imagination, unlearning, transparency, and asymmetric-anarchic production. Jointly constructed hallucinations and realities are launchpads for individual and collaborative artistic methods & concepts.

Igniting solidarity, rejecting invisible boundaries and absurd rules.

Enabling contemporary techno-political experimentation in social thought spaces. Inclusion & autodidactic practice unite the oppressed through 'Ultra Contemporary' polarization, sound, networks, software art, actionism, nonbinary climate AR, online performance, decolonial interventions, interspecies performance, actionism, AI/ML, synthetic organisms & speculative evolution, crypto and media hacking.

Deepen end-capitalist fractures and explore untrodden territories.
Vzplamtite iskre digitalne umetnosti, vodite boj proti neoliberalnemu diktatu! Za svet, v katerem umetnost ne pripada dobičku!

Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2640

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
1st floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
Info Admission
Website
digitalekunst.ac.at/
Instagram

Admission 2026
Dates for prospective applicants
19 November 2025, 2 - 4 pm
10 December 2025, 2 - 4 pm
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Meeting-ID: 663 9208 7820

Photography

Head: Univ.-Prof. Sophie Thun
The goal of the Photography Department is to develop individual methods of developing images using the medium of photography and to succeed in attaining an independent, artistic position. The technical prerequisites needed for the implementation of artistic projects are taught in the department and are applied in a professional manner. The necessary co-operation with the workshops is the object of special emphasis. The free artistic confrontation with the medium of photography also includes the possibilities for the use of other forms of expression such as drawings, installations, performance and video. As a consequence, teamwork is sought and practiced with teaching staff from other artistic and theoretical subjects.

The Department sees itself as a research centre in the artistic area of photography, where new artistic positions should be, and are, developed. In this manner graduates are equipped with a solid basis on which to achieve success in the international art scene. With this profile developed in the course of four years, the Photographic Department occupies a singular position in the field of photographic training.

Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2661

Location
Schwanzer Wing
3th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
klassefotografie.at

Drawing and Printmaking

Head: Univ.-Prof. Jan Svenungsson
Drawing is the foundation of the visual arts. It is the beginning of all visualisation and the most immediate form of art making. A vast field of expressive possibilities extends from the starting point of Graphics/Drawing.

Regardless of the form in which the work is realized, drawing can be understood as an interface: between thinking and making; between observation and representation; between idea and image. Drawing functions as a tool for gaining tactile knowledge - or to implement it.

Parallel to the irreplaceable immediacy of the tool drawing, the different artistic printmaking techniques offer a whole range of process oriented and media related opportunities for the visual artist. A wide range of printing techniques is taught in the department: traditional analog methods as well as reprographics and the latest digital possibilities.

Engaging with traditional printing techniques offer artists a precise analytical tool for advance planning and analysing of images, in a practical as well as in an intellectual sense: boundaries are necessary conditions for freedom and transgression. Meanwhile, the fast and flexible digital development provides boundlessness as a principle.

Working with analog printmaking techniques and drawing encourage a particular kind of tactile intelligence, which can be utmost valuable for artists as an alternative to, and/or in conjunction with the rapid development of digital imaging media.

It is no longer possible to consider a technique as an end in itself. Every artist has to address questions of content, of subject matter. The substance of art is created in a non-translatable, dialogic process between the intention of the artist, the tools used and the public experiencing the work. In today's art, no hierarchy of genres exist. It has been replaced by a hierarchy of attention.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-6201

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
1st floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.grafik.ac.at/

Site-Specific Art

Deputy Head of Institute: Paul Petritsch
Credits: Abteilung Ortsbezogene Kunst, Nathan Cha, Carmina Tarilonte Rodriguez, Tsai-Ju Wu

 

Courses
Contact
+43 1 71133 2431

Location
Annex Paulusplatz
Ground floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Annex Paulusplatz
2nd floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Annex Paulusplatz
3rd floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.ortsbezogenekunst.at
Instagram

Guest semester applications deadline: 
For summer term end of October
For winter term end of March

Painting

Head: Univ.-Prof. Henning Bohl
The study program aims to enhance the students’ artistic positions and strengthen their ability to critically engage with practical and theoretical aspects of painting. Building upon this core area, space is provided for trans- and interdisciplinary modes of working via installation-oriented, performative and other forms of praxis. The artistic development of the students is accompanied by one-on-one interviews and group discussions with the faculty.

On a weekly basis, students of the painting department have the opportunity to conceive and realize exhibitions. These exhibitions and possible formats of communicating them are subsequently discussed together in class.

External artists and curators are regularly invited to give insights into their work in lectures and conduct workshops with the students. In addition, exhibition visits and excursions are organized to examine on site how different commercial and institutional formats of presenting art are fashioned.

Seminars offered by the faculty discuss historical and current artistic modes of working. The seminars are based on texts by artists and art historical literature in order to engage with different text formats between discourse and praxis and to practice writing own texts.

By taking aspects of the production, distribution and reception of art into account, the study program seeks to achieve two things: Working on an independent artistic position and situating it in the current artistic field.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2613

Location
Schwanzer Wing
6th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
Entry exam
Website
abteilungmalerei.uni-ak.ac.at
Guest semester applications deadline: 
for SS 15th Dec. 
for WS 15th June

Q&R on portfolio: 4. Nov 2025, 2-3 p.m.
See Link under download entry exam.

Painting & Animated Film

Head: Univ.-Prof. Judith Eisler
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-4630

Location
Main building: Ferstel Wing
Second floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
klassejuditheisler.uni-ak.ac.at

Sculpture and Space

Univ.-Prof. Hans Schabus

The Sculpture and Space program explores the diverse possibilities of sculpture in relation to material, context, and its interaction with society and the environment.

The focus of the course is on connecting and locating the production of artistic works
with and within their social environment. Engagement with the material is an important starting point. In the in-house studios, wood, metal or pre-cast materials are worked on with the support of artists. This hands-on mentality is seen as a necessary corrective to an increasingly digital world, and demand for this approach has grown steadily in recent years, influenced by a new awareness of objects and materials. Since 2016 Sculpture and Space has shared its Paulusplatz location in Vienna‘s third district with the department of Site-specific art. This former dairy factory contains workstations and seminar rooms as well as a dedicated exhibition space. Where milk used to be sold students now design their weekly presentations. The courses offered include advanced workshops (e.g., woodturning or blacksmithing), the teaching of theory and production, and regular field trips.
Part of the weekly class meetings, in addition to their detailed discussion of a presented work, is a joint lunch.

The central focus of the program is artistic practice and the examination of one‘s own
work, which is developed and discussed in dialogue between the teachers and students.

Projects of the class that address a public are, on the one hand, the exhibition series
„Pfeiler“, in which graduates present a new work.
The Skulpturinstitut is a non-site-specific, curatorial format of the department, within which experts are invited to an event. For example, lectures by artists are regularly held as part of the ALSV (Artist Lecture Series Vienna), organized by Ezara Spangl and Rainer Spangl in cooperation with the Skulpturinstitut.

Courses
Contact

Location
Annex Paulusplatz
1st floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Annex Paulusplatz
Ground floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Annex Paulusplatz
2nd floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.skulpturundraum.at

TransArts

Heads:
Sen. Lect. Mag.art. Stephan Hilge
Sen. Lect. Mag. art. Roman Pfeffer
Sen. Lect. MMag. art. Dr. phil. Roswitha Schuller

TransArts is an unprecedented BA and MA course initiated by the Angewandte. It aims to develop educational contents and forms that reflect the dynamics in the arts today while preserving all differences in a world where the segregation of art practice and theory is often arbitary or even obsolete.

TransArts teaches unity and diversity in theory and practice while keeping in mind that the various disciplines (media art, performative arts, dance, literature, etc.) not only need one another but also compete with each other. Such diverse contents demand consistency as well as change in mentoring, which is ensured by a core artistic and directorial team. In addition, workshops and lectures held by reputable visiting artists and professors make the diversity in contemporary art and theory both distinct and memorable. This combination of consistent and changing perspectives enables students to acquire a project-oriented, cutting-edge education in art that is not only valid today but also in times to come.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2716

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
2nd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Downloads
Info Admission Bachelor
Info Admission Master
Website
www.transarts.at

Transmedia Art

Head of Institute: Jakob Lena Knebl

TRANS ... genre, medium, context, discipline, materiality, aesthetics, identities, gender ...
 
What does transmediality mean? In the best case, this concept guarantees the greatest possible freedom beyond rigid boundaries of media, genres or disciplines. The claim to transmediality implies that forms of mediation come into view in all their diversity and interweaving. For this, it is important to grasp each medium in the spectrum and history of its identity. Through such a practice - precise analyses instead of "anything goes" - the best forms of expression and translations for the respective contents can be developed.
 
The studio for transmedia arts promotes experimental approaches and the development of alternatives. A primary curiosity for the unknown gives rise to inspiration and new connections. The weekly Jour Fixe is intended to promote individual agency, productive cooperation in groups and the formation of a class collective. Aesthetic and material-technical decisions are understood as sensual strategies that are inextricably linked with socio-political issues. In confrontation with art history, contemporary movements, natural sciences and cultural studies as well as technological developments, the artistic practice can also have a transformative effect on public discourses.


Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2530

Location
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
main floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
basement
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
transmedialekunst.com/
Submission of Portfolio and Exam 2023/24:
More information on our
Website: www.transmedialekunst.com



Media Theory

Head: Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Clemens Apprich

Media Theory is a theoretically oriented department within the Institute of Fine and Media Arts. Its courses are open to all students and deal with the theoretical engagement with older, partly analogue media such as photography, film, sound, video, and moving image (expanded cinema), as well as the study of the history of digital, often data-based systems, with an interest in how they bring about social transformations.
 
Critical reflection on the ‘digital’ requires a depth of focus that does not stop at a critique of digitisation, but seeks to uncover its historical intersections with the analogue – for example, how the typewriter can be thought of as a digital medium. Contemporary issues of artificial intelligence and machine aesthetics (or other areas of hybrid application) are critically examined through a wide range of interests in media theory, including photography, film and sound studies, as well as the historical and philosophical foundations of digital thought.

The courses on offer include subject-specific lectures as well as practical, method-oriented seminars. The department is also a place for students who wish to pursue an academic career; it supports and supervises PhD projects and research proposals.

In addition to the international networking and the organisation of lectures, exhibitions and symposia, the department’s location in the Alte Postsparkasse offers the opportunity to cooperate with other Angewandte institutions under one roof: the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, the Coding Lab, the Art x Science School for Transformation or the Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL).
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-3551

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
Raised ground floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
medientheorie.ac.at
 
Room 022

Design

Head: Sen.Art. Mag.art. Birgit Hertel
The Institute of Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna is an academic teaching and research centre offering interdisciplinary practice in various areas of contemporary design. Education is organised in diploma studies, with departments serving as “vertical studios” enabling students of all semesters to collaborate in joint art and research projects. Graduates are awarded a Magister/Magistra degree after passing their diploma exam.

The Institute of Design comprises the following departments: Industrial Design 1 and Industrial Design 2, Fashion, Graphic Design, Graphics and Advertising and Applied Photography (from 2014). It is complemented by the Department of Theory and History of Design as well as the Video Studio and the Computer Studio.

Education at the institute relies on knowledge transfer in small groups, direct interaction between teachers and students, free and experimental project choices as well as workshops and lectures given by national and international experts.

The Institute of Design is one of the leading design schools in Europe and adds to Vienna's role as a national and international centre of design competence.
Contact
+43-1-71133-2442

Website
www.instituteofdesign.at

Applied Photography & Time-Based Media

Head: Univ.-Prof. Maria Ziegelböck
Applied photography is a field that covers a broad range of our visual communication and aesthetic culture. This means that the current conditions for image production and dissemination require having a specific visual identity, one that can assert itself confidently and critically.

The exploration of new approaches in and around the traditional concepts of photography and digital media is a central aspect of this study program.
A wide variety of different assignments and tasks help teach and individually foster crucial skills, including creativity, intuition, improvisation, and the ability to implement ideas.
The autonomous development and implementation of personal ideas is a central precept from the very beginning, guided through training in photo and media technology, as well as presentation techniques.
The abilities needed to critique, analyze, and communicate about images are taught through cyclic discussions and presentations.

Educational workshops are held on a regular basis, often in collaboration with international editors, creative directors, and photographers.

The goal of this study program is to develop each student’s own aesthetic – a process that is initiated through education, and remains a driving force throughout an entire career.


Curriculum
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2301

Location
Schwanzer Wing
4th floor, stairs 2
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
Angewandte Fotografie und zeitbasierte Medien
Website
applied-photography.at

Industrial Design

Head: Univ.-Prof. Stefan Diez

The study programme teaches students to engage with design, which comprises a variety of analytical and creative processes and stages.

Our approach to design starts with the human being. It is based on analysing human needs in specific contexts. We consider design as actively creating our material environment while being aware of social, political, cultural, ecological and economic interdependencies. In doing so we are particularly considerate of our dynamically changing coexistence and our responsibility for a valuable common future.
This approach aligns our department with the tradition and philosophy of design history at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Throughout the course of studies, we put a wide range of theoretical knowledge in vivid interrelation with skills gained regarding materials and manufacturing, as well as presentation and transfer methods. Various labs and workshops encourage experiments and the creation of prototypes.  

We consider the transfer of knowledge within small groups, critical discussions and direct reasoning between teaching staff and students to be vital; this aspect both supports and structures our design courses. The multitude of methods and the confrontation with various approaches and ways of thinking enable students to develop and hone their distinctive creative profile. They learn to situate their designs within respective contexts.

Subsequent vocational activities are freelance, in businesses or institutions, in areas of science, teaching and research. The course of studies enables graduates to apply their individual design language and make it comprehensible to others. It also qualifies them to influence the current design discourse by adding their own approach that is based on the awareness of cultural, social, economic, ecological and political responsibility.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2410

Location
Schwanzer Wing
main floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
basement
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
Admission information
Website
www.angewandte-id.com

Design Investigations

Head: Univ.-Prof. Anab Jain
 
ADMISSION

Design is more than an industry, or a product. Design is our everyday and our future. At Design Investigations, we equip students to become designers of tomorrow.
 
Design Investigations is a multi-disciplinary design education that builds on a history of industrial design, to include speculative design, ecological design, and design futures in the study program.

We encourage our students to experiment, play and question different topics, as well as interrogate the social, cultural, environmental and technological
implications of their work in the world.

Our focus is on design-through-making. In the program, students innovate through material and aesthetic experimentation, working hands-on with emerging technologies like AI, prototyping regenerative designs and building more-thanhuman futures.

We instigate new ways to think about design. We invite our students to explore the how, what, why and for whom of design. Rather than confine a student's outlook to traditional design history, practice and theory, we consider everything from data to politics, artificial intelligence to biology as part of the designer’s playing field.
This is a course for the curious, and the driven, an opportunity to question convention and shape better futures through design.
During their time with us, students will…

DEVELOP TANGIBLE DESIGN SKILLS TRANSFERABLE ACROSS INDUSTRY
• Dive into future-relevant topics, with studio briefs covering everything from the future of food, AI and emergent technologies, to energy futures, democracy, counterfactual history, biodiversity, and non-human perspectives.
 
