Workshop

Open Engagement: All Banana?

Loud, high, low, shrill, sad, or happy! With the help of technology, we play the banana piano, listen to the sounds produced by touching different parts, and turn the knobs on various synthesizers. Visit our sound studio and try it out for yourself!
Open Engagement: Mic Check

Using the microscope as a tool for exploring the world, we zoom in on the vast miniature world of the microcosm. We observe the most unusual creatures, such as bear, sun, and wheel animals. Pick a leaf and you can read plants’ wishes from their lips. Don’t drop the mic, grab it!
Workshop: Dream Machine

Design your own dream machine with the endless possibilities of the BBC micro:bit! This tiny but powerful single-board computer is the perfect platform to bring your own invention to life. At Ars Electronica Labs, you will find all the tools you need to build a prototype. Together, we will put our creative minds to work…
Workshop: Medical Machine

Whether for the detection, prevention, or treatment of diseases in humans, animals, or plants, medicine encompasses a wide range of care practices aimed at maintaining or restoring health. This is exactly where we come in: Build your own medicine machine with the versatile possibilities of the BBC micro:bit!
Workshop: Fully Entangled

Entangled, connected, linked… That’s how we feel when we have a good relationship with someone or something. But interactions, influences, and dependencies don’t just exist between people and their environment—they permeate the entire Earth, its atmosphere, and even the universe.
Workshop: Hands Up for Space

How do our hands work? Why do we need a thumb? And what does all this have to do with space travel? Become an engineer yourself in this workshop and design a bionic hand prosthesis from very simple materials, modeled after a robot arm that helps astronauts with their work in space.
Kinderforschungslabor

Time and space to play and discover await young visitors to our children’s research laboratory. Whether digital, analog, natural, or artificial, for children, the world is one big laboratory where every moment can become an experiment and every path a journey of discovery.
Open Workshop: Space Gallery

Unleash your creativity and design your own piece of space art! From futuristic technologies and mysterious solar eclipses to brave astronauts and mysterious moons, the European Space Agency’s creative competition focuses on a new fascinating topic every month.
Open Workshop: A micro:bit of Space

Discover the secrets of the universe in a wintery galactic atmosphere and get to know the BBC micro:bit! How do astronauts experience the holidays on the International Space Station (ISS)?
Open Workshop: Moon Camp

What might everyday life on the moon be like? Where can you get food on Mars? This open workshop will start by exploring the question of what we need to live and how we can meet these basic needs in space.