Miryam Schellbach

Die Textwerkstatt richtet sich an Studierende, die im Rahmen ihrer Masterarbeit an einem literarischen Prosaprojekt arbeiten. Das Seminar bietet einen strukturierten Raum für konzentrierte Textarbeit, kollegiales Feedback und tiefgende Reflexion auch über die eigene Schreibentscheidungen.Im Zentrum des Blockseminars steht die gemeinsame Diskussion eines selbst verfassten Textauszugs (Roman, Kurzprosa) in Verbindung mit einem einem begleitenden Exposé. Ziel ist es, das eigene… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 6.0 ECTS

Yevgeniy Breyger

Eine klassische Werkstatt: Studierende bringen ihre Gedichte mit. Die Gedichte werden in der Gruppe besprochen und lektoriert. Gemeinsam schärfen wir unseren Blick auf die Dinge, die ein Gedicht gelingen lassen. Immer unter der Voraussetzung, den Weg, den die Gedichte jeweils gehen wollen möglichst genau abzustecken und radikal zu Ende zu denken. Im Rahmen des Seminars können die Masterabschlussprojekte Lyrik vorbereitet… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 6.0 ECTS

Olga Grjasnowa

In dieser Werkstatt widmen wir uns den Masterprojekten der Studierenden. Zudem besprechen wir exemplarisch Lyrikbände und Poetiken, sprechen mit Lektor*innen und Autor*innen.  2026S, artistic Seminar, 6.0 ECTS

Thomas Köck

Let's Do Drama, Baby! Our writing workshop is taking place this year in cooperation with the Ott Acting School and the Volkstheater Vienna. In the first session, we'll work together on your texts, text ideas, sketches, plays, etc. Each participant needs a piece they'd like to work on, which we'll discuss and use to develop our dramaturgical/writing skills. I'm also… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 6.0 ECTS

Daniel Richter

Textwerkstatt III (Drama) Studierende, die an einem dramatischen Text arbeiten, sind eingeladen, ihre Textstände in einer Textwerkstatt vorzustellen. Ziel ist es, gemeinsam mit den Studierenden des Seminars die Texte zu lesen, zu diskutieren und konstruktives Feedback zu geben. Dabei soll an konkreten Problemlösungen gearbeitet werden, um die Texte weiterzuentwickeln und die Fertigstellung zu unterstützen. In der Werkstatt steht die Reflexion… 2025W, artistic Seminar, 6.0 ECTS

Alexi Kukuljevic

The bourgeois is the subject of modernity. As Immanuel Wallerstein puts it: “Hero for some, villain for others, the inspiration or lure for most, he has been the shaper of the present and the destroyer of the past.” Initially designating the inhabitant of the “bourg” (an urban area), the bourgeois designated a new social type, a new class, “free” from… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Alexi Kukuljevic

“The correct question regarding the horrors committed in the camps, therefore, is not the question that asks hypocritically how it could have been possible to commit such atrocious horrors against other human beings; it would be more honest, and above all the more useful, to investigate carefully how—that is, thanks to what juridical procedures and political devices—human being could have… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Pieter Ampe

Do you freeze or flourish when someone would push you on a stage and say do something. What if you 'd consider the stage is everywhere ? What is our ability to perform in any given circumstance both physical and imaginary ? The lake, the mountain or the forest are places I relate to as spaces of relaxation, rather the… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Felix Koberstein

“The recording is the foundation of everything that follows,” writes Adam Lowe in the introduction to the anthology The Aura in the Age of Digital Materiality – Rethinking Preservation in the Shadow of an Uncertain Future (Lowe 2020:15), referring to the production processes of digital reproduction methods. In recent years, a multitude of applications have emerged as a result of… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Jorit Aust

General topic: Large format photography with the view camera and the classic negative formats 4x5 and 8x10inch. A dialog about the meaning and justification of analog technology in the age of AI in artistic work with photography is an increasingly important aspect of teaching. This course builds on the students' basic knowledge of camera technology, light metering and negative development.… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Andrea Maria Dusl

I - Sprache und Theater I Mittwoch 18. März 2026, 10h - 14h II - Theater und Sprache II Mittwoch 25. März 2026, 10h - 14h III -Theater ist Sprache III Mittwoch 22. April 2026, 10h - 14h In den Lehreinheiten werden wir uns erst entlang eines Themas mit den Schnittstellen zwischen Sprache und Theater sowie Text und Erkenntnisproduktion beschäftigen,… 2025W/2026S, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Hannah Lioba Egenolf