• Engage in both individual and group projects, collaborating with senior students in our Vertical Studio structure.
• Acquire practical skills in specialist areas including worldbuilding, filmmaking, sound design, speculative design, material prototyping, regenerative food production, and electronics.
 
LEARN FROM AND ALONGSIDE LEADING PLAYERS IN DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, ARTS, ECOLOGY AND MORE
 
• Our workshops are led by renowned designers and industry leaders including Lucy McRae, Rimini Protokoll, Saeed Taji Farouky, Sara Hendren, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez.
 
• Attend guest lectures by world-leading experts and international practitioners. Previous speakers have included Genevieve Bell, Monika Farukuoye, Resolve Collective, Kenric McDowell, Nick Foster, Thomas Thwaites, Feifei Zhou, Dan Hill, James Bridle, Stuart Candy, and others.

• Engage in external projects with clients and partners such as Google Research, Google Artists & Machine Intelligence Group, the Natural History Museum Wien, Werkraum Bregenzerwald and the London Design Biennale.

• Professional internships and Erasmus semesters give students exposure and firsthand experience from various practices and educational environments. Past internships include L’Oréal, Atelier Iris van Herpen, BMW, IDEO, mischer'traxler studio, Superflux, Biofaction and Studio PSK.

WHERE DESIGN INVESTIGATIONS TAKES YOU
 
• Our students graduate with a highly desirable set of practical skills and critical thinking capacities that take them into roles such as designer, technologist, curator, researcher and creative consultant, in fields of design, tech, advertising, academia and more. Many of our alumni have gone on to run their own businesses and design studios.
 
Admission Process
 
Digital registration and portfolio submission from 8 January, 13:00 to 22 January 2026, 13:00 (ECT) via the central registration tool of the University of Applied Arts Vienna https://application.uni-ak.ac.at.

We evaluate students based on a portfolio submission, however we don’t ask for what you might conventionally assume to be a portfolio. Rather we request that your ‘portfolio’ consist of between 1 to 3 images representing you, your skills, interests and experience. We can't wait to see your ideas!

Following your portfolio submission, the exam takes place between 2 and 4 March. You will work on a number of engaging design-related tasks, followed by interviews with Anab Jain and tutors of the department.


To find out more about our admission process, please visit: https://designinvestigations.at/admission/


Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2420

Location
Schwanzer Wing
main floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Schwanzer Wing
basement
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
admission examination
Website
designinvestigations.at/

Design and Narrative Media

Head: Univ.-Prof. Oliver Kartak
We see design as a personal approach to life. We designers have a curious mind and a strong awareness of the challenges of the world we live in. We are convinced that design is a force for good. We are optimistic that we can bring about positive change through our design thinking and practice. 
 
Together we work on the topics and forms of expression of the present and the future. In doing so, we clearly position ourselves in the areas of digital media, interactive media, Extended Reality, AI-generated media and multimedia. We understand design as an inter- and transdisciplinary field and strive to expand the scope of visual communication. 
 
In the Central Artistic Subject (ZkF), students from all years work together, either team-oriented or in individual processes. In weekly meetings, all students are intensively supervised and supported in their work. We offer an eclectic mix of applied and free projects that allow students to practise the use-oriented problem-solving approaches of design as well as to develop authorship in personally chosen topics. 
 
On the one hand, we place great emphasis on applied design areas such as branding, corporate design, digital design, exhibition design and narrative media design. Designers should be able to offer people meaningful and comprehensible solutions to problems. 
 
On the other hand, we devote ourselves to speculative design and design fiction in annual exhibition themes. The practice of speculative design differs from market-oriented design practice: it is not about offering concrete, directly realisable solutions. 
 
Speculative design creates imaginary future scenarios and utopian or dystopian products that can be aesthetically pleasing, provocative and humorous. The basis of this design practice is the observation and investigation of current technological, social, economic, ecological, political or cultural realities. The speculation about their tendencies as well as the diverse design implementation of these anticipated lines of development of the present should make their potentials visible and discussable. In our exhibitions inside and outside the university, designers become questioners who give the public a different view of the present and future challenges. 
 
In our degree programme, the playful and exploratory element in the design process is a driving force. In addition to the three major specialisation modules Typography, Human Computer Interaction and Storytelling, the curriculum includes a variety of courses in theory and methodology, technical basics and artistic practice. The university's workshops support students in the implementation of projects. 
 
Cooperations with other departments at the university enable inter- and transdisciplinary work. Workshops and lectures by national and international guests from various disciplines enrich the range of studies in terms of craftsmanship, design and intellect. Our study trips enable intercultural learning. 
 
Research projects and commissioned work train students in professional dealings with public and private institutions. Regular lectures by graduates of the department complement the preparation for professional life after graduation.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2441

Downloads
Design und narrative Medien Informationfolder 2024
Website
narrativemedia.design

Communication Design

Head: Univ.-Prof. Matthias Spaetgens, MBA
The programme of Graphics and Advertising is focused on both concept and creation. In theory as well as in practice it is aimed to prepare students in the best possible way for the dynamic challenge of creative and consultative advertising professions.

The course comprises the methodological development of ideas and their visualization, analysis and improvement of advertising communication, typography, layout, scribbles, illustrations, photography, packaging design, TV spots, and web design. Further teaching within the course of Graphics and Advertising includes marketing, advertising psychology, cultural sociology, colour theory, communication theory, semiotics, typography, design and drawing techniques, the basics of film design.

Training is based on projects with actual clients. Commercial themes, social and environmental issues are considered. Internationally renowned experts are regularly invited for additional workshops, lectures and discussions.

Graduates work as graphic designers, copywriters, art directors, creative directors in advertising agencies, advertising departments of business enterprises and other organizations.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2454

Location
Main building: Ferstel Wing
Second floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
www.klassefuerideen.at/

Fashion

Head: Univ.-Prof. Craig Green
The Fashion Design programme encourages students to develop their creative style and artistic vision while gaining essential technical, communication, and research skills. In one-to-one and group tutorials, and through the artistic guidance of the internationally acclaimed fashion designers at the helm of the department, students explore the critical potential of fashion between materiality, corporeality, and concept.
 
The curriculum comprises traditional pattern cutting and construction skills alongside digital skills and techniques. Students benefit from a state-of-the-art, industry-standard sewing atelier, knitting atelier and a spacious studio with a personal work space for each student. Students are given the possibility to work in professionally equipped studio spaces and workshops both within the Fashion Department and other departments of the University of Applied Arts. 
In the diverse range of lectures, seminars, and courses, students acquire design process, concept and presentation skills while learning about historical and contemporary fashion and exploring the fashion system and its contexts. The curriculum provides training in fashion drawing, technical drawing for fashion, fashion communication, fashion business, fashion history, and fashion theory. 
 
The Fashion Department initiates interdisciplinary collaborations within the University of Applied Arts and fosters co-operations with partners across fashion, graphic design, photography, cultural studies, and visual arts. The Fashion Department has forged strong alliances with companies that support the next generation of fashion talent in the development of their collections and in projects revolving around materials and fabrics. 
The unique curriculum at the Fashion Department is not only distinguished by its personally-tailored education but also by its changing professorship at the head of the department, which allows students to become familiar with different established positions within the fashion system. Since the early 1980s, the department has been led by internationally renowned fashion designers such as, among others, Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Lang, Jil Sander, Raf Simons, Vivienne Westwood, Viktor & Rolf, Bernhard Willhelm, Hussein Chalayan, Lucie and Luke Meier, Grace Wales Bonner, with Craig Green as current professor at the head of Fashion.
 
Graduates of the Fashion Department have founded their own labels, such as Bless, house of the very island’s, Wendy Jim, Petar Petrov, Femme Maison, Sagan Vienna, Kenneth Ize, and others. Others occupy leading positions in the fashion industry, working for brands such as Balenciaga, Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Lanvin, OAMC, Prada, Comme des Garçons or Maison Margiela.
 
The next possible start to study fashion at the Fashion Department is winter term 2025/26 (strts October 2025).
Fashion Shows
Each June, the Fashion Department organizes one of Austria’s most talked-about and widely covered fashion shows, the Show Angewandte. Numerous prizes awarded at the show testify to the notable artistic level of our students whose work is judged by an international jury of experts that also help them to build networks.

Video Show Modeklasse 25


 

Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2461

Location
Schwanzer Wing
4th floor, stairs 2
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
Preparation of application files
Note! Update November 2025

Next Entrance Exam January/ February 2026
The next possible start to study fashion at the Fashion Department is winter term 2026/27 (starts October 2026).

Design History and Theory

Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. dr.littD.h.c. MA (RCA) Alison Jane Clarke
Design theory and history is playing an ever-greater role in the art and design education sector and covers a major aspect of the range of doctorate studies, where interdisciplinary approaches in aesthetics, design, technology, the social sciences and history are linked.  In the light of the enormous historical reputation of the “Angewandte” in this sector, new teaching and, in particular research accents, have been established with regard to critical-analytical design theory and design culture, whereby the social and economic functions, and the mechanisms of design receive special attention. The Department sees its most important task as being the national and international networking of design competence and the consolidation of its positioning at the Vienna location to a greater extent than in the past. A special emphasis is placed on the intensification of publicity activities in the theory and history of design area.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-3472

Location
Annex Postgasse
2.OG
Postgasse 6
A-1010 Wien
Website
www.designhistorytheory.at

Computer Studio

Head: Sen.Art. Mag.art. Birgit Hertel
The Computerstudio

The computerstudio is open to students of the Angewandte on a 24/7 basis except at times when lessons are held (see Kalender). Please send an e-mail to computerstudio@uni-ak.ac.at to register on the user list, in order to get the key from the porter.

Equipment

9 iMac with MacOS High Sierra
3 extra Monitore
9 Wacom Tablets Intuos Pro
LaserWriter b/w, Scanner
The computers are all connected to the Internet. Find a list of the software installed here.

Application

You have to be registered at the Angewandte to attend any of the lectures. Please apply via Base Angewandte.
To be admitted to the course taking part in the preliminary discussion is mandatory.

more: https://computerstudio.uni-ak.ac.at
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2490

Location
Schwanzer Wing
5th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
computerstudio.uni-ak.ac.at

Video Studio

Head: Prof. MMag.art Wolfgang Neipl
The miniaturisation of cameras and the compression of post-production to laptop format has brought about the popularization of video production equipment. In contrast to the film industry, where filmmaking requires skills that are specifically assigned to separate domains ­—such as screenplay and script, direction, imaging technology and camera, production, editing, special effects, or scoring­—its equivalent in the field of applied arts, though seemingly easier, requires the ability to make unusual connections between these areas.

To this end, our department offers a range of courses that reinterpret the types of knowledge taught in traditional film studies and adapt them to the concepts and workflows suitable to the domain of applied arts. This includes camera work and video production, video animation and composition, audio composition for short film and video,  and image-editing in video art and video design. In addition, the programme offers experimental workshops which develop a broader approach to sequential thinking. Resulting works are archived or published in thematic catalogues.

In cooperation with external partners, the department can boast successful participation in international student competitions. A programme on artistic research is currently in preparation. In the spirit of inter- and transdisciplinarity, students from programmes at other universities are more than welcome in our department.

Registration
Registration for video studio teaching is to be completed personally at the stated times in the video studio (“Angewandte”, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, 3rd floor). On this occasion any questions concerning teaching will be answered in full. Registration is obligatory for all classes. Please see the website.

General studio activities
Apart from during teaching, the video studio is also open to students with a “key entitlement” (those attending courses, or course graduates) on a 24-7 basis. Students must enter their names on work lists for co-ordination purposes.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2510

Location
Schwanzer Wing
5th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
soundandvision.uni-ak.ac.at

Art and Knowledge Transfer

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag. phil. Eva Maria Stadler
In the Department of Art and Knowledge Transfer societal issues are discussed and investigated in theoretical and artistic contexts. Beyond the all-too entrenched tradition of the new, we examine time periods in relation to contemporary and historical arguments and their mutual contingency. This type of rhizomatic transfer generates a connective form of science, whereby the approaches of genealogy – the analysis of development conditions – are always anchored processually in the here and now. The objective of the Department of Art and Knowledge Transfer is to create productive interfaces between artistic disciplines and non-artistic sciences on the basis of the respective thematic field under discussion. After the foundation of the department by Oswald Oberhuber in 1987, the concepts of art and knowledge themselves have undergone multiple transformation processes. Since art began to take an interest in the social sciences and humanities, which in the 1960s increasingly came to explore questions of everyday life in order to determine the conditions under which cultural goods are produced, a form of knowledge production arose under the term Cultural Studies, where science and scholarship in the field of art were no longer limited to just art history and critique. Interdisciplinarity was a buzzword that took hold again in the 1980s, giving rise to great expectations for the renewal of not only artistic production but also the structures of art schools and universities. Today the concept of arts-based research is central in addressing questions of knowledge production. In the post-war era artists like Asger Jorn vehemently confronted the institutionalised sciences with the demand for the arts to have an opportunity to conduct research.

In the spirit of Jorn, the Department of Art and Knowledge Transfer views itself as a platform for engaged post-media production of knowledge across the broad spectrum of fields at the University of Applied Arts. Furthermore, cooperations with universities, art academies, and museums should help open the university and make the knowledge acquired in different formats of project development accessible and useful for the outside world. Teaching, project development, exhibitions, publications, and editions represent the formats in which the Art and Knowledge Transfer programme is conveyed.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-3541

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
Raised ground floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
www.dieangewandte.at/KunstundWissenstransfer

Social Design- Arts as Urban Innovation

Head: Assoc. Prof. Mag.phil. Brigitte Felderer

Advisory Board 2023–2025:
Marije Vogelzang (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
Nasrin Mohiti Asli & Giuseppe Grant from orizzontale (Rome, Italy)
Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber from Bitter/Weber (Vienna, Austria)

Visiting Artist WS 2024/25:
Céline Struger

Urban Environment
Today, more than half of the world population lives in cities, and according to UN reports another 200,000 people arrive each day. In the next 20 years, cities around the globe will expand by 1.5 million square kilometres and in 25 years two-thirds of the world population will live in cities. In this global event we can identify the triggering factors behind tremendous restructuring processes: the transformational power of the industrial and digital revolution. This development places cities as complex, self-generating environments under enormous pressure. Through the densification and concentration of the population, economy, capital, and media, as well as culture and knowledge in urban agglomerations, both their spatial and social fabric are subject to overproportional stress.

Social Design
In order to account for this global development, new concepts are needed that address the overall process of knowledge production in society. Especially art universities are predestined to formulate these new, distinct perspectives on the inherent logic of cities and the corresponding dynamics of their processes. Artistic research can generate links between multifaceted disciplinary expertise and the problems posed by the urban realm. The University of Applied Arts Vienna (Angewandte) has therefore implemented a new master degree programme dedicated to these challenges that emerge within urban social systems and the broad spectrum of related issues.

