culture

  • On the trail of springs

    • KLAR! Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal
    • Ellensohn Lukas
    • Boden 34 - 6731 Sonntag
    • +43 5554 20010
    • Topic: Plants, Animals, Weather, Land use, Culture, Geology, Water
    • https://www.grosseswalsertal.at/de/Klima_und_Energie/Klimawandel-_Anpassungsmodellregion/Quellenkartierung
    • Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Location: Vorarlberg, a local area
    Spring habitats in the Großes Walsertal Biosphere ReserveIn view of increasing extreme weather events, including periods of drought and consequent water shortages, the protection and knowledge of springs in the Großes Walsertal Biosphere Reserve is becoming increasingly important. In addition to their essential role in water supply, springs are often small but very important habitats for endangered organisms. The pressure to utilise and develop existing springs has increased significantly due...

  • Open Reassembly

    • Institut für Computergraphik und Wissensvisualisierung, Technische Universität Graz
    • Reinhold Preiner
    • Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz
    • +43 316 873 - 5418
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://openreassembly.cgv.tugraz.at/
    • Activity: Online game, rating
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Many archaeological artifacts today are only preserved in fragments. Reassembling these parts into their original form is therefore an important but challenging task for archaeology. Computer-assisted methods can facilitate this task or even partially solve it in some cases. However, due to the usually poor preservation of these artifacts and their potential incompleteness, reliable fully automatic reassembly is rarely possible in practice.The goal of the Open Reassembly project is to...

  • City Layers

    • TU Wien
    • Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
    • Paniglgasse 16 1040 Wien
    • +43 1 58801 - 264 34
    • Topic: Health, Politics, Culture
    • https://citylayers.visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/
    • Activity: Online game, photography, writing, observing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Citizen Mapping as a Practice of City-MakingThe project “City Layers: Citizen Mapping as a Practice of City-Making”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) introduces a contemporary framework for city-mapping which centres on citizen experience of urban space as an integrative way to contribute to more egalitarian city design. Within the frame of the Citizen Science Award 2023, the City Layers app has been developed in collaboration with students, citizens and researchers all interested in...

  • Stories of Post-extractive F*utures

    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Karin Reisinger
    • Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Wien
    • Topic: History, Politics, Land use, Culture, Gender, Living together
    • https://www.mountains-of-ore.org/de/pef/practice/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Location: a local area
    The shrinking town of Eisenerz lies at the foot of the Erzberg mountain, Austria’s largest and best-known site of extraction of iron ore. The post-industrial town is experiencing a rural exodus, which concerns women in particular. The spatial practices of mining areas have been under-researched using inclusive methods. Mining is predominantly narrated in male, heroic narratives, while counter-narratives of repair, care, reproduction and maintenance are mostly overlooked. Within this complex...

  • Viennese playbills 1930-1939

    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Alexandra Egger
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/theaterzettel/
    • Activity: identifying
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Viennese playbills 1930-1939" is about the metadata capture of the playbills from the holdings of the Vienna City Library from this period. Previously only organized by theater and not indexed individually, during the project these valuable historical sources will become recorded individually and thus discoverable for all. The playbills provide insights into an initially internationally acclaimed and lively Viennese theater world, which was...

  • Writing history: Letters 1920–1934

    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Alexandra Egger
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1920-1934/
    • Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, a local area, Styria
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1920-1934" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • Salon of Open Secrets

    • Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
    • Stefanie Wuschitz and Patrícia J. Reis
    • Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien
    • 06601412419
    • Topic: Media, Culture, Waste, Gender, Living together
    • http://www.salonofopensecrets.at/
    • Activity: Online game, discussing, experimenting
    • Location: Vienna
    It is an open secret that hardware operating on our smart devices contains not only plastic, but also conflict materials such as tungsten, tin, tantulum and gold. Technology is therefore not neutral. These resources are mined in conflict regions, assembled to electric circuits under harmful labour conditions and mostly ending up in contaminating landfills. This pollution is best understood as an enactment of ongoing colonial relations to Land. Arts-based research methods seize artistic...