Theatre as social practiceAesthetic strategies between performance, politics and the public sphere for contemporary theatre This course examines theatre as a cultural practice in the context of social, political and economic challenges and explores the question of what role theatre and the performing arts in general still play – and could play – in a rapidly changing society. The focus… 2025W/2026S, Lecture, 1.0 ECTS

2025W/2026S, Workshop, 8.0 ECTS

Anna Nagele

Designing Plural Futures: Tools, Strategies, and Critical Perspectives Design is often seen as a forward-looking discipline—imagining what’s next and shaping innovation. In the context of global crises such as climate change, political polarisation, and rising inequality, this proseminar invites students to critically examine whose futures are being envisioned and designed, and whose are marginalised in the process. We explore design’s… 2025W, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Ufaq Inaam

Unlearning Euro-America: Designs from Other Worlds This seminar rethinks design history and theory through the deliberate unlearning of Euro-American modernity as the default frame of reference.It interrogates how canonical historiographies have constructed 'design' as an industrial, Western project while marginalizing vernacular practices, craft epistemologies, regenerative systems, and alternative material cultures.Positioning design history as a contested and geopolitically entangled field, the… 2026S, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Theresia Prammer

„Worüber man nicht sprechen kann…“ Das Unaussprechliche in der Literatur "It is difficult to / talk when you have / something to say" John Cage Das Motiv des Unaussprechlichen hat in der Literatur und Rhetorik eine lange Tradition. Anders als in der Praxis des Zen, wo die Erfahrung von Einheit und Erleuchtung der wörtlichen Bestätigung nicht bedarf, sucht literarisches Sprechen… 2026S, scientific seminar, 5.0 ECTS

Daniel Schreiber

Nonfiktionales Erzählen in unsicheren Zeiten Welche Antworten kann nonfktionales Erzählen in Zeiten der Unsicherheit bieten? Wie kann darin eine gelungene Verbindung zwischen persönlichen und gesellschaftlichen Belangen entstehen? Wieviel Relevanz kann es überhaupt noch entfalten? Anhand von nonfiktionalen, persönlichen Erzähltexten aus der Literaturgeschichte und aus zeitgenössischen Diskursen werden in diesem Seminar performative Strategien der Sinnstiftung untersucht, die nur in der Perspektive… 2025W, scientific seminar, 5.0 ECTS

Anna Margareta Spohn

Die Lehrveranstaltung Theorien der Kunst setzt in diesem Semester unter dem Titel Schwerpunkt Gravitation – Lösen, Fallen und Schweben den Fokus auf Begriffe von ‚Kraft‘, ‚Schwerkraft‘ und ‚Gravitation‘. Künstlerischen Praktiken ist ein Umgang mit dem Prinzip der Schwerkraft inhärent. Beispielsweise finden in raumbezogenen oder performativen Arbeiten das Fallen und Schweben, Implosion oder Explosion (als physikalische Kategorien) Eingang. Darüber hinaus ist… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Anna Margareta Spohn

Ein Begriff von Kunst ist keineswegs selbstverständlich oder unabänderlich. Die Idee der Kunst ist an die spezifischen historischen und kulturellen Bedingungen gebunden und artikuliert sich beispielsweise in Relation zu den jeweiligen Vorstellungen von "Gesellschaft", "Subjekt", "Geschichte" oder "Politik". Thema des Seminars sind die unterschiedlichen Wege, um den Problemzusammenhängen eines Begriffs von Kunst zu begegnen. Wir werden (einführend) die Fragen und… 2026S, Introductory Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Fatima Fay Kastner

How do time-based media systems influence our society? To answer this question, we will take a look back into the past of digital media in this seminar. A schematic overview of the key media innovations in the history of human civilization should help us critically analyze and shape current and potential future social changes. In doing so, we will not… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 1.0 ECTS

Daniela Pisoiu

This seminar discusses political violence, radicalisation and conflict as dynamic, time-dependent processes along core analytical dimensions including the relationship between agency and structure, the role of context, ideology and meaning formation, as well as culture, gender, and technology. The course examines conflict dynamics across micro-, meso-, and macro-levels, path dependence, escalation spirals, and nonlinear dynamics. Further sessions address early-warning and… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 3.0 ECTS

Maximilian Muhr

The polycrisis we are currently facing is one of the most pressing challenges in history. Increasing international recognition of these circumstances has given rise to the notion of sustainability and the concept of sustainable development, which aims to find a balance between ecological integrity, social justice and economic prosperity. However, the dominant sustainability discourse is often criticized for retention of… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Miya Yoshida

The course examines the notions of research, knowledge and knowledge-making in the framework of artistic research. Writing is understood in the context of PhD in Art Program as a vital practice for reflecting on one’s own thinking and artistic processes. It is both a method of discovering one’s voice and a means of shaping and articulating thoughts in ways that… 2025W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Miya Yoshida