The shaping of reality viewed on the example of urban agglomerations and contrasted with the urban context of Vienna initially forms both the field of work and the scale for the realisation of the individual projects.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-3561

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
socialdesign.ac.at
Application

Application deadline: January 15 to 29, 2025

Institute of Art and Technology

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.techn. Boris Odehnal
Deputy head: Sen.Art. Mag.art. Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva
Office: Irene Karrer, BSc
Office: Julia Weber
The study of an artistic, multimedia, or design-based subject requires professional handling of technical equipment, mastering basic techniques and methods and thorough knowledge of materials. At the Institute of Art and Technology, experts and scientists convey practice-orientated skills in workshops and state-of-the-art laboratories for research and teaching. In addition to the technical core competencies, the communication of transdisciplinary know-how and artistic experience play a decisive role in the training. Independent, project-oriented and experimental application of the knowledge garnered in the design process is our mission.

— Angewandte Robotics Lab
— Life Drawing
— Coding Lab
— Geometry
— Wood Technology
— Ceramics Studio
— Metal Technology
— Textile Technology
— Studio Book and Paper
— Studio Analogue Photography
— Studio Digital Photography
— Studio Joining Technology
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2383
Irene Karrer, BSc
71133-2385
Julia Weber
71133-2380

Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/

Life Drawing

Head: Sen.Lect. Mag.art. Judith P. Fischer
The departement of the life drawing is to engage artistically with drawing and to introduce students to the content and problems of object study.

The teaching offer includes a coordinated curriculum that complements each other, from the basics of life drawing, life drawing, capturing proportions, sharpening observation, nature studies, constructive drawing, anatomy for artists to experimental life drawing, and creates links to central artistic subjects offered at the University of Applied Sciences.

The content is determined to a large extent by the teachers, their objectives and their methods. Students are given a practice-oriented approach, whereby the principles of design options, skills and abilities as well as the handling of the variety of drawing techniques are seen as the starting point for individual development in the central artistic subjects.

The range of courses for students of all fields of study is designed according to the needs of the individual study plans.

All courses in the Life Drawing department are communicated via BASE.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2671

Location
Main building: Ferstel Wing
Second floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/aktzeichnen-2/

Archaeometry

Head: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Bernhard Pichler
The main tasks of the Archaeometry Department relate to material analysis and dating. The research focal points are anchored in numerous national and international projects (diverse EU projects) in the areas of the dating (authentication) of ceramic and metal objects with cast cores by means of thermo-luminescence analysis, ceramic and metal archaeometry, provenance studies, historical dyeing technologies, as well as dye and fibre analysis and patina research in co-operation with the Department of Technical Chemistry and Analysis using scanning electron microscopy (SEM ED X-ray microanalysis).

Routine studies for assessments are carried out in the course of degree courses in Conservation and Restoration sector. In addition XRD tests are completed for ongoing projects in the area of patina research. The knowledge and results thus obtained flow into the teaching offered, which is attended by students from every discipline.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-4820

Location
Website
www.archaeometrie.uni-ak.ac.at/

Conservation Sciences

Head: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johannes Weber
As an interdisciplinary competence centre at the interface of cultural heritage and archaeology with material sciences, we examine the corrosion and conservation of artefacts in connection with their composition, age, authenticity, and provenance. The main focuses are mineral, textile, and metallic materials, which are the subject of conservation and archaeometric research that subsequently flows into the teaching for students of Conservation and Restoration.

In the field of mineral-based materials our modern equipment is predominantly used to conduct building material microscopy on antique and historical objects made out of stone, mortar, plaster,
and ceramics. We have longstanding cooperations in the framework of EU research projects and have established ourselves as a topranking European competence centre in our field. At the moment one of our main focuses is nanomaterials for stone reinforcement. Currently we are supervising six dissertations. Furthermore, our thermoluminescence equipment for ceramic dating and authenticity checks is intensively used. In the realm of textiles our research is concentrated on dyed archaeological and historical textiles. Recent FWF and EU-funded research was made on Hallstatt and non-European textiles; a current FWF project is dedicated to late antique textiles from Egypt. Additionally, pigment analyses of objects from diverse collections are used, above all, for damage diagnosis and dating in Conservation and Restoration thesis projects. Longstanding cooperations and partnerships in Austria and abroad facilitate leading research and publishing activities and provide access to samples, analysis methods, and expertise, in the event we are not able to cover this ourselves. In this way, we can make an important contribution to solving cultural history questions and offer first-hand expertise to our students.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-4825

Location
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/naturwissenschaften-in-der-konservierung/

Studio Book and Paper

Head: Mag. Beatrix Mapalagama
Book Art involves design concepts and realisation in line with material requirements, including traditional bookbinding techniques, as well as free and applied objects in paper and bookbinding materials, involving folding, embossing. Packaging design and papier-mâché (especially for students from the Fine Arts and Handicrafts Teaching disciplines) are also dealt with.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2680

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
1st floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Downloads
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/buch-papier-2/

Geometry

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag.rer.nat. Dr.techn. Boris Odehnal
Office: Irene Karrer, BSc
Courses in the Department of Geometry are anchored in the different curricula of the artistic subjects. The study spectrum is thus accordingly broad. Our main priority is to transport “classical knowledge”, which can subsequently be put into application in professional artistic activities, with the computer as the medium of representation. Geometry at the Angewandte enjoys national and international scientific distinction.

The department conducts and supports intensive research – especially in doctoral studies – in the realm of classical geometry as well as computational geometry and computer graphics. Building upon research results in the development of innovative geometry software, the department has also realised practice-oriented projects – for example, architectural software with novel functions.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2380
Irene Karrer, BSc
71133-2385

Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/geometrie-2/

Ceramics Studio

Deputy head: Sen.Art. Mag.art. Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva
Ceramics are to be understood as an interdisciplinary medium. As both an educational facility and a venue for meetings and exchanges among students from all areas of study, the Ceramics Department is characterised by artistic experience and a profound knowledge of the medium. Working activities are divided into the three categories formed by art in the private and public domains, building art and art for buildings, art in everyday situations (the daily ambience), and ceramic design.

International exchanges, inter-university dialogues and contacts with industry, artists and architects are to be expanded and strengthened with an eye to co-operations and networking.

Graduates naturally receive every support with regard to all artistic and technical matters.

The Department assists the students from the expiring Ceramics course and, at the same time, provides an increasing volume of interdisciplinary teaching and support during the completion of project work.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2691

Website
keramikstudio.uni-ak.ac.at/
Opening hours:
MON-FRI 09:00 - 18:00

Wood Technology

Head: VL Reinhold Krobath
In this department, students from every area of study receive theoretical and practical teaching in wood technology. In addition to basic lectures, seminars and exercises form focal points, which should encourage students to undertake research and experiment in line with their study courses. During individual, artistic-technical teaching, on the basis of designs students are provided with an opportunity to implement their project, semester or diploma projects in a professional and independent manner. All processes, from the idea to realisation are furthered in the areas of furniture, prototype construction, installation, modelling and art.

As in the past, the challenges of the coming years demand the permanent adjustment of the curriculum in line with the latest artistic, technical and scientific findings, a continuation of the technical upgrading of the machine pool, expansion by means of new investment, and co-operation with other institutes in new fields such as CNC, laser and water jet technologies.

In the Wood Technology Department, lectures and seminars are held, which cover specific topics relating to every area of wood processing and working. Group and individual teaching takes place with regard to the respective design, construction or material problem. Moreover, as a result of the ongoing consideration of particular questions, a focus is placed on artistic-technical experiments in the fields of working, construction, processing technology and surface treatment relating to wood and in connection with other materials.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2862

Location
Schwanzer Wing
basement
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/holztechnologie/

Metal Technology

Head: Ing. Roman Hegenbart
Opening hours: Mon - Fri 7:00 am - 3:00 pm, and by appointment

The dates of seminar weeks can be ascertained from the student guide or the notice boards in the University.

In the Metal Technology Department, students are provided with appropriate information concerning material science in relation to metals, light metals and aluminium, material composition and material processing.

In addition, working possibilities such as turning, milling and drilling are taught along with joining techniques such as riveting, bolting, hard soldering, soft soldering, MIG, WIG, electrical and autogenous welding, and cutting and separation (autogenous flame cutting, plasma cutting, metal band sawing).

During the production process up to completion, the appropriate instruction accompanies the work, but without any interference in the design or artistic concept.

Special care is taken with regard to accident safeguards and the danger areas relating to tools and machinery. Theory and practice are communicated in the form of seminars, practical exercises and project-related individual instruction.

Moreover, repairs and special assignments for various University departments are completed without any interference to teaching.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2870

Location
Schwanzer Wing
basement
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/metalltechnologie-2/

Technical Chemistry - Art & Science Visualization

Head: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Bernhard Pichler
The Technical Chemistry Department is a competence centre for the development of methods of investigating the effectiveness (both the protective effects and also the visual changes) of conservation measures through the transfer of appropriate material alterations by means of related testing on models in virtual space.

In addition, preparations are being made for the creation of a competence centre for the visualisation of dynamic, microscopic procedures though accelerated weathering using SEM (scanning electron microscope) and CGI (computer generated images), in order to pinpoint material corrosion at an early stage and thus determine durability with regard to applications in the design, architecture (AMP project) and conservation fields. Research focuses on the development of protective patinas for copper roofs, as well as the corresponding patinating methods, which facilitate sheet patination both prior to and after laying, research into historical materials and the revival of their production techniques using modern technological possibilities (e.g. Roman cementing), and the development of alternative material conservation products to replace the natural products currently in use where resources are approaching exhaustion (e.g. new adhesives instead of sturgeon glue).

Students from various disciplines are provided with the latest insights derived from these research results, as well as the communication of metallurgical science in the form of lectures and practical exercises. The preparation of new types of teaching methods on the basis of he interactive use of virtual material models is and will remain part of the curriculum.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-4821

Location
Website
techchem-scivis.uni-ak.ac.at/wordpress/

Textile Technology

Head: Sen.Art. Mag.art. Stephanie Klaura
In the Textile Technology Department, which focuses on screen-printed textiles, students learn to independently complete differing projects, semester and degree work in the course of individual technical teaching.

Students receive professional support throughout the entire project by means of the ongoing examination of the artistic statement and the technical quality.

In addition to the dyeing of organic fibres and materials, the development and realisation of weaves and theoretical and practical teaching in tapestry techniques are also provided.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-4850

Location
Annex Salzgries
main floor
Salzgries 14
A-1010 Wien
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/textiltechnologie/

Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Des. Ebba Fransén Waldhör
Deputy Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Isabel Kranz

The Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education is committed to exploring the dynamic relationships between artistic practice, theoretical inquiry, and didactic research at the intersection of art, education, and society. Teaching and research at the institute integrate diverse perspectives—from artistic and cultural studies to pedagogical and socio-political approaches.
This includes both the critical analysis of aesthetic phenomena and expressive forms, and the development of original artistic, theoretical, and educational practices. At the institute, art is understood as a social, cultural, and political practice—a means of generating knowledge and actively shaping social processes.
 
The Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education comprises ten departments: Design, Architecture and Environment for Art Education (DAE), Expanded Museum Studies, Cultural Studies, Art and Communication Practices (KKP), Art History, Art Theory, Philosophy, Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design (TEX), Transcultural Studies, Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education.
 
The following study programmes are offered: Art Education (BA/MA), Studies in Culture and Art (MA), Expanded Museum Studies (MA), Doctorate, ecm - educating/curating/making (MA (CE), Academic Curator). In addition, the institute offers a wide range of courses for all students at the Angewandte.
 
 
Contact
+43-1-71133-2701

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
2nd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien

Design, Architecture and Environment for Art Education

Art Education in Design and Technology / Design, Architecture and Environment

Head: Univ.Prof. Christoph Kaltenbrunner
The social benefits of CRAFT(ING) reside in innovation – in selfdetermined action, working with materials, the search for questions, the discovery of answers, independent thought, and the experience of teamwork in developing collective solutions. The study programme in technical working guarantees students a comprehensive education in the fields of design, architecture, and environment as well as didactics and pedagogy. The focus is placed on the built environment, space, and technologies and the discussion and balance of their expediency in terms of ecological, economic, and social sustainability.

The functions of user-oriented design and architecture are explored and reflected upon both in and outside of educational contexts. In this manner, graduates are conveyed design not just as pure formal experimentation rather as a strategy to ask the right questions, while design methodologies remain the educational core. By dealing with these issues and elaborating innovative concepts and solutions, the students develop analytical and creative competences. Courses investigate the potential of the design process as a service for businesses and in the realm of politics. This leads to models for consultancy and cooperations. It order to consolidate them, too, common positions and goals with the Austrian representatives of employers and labour are sought and incorporated.

The programme’s core competence is a proficient pedagogical and didactic communication of teaching content in keeping with the latest methodological research, while conveying fundamental technological knowledge in connection with handcraft and fine motor skills. The WERK_LABOR offers students a platform for projectoriented experiments. International conferences, guest teachers, lecture series, and projects with partner universities (e.g. the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna and Graz University of Technology, The University College of Teacher Education in Vienna, The University of Education Lower Austria, The University College of Teacher Education of Christian Churches, Vienna/Krems) challenge and promote interdisciplinarity, vibrancy, and open discourse. The DAE department is also a research partner in the PEEK project “Conceptual Joining − Wood Structures from Detail to Utopia”. Not traditions rather NEW THINKING in and outside of schools must be the premise!
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2737

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
3rd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.uni-ak.ac.at/dae/


Art and Communication Practices

Heads: Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. Sofia Bempeza and Univ.- Prof. Dr. Annette Krauss 


 
The lynx’s tail is scratching the love pan. Posthumous creature is silent. Just follow its gestures, plant the words in your mouth, shallow all big theories, salivate your food, learn how to chew. Your sweat is a memory. Your production is cursed. Nothing is broken, except linearity. Unruly parts are not b-r-o-k-e-n. Tiny parts are broken, but no more comparisons. No bodyguards, just bodies defending dirty words, engine fluids, and water. 
 
Sofia Bempeza 
 
Keine Bildung und Kunst ohne Streben nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit. 
Diesem Erbe sehe ich mich verpflichtet.
 
Annette Krauss

Studying at the department KKP, students engage with artistic and art pedagogical practices that are sensitive to differences within teaching and learning processes. In this context students develop artistic/educational work, and consider the socio-political conditions in which artistic/educational projects take place, how they are produced and located. In this way, students get prepared to read images, texts and practices of today's societies from within artistic practice with regard to changing subjectivities, migration, climate change, ecosystems, digitalisation, and the changes in the labor market and the education system. They learn to act in them and co-shape these.
 
The syllabus includes seminars and artistic positions that considers the art worlds, digital/visual cultures and art education as places for critical thinking, acting and experimental practices. The KKP team consists of ca. 20 artists under the direction of Univ. Prof. Sofia Bempeza and Univ. Prof. Annette Krauss. Teachers and students develop their own practices focused on art-educational, visual and performative approaches that enable a critical and engaged position toward knowledge and image production. We conceive the teaching of art and communicative practices as an incomplete process where knowledge and art practices are tested performatively, affectively, and collaboratively. We seek both to unlearn (our) patterns of thought, action and perception in social, economic, and geopolitical contexts, and co-shape social and artistic processes with care. Our work continues on these processes in artistic, situated and polyphonic ways.
 