  • Writing History: Letters 1914-1919

    • Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
    • Alexandra Egger
    • Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
    • +43 1 4000 84970
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1914-1919/
    • Activity: identifying, writing, transcribing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    What is the project about?The crowdsourcing project "Letters 1914-1919" is about the transcription of the unique letter collection of the Vienna City Library from this period. In contrast to historical printed works, which are now subjected to automatic full-text recognition as standard, this is still not so easy to do for manuscripts - especially when the documents come from many different writers, as in this case. Since the democratization of knowledge plays a central role in the range of...

  • The Psychological is Participatory

    • Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
    • Nora Ruck
    • Freudplatz 1, 1020 Wien
    • Topic: Health, History, Politics, Culture
    • https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/
    • Activity: photography, rating, discussing, writing, observing
    • Location: Vienna
    Counselling centres for women* are important institutions that have been founded since the 1980s by the second women's movement. In the project, researchers are conducting research together with counsellors and clients of Viennese women's* counselling centres. We are interested in the life stories of women* who seek help at counselling centres. How can women lead a good life in this society today and what role can women's counselling play in this? In workshops, questions and methods are...

  • Everyday Morality

    • University of Innsbruck
    • Verena Aignesberger
    • Universitätsstraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 (0)512 507-56033
    • Topic: Politics, Media, Culture, Language
    • https://www.uibk.ac.at/psychologie/fachbereiche/sozialpsychologie/moral-im-alltag/
    • Activity: rating, observing
    • Location: Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    What is this project about?How can good people do bad things? How can people act contrary to their moral beliefs without having a bad conscience? White lies, rule bending, finding excuses for our own behaviour, which we would judge others for … To be honest, we have all done stuff like that. Nobody is always 100 % moral - misconduct spans from little untruths to refined fraud, from omission of some facts to crimes. All these things have one thing in common: When performing these actions, the...

  • Memories and Imaginaries

    • Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
    • Marina Gržinić
    • Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien
    • +43 (1) 588 16-6600
    • Topic: History, Politics, Culture, Language
    • https://convivialityaspotentiality.akbild.ac.at/citizen-science/
    • Activity: discussing
    • Location: Vienna
    Democratic Citizenship"Memories and Imaginaries" critically explores with students in Austria what it means to be a citizen. Who can or is allowed to actively participate in the political community? Who can or is not allowed to? We address these questions with the aim of finding collective strategies to confront the state of exclusion and marginalization.The aim of the research is for researchers to explore the importance of remembering, retelling and re-imagining the past and the future...

  • Zeit.shift

    • Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
    • Silvia Gstrein
    • Abteilung Digitale Services, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
    • +43 512 507 25400
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
    • https://all4ling.eurac.edu/de/zeitshift/
    • Activity: identifying, locating, rating, discussing, transcribing
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Offers active beyond the duration of Zeit.shiftThe Zeit.shift project ended in June 2023. The central web offerings continue to be active beyond the project duration. Specifically, the results can be followed via the website. The newly generated web portal is accessible worldwide and the text material provided (several million newspaper pages) is searchable and downloadable. Geodata and content tags can be assigned via an external platform and the online game Ötzit! is freely available...

  • Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau

    • future.lab Research Center, TU Wien
    • Christian Peer
    • Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
    • +43 681 2013 6273
    • Topic: Politics, Economy, Land use, Culture, Traffic
    • https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/werkstatt-neu-leopoldau
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, observing
    • Location: Vienna, a local area
    The research project Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau is focused on the settlement process as a workshop situation for social innovations in housing and urban development, with the aim of fostering sustainable development and creating good neighbourhoods.As an applied research project, "Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau" (Co-creation Neu Leopoldau) accompanies the settlement process of the IBA quarter in Vienna's 21st district. The phase of residents' and users' arrival in the neighbourhood is explored, which...

  • Weaving techniques

    • Natural History Museum Vienna, Prehistoric Department
    • Karina Grömer
    • Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria
    • Topic: Culture
    • Activity: experimenting
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    Archaeological finds of textile remains give an insight into ancient weaving techniques, including fabrics from the Hallstatt salt mine dating from between 1500 and 300 BC, or finds of gold threads such as those from Ebreichsdorf in Lower Austria, ca. 1100 BC. They are scientifically analysed and reworked in the Prehistoric Department of the Natural History Museum in order to understand the manufacturing technique and the amount of work involved. Especially the board weavings and fabric with...

