Martin Reinhart

This lecture series is primarily aimed at first-year students and provides an introduction to the interplay between art and science. On the basis of numerous historical case studies, different aspects of this very broad field are illuminated and put up for discussion.   2025W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Eva Maria Stadler

Mit der Fotostrecke ‚Ricerca della commodita in una poltrona scomoda‘ (Auf der Suche nach Bequemlichkeit in einem unbequemen Sessel) aus dem Jahr 1944 provoziert der italienische Designer, Architekt, Künstler und Pädagoge Bruno Munari verschiedene Formen von Fehlverhalten. Er weigert sich seine Körperhaltung der Form des Sessels anzupassen und schlägt eine Reihe von Alternativen vor, wie man mit der gegebenen Form… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Johanna Schindler

2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Hermann Fankhauser

Basic information about founding a fashion label, sales, sales strategy, contemporary use of social media Comparsion of various labels and their use of social media Support programs beginner/advanced sustainability The lecture will be accompanied by guest speakers/ Dates will be announced 2025W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Markus Pires Mata

The lecture Fashion-Image is dealing with contemporary image production. Focus is a conceptual, research-based approach, dealing with modern and contemporary forms of presentations of fashion in the fields of design, art, media and popular culture. Main topics: Fashion + Art Art in Fashion / Fashion in Art An introcuction from Modernism to conceptual fashion to post-internet celebrity fashion and digital… 2025W, Proseminar, 3.0 ECTS

Markus Pires Mata

This lecture deals with different forms of communication in the context of fashion.From the planning and realisation of events and presentations to the development of tools like line- or ordersheets, moodboards, lookbooks and brand identity - with special focus on content creation and social media. This term - the focus is on branding. 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 3.0 ECTS

Monica Titton

The thesis complements or strengthens the students' individual design philosophy and demonstrates their ability to integrate theory and design research with their own artistic perspective. The thesis asks students to deepen their knowledge in their area of interest and to engage with scientific research and the relevant theoretical discourses in their area of interest. The topic of the thesis will… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Claudia Reifberger

To create contemporary fashion "Mode – Tools“ deals with fundamental terms and techniques of the design process. Focus of this lecture is inspiration, finding ideas, innovation and composition as well as the whole creative process. Based on various tasks students learn to develop and realize their ideas individually as well as in different roles. Mode Tools teaches competences and tools… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Claudia Reifberger

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Monica Titton

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Monica Titton

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Monica Titton

The lecture traces the social and cultural histories of fashion from the early 20th century to the present, and provides an overview over the historical significance of fashion in relation to cultural and social processes. This lecture aims to develop a broad understanding of the historical development of fashion and explores the values, ideas and aesthetic concepts underpinning historical and… 2025W, Vorlesungen, 2.0 ECTS

Matthias Pfeffer

training in basic crafting skills in comparison of different materials and introduction in handling of simple power tools goal is to be able to use autonomously tools and machinery in a proper and harmless way according to modelbuilding relevancy This course is cumpulsory for DI-ID2 students to be allowed to work in the area and with the equipment of DI-ID"… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 3.0 ECTS

Matthias Pfeffer

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 3.0 ECTS

Martin Sulzbacher

This course is characterized by a project based approach and individual portfolio projects. Students base their development of relevant graphic content on their individual projects, their own work on collections in the ZKF. The focus is on the production of conceptual- illustrative approaches, which, in combination with components from areas of technical drawing result in a harmonious whole on the… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Sulzbacher

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Sulzbacher

The content of this course is a presentation- oriented production of fashion drawings that make it possible to communicate silhouettes, details and concepts in the best possible way. The focus is on developing one's own artistic signature, a handwriting that can convey ideas clearly and understandably and that ultimately can be used as a means of communicating with the various… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Sulzbacher

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

2025W, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Werner Van Hoeydonck

Morphology of the visual arts (S05192, VU, 2025 S) Protagonists in architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing, graphics, photography, new media and arts and crafts have developed their art using personal design principles - between chaos and symmetry - from basic forms, archetypes, patterns, grids, structures and often invisible systems of proportion. The focus of this course is on learning, recognizing, naming… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Stefan Zinell