 ⋇ Polyphony ⋒ Situatedness ⌔ ⍦ ⌔ Affect ⊱ Ecologies ⋯ Collectivity ⚕︎ ⍜ Metaskills
 
We build on practical knowledge transfer and the continuity of the KKP studies as developed over many years by Barbara Putz-Plecko and the KKP team, most notably focusing on transdisciplinary work in the field of artistic and educational training. Moreover, visiting artists and cultural workers offer various impulses with regard to current art practices and visual cultures. Visiting professors in the last fifteen years have been: Danica Dakić, Werner Feiersinger, Imogen Stidworthy, Michael Kienzer, Simon Wachsmuth, Carola Dertnig, Anette Baldauf, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Helmut Draxler, Lindsay Seers, Robert Del Tredici, Pierre Hébert, Prinzgau Podgorschek, Willem Oorebeck, Simonetta Ferfoglia (gangart), Zou Bin, Basak Senova, Ebru Kurbak, Chico Mac Murtrie, Aboubakar Fofana and Isin Önol.
 
Ongoing research projects conducted at the department include:

  • Choreo-ethische Assemblages: Erzählungen bloßer Körper
    Project leader: Mariella Greil-Möbius
    Austrian Science Fund (FWF): V 733 Richter-Programm (inkl. Richter-PEEK)
  • A Research of Doing
    Project leaders: :Assoc. Prof. Dr. Basak Senova und Dr. Johan Thom
    OeAD Africa-UniNet und BMBWF: P017_South Africa/ A Research of Doing/ University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Pretoria
  • „Passenger Diaries“
    INTRA Projekt 2020: Mariella Greil
  • „Sounding Research“
    INTRA  Projekt 2020: Ricarda Denzer
  • „The Octopus Programm”
    Project leader: Basak Senova
  • The Entanglement between Gesture, Media, and Politics
    Arts & Science in Motion (Volkswagen-Stiftung): Florian Bettel, Konrad Strutz
    (at HBK Braunschweig in collaboration with Irina Kaldrack)
  • Shaken Grounds: Seismography of Precarious Presences
    Mariella Greil and Lucie Strecker (PEEK AR 780)

Courses
+43-1-71133-2701

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
3rd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
kkp.uni-ak.ac.at
heads of department:
Sofia Bempeza und Annette Krauss

address:
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7/2.OG/228
1030 Wien

Office KKP: Mag.a Alexandra Frank

Admission

Textiles - Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Des. Ebba Fransén Waldhör
Assistant: Lola Berger
The department “Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Art and Design” focuses on the creative exploration, communication and role of textiles in society. Textiles play a fundamental role within our material culture – in everyday life, in art and architecture, fashion and design, and science and technology. Not purely functional, they are rather a site where the personal, the cultural and the political intersect.

Interweaving theory and practice, the department provides a solid foundation in critical thinking and the tools to develop a reflective artistic practice. Textile techniques and contemporary artistic practices are explored in seminars and workshops. The workshops include tailoring, weaving, printing, plastics, dyeing and leather processing. Through experimental processes and critical inquiry, the notion of textile craft is continuously re-defined and expanded. The students are encouraged to think about their work beyond materiality, enabling performative, collective, and participatory formats.

The creative, supportive environment fostered by the department gives each student  the social and analytic skills to prepare them for future work in the field of art and design education and mediation. Graduates teach in secondary and higher education and work in the fields of art, design, media, theater, film and research.

In addition to teaching, the department is dedicated to artistic and scientific research. Over the years, the department has been developing a series of transcultural projects with international partners. Of particular importance are the long-standing collaborations with partners in Mali, Ghana and Uganda, which deal with ecologically and socially sustainable textile production. Students and graduates of the Angewandte have conducted research in Morocco, Bhutan, India, Indonesia and China. These projects form an important basis for innovations in art, science, research and teaching, and highlight the cultural, social, and ecological relevance of the field.

“Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Art and Design” is an inclusive department for new forms of collaboration and cooperation, where textile cultures are understood as a critical practice that promotes solidarity-based education.
 
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2702

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
3rd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
textil-angewandte.at
address:
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7/2.OG/228
1030 Vienna


Central Leather Workshop

Admission

Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education

Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Mag. art. Ruth Mateus-Berr
The Art, Design, Textile Didactics programme scientifically examines all teaching and learning aspects of a respective discipline with a focus on the questions: Which specific disciplinary theories can be employed to didactically reconstruct learning processes in a meaningful way and how can effective learning situations be conceived? Pedagogical professionalism in art and design addresses what should be taught in a given discipline, to what end, and with which objectives in mind. Which image of the discipline, which perception of school, learning, youth, and society do we want to convey?

In this context Art, Design, Textile Didactics positions itself within the artistic disciplines as special sciences, a field that researches and structures the requirements, possibilities, consequences, and limits of teaching and learning in curricular or extracurricular fields of education in a theoretically comprehensive and practically relevant manner. Today teachers increasingly need theoretically founded reflective and constructive knowledge in order to fulfil the tasks and challenges of their practice and to make sound decisions and actions. Art, Design, Textile Didactics is conceived as an interdisciplinary communication platform between artistic and design disciplines, arts-based research, art and design pedagogy, art theory, cultural theory, design theory, architectural theory, philosophy, museum pedagogy, lifelong learning, pedagogy-related sciences, and other disciplines (for example, natural sciences).

In the realm of extracurricular fields of learning (museum pedagogy, social sphere, etc.) references are also made to neighbouring disciplines in theory, methodology, and research. The department develops and elaborates projects together with museums, cultural institutions, specialist disciplines in other universities, small-scale enterprises, and other organisations (such as the Science Center Network). Each respective field of study has its own didactic curriculum to cater to explicit transfer and translation processes. The department’s research and teaching is furthered through internal continuing education and presentations of the results at national and international conferences. It also conducts research projects in the fields of art, design, and education.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2730

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.fachdidaktik.or.at/home/

Cultural Studies

Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Isabel Kranz
At the centre of the research projects and courses of the Department of Cultural Studies (Kulturwissenschaften) is a social definition of culture: culture is the arena of polyphonic and contradictory social conflicts, culture is the practice of people. It is understood as an expression of certain ways of life and forms of behaviour and is viewed in its respective social, political and historical context.
 
For research and teaching at the department, this definition of the cultural means a decidedly interdisciplinary orientation, based on discourse- and ideology-critical semiotics. We co-operate in various projects with other departments at our university. For example, we were and are able to make a significant contribution to the conception and implementation of the new Master’s programmes “Experimental Game Cultures” and “Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften” (Studies in Art and Culture).
 
As part of the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education, we have also been involved in the further development of teacher training programmes for many years (including a focus on “Digitale Grundbildung”). Through lectures and workshops, publications and exhibitions, dialogue formats and podcasts, we respond to current cultural and socio-political issues and in this way have a critical impact on the cultural policy debate. The department’s current research focuses, around which teaching and specific research projects are grouped, are the interrelationships between:
 
  • Technology and Art
  • Culture and Play
  • Empirical Research and Space
 
The focal points are realised in concrete exhibition and publication formats, in which students (including BA/MA/diploma theses and dissertations) can also participate and which are implemented in research projects in close contact with other universities and institutions. The department understands the immediate proximity to practice in the artistic classes of the Angewandte and thus the interweaving of scholarly, artistic and technical subjects as an opportunity to conduct interdisciplinary research in areas of the digital, i.e. in critical software development. Examples of this are the multi-year inter-university research projects “Image+ Platform for Open Art Education” and “Portfolio & Showroom – Making Art Research Accessible”, which stand both for a theoretical reflection of digital hegemonies and economies (e.g. critique of scientific metrics) and for the conception and realisation of alternative, open-source and freely available software.
 
Questions of space – expression of a specific situatedness of knowledge/cultures, whether in the digital, urban or in exhibitions as well as dynamics of the ludic: As part of the research network “Locus Ludi. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity” (Univ. Fribourg, ERC Advanced Grant), we are currently investigating the question of exhibiting of play and its artefacts in the digital realm. Our teaching project “Urban Spaces – Explorations in Viennese Squares” is dedicated to the city as an object of investigation. With the topic of exhibiting, we also touch on questions of narration, which in recent years have been dealt with in aspects of the history and present of letter culture (“Vier Schwestern. Fernes Wien, fremde Welt”), the narratives of war in social media (“Visual Politics and Protest”), the representability of the invisible medium of wind (“When the Wind Blows”) and the significance and function of self-publishing in the German-speaking world (“New Concepts of Authorship in a Digital Media Society”).
 
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2773

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien

Art Theory

Head: Univ.-Prof. Jakob Schillinger, PhD
Art theory’s core task is an analysis of the structures and rules, as well as the social, economic, mediatechnological and ecological conditions and functions of art and its discourses. Hereby at stake is a critical analysis of the present, which works out the contingency of its order and the possibilities of its transformation. The very notion of art theory—as distinct from philosophical aesthetics—implies as its domain art as a subject area distinct from other aesthetic forms, such as for example popular culture. It does not, however, take such distinctions for granted or even for ontologically given. On the contrary, the specific historically variable articulations of such distinctions themselves make up one of its central objects of study.

At Angewandte, course offerings in Art Theory are addressed to students of humanities and studio programs alike. They aim to provide a systematic, historical, and above all critical understanding of key categories of art and influential theoretical traditions. The goal is not to teach a canon, but rather to collectively engage with and critically work on concepts and theoretical models. Art Theory thereby seeks to offer approaches for understanding and reflecting on current cultural developments—and the place of one's own artistic, scholarly, or art-critical practice within them.

Courses
Contact
+43-(0)1-711 33-6501

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
kunsttheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/

Philosophy

Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Jan Völker
Why philosophy? What use does philosophy even have? Such are the questions posed by Adorno and Deleuze in the last century. These questions are all the more relevant for a Philosophy Department in a University of Applied Arts, where philosophy is an outsider.

Questions concerning the outside of philosophy reveal their creative import only if one exposes their immanence. The “outside” of philosophy is an irreducible condition for philosophy itself, it insists upon the elementary dimension of philosophy’s procedures. For philosophy is always triggered by a stumbling block, by something troubling, whether - it is called speculation, astonishment or criticism.

Inventive philosophical work never proceeds exclusively out of the historical relation of philosophy to itself. Its chance lies in its relation to what has been called “non-philosophy”. This connection has often been scrutinized. Theory was posited by Deleuze and Foucault as a tool-box, in which non-philosophers search for tools. One finds a rejoinder to this instrumental logic in Hegel, for whom concepts are not means to further an end; under a concept there is nothing to be thought but the concept itself. However, the French philosophers also argue that concepts are not means, but thresholds for other forms of thought, for different practices. Whilst Hegel insists that conceptual language is a moment of all language forms that enter into the arts, theory of state, religion and empirical sciences.

The philosophy department addresses these thresholds as the presence of an unknown conceptuality in all our representations. The disquieting exercise of philosophical thought depends on its relations to political, epistemological, artistic, and ethical problems. This meshing has intensified and undergone many changes in the twentieth century. Such “disturbances” are exactly what launches philosophy, what brings it about. The question is: how do interferences, discontinuities, and all the different materializations of thought put us in relation to the universality of reason? When do political struggle, aesthetic relations to the world, desubjectivations, affirmations of desire, or changes of form thwart the naturalized “discourse” of interest and egoism? In this sense, philosophy participates in the practices, interests and questions of all disciplines, contributing to their problematization.

This is the landscape explored by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, in close contact with theorists, artists, and students of all disciplines.
Courses
Contact
Jan Völker
71133-3770
Amanda Holmes
71133-3773
Petra Bockenauer-Preinfalk
71133-3772
Marion Elias i.R.
71133-3780
Julia Sprenger
71133-3781

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.philosophie.uni-ak.ac.at

Art History

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag.phil. Dr.phil. Eva Kernbauer

Winter semester 25/26:
Lecturer: MPhil PhD Julia Secklehner


Today, more than ever, artistic work demands profound historical knowledge, visual analysis competence, theoretical reflective capacity and linguistic communications skills. Art and visual media affect every aspect of social-cultural activities such as economics, politics, media, high and pop culture, as well as ethnic cultures, sexuality and gender relations, psychology, medicine and natural sciences, and philosophy. Like art, as a discipline, art history is part of these discourses and social practices and therefore in addition to its classical methods of style and work analysis, also furnishes methods for the scrutiny of these interdependencies.

One focal point of art historical teaching and research at the “Angewandte” is contemporary art. The view of art history is evolved from current questions, in order to render acquired historical knowledge fertile for a critical and creative approach to the present.

Current research focal points involve the relationship between text and image, the formation of early modern subjectivity models in contemporary painting, historical and current transformation of the self- and role image of artists, gender issues, the ambiguity of modern and contemporary art, methodological questions relating to the historicising of contemporary art, surrealism and avant-garde research, as well as aspects of video art and film history. Conferences, lecture series and exhibitions are organised for this purpose along with the publication of books.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2761

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.angewandtekunstgeschichte.net/

Language Arts

Leadership team:
Olga Grjasnowa, Univ.-Prof. BA
Gerhild Steinbuch, Univ.-Prof. MA

The Institute of Creative Writing Vienna has been designed to follow the example set by Leipzig, Hildesheim and Biel. Like these models, it is dedicated to the teaching of literary writing on a university basis. Courses are intended for students wishing to learn a diversity of literary techniques and cross-border methods for a period of three years at the end of which, a final work will be submitted for the award of a bachelor degree.

The Institute offers a multifaceted teaching staff, which represents the variety found in the German language literary scene, and furnishes intensive student support. In addition, leading authors present their writings in the form of workshop discussions and readings, while in teamwork with the School for Poetry short-term interventions are possible for extended forms of linguistic expression.

The fact that the Institute of Creative Writing is part of the University of Applied Arts provides it with additional scope through the opportunities for exchanges with other institutes and departments such as Graphics, Painting, Media Theory, Fashion, Book Art, Knowledge Transfer and Philosophy, etc. Indeed, this cross-fertilisation process allows students to test the various effects of their literary output even during their study years.

In future, it is planned to establish the Institute as a literary centre that will also consider creative writing teaching methods. An initial step in this direction is formed by the organisation of a symposium to which teaching staff from all the institutes at German-language universities will be invited.
Courses
+43-1-71133-2243

Location
Annex Salzgries
6. floor
Salzgries 14
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
Sprachkunst – Bachelor Zulassungsprüfung 2027
Sprachkunst – Masterstudium Zulassungsprüfung 2027
Website
sprachkunst.uni-ak.ac.at/

Gender Art Lab


Founded in March 2006, the Gender Art Laboratory (GAL) at the Angewandte is conceived as an “open workshop” at the intersection of art and science, a laboratory for artistic-scientific research, production, and interpretation. The implications of the related fields of science and art, concerning their treatment of gender-specific issues and the motif of the “norm” prescribed by society itself, are critically addressed on equal terms. In the Gender Art Lab students, artists, and scientists analyse and discuss the fundamental subject of gender and its meaning. The programme alternates between topic- specific lectures and public debates.

