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2026W What Stories do Objects Tell?

  • Tutorial 15.10, Team 10

    By

    Amelie Proksch

    ,

    Finn Anton Hallensleben

    and

    Dasha Peschnyuk

    Core Group Interest (CGI)

    • Convenience as a cause/aim of technology
      • outsourcing human tasks
      • loss of skills
    • Technology as extension of our bodies
      • Third Limb
        • How we adapt to technology on a an organic level

    Thoughts that derived from this:

    • Countering digital technologies through Physical and analogue technologies
    • Teach us skills we have unlearned
    • How do we experience the world around us?
    • What is our relation with technology today?

    Object Families

    • Maps
      • In all forms, materials, medium (analogue)
      • not restricted to geographic locations
      • How might they comment on our current relation to digital technologies?
      • Is there the potential of using โ€œmapsโ€œ to teach skills they have lost
    • Sensations supplied by physical objects
    • Reproductions of humans: paintings, photos, scans, sculptures, etc.
      • How does technology reproduce imagery of humans?
      • What are human reproductions used for? (physical, data, etc.)
      • How is a human face read? (By humans, machines, animals)
      • What counter technologies exist?

  • SPORTSGEAR TEAM 9

    By

    Martin Breitenecker

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  • 16.10.2026 Tutorials

    By

    Victoria Thierer

    ,

    Emilia Klewin

    ,

    Sabrina Holtz

    and

    Niklas Flor

    Objects and their meaning to us

    Exercises based on the brief

    Measuring Instruments

    Different materials and froms give objects different meanings.

    What is it measuring?

    Why is the material important?

    How does/did it evolve?

    Experimenting with the caliper:

    What if we change it’s scale?

  • First Tutorial

    By

    Annalisa Rhein

    My object, still the jacket:

    Then:

    Brainstorm

    Crystalisation:

    • revealing the hidden story of objects
    • object as a connection to my family/culture/heritage (if I have heritage)
    • me vs aunt: who wore it better? (analyzing the different circumstances, expectations)

    Questions I had afterwards:

    • What’s the story behind my object?
    • What exact expectations are tied to it?
    • What was it like being young in the 70-80’s in Luxembourg?
    • What does wearing this jacket mean to me/to my aunt?
    • How can ethnological museums represent that emotional value?

    I felt kind of stuck…

    Then I did some free writing and some…

    Research:

    • Museum of Broken Relationships Zagreb
    • La rรฉsistance des bijoux by Ariella Aรฏsha Azoulay and The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
    • No man’s Land, 2010, Christian Boltanski

    some lil sketches:

    Next Steps:

    • Actually talk to my family
    • Explore and experiment with the tension between an ethnological description and personal value

  • Tutorial 16.10.2026

    By

    Valentin Hofer

    ,

    Alan Tusin

    ,

    Ela Jarouลกkovรก

    and

    Thiemo Wieser

    First thoughts

    Discovering patterns

    QR Code

    Tryouts

    Next steps

    • Tryouts
    • Form of the object
    • Storyline

  • first tutorial

    By

    Franziska Anna Herzog

    an object that sparks my interest, an object close to home

    menstrual cup/my grandmothers’ jewlery

    where do i start?

    feeling a bit lost
    BUT
    feeling lost is a great point to start

    …with conversations!

    https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/cloud/index.php/s/tMwMSZAcBDPQaMs

    research about menstruation

    where i am at right now:

    a lot of thoughts and ideas i have to untangle, verbalize and materialize, stay tuned xx

    next steps:

    • free-writing(/-sketching/-building)
    • more research: finding my place in these huge topics

  • Tutorial 16.10

    By

    Emma Bรคr

    ,

    Anna Kundriutskova

    and

    Naz

    How does objects shape community and culture?

    What public installations invite encounter and exchange?

    The Kiosk as a social Meeting Point.

    What is a Kiosk?


    The diary as a preserver of stories

    Bringing together Kiosk and Diary

    Working title:

    Dairy of a Neighbourhood

    Research questions:

    How does objects shape community?

    How can community shape their own story?

    How can the stories be preserved and should they?

    Next steps:

    • Mapping ideas
    • Visit Kiosks / public installations
    • Interviewing people
    • Thinking about ways of preserving stories

  • festive devil workshop

    By

    Franziska Anna Herzog

    whips and lashes

    by lili, emilia, alice, annalisa, franzi

    four horsemen of apocalypse – four whips of apocalypse

    (plastic) plague

    a plastic whip symbolizing microplastics and plastic pollution

    war (against cars)

    a whip to slash tires

    death (of the glaciers)

    an ice whip that’s slowly melting and that hurts the person holding it because of the frozen handle

    famine

    a whip asking whether food is a treat, a punishment, a basic need or a weapon.

  • SUBTLE VIOLENCE

    By

    Krystyna Yampol

    Team 3

    Personal anecdotes!

    Process: what connects us to the topic

    Our definition of SUBTLE VIOLENCE

    What mechanisms of subtle violence exist in our society today that we fail to recognize as such?

    And how does this form of violence manifest itself through objects?

    KEY OBJECTS:

    Conclusion

  • Feedback 16.10.

    By

    Luz Quintana-Abraham

    Team 4

    Internet Culture

    For Now –> Prototyping two topics

    I.

    Etsy spells, Manifestation, Spirituality, Astrology

    II.

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