Kerstin Blätterbinder
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Pillars of Democracy
Interactive Installation at Vienna’s Parliament
Pillars of Democracy is a playful interactive installation aimed to increase civic participation and enhance awareness of the importance of democracy. The artistic intervention on the pillars of the Parliament building in Vienna invited people to express themselves, reflect, and take a stand on democracy. The goal was to establish an emotional and personal connection…
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Open Futurelab 2024
Shaping HOPE @ Ars Electronica Festival
We at the Ars Electronica Futurelab understand HOPE – motto of the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 – as a process that can be shaped through art and active participation. We therefore invited everyone to shape HOPE together: from September 4 to 8, 2024, at the Open Futurelab in POSTCITY at the Ars Electronica Festival.
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Collective Transformation Lab
Engaging Strategies for Social Challenges
“Think slow, act fast” is the mantra of the Collective Transformation Lab – an enlightening self-reflection platform established as a collaboration between tech start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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NeXus Open Research
Extended Reality and the Future of Print
NeXus Open Research explores future Extended Reality (XR) technologies, using scenario-based design to dive into the future of print. It envisions applications through detailed narratives, focusing on XR technologies at the nexus of co-creation.
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Buzz Swatters
Playful Pandemic Prevention
Buzzing noises, an inconspicuous window, tropical humidity and the impression of being chased: Buzz Swatters: Playful Pandemic Prevention was designed to address the collective action problem of infectious diseases in an innovative and playful way. It is the second collaborative project of the Collective Transformation Lab between AI start-up Godot and the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Mariendom digital
Zooming In on Cultural Heritage
The New Cathedral (Mariendom) in Linz celebrated its centenary in 2024 with a large-scale digitization project and a new visitor center including a multimedia exhibition. Here, digitally enhanced showcases for sacred objects and gigapixel images of the cathedral windows await visitors, who can even populate the cathedral digitally with their portraits.
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FOUNDING LAB Fall Term
New Formats for Future Universities
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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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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Open Futurelab 2023
Reaching out to one another, spreading hope in trying times and literally grasping technology as a social tool for the futures: this is what the Open Futurelab as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023, from September 6 to 10, was all about. In POSTCITY and Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center, the…
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Deep Space 8K EVOLUTION
Three visually stunning dimensions, over 50 million pixels of resolution, and a high-performance tracking system make Ars Electronica’s Deep Space 8K one of the world’s most exciting digital experience spaces – developed, built, and continuously maintained by the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
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Welcome to Planet B
E-vehicle or public transport? Nuclear power or renewable energy? Lab meat or vegan diet? Urban living or shared rural home? The climate crisis currently challenges us with questions to which there are no easy answers. Alternative concepts await important decisions, and every action we take today has implications far into the future. Wouldn’t it be…
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Futurelab Day 2022
Creative Resilience for a Planet B
In 2022, the Ars Electronica Futurelab once again organized a special “Open Futurelab” program for the general public during the Ars Electronica Festival: The Futurelab Day on September 8, featuring high-level discussions, presentations of the lab’s latest projects, a wide variety of workshops and electrifying artistic performances. The day was themed “Creative Resilience for a…