The results and reactions of this “groundwork” are artworks that encompass all disciplines, interpretative works by GAL participants, individual solutions, questions, problem explanations, and statements in exhibitions and publications. In the combination of practice and theory, art and gender, manifests the unique character of the GAL, with which the Angewandte attains a pioneering position in its study programmes. The rapid transformations that our society and every social construction worldwide are allegedly subject to are a recurring element of sceptical scrutiny, which the GAL strives to sustain.
Courses
Contact
Robert Maierhofer
71133-3780
Julia Sprenger
71133-3781

Location
Annex Salzgries
2nd floor
Salzgries 14
A-1010 Wien

Institute of Conservation

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil. Martina Griesser-Stermscheg
Deputy Head of Institute: Univ.-Ass. Mag.art. Marija Milchin
Deputy Head of Institute: Marion Haupt
The Institute of Conservation is an internationally renowned center of competence regarding conservation-restoration matters, as well as regarding the preservation of art and cultural assets. The four study programmes available specialise in the conservation-restoration of paintings, objects, textile, and stone. In addition, there are options to specialise in the conservation of archaeological finds, or in the conservation of modern and contemporary art.

Significant priorities of the conservation sciences central to the Institute are the consideration of art technological and cultural historical viewpoints, the application of up-to-date work and research methods, the development of preventive and long-term conservation strategies, the maintenance of collections and exhibitions, the thoughtful handling of conservation materials, the inclusion of ethical criteria, plus providing training in a transdisciplinary-methodical thinking process.
  
The diploma degree programme of Conservation is based on project work and practical relevance. With the help of various praxis oriented projects – such as individual restorations, interventions on monuments, and central engagement with collection‘s holdings – students are introduced methodically and step by step into the subject of conservation-restoration; they acquire practical experience and gain conservation-scientific competence.

The Joint Master Programme of Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management with the Silpakorn University International College in Thailand offers graduates of Conservation-Restoration the opportunity, effective from 2020, to enhance their skills and broaden their knowledge base. This programme pursues an innovative transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. The focus is on project management, research, and teaching at an international level as well as the preservation of cultural assets in the European and the Asian region.
Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-4810

Location
Annex Salzgries
5., 4., 3. floor
Salzgries 14
A-1010 Wien
Annex Salzgries
1th floor
Salzgries 14
A-1010 Wien
Downloads
admission exam
Website
conservation.angewandte.at/

Collection and Archive

Head: Sen. Sc. Mag. phil. Cosima Rainer
Deputy Heads: OR Silvia Herkt, MA, BA & Sen. Sc. Mag. Stefanie Kitzberger
Kindly note our closure period from December 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026 
Due to extensive collection maintenance, Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna will suspend its services (research inquiries, processing of loan and reproduction requests, support for researchers, guided tours, a.o.) from December 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026.
The Collection and Archive institute conceives of itself as both the material memory of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and an instrument for its continuing development. Its work combines portfolio maintenance, exhibition making, documentation, research, and teaching.
Founded in 1980 on the initiative of the artist and then-rector Oswald Oberhuber as a teaching collection to encourage artistic practice among students, the institute is today just as public-facing as it is directed toward intra-university structures. The Collection and Archive holdings are regularly presented as loans on the international stage. They document the institutional history of the University since its founding in 1867 as the School of Arts and Crafts of the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum for Art and Industry, the diverse artistic developments of Viennese Modernism, and the transnational careers and networks of the protagonists connected with the University of Applied Arts. As objects of exhibition and research, the holdings play a significant role in the dialogue between the University and the greater public. The institute presents them in a variety of formats, ranging from specialist consulting, exhibition conception and design, courses, conferences, talk series, publications, and editions, to cooperations with artists, other institutes and departments of the University of Applied Arts, and international partners.

At the heart of all its initiatives, a university of art is engaged in the continuous renegotiation of the very concept of art. We understand our work as an actualizing, recontextualizing, and experimental practice – one that facilitates new, critical perspectives and renders visible previously suppressed positions. In all our projects, we aim to shape contemporary discourse and contribute to the University of Applied Arts Vienna’ position in both the international field of art and contemporary society. Alongside the acquisition of artistic works and primary sources, we support and develop new productions with a connection to the institute’s key areas of focus. These include the historiography of Viennese Modernism and the processing of the University’s history – particularly with an intersectional reference to women’s and gender history; the field of tension between applied and fine art; the exhibition as artistic form; the examination of structural conditions of the marginalization of designers and artists; the relationship between a work and its documentation; and seemingly subordinate forms of production and collaborative work.


Collection Holdings
The collection currently holds numerous objects from all areas of applied and fine arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, particularly from Viennese Modernism. These include drawings, posters, furniture, textiles, photographs, ceramic pieces, paintings, objects, and architectural models by Fred Adlmüller, Friedrich Berzeviczy-Pallavicini, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Josef Hoffmann, Gertrud Höchsmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Anton Kolig, Adele List, Bertold Löffler, Elly Niebuhr, Otto Niedermoser, Oswald Oberhuber, Victor J. Papanek, Franz Schuster, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Peter Weibel, Emmy Zweybrück, the Wiener Werkstätte, and Vienna Kineticism, as well as Baroque and domestic-industry textiles from the historical teaching material collections of Carl Karger and Rosalia Rothansl, and from the private collection of Mileva Stoisavjlevic-Roller.


Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-3255

Website
www.kunstsammlungundarchiv.at
Online Database:
https://kunstsammlungundarchiv.zetcom.net/de/

Student Database:
https://kunstsammlungundarchiv.at/universitaetsarchiv/schueler-innen-datenbank/


Collection and Archive
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Postgasse 6
1010 Vienna

Zentrum Fokus Forschung

News: Miya Yoshida will be the new Professor of Artistic Research and Head of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung from September 2024

The Zentrum Fokus Forschung offers an open space for reflection for projects of artistic, scientific and artistic-scientific research, especially in the context of the doctoral program of Angewandte.

The Zentrum Fokus Forschung's function is to realize projects in post-graduate research areas of art and science (research projects, incl. projects evolving from artistic doctoral studies) and to support significant developments of art and science in general.

The Zentrum Fokus Forschung is a unit – complementarily to existing departments – at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in which independent artistic research is generated and connected; artistic work thereby is regarded as the basis of knowledge production, of course in a productive relation towards existing ways of knowledge development, as they have been established in other fields of research.
The foundation of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung is based on a rich and successful praxis of research (Events: Applied Practice; Documentation (film): Applied Practice, Context: Exhibition Hong Kong 2015) at the Angewandte (Kewords: Projects, incl. PEEK; Report 2014: Research and Developement Projects, p. 51 ff) ).

The aim is to generate fresh knowledge regarding specific issues in the arts by providing an adequate institutional focus, to contextualize artistic research and to adequately communicate results in both national and international artistic environments.


Courses
Contact
+43-1-71133-2820; +43-1-71133-2819

Location

[Applied] Foreign Affairs

Head: Associate-Prof. Mag.arch. Baerbel Mueller
Teaching: Univ.-Ass. Philipp Reinsberg Mag.arch
Teaching: Univ.-Ass. Daniil Zhiltsov MArch

[Applied] Foreign Affairs is a trans-disciplinary lab investigating spatial, infrastructural, environmental and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East, established by Baerbel Mueller in 2011.
 
Each lab project centers on a distinct question or clear mission and culminates in field trips and residencies through which (applied) research, mappings, rural and urban growth patterns, urban prototypes, imaginary (art) spaces, and relational physical interventions are produced. A series of talks introduces students to the spatial diversity and cultural vibrancy of the contemporary condition of the respective project context, followed by “intensives” that focus on the status and potential of a specific region and interest. The process of relating and making is conceptualized in a reactive and slowed-down manner. Conditions of uncertainty and fragility are embraced. The outcome of each lab is presented in different formats and contexts.
 
[A]FA is performed in (experimental) collaboration with international guests, partners, and partner universities. [A]FA is commissioned by cultural institutions, artist collectives, communities, municipalities, and individuals. A selected number of students from both, DieAngewandte, I oA, and the respective project context can participate after application. Field work and residencies take place during semester breaks. Students of related disciplines are most welcome.


Contact
+43-1-71133- 2331

Institute of Arts and Society

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil. Margarete Jahrmann
Deputy Head of Institute: Sen.Sc. Mag.phil. M.Phil. Christian Höller
The Institute of Arts and Society consists of five departments - Art and Knowledge Transfer, Social Design, Cross-Disciplinary Strategies, International Programmes in Sustainable Developments and Artistic Strategies. Each with their own specific requirements address issues related to society and, even more, the constitution of society itself. The concept of society, distinguished by the dynamic of order and difference since the Enlightenment, is subject to constant transformations, which need to be analysed, contemplated, and shaped.

At the beginning of the 1990s, when Bruno Latour declared, “We have never been modern,” he revoked a notion of society that assumed the dichotomy between nature and culture and in its strive for autonomy and difference separated the fields of action from overarching social contexts. Latour, in contrast, speaks of hybrids, social actors, non-social entities and objects as a real network, which he conceives as society. Multifaceted relationships between people and things, according to Latour, would generate new modes of socialisation through complex interconnections, a network that cannot be subjected to systematic or territorial boundaries.
Contact
71133-2471

Location

Digital Production

Univ.-Ass. Arch. Dipl.-Ing. Armin Hess
Univ.-Ass. MArch. Afshin Koupaei
Univ.-Ass. Mag. arch. Daniela Kröhnert

The Digital Design and Production Lab (DDPLab) investigates the manifold possibilities of new methods and tools in the field of digital design and fabrication.

Besides courses, which enable students to operate digital tools and prototyping machinery, the DDPLab explores the reciprocal relationships amongst design, science and industry.
All activities are thereby centered around the work with a 3D model – digital and physical.


Location
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Cross-Disciplinary Strategies. Applied Studies in Art, Science, Philosophy, and Global Challenges

Head: Sen. Sc. Mag. phil. M. Phil. Christian Höller

Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (CDS) takes up key issues in education and the arts, as well as the challenge of participating in and helping to shape society in the early 21st century. Established in 2017 at the Institute for Art and Society, the English language programme offers Bachelor's and Master's education.
 
The programme aims to prepare graduates for an independent role in mediating or translating between global interest groups with different specialist backgrounds. Artistic strategies equip them to intervene in a wide range of contexts, not only artistic settings. Using practical, artistic and theoretical learning models, connections between knowledge, experience and politics are worked out and developed, in order to meet the complex social challenges of the present day. Epistemology, methodology and the history of science comprise the foundation to which the specific issues of art, natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, economic history, and current social and political developments are related. In this process, artistic strategies and approaches to art are our common disciplinary language. We aim to achieve an independent cross-disciplinary practice in tackling urgent global issues such as migration, digitalisation, work, growth, the environment and nutrition.
 
In its introductory year, the CDS Bachelor covers the principles of programming, statistics, academic work in the form of research and text production, as well as the principles of human rights, the structure of international organisations, artistic practices and current discourses in social sciences and humanities.
In subsequent years of the programme, the curriculum is structured into the study areas science and technology, economics and politics, and artistic strategies on annual topics that deal with global challenges. Students apply the content theoretically and practically in cross-disciplinary annual projects. 
 
The CDS master’s programme is designed as a complementary course for graduates of all disciplines, giving the opportunity to go into topics in more depth. It is project-oriented, strongly practice-based and offers the individual student the opportunity to shape their course of study. In particular, the programme promotes work on transdisciplinary projects on sustainable social change and a cross-disciplinary approach to digital technologies and the resulting transformation processes. Students learn to locate their topic issues in a wider social context and in addition, to communicate them using different methods and artistic strategies, and to apply them in cross-disciplinary participative projects. For these projects, the programme promotes and supports dialogue and collaboration with actors in the fields of civil society, art, academia, politics, and the economy. 
 
In the winter semester of 2021, CDS has established a studio in the former Postsparkasse building. The CDS Studio is a protected space for experimentation and critical cross-generational theoretical and practical exchange. Students are encouraged and supported by faculty and visiting coaches from a variety of disciplines in developing independent, cross-disciplinary practice, whether individually or in teams, through the use of various media and forms of expression. In addition, CDS Studio works in close overlap with other departments and workshops of Angewandte.
 
CDS has built a growing network of Erasmus partner universities. Visiting students from other international universities are welcome. Their fresh and critical view gives us a new perspective on our work.
Contact
+43-1-71133-2471

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
1st floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Office hours
Mo, Wed, Thu: 8-13
Tue, Fri: upon request

Location
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies    
Expositur Postsparkasse – PSK
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1st floor, room 145
1010 Vienna, Austria
 
Admission Examination
Online submission of the application mid to end of January. The BA and MA admission interviews at the end of February and beginning of March are planned as personal interviews in Vienna. Details will be communicated by the CDS office when you are invited to the interviews.

Master Application (download as PDF)

Bachelor Application (download as PDF)

Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures


Head: Univ.-Prof. MMag. Dr. Clemens Apprich
Office: Silvia Stocker, B.A.

The Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures is a space for intervention, investigation, and experimentation within the expansive disciplines of arts, science, and technologies. Based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the institute critically engages digital and algorithmic cultures. Building on the rich heritage of Viennese investigations into cybernetics, net cultures, media art, and tactical media, the institute serves as a vital node within a global network of research institutions on digital cultures.

The Weibel Institute strives to challenge the underlying logics of digital cultures, unraveling the intricacies of cybernetic control systems and machine learning processes, the dynamics of online communities, the vast landscape of media-technological infrastructures, and their continued entanglements. This endeavor is guided by a commitment to remaking research itself, taking into account reflexive methodologies and seeking collective expressions. Taking on social and ecological responsibility in the face of emerging data systems, the institute questions the extractivist origins of digital landscapes and explores potential technological approaches beyond today’s data positivism.

The Weibel Institute invites researchers, students, artists, and activists to join a space for reflection, discussion, and collaboration. Offering access to resources such as the Peter Weibel Archive and an extensive library, the institute fosters theoretical and artistic explorations that probe deeper into the cultures that make up our digital spaces. This public program includes lectures, symposia, exhibitions, workshops, and other activities.

For further information, see: Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures
Contact
+43-1-71133-3554

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
Raised ground floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
1st floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Room: 009

Opening times
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am-2pm
and by request

Digital Simulation

Head: Sen.Sc. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Clemens Preisinger
Performing experiments with models provides the basis for insights into circumstances in reality. With the ever-increasing capacities of modern computers, the importance of digital simulations is growing in many fields of knowledge, as the effort required to create computer simulations is relatively low compared to that required to perform physical experiments. This also gives digital experiments a new significance in the context of creative processes: similar to thought experiments, they can be used to add the level of what is possible to reality. Rather than in the execution of the experiment, the difficulty now lies in the generation and parameterization of the digital model.

The Digital Simulation department of the IoA is dedicated to the discovery and formulation of computer-based models in the field of architecture. The basis is an interdisciplinary approach that is aimed at making modelling techniques and methods from other scientific disciplines usable for the architectural design process. In addition to digital simulations with physical backgrounds, those from the human sciences are also covered. Rather than the purely quantitative optimization of the properties of individual systems, our main focus is on the search for new qualities in the field of digital design.

Contact

Location

Urban Strategies

Head: Univ.-Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Andrea Börner
Any spatial change in the built and natural environment has far-reaching consequences within an existing framework of mutual dependencies. Accordingly, architecture, urban design and related spatial descriptive and planning disciplines cannot be thought of without strategically questioning these reciprocal relationships. The Department addresses this inherently multidisciplinary thematic complex of local-global changes in their spatial, technological, economic, political, socio-cultural, ecological and aesthetic dimensions in the wide range of relevant scales.