The course is aimed at first-year students of industrial design. General questions about design and design studies are discussed to introduce students to relevant skills and terminology. Practical questions about starting university are also addressed. The aim of the course is to explore the very different backgrounds of our first-year students in order to help them focus their future studies.… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Birgit Hertel

The basics of (graphic) animation as well as advanced techniques are taught. Content:Moving typo, characters, logo and icon animation, expressions, render settings and web publication with Lottie or GIF, various plugins and, if we have time, frame by frame in PS and combination with AE. In the lecture we will work on practice examples and self-created animations. Prerequisite:A visited basics… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Haspinger

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 1.0 ECTS

Jeung Guy Song

Einführung Moulage, Gerade Rock, Tellerrock, Bluse mit verschiedene Abnäher, Kleid mit verschiedene Abnäher, Ärmel, verschiedene Kragen, Korsage, verschiedene Jacken auf der Puppe modellieren und Schnitt abnehmen. Ziel: Diese Lehrveranstaltung handelt von einem Dialog zwischen einem Künstler und einem Techniker. Es veranschaulicht den Design-Prozess und umfasst Skizze und Schnittmusterentwicklung . Moulage ist eine dreidimensionale Konstruktion und Produktionstechnik, die ein erhebliches Maß… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jeung Guy Song

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Teresa Mitterlehner-Marchesani

2026S, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Alister Mazzotti

Applied Neurology meets Neurodiversity "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken!" Do you know this saying? *** A spot has become available in this course. Email me if you would like to sign up!*** This course will introduce participants to their individual movement preferences and motivational drivers, how these connect to brain functions, and how they reflect in human personality.… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 1.0 ECTS

Sara de Santis

This course explores the integration of movement and dramaturgy in media arts, focusing on what it means to have a body as an artist. Through practice-based exercises, we’ll enhance awareness and performative skills. We will explore dramaturgy and mise en scène as tools to shape spatial, temporal, and relational dynamics in the field of performance.Conceptualization is central, with diffraction guiding… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 1.0 ECTS

Martin Kusch

2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Unfried

In this lecture students should develop an understanding for the high end production of garments and learn the required techniques. You will sew a shirt according to a specified pattern. Differences in quality are being examined. Further on, the use of the sewing machinery as plain sewer, overlock, etc. will be explained. Students are practicing technical terms to communicate within… 2025W, Übungen, 1.5 ECTS

Daniela Rampetsreiter

This lecture is about an understandig for high quality garments wherefore high quality finishing techniques are taught. Technical samples of different finishing techniques will be made (respectively explained in online teaching courses and digital presentations.) Focus: Finishing of Trousers, Machines: Industrial Sewing Machines, Overlock & Felled Seam Machines, ... The usage of different Industrial Sewing Machines like Highspeed Lockstick machines,… 2026S, Übungen, 1.5 ECTS

Andrea Unfried

In this lecture, the production of a handmade jacket is compared with the production of a rationally (industrially) manufactured jacket. You will develop an understanding how to connect an underconstruction with the fabric to gain a 3 demensional form. You will learn original techniques and their translation to industrial made suit jackets. Technical tests are being made for the various… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Unfried

2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jan Völker

Marx‘ Auseinandersetzung mit der politischen Ökonomie ist auf den ersten Blick wesentlich an dem klassischen Verhältnis von Natur und Kultur ausgerichtet. Mit der Industrialisierung beginnt die Möglichkeit, die Arbeitskraft des Menschen auszubeuten und aus ihr Mehrwert abzuschöpfen und Kapital zu akkumulieren. Fragen der Natur scheinen keine hervorragende Rolle zu spielen. Auf den zweiten Blick jedoch zeigt sich die Analyse des… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Judith P Fischer

The nature study and constructive drawing form the basis for every form of pictorial representation - be it a first draft, a casual sketch, a picture composition based on ordering principles or an abstract drawing. As in all courses on the subject of nude drawing, the human figure (with positioning in the nude room) is the focus of individual interpretations… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Ramona Heinlein

Professionalisation in the art world is an ambivalent matter. Creating visibility for one's own work and gaining access to resources through relationships – for example with exhibition venues, galleries or funding institutions – is essential in order to realise projects, enter into an exchange with the public and ultimately make a living from one's own art. At the same time,… 2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Echo Can Luo