  • Homegrown

    • Institut für Ökologischen Landbau Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
    • Christian R. Vogl
    • Institut für Ökologischen Landbau, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Gregor Mendel Straße 33 1180 Wien
    • +43 (0)1 47654 93312
    • https://boku.ac.at/nas/ifoel/arbeitsgruppen/ag-wissenssysteme-und-innovationen-agwi/projekte/homegrown
    “Homegrown - There is nothing like a homegarden”Project descriptionWith their variety of plant species and the experience of the gardeners, rural home gardens constitute an integral component of the cultivated landscape in the Lienz district, East Tyrol. Together with pupils of the BG/BRG Lienz school (and biology, math/physics and English teachers), scientists are investigating rural home gardens, including stocks of plant species and the use of plants. These results will be compared with...

  • Categories to come

    • Johanna Barnbeck
    • Topic: Media, Culture, Language
    • https://www.categoriestocome.org/
    • Activity: discussing, writing, translating
    • Location: Worldwide, Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    What is the project specifically about?So much hangs on just one thing - and yet words sometimes fail us. How do we talk about our bodies and the things that we need, want, and do when it comes to sex and sexual pleasure? And who do we talk to about these things? Categories to Come invites everybody to put their sexuality into words, and to discuss new words or new uses of words with other people. Goal of the project is to create a platform and gather resources, that open up so far unnamed...

  • Topotheque

    • ICARUS - International Centre for Archival Research
    • Alexander Schatek
    • Gertrude-Fröhlich-Sandner-Straße 2-4 | Tower C, Floor 7-9 1100 Wien
    • 0664 / 266 55 10
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://www.topothek.at/de/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, writing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The growing flood of images cannot be processed by institutions alone. Partnership with citizen scientists is vital. Topotheque is a digital archive and network in which this historical legacy can be gathered. For the locally resident Topotheque users, every new image and new piece of information means a valuable building block with which they can document their regional history in more detail. Enthusiasm for the work with the Topotheques creates local archives that captures an interest that...

  • GenTeam

    • Felix Gundacker
    • Pantzergasse 30/8, 1190 Wien
    • 0676 40 11 059
    • Topic: History, Culture
    • https://genteam.at/
    • Activity: photography, identifying, locating, writing, translating
    • Location: Europe, Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Vienna, Styria
    The European genealogy database"Connecting genealogists"GenTeam is a European platform of genealogical databases. Both scientists and amateur genealogists can make their data available here for free for other researchers. The cooperation of collaborators from many different countries has made it possible to compile databases that one researcher could not typically manage alone due to the volume. Our focus is currently on the indexing of ecclesiastical sources from Lower Austria, on a...

  • Faces of migration

    • Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck
    • Erol Yildiz und Marc Hill
    • Topic: History, Culture, Language
    • https://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/migration-bildung/
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Location: Tyrol
    This project ran from 01.07.2017 to 31.12.2019. You can download a thematic booklet created in the process at the bottom of this page. In addition, print copies can now be made available to school classes free of charge (while stocks last). Please contact the project leaders if you would like to use them for teaching.Faces of migration. Youth from Tyrol collaborated to research their family histories of migrationStudies in social history have documented time and again that migration has...

  • City-Country-Child

    • Academy of fine arts Vienna / IKL and Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History - University of Vienna, Department of Art History
    • Martina Fineder und Luise Reitstätter
    • +43 (0) 1 588 16–1150
    • Topic: History, Media, Culture
    • http://stadt-land-kind.at/?cat=1
    • Activity: photography, discussing, writing
    • Location: Austria, Burgenland, Carinthia, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Vienna, Styria
    An Intergenerational Ethnography on Rural Images of LongingTaking the unique photography collection of the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art as its starting point, the research project “Stadt-Land-Kind” (City-Country-Child) investigated the myth of a “better life in the countryside” from an intergenerational perspective. In dialogue with social scientists, and in exchange with older generations of parents and grandparents, pupils conducted research into prevailing urban/rural...

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