Thereby artistic-scientific methods and corresponding knowledge production serve as a basis for teaching and research. In lectures and research seminars on the Theory of Living Spaces and Urban Strategies and Theory of the Landscape specific aspects are examined and put into relation with adjacent disciplines. The production of magazines, newspapers, narration and film provide the framework for textual and cartographic speculation for a critical reflection of temporal-spatial organization principles in order to examine their relevance in current social dynamics. In its own research, the Department engages in international and interdisciplinary projects on public space, urban ecosystems and new mapping technologies.

Current Research Projects: Active Public Space (APS), Co-financed by the European Union in the framework the Program Collaborative Europe.
Contact
+43-1-71133-2340

Location
Schwanzer Wing
3th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

History of Architecture

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag.phil. Dr.phil. Matthias Boeckl
Contact

Location
Schwanzer Wing
3th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
www.architekturgeschichte.at

Theory of Architecture

Gastprof. PhD. BArch. Tulay Atak

Articulating the role of architecture and design is urgent today as we face social, technological and environmental questions of inequity, rapid transformation of digital culture and climate change. Design professions like architecture are uniquely positioned to understand and address these questions, both by suggesting conceptual frameworks and by providing innovative design propositions.
Architectural theory articulates the links between architecture’s disciplinary knowledge and contemporary questions. In educating the next generation of architects, we have to think about the “worldliness” of our field, or how architectural ideas transform and adapt to different contexts and events while acknowledging our disciplinary tools and techniques. Theory plays a foundational role in the design curriculum by tracing the transformation of architectural ideas, by articulating the links between specific examples and their social and cultural contexts, by deepening the theoretical underpinnings of formal operations and by mapping how the field of architecture can expand in order to experiment and address contemporary questions. Theory is a discipline that deliberately questions how we think in order to change not only how, but what we design.
The department ‘Theory of Architecture’ has the primary mission to contribute to the design philosophy and the design thinking of students in architecture. At the same time, it is a platform of ideas and discussions where students from the three different studios and other departments come together, a place where students can see the relations between distinct design questions and where they can experiment with instrumentalizing architectural theories to develop arguments and propositions.

Contact: tulay.atak@uni-ak.ac.at
Contact
+43-1-71133-2343

Location
Schwanzer Wing
3th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Science Visualization Lab

Head: Dr. Martina R. Fröschl, MSc
The common understanding of modern scientific research becomes more and more difficult as activities are carried out in size and time ranges we cannot perceive with the naked eye. The key to understanding for laymen is most commonly a visualization of these hidden processes. The Science Visualization Lab at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria specializes in making invisible scientific phenomena visible.

The majority of those phenomena are outside the limits of human perception, therefore, the creations of the Science Visualization Lab under the leadership of Alfred Vendl are focused on the visualization of these procedures utilizing the appropriate technical equipment.
Computer-generated imagery and animations are created in different innovative workflows while using imagery obtained from light microscopes, confocal microscopes, computer tomography, and different electron microscopes to create visible dynamic sequences of normally invisible procedures. One of the key goals is to make these procedures understandable for broad audiences while still implementing them accurately. To that end, some of these animation sequences have been used in popular TV-productions, art installations, and other means of knowledge communication.
Contact

Location
Website
www.scivizlab.com
www.martinafroeschl.com
www.alfredvendl.com

Science Visualization Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1st floor, Room 111, 1010 Vienna

History of Architecture

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag.phil. Dr.phil. Matthias Boeckl
Knowledge about the history of architecture is an indispensible resource in the architectural practice, and it is also integral for all other artistic curricula. Networked artistic thinking does not limit its scope to individual objects, rather it views the overall design of the environment. In the field of architectural history knowledge about the technical, aesthetic, and social aspects of intelligent and sustainable solutions in given building projects is conveyed in their respective historical context.

The most important course formats are lectures about the key periods in Western architectural history (English) and about the history of Austrian architecture in a European context (German). Furthermore, scientific works (dissertations, diploma theses, semester projects, studies, publications) by members of the Angewandte and other universities are supervised in the framework of seminars. The department’s own scientific research contributes, above all, to architectural history in Central Europe with a focus on modern and contemporary architecture and art in Austria.
Contact

Website
www.architekturgeschichte.at

central instituts rooms


Location
Schwanzer Wing
5th floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Central Institute Architecture


Location
Schwanzer Wing
1st floor
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Studio Digital Photography

Head: Josef Schauer-Schmidinger
The Workshop

Creating a high standard together with the students of Angewandte, is our endeavour. Professionally supporting the university’s external appearance, is our goal. In our studio, we set value on a pleasant working environment. Communication is an important part of our work.

The results are professional photography and high-quality pigment prints.

Detailed information

The Digital Photography Workshop supports all students of Angewandte with photographic aspects of their projects in the studio. It is possible to print large-format pigment prints in gallery quality.

Services for students:
Photography, scanning, image editing, and digital printing—please note: the infrastructure of the central digital studio is EXCLUSIVELY available for projects by students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

– Photography
Realising photographic projects—the equipment is available for various usage scenarios: documentation of works for portfolios, presentations, object and product photography, fashion shootings, art reproductions, portrait shootings, model photography, etc.

– Digital printing
Light-fast pigment print on role in 110 and 160 cm; on leave ware in A3+ to A2. It is possible to print different papers and media; media patterns are available and can be chosen from in advance or at the time of printing.

– Scanning
of non-transparent templates of all kinds (e.g. photos, texts, hand drawings) up to an A3 format. For transparent templates (diapositives and negatives of small formats up to 4x5 inches), high-quality single scans can be produced. The following image editing including colour corrections, dust removal and retouching is fairly time consuming.

– Image editing
Professional support with image editing in Photoshop (masking and cropping, composing, colour-contrast corrections, preparation for printing).
 

Procedure:

Please provide a detailed project description in advance:
Studio usage needs: printing, photography, scanning, image editing?
Amount of work: How many copies will be printed? What size? What will be shooted? Which material? Is hair and makeup required?

Please note:
Average waiting time for an appointment is 1-2 weeks. Timely planning is part of a good cooperation and the basis for further coordination and subsequent work! For complex projects or vague project plans, an appointment to discuss options can be useful.

In case an appointment cannot be kept, please cancel on time. We cannot guarantee support in case you do not show up without prior notification or come in too late without calling us. If you do not show up one hour after the set appointment at the latest and have not called or notified us via e-mail, the appointment will automatically be cancelled by us. Appointments are exclusively given or rescheduled by us and cannot be switched between students on their own.

This way we can guarantee a good working climate and professional student support.

Costs:
Material used, such as paper backgrounds in the studio;
pigment prints at the cost price of the material (fine art papers and pigment inks)
For details, please contact us.

Contact
+43-1-71133 – 2220

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
2nd floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Website
www.digitalefotowerkstatt.at

Angewandte Performance Lab

(APL)



 
Hosted and coordinated by the former Vice-Rector for Research and Diversity:
Barbara Putz-Plecko

Working group
Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, Martin Kusch, Marie-Claude Poulin, Jasmin Schaitl, Lucie Strecker

Performative practices and notions of performativity are recognized as full-fledged aspects of contemporary art and design. It is in this perspective that key-actors of the University of Applied Arts Vienna are launching the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL). The APL is a transversal artistic research and education platform that focusses on the relationship between the body, perception, and the arts and society in a post-digital context. Its purpose is to serve as an incubator to promote performance as an artistic medium and as a field of research.
 
By combining in-house and international expertise, the APL offers body training practices; digital performance workshops; conferences, symposia, and publications; master classes and presentations by guest artists; project development; and public presentations.
 
The APL supports the diversity of distinctive approaches while facilitating their convergence through interdepartmental collaboration in:
 
  • Socio-cultural, political, and site-specific interventions;
  • Somatic practices, improvisation, and notation strategies;
  • Hybridization and performativity of media and technologies;
  • Agency of the living and non-living;
  • Historical and investigative dimensions of performance.

An initiative by: Barbara Putz-Plecko

entwickelnde Arbeitsgruppe
Daniel Aschwanden (2019 - 2021), Ricarda Denzer (seit 2021), Nikolaus Gansterer (seit 2019), Philipp Gehmacher (2021-2022), Asher O’Gorman (seit 2021), Mariella Greil (seit 2019), Peter Kozek (seit 2019), Martin Kusch (2019 -2021), Timothy Nouzak (seit 2022), Marie-Claude Poulin (2019 -2021), Ulla Rauter (2020 -2021), Charlotta Ruth (seit 2020) Jasmin Schaitl (seit 2019), Lucie Strecker (seit 2019)










Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
Raised ground floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Courses

Website
https://apl.uni-ak.ac.at

Contact
Team
Ricarda Denzer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Asher O’Gorman, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, Daria Lytvynenko, Timothy Nouzak, Charlotta Ruth, Jasmin Schaitl, Lucie Strecker, Stefano D'Alessio 
 
Senior Artists
Mariella Greil – Research & Teaching
Peter Kozek – Outreach & Interaction 
 
Adress
Angewandte Performance Laboratory
 
Studio: alte P.S.K. – Georg-Coch Platz 2, 1010 Wien / Open: Mo – Do 11 – 13 h / Tel: +43 1 71133 3742/43
 


Angewandte Gender Lab

(APL)

 
Hosted and coordinated by the Vice-Rector for Research and Diversity:
Barbara Putz-Plecko

Working group
Daniel Aschwanden, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Peter Kozek, Martin Kusch, Marie-Claude Poulin, Barbis Ruder, Jasmin Schaitl, Lucie Strecker

Performative practices and notions of performativity are recognized as full-fledged aspects of contemporary art and design. It is in this perspective that key-actors of the University of Applied Arts Vienna are launching the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL). The APL is a transversal artistic research and education platform that focusses on the relationship between the body, perception, and the arts and society in a post-digital context. Its purpose is to serve as an incubator to promote performance as an artistic medium and as a field of research.
 
By combining in-house and international expertise, the APL offers body training practices; digital performance workshops; conferences, symposia, and publications; master classes and presentations by guest artists; project development; and public presentations.
 
The APL supports the diversity of distinctive approaches while facilitating their convergence through interdepartmental collaboration in:
 
  • Socio-cultural, political, and site-specific interventions;
  • Somatic practices, improvisation, and notation strategies;
  • Hybridization and performativity of media and technologies;
  • Agency of the living and non-living;
  • Historical and investigative dimensions of performance.

Studies in Art and Culture

Coordinator: Barbara Praher MA
The programme‘s understanding of art and cultural sciences is based on the University of Applied Arts Vienna’s view of a society-related concept of art and culture with a global and transcultural perspective. The goal is neither to limit art and culture nor inevitably merge them into one other.
 
Specialities of this newly developed course are: a close proximity to practical artistic courses at the university; the intertwining of the fields of science, art, and technical-crafts; a dedicated interdisciplinary teaching course orientation through permanent collaboration between the departments; the concrete and material-related work in the art collectives; and liberty to design and select one’s own projects.
 
Project-related seminars and regular colloquia are the main focus of this programme and foster critical engagement with power structures right from the first semester. The common ground is the analytical understanding of art and culture as a social construct, as well as the development of strategies and participatory approaches linked to these discourses and debates.
 
The main emphasis of the course is on the fields of art and cultural science (cultural studies, art history, art theory, philosophy, transcultural studies), though it is also possible to take advantage of the entire range of courses offered at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Please note: The educational language of this master is German and we highly recommend good German language skills when starting the programme. This will already be considered during the application phase.

Contact
Barbara Praher MA
71133-2707

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien
Downloads
Application information
Final phase information

Office hours:
Monday - Thursday
(preferably by email)
 

Students
Student representative:
stv.kuwi@hufak.net
Info image usage
Final projects
MA-KuWi on Instagram

Courses

Curriculum

Applications:
Submission deadline for the 2026/27 financial year: 8.1.–22.1.2026
2nd round: 25.2.-27.2.2026 (hybrid)

International Programmes in Sustainable Developments

Head: n. n.
The department for "International Programmes in Sustainable Developments" was founded in 2019 at the Angewandte as a new department for innovative, international master’s programmes. In close cooperation with European and non-European universities, inter- and transdisciplinary study programmes are developed and implemented. The international master’s degree programmes, which focus on cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary education, not only meet the current requirements for future-oriented university education on a content and structural level, but also help to explore and define what such a university education should look like, and apply these concepts in academic subjects which are both experimental and contemporary.
The new international master’s degree programmes are designed to equip students with the competencies, skills and abilities that will serve them in the future as an indispensable basis for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagement with the Grand Global Challenges. This includes above all artistic, creative, and aesthetic strategies for solution-oriented approaches to all areas of society, but also communication and reflection skills for working in inter- and transcultural, multidisciplinary teams as well as a balanced transfer of practical and theoretical, cross-disciplinary knowledge and know-how.
The development of social entrepreneurship is promoted through projects such as internships or volunteering activities, both locally and abroad.  Competences in dealing with disruptive technologies that future graduates of the master’s degrees will need to pursue their careers in the new digital working world, are equally promoted.
Another important focus is on the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030, in particular the goal of sustainable, high-quality education for all.  This is achieved through a cross-disciplinary interlinking of artistic research approaches with scientific disciplines.
Students are taught to identify complex issues and challenges in very diverse social fields and to develop and implement these within the context of work and collaboration, always taking diversity into account. A special focus of the degree programs is on innovative teaching formats that are designed to have a lasting impact on educational structures, and on the acquisition of intercultural and transcultural skills.
 
The program is taught in English. Upon entry, students from the Angewandte have to provide evidence of English language proficiency at level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, CEFR.

For more information on the double degree program "Global Challenges and Sustainable Developments“ follow this link.
Contact

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ipsd.uni-ak.ac.at

Master Programme Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil. Martina Griesser-Stermscheg

The study aims at graduates of conservation-restoration study programmes (BA 7 Semesters, MA, Mag.art., Dipl.-Rest.) who intend to develop and refine their competences by gaining hands-on experience in international conservation project work, in project and site management, and in the preservation of cultural as well as world heritage.

More information on the programme here.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Admission to the programme is open to students holding a 7 semesters BA or a diploma or an equivalent degree (MA, Dipl.-Rest) in conservation-restoration and is subject to the general admission requirements of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. English proficiency (minimum level B2, CEFR) is required as the study programme is taught in English.

The admission procedure consists of two phases:

Phase 1: Written Application

Applicants submit:
  • Curriculum Vitae / CV (in English), including a list of publications if available
  • Portfolio (in English) of recent works in conservation (up to 15 work samples of practical conservation, including 1 complete documentation of a conservation project)
  • Motivation Letter (in English), in which applicants outline their professional experience in conservation-restoration, preservation and protection of cultural heritage, motivation and expectations for applying for the programme
  • Documents (either in German or English): copy of valid passport, copies of education certificates or degrees and evidence of English language proficiency

Online submission of the application files as two PDF-documents via https://application.uni-ak.ac.at/
Please upload the files as follows:
PDF 1    motivation letter + portfolio (max. 50 MB)
PDF 2    CV + documents (max. 30 MB)

Phase 2: Personal Interview

Pre-selected applicants are invited to an interview held in English.

