politics

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...

GUMPI

Project lead: Tamara Bauer and Sebastian Harnacker
TU Wien future.lab Research Center and TU Wien Bibliothek
Address: Resselgasse 4, 1040 Wien
Telephone: +43 1 58801 44032
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Topic: Politics, Land use, Traffic, Living together
Activity: locating, rating, discussing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/gumpi_forschung

Youth and single parents doing urban research About the projectThe climate crisis repeatedly exposes existing weaknesses in democratic practice. On the one hand, groups that are most affected by the consequences of climate change are often underrepresented in the prevailing political and planning practice (participation crisis). On the other hand, social inequality and the exclusion of people from political decision-making processes increases the loss of trust in political decision-makers and...

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...

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...

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...

Update Social

Project lead: Patricia Stark / Moritz König
Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C) der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Address: Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz
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Topic: Health, Disasters, Politics, Economy, Media, Language
Activity: identifying, discussing, writing, taking care, observing, translating, experimenting
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://updatesocial.org

With your ideas towards a innovative social sector for all Our society is facing numerous social challenges and the public administration, charities & social service providers, civil society and (social) enterprises are already working to solve them. In the face of increasingly complex challenges, there is a need for more collaboration and dialogue across sectors. Together we can achieve more! UpdateSocial is designed to provide the framework for collaboration!In all sectors of our...

The Psychological is Participatory

Project lead: Nora Ruck
Faculty of Psychology, Sigmund Freud University Vienna
Address: Freudplatz 1, 1020 Wien
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Topic: Health, History, Politics, Culture
Activity: photography, rating, discussing, writing, observing
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://psychologie.sfu.ac.at/en/research/the-psychological-is-participatory/

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...

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...

COMMONAIR

Participatory mapping of hotspots and cool spots on a city map

Project lead: Florian Teichmann
TU Wien
Address: Karlsplatz 13/E207-03
Telephone: +43/1/58801 - 207335
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Topic: Weather, Politics
Activity: measuring
Participation: Open participation
Project link: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/commonair/

In COMMONAIR, citizens use simple devices to measure temperature, heat stress, and air quality along their everyday routes. The shared results help better understand local climate impacts and support the development of climate adaptation measures. What are the aims of the project? COMMONAIR is a project that helps cities in the Alpine region better adapt to climate change. Together with citizens, scientists, and local authorities...

Climate Ready Schools

Thermal image of a school class in front of the school building

Project lead: Martin Schneider
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Address: Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Wien
Telephone: 066478588203
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Topic: Plants, Weather, Politics, Land use, Living together
Activity: Offline participation
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://climatereadyschools.at/

The impacts of rising heat are becoming increasingly noticeable in the school context as well. To enable Austrian schools to adapt to future climate conditions, the project ‘Climate Ready Schools’ is researching ways to increase their climate resilience. What are the aims of the project? In Climate Ready Schools, students, teachers, and school administrations from six partner schools are actively involved in the scientific work as...

DeVOTE

Project lead: Carolina Plescia
Department of Government, University of Vienna
Address: Kolingasse 14-16, 6th Floor, 1090 Vienna
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Topic: Politics
Activity: identifying, rating, writing
Participation: Closed participation
Project link: https://www.votemeanings.eu

DeVOTE is a research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) from January 2021 to December 2025, and led by Ass.-Prof. Carolina Plescia to develop and apply a new approach to study what ‘voting’ means for ordinary citizens. The project’s goals are:understand what ‘voting’ means for ordinary citizens;examine the variation of 'voting' meanings across individuals and across countries;study how elections create and modify these 'voting' meanings;investigate...

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?...