culture

Categories to come

Project lead: Johanna Barnbeck
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Topic: Media, Culture, Language
Activity: discussing, writing, translating
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.categoriestocome.org/

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...

GenTeam

Project lead: Felix Gundacker
Address: Pantzergasse 30/8, 1190 Wien
Telephone: 0676 40 11 059
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Topic: History, Culture
Activity: photography, identifying, locating, writing, translating
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://genteam.at/

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...

Weaving techniques

Project lead: Karina Grömer
Natural History Museum Vienna, Prehistoric Department
Address: Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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Topic: Culture
Activity: experimenting
Participation: Open participation

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...

Writing History: Letters 1914-1919

Project lead: Alexandra Egger
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock, 1010 Wien
Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
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Topic: History, Culture, Language
Activity: identifying, writing, transcribing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1914-1919/

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...

Writing history: Letters 1920–1934

Project lead: Alexandra Egger
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
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Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
Activity: rating, writing, transcribing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/briefe-1920-1934/

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...

Viennese playbills 1930-1939

Project lead: Alexandra Egger
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
Address: Rathaus, Stiege 4, 1. Stock
Telephone: +43 1 4000 84970
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Topic: History, Culture
Activity: identifying
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://wienbibliothek.crowdsourcing.wien/theaterzettel/

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...

Open Reassembly

Project lead: Reinhold Preiner
Institut für Computergraphik und Wissensvisualisierung, Technische Universität Graz
Address: Inffeldgasse 16c, 8010 Graz
Telephone: +43 316 873 - 5418
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Topic: History, Culture
Activity: Online game, rating
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://openreassembly.cgv.tugraz.at/

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...

On the trail of springs

Project lead: Ellensohn Lukas
KLAR! Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal
Address: Boden 34 - 6731 Sonntag
Telephone: +43 5554 20010
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Topic: Plants, Animals, Weather, Land use, Culture, Geology, Water
Activity: measuring, photography, counting, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.grosseswalsertal.at/de/Den_Quellen_auf_der_Spur_-_Quellenkartierung_im_Biosphaerenpark_Grosses_Walsertal_2

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...

Cowwel

Project lead: Susanne Waiblinger
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Address: Veterinaerplatz 1, 1210 Wien
Telephone: 01250774905
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Topic: Food, Animals, Health, Culture
Activity: rating, discussing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://cowlearning.boku.ac.at/cowwel/

A OneWelfare approach studying food vulnerability. The project "COwWEL" examines, together with citizen scientists from socio-economically disadvantaged groups, conditions that promote or hinder healthy and sustainable consumption behaviour in these groups, taking into account attitudes toward animals and their welfare. The goal is to develop strategies and information material to promote fairer and more sustainable food systems....

Reininghaus Research Group

Six women are standing together in front of a blackboard displaying two colourful posters on the theme of multilingualism, smiling

Project lead: Elisabeth Schlocker
Europäisches Fremdsprachenzentrum in Österreich
Address: Nikolaiplatz 4, 8020 Graz
Telephone: +43 316 323554-23
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Topic: Politics, Culture, Language, Living together
Activity: discussing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://sprachennetzwerkgraz.at/Initiativen/Forschungsprojekt-Reininghaus

How do we live and experience our language(s) in the neighborhood? Reininghaus is a newly developing neighborhood in southwest Graz, where linguistic diversity is a part of everyday life. 16 residents explored this together: Through in-depth discussions, interviews, and creative map-making, they gathered perspectives and ideas for fostering a respectful community. What are the aims of the project?...

Homegrown

Project lead: Christian R. Vogl
Institut für Ökologischen Landbau Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Address: Institut für Ökologischen Landbau, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien Gregor Mendel Straße 33 1180 Wien
Telephone: +43 (0)1 47654 93312
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Participation: Closed participation
Project link: 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...

Faces of migration

Project lead: Erol Yildiz und Marc Hill
Department of Educational Sciences, University of Innsbruck
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Topic: History, Culture, Language
Activity: photography, discussing, writing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/iezw/migration-bildung/

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

Project lead: Martina Fineder und Luise Reitstätter
Academy of fine arts Vienna / IKL and Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History - University of Vienna, Department of Art History
Telephone: +43 (0) 1 588 16–1150
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Topic: History, Media, Culture
Activity: photography, discussing, writing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: http://stadt-land-kind.at/?cat=1

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...

Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau

Project lead: Christian Peer
future.lab Research Center, TU Wien
Address: Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
Telephone: +43 681 2013 6273
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Topic: Politics, Economy, Land use, Culture, Traffic
Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/werkstatt-neu-leopoldau

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...

Zeit.shift

Project lead: Silvia Gstrein
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol
Address: Abteilung Digitale Services, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck
Telephone: +43 512 507 25400
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Topic: History, Media, Culture, Language
Activity: identifying, locating, rating, discussing, transcribing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://all4ling.eurac.edu/de/zeitshift/

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...

Memories and Imaginaries

Project lead: Marina Gržinić
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Address: Lehargasse 8, 1060 Wien
Telephone: +43 (1) 588 16-6600
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Topic: History, Politics, Culture, Language
Activity: discussing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://convivialityaspotentiality.akbild.ac.at/citizen-science/

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...

Everyday Morality

Project lead: Verena Aignesberger
University of Innsbruck
Address: Universitätsstraße 15, A-6020 Innsbruck
Telephone: +43 (0)512 507-56033
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Topic: Politics, Media, Culture, Language
Activity: rating, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.uibk.ac.at/psychologie/fachbereiche/sozialpsychologie/moral-im-alltag/

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...

United by Crisis?

Project lead: Jakob Maurer
Universität für Weiterbildung Krems (Zentrum für Museale Sammlungswissenschaften)
Address: c/o Landessammlungen Niederösterreich, Schloss Asparn/Zaya, Schlossgasse 1, A-2151 Asparn/Zaya
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Topic: History, Disasters, Land use, Culture
Activity: measuring, counting, identifying, locating, observing, Offline participation
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.united-by-crisis.at/en/

Participate in archaeological field surveys and/or in cleaning, documenting & interpreting archaeological finds.A transdisciplinary look at the early Neolithic communities in the Schletz settlement clusterThe project aims to explore the surroundings of the famous Neolithic settlement of Asparn/Schletz (Lower Austria). Numerous human remains suggest a violent attack on this site in the Late Linear Pottery Culture, approx. 7.000 years ago. Due to its size and earthworks...

City Layers

Project lead: Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
TU Wien
Address: Paniglgasse 16 1040 Wien
Telephone: +43 1 58801 - 264 34
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Topic: Health, Politics, Culture
Activity: Online game, photography, writing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://citylayers.visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/

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...

Stories of Post-extractive F*utures

Project lead: Karin Reisinger
Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
Address: Karl-Schweighofer-Gasse 3, 1070 Wien
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Topic: History, Politics, Land use, Culture, Gender, Living together
Activity: photography, identifying, locating, rating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.mountains-of-ore.org/de/pef/practice/

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...