Admissions will be announced after the interview round.
Entrance Exam  


Dates and deadlines for application for next study phase 2026–2028
 
October to December 2025: Call for application. Please contact the representatives of the programme for further information. We will be glad to answer any question and support you in setting up the written application.
8 January 2026, 12 pm (noon, CET) – 22 January 2026 12 pm (noon, CET): Online submission of written application during the submission period
23–26 February 2026: Interviews
 13 March 2026: Announcement of the results
 1 October 2026 (winter term 2026/27): Start of studies
 
Further dates for the next study phase 2026–2028
February and March 2028: Study period in Bangkok
November 2027 to June 2028: Master Thesis Preparation and Writing         

Please contact the representatives of the programme for further information (chcm@uni-ak.ac.at)


Contact
+43 1 71133 4832

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Diploma Programme Conservation and Restoration

Head of Institute: Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil. Martina Griesser-Stermscheg

The diploma programme of Conservation and Restoration prepares students for an academic conservator’s field of activity. The five-year programme offers four specialist areas: paintings, textile, object and stone.

More information on the programme here.
Successful completion of the entrance examination is a prerequisite for the degree programme. Consultation hours by appointment (in person or online) will resume in March 2026; the next OPEN HOUSE will take place in the autumn. 

Application

Deadlines for admission for the 2026/27 academic year

8–22 January 2026, 1:00 pm (CET)
Online registration and online submission of the artistic portfolio (approx. 20 recent works, curriculum vitae). In addition, the portfolio may also be handed in in person during this period, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, at the institute on the 4th floor (Secretariat), stating the registration number and the desired subject area(s).
 

6 February 2026
Notification of Round 1 by email
 
23–27 February 2026
Examination week in person (location Salzgries 14, 1010 Vienna)
 
13 March 2026
Notification of results by email
 
Contact
Please contact the secretary of the Institute for further information kons-rest@uni-ak.ac.at.

Admission requirements

 
The future conservators-restorer should possess artistic aptitude and enjoy  practical-manual, craft-based work, but also show an interest in the humanities (art and cultural history, archaeology …) and natural sciences (biology, chemistry, physics) and provide overview, basic knowledge in these fields. Further computer knowledge (Microsoft Office programmes, Adobe Photoshop) is desirable.
 
All those interested should gather information about a conservator-restorer‘s everyday work beforehand. We recommend undertaking a pre-study internship of several weeks at a conservation-restoration studio.
 
The completed 17th year of age is required. A higher school-leaving certificate is not a legal requirement, but Matura certificate (or equivalent) has proven to be a good foundation for our study programme.
 
Sufficient German language skills (both spoken and written) are a necessity from the start. Also, basic knowledge of English is a prerequisite, as some courses are held in English.
 
We would like to point out that due to the extent of compulsory practical work and courses with compulsory attendance during the first semesters of the programme there will be hardly any opportunity for part-time work or the pursuit of a second study. 
 
Registration, Portfolio & Examination
 
Admission to the diploma degree programme is based on a two-tier process. This includes a pre-selection (submitting portfolio) and an exam. Prerequisite for admission to the entrance exam is the positive assessment of the application portfolio!
 
a) REGISTRATION & PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION
The registration and submission of the application portfolio takes place online. In addition, the portfolio can also be brought in person to the institute on the 4th floor, labeled with the registration number of the online tool and information on the desired department, during the same time frame. 
If you are not admitted to the second part of the admission procedure, you can pick up your portfolio during the specified period Monday to Friday from 9:00-15:00. After making an appointment (kons-rest@uni-ak.ac.at), the assistants of the respective department are available for a personal discussion about the portfolio.
 
The portfolio should be of generous proportions (sheet size A3 to A2) and contain at least 20 current works. The Institute asks for precise freehand drawings /studies of nature in pencil (e.g. still life, landscape, etc., preferably a series). Real objects should be used as templates, no photographs.  
The second part of the portfolio can/should contain works in colour (e.g. watercolours, pastels) and may be more freely designed. The portfolio can also include works related to specialisations of the programme – these can be documented on photos as it is not recommended to bring the original to the Institute (e.g. copy of painting, sculpture, etc.). The single sheets are to be labelled with dimensions, name and date.
 
Also to be submitted online are the curriculum vitae, educational certificates (e.g. high school diploma, BHS diploma, apprenticeship diploma, etc.) and, if available, proof of internship (e.g. photo documentation, etc.). These documents should also be enclosed when submitting the portfolio in person.
Further, applicants should carefully consider which area of specialisation to choose (paintings, objects, textiles, stone). The decision has to be indicated with the registration.
 
b) EXAMINATION
Applicants, who are admitted to the examination, are informed online. The examination lasts two to three days and consists of written, oral and practical partial tests.
 
Within the framework of the entrance exam, applicants‘ artistic-creative and manual skills (moulding, object construction, drawing, and colour mixing), observation, basic knowledge in chemistry (at secondary school level) and art history (antiquity to modernity) as well as written skills (art-historical description and motivation letter) are tested.
 
A personal interview takes place to address the occupational profile and the applicant‘s motivation to train and work in the area of conservation-restoration.
 
 
The following has to be brought to the test:
 
  • passport photo
  • work utensils:  paper A2 (drawing cardboard), drawing pad, pensils (from hard to soft), sharpener, eraser, vessel for water and colour mixing, brush, e.g. fine round brushes (0-4), flat brushes (6-14), watercolours, writing devices, scissor, glue, two triangles.
 
Admission announcement
 
After the examination the applicants are informed via e-mail, if they are accepted for the diploma degree programme with start in the following autumn. Following the exam, the portfolios are handed over. Further, it is possible to get personal feedback on the portfolio and the performance during the exam. At the University of Applied Arts Vienna there is no lottery, waiting list or reserve system.
 
Where / How can I get informed?
 
The head and assistants of the Institute would be happy to answer any questions in a face to face meeting regarding the study programme and the entrance exam. We recommend making an appointment prior to the entrance exam for a critical discussion of the portfolio and to deal with questions regarding the studies.
 
Applicants are also invited to the Open House (each year in autumn) of the Institute. This day provides the opportunity to meet students and teachers and gain insights into the study programme, the workshops and labs and the occupational field. 
 
Contact
+43 1 71133 4810

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Angewandte Robotics Lab

ANGEWANDTE ROBOTICS LAB
The ANGEWANDTE ROBOTICS LAB is a new in-house laboratory for creative production and prototyping and extends the spectrum of uses of the existing workshops within the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
 
Its focus lies within the application thru programming and handling of the lab’s internal 7-axis industrial robot, the fabrication and realisation of associated creative projects, research and development of new processes, software and tools, as well as the ‚transfer of knowledge‘.
 
DEVELOPMENT
development and prototyping of creative tools to extend and even exceed existing production techniques and possibilities.
 
APPLICATION
fabrication and realisation of associated creative projects for a wide clientele like students from the Angewandte, affiliated research projects as well as external entities like artists, designers and architects.
 
TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE
e.g. programming classes for the carpenters of the department of wood technology, workshops and seminars in cooperation with the IOA – institute of architecture from the Angewandte as well as the AA – Architectural Association from London have been conducted in the past.
 
The ANGEWANDTE ROBOTICS LAB is still under development. Lectures, seminars and workshops are not scheduled on a regular basis yet, but will be offered in the near future, from time to time and upon special requests.
 
OFFERING
The current offering of the ANGEWANDTE ROBOTICS LAB is primarily based on 3-axis- / 5-axis-milling applications with the materials wood, wooden composites, plastics and plastic foams.
 
Other applications, tools and materials must be requested separately and examinated individually.
 
The ARL’s offering is available two to three days per week and upon individual agreement with the staff.
 
TEACHING EVENTS
Latest information you will soon find in Base Angewandte.
 
HEAD
 
 

Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/robotik-2/

Artistic Strategies

Head: Univ. Prof. Bouchra Khalili

Sen.Art. Mag.art. Antoine Turillon
Univ.-Lekt. Mag. Anne Faucheret
Univ.-Lekt. Mag.art. Stefanie Misa
Univ.-Lekt. Mika Maruyama MA

Operating across the Institute of Arts and Society, the newly developed department of Artistic  Strategies offers teaching of theory and practice, situating at its core questions of artistic methods in relation to social dynamics and global challenges.
 
The purpose of the teaching is not to teach a comprehensive and final definition of Artistic Strategies, but rather to focus on artists’ work and methods in order to investigate how artists  define innovative approaches to respond to and reflect on the complex contexts in which artworks are produced and shown.
 
Rather than a programmatic conception of art and its making, courses and seminars invite the  students to investigate the dynamics at stake in the development, the production, and the implementation of artistic strategies: artistic eco-systems, historical, cultural, intellectual, social  and political contexts.  

Such investigations rely on an interdisciplinary and transversal approach articulating a wide range of art practices, media, and fields of knowledge. The teaching of Artistic Strategies focuses on how artists with their work and methods provide innovative tools to envision potential new forms of social relations and communities, subjectivities, knowledge production  and dissemination, and new forms of perceptions and comprehension of the challenges of our time.  

Labs of Artistic Strategies and workshops welcome students from all departments to  develop a project from the first stage to completion. The purpose of the course of those  labs is to allow students to develop their own artistic strategies based on the specifics of their projects rather than on a doctrine or formula. Collegiality and interdisciplinarity are key to the labs. The students develop their individual projects in dialogue with a group, allowing them to collectively contribute to each other's projects.

Exploring the challenges of our time and investigating how artists develop strategies to reflect them, involves articulating the global and the local, opening the doors of the university to other contexts. This articulation is developed via a strong commitment to  international collaborations, engaging with artists, cultural practitioners and educators through workshops, site visits, symposiums, exhibitions, and publications. 

For the next two years, the department aims to explore questions of representation and self representation of excluded groups and interrelations of artistic practices and strategies of  visibility in public spaces (public spaces is to be understood from a wide perspective, from the physical public space to public debate).
This exploration includes invitations extended to guests to interact with the students, and to  contribute to workshops and public programs such as lectures, performances, and panels, among other forms of implementations and collaborations. 
Contact
Antoine Turillon

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
1st floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
artisticstrategies.uni-ak.ac.at

Transcultural Studies

Head: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Dipl.Sozw. Nanna Heidenreich
The Latin prefix trans means over, across, beyond, to the other side; it suggests movement. Yet, what underlies this prefix and its idea of transcending are settings. These operate with demarcations, attributions, enclosures, and comparisons. In this sense, the Department of Transcultural Studies, newly established in 2020, stands first and foremost for the critical examination of these settings and the procedures that go along with them. The department looks into territorial, geopolitical, social, epistemological, legal, disciplinary, and institutional orders that are reflected in conventions, discourses, social and political constellations, and practices in order to then deal with the processes that arise when orders come together: crossings, transgressions, infiltrations, appropriations, conflicts, frictions, transformations.

From an academic point of view, the examination of transcultural processes requires awareness of the connections between research practice and research content. This results in a necessary multiplication and opening of knowledge and learning cultures, always aware that universities are not a power-free space. The Department of Transcultural Studies takes a look at structures and asks: How can knowledge be decentralised? How can this be translated into action – including that of research and teaching? How do we pose our questions and which ones? And last but not least: how to imagine otherwise?
Contact
71133-2971

Location
Annex Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7 = VZA
4th floor
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
A-1030 Wien

Action for Sustainable Future hub (ASF hub)

We live in times of multiple crises: economic crisis, ecological crisis, biodiversity crisis and crisis of distribution. As these crises intensify and amplify each other, also voices for a radical transformation of society get louder. With this in mind, the University of Applied Arts and the Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft established the Open Innovation in Science Lab: „Action for Sustainable Futures (ASF) hub“, which aims to find answers for the pressing question: What could a sustainable transformation of society look like?
 
The ASF hub pursues the following aims:
  • Fostering societal awareness for sustainable development
  • Enabling possibilities for action through the participation of civil society representatives within projects
  • Supporting inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations between civil society, science and arts
  • Developing impact criteria for participatory scientific and artistic research
  • Increasing democracy through offering possibilities for participation while considering diversity within society
 
The ASF hub will fund key project that will be oriented towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), working on practical solutions with high societal relevance. Citizens will play an active part in shaping these projects, which will combine scientific and artistic strategies. To enable participation for citizens with little experience in project funding, the process of submitting projects is divided into two parts. Actors from different parts of society can submit sketches for project ideas until the 30th of June, 2021 and will get support in writing and submitting project proposals. Full proposals can be submitted until the 30th of September, 2021. The call for proposals can be found here.
 
Sustainability Board
 
The Sustainability Board supports and advises the ASF hub in scientific and artistic matters as the hub’s working committee. The Sustainability Board is involved in planning the project call, selecting projects for funding, supporting projects and advising with Capability Building.
The board is inter- and transdisciplinary in composition, comprising members from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, members of UniNEtZ and representatives from civil organizations.
 
Members of the Sustainability Board:
 
Ulrike Payerhofer: Leitung der UniNEtZ AG Dialog
Katharina Rogenhofer: Leitern des Klimavolksbegehren & Mitbegründerin Fridays for Future Österreich
Kyoko Shinozaki/Katharina Kreissl: Leitung des SDG 10 „Reduzierte Ungleichheit“ im UniNEtZ
Bernhard Zlanabitnig: Steuerungsgruppe SDG Watch Austria & Leitung EU-Umweltbüro
 
Key Projects
 
Projects funded within the ASF hub are offered support through project coaching, which starts already with the application process, to enable accessibility and diversity among applicants. For their entire duration project will be continuously supported through workshops, in order to refine and revise research questions. Experts from various disciplines will lead these workshops and in turn can participate in Capability Building activities. Additionally, networking between projects will enable a peer-to-peer network. 
 
Capability Building
 
Scientists and experts who are part of the ASF hub have the possibility to participate in diverse possibilities to develop and advance their capabilities in regard to transdisciplinary research, participatory methods and cooperation between society, science and arts. 


Downloads
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Info Webinar ASF hub call
Website
asf.uni-ak.ac.at






Contact
 
Dorothea Born
Tel.: +4316603832945
Coordinator






 

Experimental Game Cultures

Head: Univ.-Prof. Mag. art. Dr.phil Margarete Jahrmann


Angewandte presents new MA-Programme "Experimental Game Cultures"

Press-Statement  about the new programme >>

 

We aim to introduce game changer games!


In founding the Experimental Game Cultures department, the University of Applied Arts Vienna takes up the challenge to shape-shift societies through play practices and cultures as key to sustainable world approaches. The English language master’s programm experimental game cultures started in the winter semester 2021/22 at the Institute for Art and Society.

The newly established master program Experimental Game Cultures puts a focus on emerging forms of hybrid play. The study program aims at a critical reflection of the social impact of games while simultaneously applying it to the prototypical development of innovative game concepts and approaches. The central aspect of the study program is therefore the interweaving of the development of innovative game concepts with a critical examination of games and play as cooperative and non-incremental method of insight and change of coagulations  in their various historical, societal and social contexts. Artistic research areas of the program include the use of games and play as an instrument for a better understanding of social, economic and political contexts and for the democratic shaping of their future.
 
