Thursday, 5 March 2026
10:00 - 12:00 | Heimatsaal
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The workshop invites participants to learn about the Radio Amnion project and sound ritual, which transmits sound compositions to a depth of over 2.5 kilometres in the Pacific Ocean during every full moon. In a collective listening session, participants will experience these oceanic sounds and reflect on how relational technologies and oceanic listening can sensitise us to understanding the planet as inseparable and vital.
Students and sound artists are welcome to submit their own works in advance.
In cooperation with the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures (University of Applied Arts Vienna).
Saturday, 7 March 2026
10:00 - 12:00 | Heimatsaal
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"Feeling Our Way Forward" is a new blind-creation workshop that invites participants to engage the body as a source of sensory wisdom, imagining how we might survive collectively in uncertain worlds.
Creating a collective sculpture without eye-sight, the group explores uncertainty, vulnerability, and interdependence as generative forces. In darkness we challenge ocular-centric ways of knowledge-making, and instead elevate embodied and relational ways of world-making.
Friday, 6 March 2026
10:00 - 12:00 | Heimatsaal
No registration required!
In this workshop, second-semester BA Information Design students present prototypical outcomes from a course running in parallel at FH JOANNEUM as part of the Elevate Festival. The workshop is based on a speculative scenario in which the internet has been switched off permanently and examines how vital signs can be identified within systems under sustained pressure. Students present design artefacts that explore how social relations, communication and everyday organisation might function without digital infrastructures. The works consider how orientation and responsibility are negotiated in the absence of networked systems. Together with the teaching staff, the workshop provides a space for discussion on the role of design in making such conditions readable and debatable.
Teaching staff:
Birgit Bachler (AT)
Andreas Förster (AT)
Chad Reichert (US)