The course examines the notions of research, knowledge and knowledge-making in the framework of artistic research. Writing is understood as a vital practice for reflecting on one’s own thinking, artistic processes and practices in the context of PhD in Art Program. It functions both as a method for discovering an individual voice and as means of shaping and articulating thoughts… 2026S, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Christina Schraml

Reading the City Against the Grain Social Design Theory Course | Winter Semester 2025/26 with Christina Schraml | christina.schraml@uni-ak.ac.at The city is more than its buildings. It is a palimpsest, a living archive of built structures, routines, and social relations. Beneath its visible surface lie hidden layers – everyday practices, memories, forgotten futures that shape urban life. From grand visions… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Arch 1 presents a survey of architectural theory from around 1970ies to this day, with an emphasis on contemporary developments since the nineties. The course will focus on questions of disciplinarity, form, mediums and media, as well as political, environmental and technological issues facing architecture today. In order to trace the transformation of thought, we will discuss each… 2025W, Lecture and Discussion, 2.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Theory of Architecture 2 will focus on the agency of architecture and the role of the architect as producer. How is the discipline of architecture constructed and reconstructed as architects address what is cnsidred to be outside the domain of architecture?  What is the role of the architectural imagination confronting contemporary issues and social problems?  2026S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Tulay Atak

Ongoing group and individual discussions for developing the students' individual diploma projects in architecture with a focus on architectural theory.  2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Andrea Börner

WASTELANDS The course investigates the diverse connotations and contradictory relations of wastelands to living spaces. In lecture, reading and seminar, and by means of individual narrations, we adopt all sorts of possible, and maybe impossible, vantage points of exploration demonstrated by actual situations the world currently produces. 2026S, scientific seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Miriam Stoney

In this course we will take the city of Vienna as a case study with which to observe, examine and reflect the multi-faceted relationships between built environments and the artistic practices housed in and by them. This term, the focus will be on infrastructures and architectures of water in Vienna. Visiting buildings, institutions, exhibitions, collections and archives, we will examine… 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Alexander Martinz

Die LV bietet eine breit gefächerte Einführung in die Bereiche Ton, Klang und akustische Gestaltung. Dies beinhaltet technische Grundbegriffe und musiktheoretische Grundlagen, historisches Wissen, sowie eine Einführung ins Transmediale Kunst Tonstudio. Die LV wird voraussichtlich in Kombination mit dem Program Ableton abgehalten.  2025W, artistic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Alexander Martinz

Die LV bietet Raum zur Entwicklung von von Stücken, für das von der Klasse für Transmediale Kunst entwickelte Mittwochsprogramm der Wiener Festwochen am Badeschiff. Hierzu wird es eine Vertiefung der Arbeit mit dem Programm Ableton, sowie eine Reihe von Workshops geben. Der Fokus wird dieses Semester auf den konzeptionellen Aspekten der Stücke und experimentellen Techniken liegen. Es ist geplant die… 2026S, artistic Seminar, 3.0 ECTS

Ludwig List

'Inequality in contemporary capitalism' One of the most important topics in economics is economic inequality. Over the past 50 years, the gap between the poorest and the richest on our planet has been ever-widening. Poverty, but also wealth, endangers the cohesion of society. Concentration of wealth implies a concentration of power in many forms, and the associated opportunities to undermine… 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Boris Buden

Thinking Fascism There is again much talk about fascism today. The word itself is strong but its meaning seems more elusive than ever before. Can we still make sense of it? Yes we can indeed, but not within one sinlge discipline of knowledge. Only a genuinely crossdisciplinary approach makes it possible to grasp the meaning of a phenomenon such as… 2025W/2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Elisabeth Oberzaucher

In this class we will develop a basic understanding of the evolutionary foundations of human behavior. The challenges arising from urban life will be discussed. We will identify characteristics in urban environments that either improve or worsen the living conditions of humans. We will learn how art can contribute to improving cities. Based on the theoretical knowledge we will develop… 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Tanja Traxler

The Physics of Time-Travel In physics, light possesses a double nature: it is both a necessary requisite for scientific inquiry as well as an object of research itself. Historically, most controversial theories on light have been presented, famously resulting in the development of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century. According to quantum theory, light exhibits a wave-particle duality, which… 2025W, scientific seminar, 2.0 ECTS

Florian Medicus

Introduction into 'Structural Design' as an essential aspect of materialization in general, and fundamental  application within Industrial Design. 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

