education
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Walzersymphonie
The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Jr. – a composer who shaped the history of music with works such as the Danube Waltz and operettas like “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat) and “Eine Nacht in Venedig” (A Night in Venice). On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab…
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FOUNDING LAB Fall Term
The FOUNDING LAB Fall Term is a continuation of the FOUNDING LAB collaboration between Austrian university IT:U and Ars Electronica, spanning September 2023 to January 2024. IT:U started its operation in 2023 with the FOUNDING LAB, supported by experts of Ars Electronica including a team of Ars Electronica Futurelab members.
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Northeastern University 2023
Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
In the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy, we challenge the creativity of students in workshops, seminars and project-focused mentoring sessions. For the students, the hands-on approach of the Futurelab, paired with the potential and exposure of the Ars Electronica ecosystem, is a unique opportunity to develop their ideas and skills; for us Futurelab researchers, the dialogue…
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Coral Bike
NHM on tour
The Coral Bike is a mobile workshop by the Natural History Museum Vienna that focuses on the importance of and threats to marine forests. The e-bike makes stops in urban parks, where it becomes a mobile learning space for 5th to 8th grade classes: with hands-on science.
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missimo
In 2018, the Kaiserschild Stiftung, a charitable private foundation, approached the Ars Electronica Futurelab to support the realization of their goal to offer primary school children in rural areas of Austria a hands-on learning experience on STE(A)M topics – science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. Their idea of developing a mobile learning and dissemination concept…
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Bridge 2040
Bridge 2040 is a card game in which children and senior citizens develop future narratives together, building a bridge between the generations. It is one of the two winning projects of the Ars Electronica Futurelab 2023 internal ideas competition Ideas Expedition. Since its release at the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, it has been used not…
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Media Spaces & Generative Art
This year marks the 10th anniversary of FH Hagenberg students working together with the Ars Electronica Futurelab on semester projects in which they creatively explore their approaches to interactive and generative arts. Uniquely, these projects are realized in media spaces like the Deep Space 8K that present a very special challenge in themselves.
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Artistic Journalism
Artistic journalism is the act of creating a social dialogue through artistic expression, research, exploration, and action. To engage students in this method, Ars Electronica Futurelab co-director Hideaki Ogawa has been teaching “Artistic Journalism” online courses at Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus).
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Artistic Journalism
Keio University SFC Online Course 2022
Ars Electronica Futurelab and Keio University SFC have jointly established an online lecture named “Artistic Journalism” as a literacy for the futures, starting in 2020. Futurelab’s director, Hideaki Ogawa, was invited to teach the experimental class from the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria.
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Future Mobility Lounge
Future Mobility Lounge was a talk and workshop event on future mobility and sustainability, jointly organized by Hyundai Mobility Japan, which is Hyundai Motor Company’s Japanese subsidiary, and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It was held on October 28 and 29, 2022, at the Hyundai Customer Experience Center in Yokohama, Japan, in a unique event format that…
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Re-imagining the mobility of the future
Ars Electronica Futurelab x BMW x SUPERSENSE
The project Re-imagining the mobility of the future is a collaborative project between BMW Group Design, SUPERSENSE and the Ars Electronica Futurelab, supported by sociologist Bernhard Böhm. It was conducted as a workshop format under the title “Experience Lab Project” as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2022 to encourage visitors to think about what…
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Welcome to Planet B
A children’s pop-up book about climate change
Entirely analog and easy to grasp even for little hands: the new Deep Space 8K application Welcome to Planet B was brought to a child-friendly format for 8- to 12-year-olds in 2022 as part of the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s creative contest Ideas Expedition. The interactive pop-up book is designed to get kids excited about climate…