The head of the department Margarete Jahrmann states: “For me, artistic play is the experimental testing and subjective experience of alternative possibilities of the world and agency. Play as a participatory process can show us ways to positive change, new forms of future society, politics, and empathic coexistence. Through the conscious breaking of rules, the transformation of rule systems, the acceptance of ambiguity as a quality in play, a new understanding for the global challenges of our time can emerge. Our way there is the game!"




According to the focus fields of the program, applicants are also invited to develop/describe a project for on of the following topics:

  • political games
  • games and nature
  • low resource games
  • experimental ludic interfaces
  • role play/real world games
  • dark patterns of game design
  • physical game mechanics 
  • non-human play
  • hybrid games

Written applications can be submitted in the period until January 8th - 22nd 2026, 1 pm (CET) via https://application.uni-ak.ac.at.

 

Courses
Contact

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
1st floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Tele.nr.:
Margarete Jahrmann: +43-1-71133-2930
Sekretariat: +43-1-71133-2931

Address:
Expositur PSK,
Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
1. Floor (Room 151/152)
 
Master programme>>
Duration: 4
Language: English and German
Curriculum (Pdf download)
 
Written applications can be submitted in the period January 8th - 22nd 2026, 1 pm (CET) via https://application.uni-ak.ac.at.

Academic Calendar and Events

Open House
On November 4th 2025 students and lecturers give information and insights on the study programmes and studios of the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the frame of the Open House.

'Angewandte Abschluss Arbeiten
With 'AAA the Angewandte presents the final projects of all departments. 'AAA Winter takes place 23+24 January 2026.

Angewandte Festival
At the end of each academic year the University of Applied Arts Vienna opens its doors and presents its activities. The upcoming Angewandte Festival takes place July 1st - 4th 2026.

Experimental Game Cultures Information Meeting on November 4th 2025 at 11:00 and 18:00 


Expanded Museum Studies

Head: Univ.-Prof. Julienne Lorz
In establishing the programme Expanded Museum Studies, the University of Applied Arts is instituting a field of study and research that aims to examine, expand and redefine the notion of museum. A fundamental aspect of the programme is its emphasis on the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary practical intertwining of various approaches adopted in the areas of museology, art and cultural studies, conservation, and art-research methodology.

Expanded Museum Studies focuses on the museum in continuous becoming. ‘Expanded’ means placing this in a historical, transdisciplinary as well as global relation. Since its inception, the museum as an institution has been in a state of constant change and full of contradictions. On the one hand it is an educational and research institution, and on the other hand a place for encounters and entertainment. Objects from the past and present are to be preserved for their historical significance, while at the same time it is important for the museum to be relevant within continuously changing circumstances within society, work and the environment. Past, present, and future meet here directly in many different ways.
 
The 4-semester MA programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna provides critical competency regarding history and processes in the context of museums as well as the expertise to actively shape institutional practice and discourse. Across the various museum sectors, a differentiated understanding of the museum and museal concepts in a global context will be provided. Students are introduced to transdisciplinary and cross-media working methods as well as research via academic and practice-oriented courses and projects.
 
Contact

Location
Annex Postgasse
2.OG
Postgasse 6
A-1010 Wien
Website
www.expanded.at
General Information

Curriculum (Download)

 
Academic degree: MA (Master of Arts)
Credits: 120 ECTS
Duration: 4
Language: Englisch und Deutsch / English and German

Information for Applicants


Entrance Exam

https://application.uni-ak.ac.at/

Coding Lab

Head: Univ.-Lekt. Mag.art. Jonas Bohatsch
Digital data represent the materials of the 21st century – and coding is the corresponding tool for handling such data.
The new Coding Lab as a central workshop of the Institute of Art and Technology reflects this new understanding. The Lab complements the range of digital skills courses. The aim is not to train experts, but to familiarise students with the basic skills relating to coding functions and possibilities on a project-related basis.
The Coding Lab provides support to all students at the University of Applied Arts in matters related to programming and physical computing (Arduino, sensors, electronics). The range of assistance offered includes one-time consultations to ongoing project support. Additionally, the Lab also organises lectures and events.

The Coding Lab is equipped with an electronics workstation and an extensive inventory of microcontroller boards, sensors, displays, motors, LEDs, and common electronic components. Furthermore, the Coding Lab provides access to a machine learning workstation, a Mac workstation, and a pen plotter.

Areas of work:
Coding and Scripting
Physical Computing
Single Board Computers
Machine Learning & AI
Generative Art
Web Technologies
Pen Plotting

Current opening hours can be found on the Coding Lab website.

For project support please contact codinglab@uni-ak.ac.at for an appointment.
 
 


Contact
Jonas Bohatsch
+431-71133-2950

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
1st floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien
Website
www.codinglab.uni-ak.ac.at
You can find the lab right next to the class for Experimental Game Cultures

For current opening hours please consult the lab’s website: https://codinglab.uni-ak.ac.at/en/

Studio Analogue Photography

Head: Univ.-Lekt. Mag.art. Lisa Rastl-Dorner and Univ.-Lekt. Mag. art. Claudia Rohrauer

The new Analogue Photography Workshop offers practical craftsmanship skills for photographic and post-photographic techniques that enable an interdisciplinary approach to photography. The department’s courses are aimed at students of all fields of study at the University of Applied Arts Vienna – as a complementary set of technical skills within the framework of their study courses, a form of media expression, and as an experimental lab aimed at further enhancing their craftsmanship.
+43-71133-2571

Location
Annex Paulusplatz
1st floor
Paulusplatz 5
A-1030 Wien
Website
artandtechnology.uni-ak.ac.at/analoge-fotografie/

Klasse für Alle

Continuing Education

Head: Sen. Art. Mag. art. Andrea Lumplecker
Klasse für Alle is a program of continuing education, created by the University of applied Arts Vienna to opening up their institutes and departments towards all those who are interested in discussing, reflecting upon, and redesigning of our society. The urgency of current existential dangers requires collective action and dialogue. We invite people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds, from all professional fields, with or without previous education, and with a diverse range of skills and interests, to work with us on building a present and future worth living. In Klasse für Alle, we will learn from and with each other, and with as little hierarchy as possible. Artists and other specialists (from both within and outside the university) guide and accompany this learning. Mutual appreciation and respect for different opinions forms the basis for this cooperation.


Klasse für Alle is part of the Vienna Klima Biennale's Solutions & Strategies series this summer semester with two groups (compost group and common ground), together with other classes from the University of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts. The projects began as spatial installations at the festival site at Nordwestbahnhof and will be continued in a participatory manner in many workshops during the Biennale period until July 14. The groups are made up of long-standing members of the Klasse für Alle, regular students from other Angewandte classes and temporary participants.

Festival site of Klima Biennale
Nordwestbahnstraße 16
1220 Vienna

garden group is a cooperation partner of Klima Biennale and works in the studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof, in Naschgarten at Zukunftshof (1100 Vienna) and in the Angewandte courtyard at Oskar Kokoschka Platz.

For updates on workshops, guided tours and other events, see the Klasse für Alle website and Instagram @klassefueralle
 
compost group: compost care

with: Vik Bayer, Camille Belmin, Yeonwoo Chang, Paul Ebhart, Kristina Feldhammer, Victoria Ferreri, Joanna Gruntkowska, Michael Haag, Pauline Hosse-Hartmann, Ivie Isibor, Karin Lang, Aki Lee, Andrea Lumplecker, Gundi Mayerhofer, Stefan Meyer, Michael Reindel, Dunia Sahir, Małgorzata Suś, Günther Vock

At compost group, we care about compost in an organic as well as in a metaphorical sense. Composting is a ritual of gathering, acknowledging and transforming and becomes a metaphor for all life processes. Through compost practices of moving, writing, deep listening, soundmaking and care, we give meaning to organic residue and unlearn the human-made definition of waste vs. valuable materials. "We are humus, not homo, not anthropos; we are compost, not posthuman." (Donna Haraway)
@compostgroup


common ground

with: John Paul Ayodo, Ingrid Garschall, Marieluisa Lenglachner, Johanna Preissler, Carina Riedl, Paul Röttger, Elisabeth Smejkal, Dominika Svarc, Barbara Ziegelböck

A large carpet is created through the common work of many people. Each person leaves behind a braid that becomes part of the carpet and thus leaves a trace in it. The time spent together opens up space for exchange and conversation. The technique is simple and can be used immediately. Discarded and wastre materials are transformed into an object that offers space for everyone to enter into dialog, listen and learn from each other.
Dates for joint sessions @commonground


garden group: building forest

with Denise Ackerl, Olga Ageeva, Alexander Dobcak, Victoria Ferreri, Gundi Mayrhofer, Stefan Meyer, Nicole Miltner, Carolina Páez Vélez, Sabine Schertler, Alexander Thoma, Ritger Traag, Johannes Wiener

In the Building Forest project, Klasse für Alle garden group initiates forest plantings using the Miyawaki Tiny Forest method in order to contribute to the eco-social transformation of the city. Workshops will be held at various locations to plant trees together, produce and distribute seedbombs and dye them with natural tree dyes. In addition, there will be preparatory meetings for the garden group's main event: Rooted Resilience: A Tree Demonstration on 26.6.24 from 6 pm (location: tba) @kfA_gartenfueralle




CONTACT
Klasse für Alle
Continuing Education für Alle
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Location: Heiligenkreuzerhof
A-1010 Wien, Entrance Schönlaterngasse 5 or Grashofgasse 3
Stairs 8 / Ground level
www.klassefueralle.uni.ak.ac.at
klassefueralle@uni-ak.ac.at
0043 1-71133-3545

TEAM
Head Andrea Lumplecker (andrea.lumplecker@uni-ak.ac.at)
Intern Barbara Ziegelböck
garden group Agent Ritger Traag
common ground group Agent Johanna Preissler
Hobby Lobby Cooperation Victoria Ferreri, Ritger Traag
Program Consulting Yasmina Haddad
Guest Lecturers summer term 2024 Vik Bayer & Michael Reindel, Paul Ebhart, Watering Words (Kristina Feldhammer, Joanna Gruntkowska, Małgorzata Suś), Johannes Wiener
Contact
1-71133-3545

Website
klassefueralle.uni-ak.ac.at

Art x Science School for Transformation

A project of the Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Head: Ass. Prof. Dr.phil. Monika Halkort
Study Coordinator: DI (FH) Mitra Kazerani

Johannes Kepler University Linz and the University of Applied Arts Vienna are jointly creating the "Art x Science School for Transformation" (pronounced "Art cross Science School for Transformation"). With the new TRANSFORMATION STUDIES Art x Science study programs (BA and PhD), two universities are combining art and science.

Global Transformations
Digitalization, the climate crisis, and social transformations are omnipresent, directly impacting our everyday lives. Effectively responding to these challenges requires new knowledge and competencies to positively affect change.
 
The new Transformation Studies. Art x Science
The new study programs offer a unique blend of artistic and scientific methods and approaches. Their main objective is to situate current transformation dynamics in their historical context and to imagine possible alternatives.

Imagination, visionary thinking, creativity, and passion for experimental approaches
The Art x Science School for Transformation combines the strengths and competencies of both universities. It emphasizes transdisciplinary research and learning and provides conceptual as well as practical tools for engaging with complex problems and multiplicities. This allows for productive synergies between different knowledge cultures that skillfully combine planetary thinking with social intelligence and ethical, reflexive practice.

Shaping transformation
Both study programs (BA and PhD) integrate specialized skills and broad contextual knowledge in art and science, while also fostering social, and communicative skills, collaboration and care.

Studying at two universities
Studying at two universities offers a diverse range of content and specialization options. It allows students to experience two different cities and cultures of learning.  That said, it also requires students to be present at both campuses and to organize their mobility between Linz and Vienna independently.

The partnership for creative innovation
Angewandte and JKU partnered for creative innovation. This resulted in a joint manifesto under the motto "Innovation through Universitas".
>> Manifesto

 





 

Contact
Mitra Kazerani
+43-1-71133-2991

Location
Annex Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz (= Ehem. PSK)
2nd floor
Georg‐Coch‐Platz 2
A-1010 Wien

Bachelor Transformation Studies. Art x Science

  • Academic degree: BA (Bachelor of Arts)
  • 180 ECTS
  • Duration (semesters): 6
  • Language: English
  • Curriculum
  • Next admission procedure: January/February 2027, details of the admission procedure will be published in autumn 2026.
  • Next start of studies: October 2027


PhD Transformation Studies. Art x Science

  • PhD (PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies)
  • Credits: 180 ECTS
  • Duration (semesters): 6
  • Language: English
  • Curriculum
  • Start: October 2024
  • The next application period is scheduled for spring 2026. Details about the application procedure will be published at the beginning of 2026.
  • Please direct any questions to the Doctoral Centre: sdkf@uni-ak.ac.at
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Coming soon: Art x Science School for Transformation


Fulldome Lab

Head: Associate Professor Mag. art. Martin Kusch
project collaborator: Projektmitarb. Mag.art. Johannes Hucek
project collaborator: Marie-Claude Poulin Sen.Art. M.A.

The fulldomeXR lab is an interdisciplinary platform for new creative processes for practice-based research and teaching in the field of immersive media. This includes digital computer-generated immersion, mixed reality environments, the exploration of digital hybridisation processes and the convergence of media-based and performative practices.

Immersive technologies create audiovisual spatial experiences in which the boundaries between the physical and virtual worlds dissolve, giving users a sense of presence and interaction. The use of these technologies plays an increasingly important role in the future development of our society. Consequently, innovative experimental projects are realised in the fulldomeXR lab in a transversal exchange between researchers, teachers and students. The aim is to develop forms of artistic expression that critically examine the future impact and effects of immersive media and to conduct investigations in close relation to contemporary art and design practices and digital technologies.
    
Fields of work:

- Multi-layered narrative visual and audio concepts.

- Prototypes in XR, interactive art, AI, games and networks.

- Interactive, 360˚ virtual walk-through databases.

- Perceptual research for areas of physical experience

- Role of AI in the creation of dynamic content
Contact

fulldomeXR Lab
Georg-Coch-Platz 2,
1st floor, Fulldome lab: room 170
1010 Vienna


Study Programmes

You are interested in studying at the Angewandte?

Artistic disciplines complemented by a large number of scientific subjects - the range of study programmes offered at the Angewandte is manifold. This contributes to the special, international atmosphere at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Take your time browsing our study programmes. Here you will find information about admission requirements, types of studies and teaching languages. We recommend taking a look at the relevant curriculum as well.


Regenerative Design Lab


HEAD: Harald Gründl

As a platform open to all students of the Institute of Design, the lab offers the opportunity to experimentally weave design theory into artistic practice from WS 2024. Based on the individual artistic semester projects of students from different fields of study, the lab offers the opportunity to adopt radical, transformative new perspectives and to contrast and expand individual design practice with the principles of regenerative design.

Research and teaching: Lia Sauter and Harald Gründl

Students are supervised as part of the design theory course “Design Revolution Now!”



Website
https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2024W/S04812/

Studio Joining Technology

Head: Univ.-Lekt. Mag. Ursula Klein
Student assistent: Johanna Schloßer

The studio for joining technology offers a variety of technologies for welding films and coated textiles focusing on the production of inflatable objects.
Contact

Courses
 

Opening hours
By appointment mit ursula.klein@uni-ak.ac.at


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