This course takes place in conjunction with the symposium trans*poetics, curated by Nanna Heidenreich, Eddie van Gemmern & Franz Thalmair, a cooperation between Angewandte / dept. Transcultural Studies and mumok. https://www.mumok.at/en/calendar/symposium-transpoetics The contributions of the symposium are the lectures for this course, including theory presentations, readings and discussions. An introductory meeting will take place before the symposium, followed by a… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 2.0 ECTS

Martin Reinhart

This course is primarily aimed at students of the Art & Science Department and engages with this year’s annual theme “Memory.” The phenomenon will be explored through biological, philosophical, cultural, and technological lenses. Rather than treating memory as a static archive, the course approaches it as a dynamic, constructed, and often contested process — one that shapes identity, knowledge, and… 2026S, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 4.0 ECTS

Anne Faucheret

This course is research-based, project-based, site-specific and collaborative. It will be co-taught by Anne Faucheret and Thomas Geiger. For administrative purposes, it is necessary to register for both LVs with their respective course numbers S05664 (Thomas Geiger) + S05663 (Anne Faucheret) It will take place exclusively in RoomingInn in Hirschstetten, a social hub located in a former kindergarten, which will… 2026S, Project Work, 5.0 ECTS

Thomas Geiger

This course is research-based, project-based, site-specific, and collaborative, and will be co-taught by Anne Faucheret and Thomas Geiger. For administrative purposes, it is necessary to register for both LVs with their respective course numbers: S05664 (Thomas Geiger) + S05663 (Anne Faucheret) It will take place exclusively in RoomingInn in Hirschstetten, a social hub located in a former kindergarten, which will… 2026S, Project Work, 5.0 ECTS

Martin Reinhart

This course is primarily aimed at students of the Art & Science Department and engages with this year’s annual theme “Memory.” The phenomenon will be explored through biological, philosophical, cultural, and technological lenses. Rather than treating memory as a static archive, the course approaches it as a dynamic, constructed, and often contested process — one that shapes identity, knowledge, and… 2025W, Lecture with Practical Exercises, 6.0 ECTS

Felix Koberstein

*to receive the full amount of ECTS, please registere here too: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05749/Since their creation, museums and their institutional structures have been in a constant state of change. As social institutions, they are also affected by political reforms, technical innovations, economic changes and the climate crisis. Their significance and function are repeatedly and somewhat slowly readjusted in relation to these transformation… 2025W, lecture series, 1.0 ECTS

Johanna Schindler

*to receive the full amount of ECTS, please registere here too: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2025W/S05748/Since their creation, museums and their institutional structures have been in a constant state of change. As social institutions, they are also affected by political reforms, technical innovations, economic changes and the climate crisis. Their significance and function are repeatedly and somewhat slowly readjusted in relation to these transformation… 2025W, lecture series, 1.0 ECTS

Julia Boog-Kaminski

Around 1900, two sciences emerged that sought to discover what makes humans human. While ethnology devoted itself to the diversity of cultural manifestations, psychoanalysis attempted to explore the fundamental workings of the soul. These sciences often contradicted each other: one focused on differences, while the other argued primarily on the basis of similarities. Nevertheless, Sigmund Freud's work Totem and Taboo… 2025W, Introductory Seminar, 1.5 ECTS

Alexander Draxl

Around 1900, two sciences emerged that sought to discover what makes humans human. While ethnology devoted itself to the diversity of cultural manifestations, psychoanalysis attempted to explore the fundamental workings of the soul. These sciences often contradicted each other: one focused on differences, while the other argued primarily on the basis of similarities. Nevertheless, Sigmund Freud's work Totem and Taboo… 2025W, Introductory Seminar, 1.5 ECTS

Nanna Heidenreich

Since this course will be in German language please see the description in German language. 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Stephanie Klaura

This course provides a hands-on introduction to tufting as a contemporary textile and design practice. Students develop tufting-based works at the intersection of yarn, surface, and form. Based on sketches, typographic references, or individual concepts, students create textile surfaces and relief-like works. By varying yarns, colors, densities, and textures, individual visual and tactile results emerge. Fundamental technical skills such as… 2026S, Workshop, 2.0 ECTS

Paulus Dreibholz

The seminar introduces the participants each term to different areas of typography and its related disciplines. Through a variety of briefs and projects, the seminar offers the opportunity to accumulate highly specific skills as well as process general and conceptual questions in the field of communication design. 2025W, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS

Tania Raposo

In between the lines: read, write, relate, re-write, re-read In different languages, the verb read is not only applied to the act of reading a text; it can also be used to mean reading a room, reading a situation, mind-reading, or reading between the lines. We can read non-tangible abstract spaces. In this workshop, we will start by reading a… 2026S, Workshop, 1.0 ECTS