Ecological crises demand urgent reflection and decisive action to reset humanity's role within more-than-human communities. This seminar builds on multispecies ethics and new animism to explore the complex relationships between humans, nonhuman life, and technology—examining how ecological awareness and storytelling evolve in our digital world. Focusing on the intersections of digital technology, ecological imagination, and multispecies perception, the seminar critically… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Wolfgang Fiel

2026S, artistic Seminar, 1.0 ECTS

Klaus Speidel

New Narratives! How to make Art when the World is Burning? What role can art play in times of crises? How can artists still claim to be relevant to systems when these systems are collapsing? How can art rise to the current challenges? How can artists reimagine how we see, think, feel, and act? Which new narratives realized through art,… 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Julia Secklehner

The seminar explores the roles and functions of rural locations in the art history of Central Europe in the early twentieth century. We will revisit assumptions that modern art and visual culture were at home in the urban space and explore the role of the countryside as an agent of renewal and emancipation By analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Leonard Weydemann

The course provides an introduction to the 3D software BLENDER. Topics include: * modelling* skeletons* skinning* animation* texturing* compositing* lights & rendering   2025W/2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Leonard Weydemann

This course, building on the foundation established in Objektdarstellung am Computer 1 , is designed for students seeking to deepen their understanding of 3D computer graphics. We will utilize Blender and explore various other (primarily) free and open-source software and tools. While attendance at the previous lecture is highly recommended, it is not mandatory. However, participants should have prior experience… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Gerald Grestenberger

DISPLAY! What do you like to show each other? What do you like others to have seen? In public? In private? Do tattoos belong to the public or the private sphere? What about your voice? Or your gaze? Where are the `borders´ of the internet, the limits of chatGPT, the borders of `emotion´, The borders of `body´ ? ... Let's… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Gerald Grestenberger

2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Isabel Kranz

Stuart Hall (1932–2014) and bell hooks (1952–2021) are two of the most important theorists of culture. In this Guided Reading Course, we will venture together into the broad range of topics these writers engaged with, from race, gender and class to questions of home and belonging, teaching as well as the importance of writing and literature (autobiography in particular). Hall… 2025W/2026S, Konversatorium, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Grödl

The objective of the lecture is to collectively develop fundamental theories, principles and approaches for understanding various aspects of the complex relationship between us and our natural environment. By means of examples, discussion and practical exercises in the form of homework assignments the following topics will be developed: • The term "Nature"• Fundametals of environmental physics: Matter, Force and Energy•… 2025W, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Jakob Schillinger

Kunstwelt und Kunstwissenschaft bemühen sich seit einigen Jahren intensiv um Anschlussfähigkeit an ökologische Diskurse. Was aber bedeutet es, Kunst ökologisch zu denken? Das Seminar beschäftigt sich mit unterschiedlichen Ansätzen aus Kunst, Kunstwissenschaft, Philosophie, Medienwissenschaft und anderen Disziplinen, beispielsweise von Eric de Bruyn, Dipesh Chakrabarty, T. J. Demos, Malcolm Ferdinand, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Donna Haraway, Eva Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Caroline Jones,… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Viktoria Luisa Metschl

"Reading seminar" on fundamental theories concerning the relationship between fascism, colonialism, and liberalism. We will focus on texts by Claudia Jones, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Domenico Losurdo, and George L. Jackson. We will not only critically explore what, how and who we read but also how these ideas relate to our present historical moment and our subjective-collective position inside systems… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Caroline Heider

Every image needs a body a carrier to circulate. We will look at what image carriers exist and which may be appropriate for your own photographic project. This can range from handling photographs on a screen to digital pigment printing on paper. Pigment printing, laminating techniques by hand, and developing your own displays for photography will be hands-on. As an… 2026S, Vorlesung und Übungen, 2.0 ECTS

Peter Kozek

OPEN STAGE is a format that has been offering all interested students and teachers at the University of Applied Arts Vienna an open platform for several years now, allowing them to stage performances in a simple setting (lighting, sound, space, etc.). Motto: ‘It's simple: come by, choose a time slot and perform! Of course, you can also just watch. Live… 2025W/2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS