What makes things work? Take apart toys and tinker with technology
Have you ever wondered how your toys and gadgets look inside? Get some screwdrivers, scissors and saws and break toys and electronic objects open, dissect them, unveil their components and explore their mechanical and electrical principles. As soon as the toys are taken down to their smallest pieces, you will hack them together and build something new out of them: a tiny robot, a “Franken-toy”, or an interactive piece of art. Taking things apart and unveiling their inner workings has proven to be a playful and meaningful way of getting to know how the world works. Exploring contemporary meanings of the age-old practice of taking things apart may create a particular instantiation of a new enlightenment, aiming to illuminate our changing relations to the technology that surrounds us.
Participants: Only children of participants of the Technology Symposium aged 13 to 17 years or children that have special invitations from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and Women’s Affairs.
Please note: limited number of participants, registration necessary!
Information and registration: Karin Kohlfürst, T +43 (664) 340 20 71, E karin@highent.org
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Kathryn LIST
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Member of the Council, European Forum Alpbach, Graz | |
Welcome | |
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Barbara WEITGRUBER
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Director General, Scientific Research and International Relations, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Vienna | |
Introduction | |
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Alina KRISCHKOWSKY
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg | | | |
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Martin MURER
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Research Fellow, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg | | | |
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Georg REGAL
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Scientist, Center for Technology Experience, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna | | | |
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Thorsten ROHDE
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Managing Director, Rohde-BeSB Noise + Vibration GmbH; Lecturer, Graz University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Salzburg | | | |
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Daniela WURHOFER
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Research Fellow, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg | | | |
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Member of the Council, European Forum Alpbach, Graz
Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Vienna
| 1995 | Promotion zum Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Medizinische Genetik) |
| 1990-1995 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Boehringer Ingelheim Austria GmbH |
| 1995-1997 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Universität Wien (Postdoc) |
| 1998-1999 | Produktmanagerin bei Margaritella-Biotrade GmbH |
| 1999-2005 | Leiterin von Life Science Austria bei der Innovationsagentur GmbH (seit 2003 aws) |
| 2000-2010 | Investmentmanagerin der UniVenture Fonds |
| 2002-2005 | Geschäftsführerin, ARGE LISA Vienna Region |
| 2003-2010 | Leiterin des Bereichs Technologie & Innovation und Gesamtprokuristin (seit 2003) in der Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH (aws) |
| 2004-2006 | Geschäftsführerin der ARGE Impulsprogramm Creativwirtschaft |
| 2008-2010 | Stellvertretende Vorsitzende, Universitätsrat Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien |
| 2009-2010 | Aufsichtsrätin Innovacell Biotechnologie AG |
| 2010-2016 | Rektorin, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien |
| seit 2010 | Aufsichtsrätin Vetwidi Forschungsholding GmbH |
| seit 2011 | Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende Kunsthalle Wien GmbH |
| seit 2016 | Bundesministerin für Bildung und Frauen |
Director General, Scientific Research and International Relations, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Vienna
| | Barbara Weitgruber was founding staff member and Director of the Office for International Relations and lecturer at Karl-Franzens Universität Graz and then Director of the Office for European Educational Co-operation of the Austrian Academic Exchange Service in Vienna. In December 1994 she joined the Austrian Ministry in charge of higher education and research as Director and later became Deputy Director General for Higher Education and Director General for Scientific Research and International Relations. Weitgruber holds a Master degree in English/American and Interdisciplinary Studies, a Certificate in Mass Media and a Translator´s Diploma in English from Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and an M.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois in Chicago where she started her professional career as a Fulbright Scholarship Holder and Teaching Assistant. She is - among others - member of the Task Force for Research, Technology and Innovation of the Austrian Federal Government, the Austrian Fulbright Commission, the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, the European "Research Policy Group" and chair of the Scholarship Foundation of the Republic of Austria. |
Cellist, Vienna
| | studies Cello, University of Music and Dramatic Arts, Graz |
| | studies cello with Philippe Muller, Paris |
| since 2000 | soloist and chamber musician mainly in Europe, Asia, North- and South America and the Emirates. |
| 2003-2006 | Artistic director, concert series of Austrian television (ORF) |
| since 2003 | internationally performning with pianist Andreas Woyke |
| Kultur.Partnerschaft, HYPO Steiermark |
| since 1998 | performing with instruments on loan of the Austrian National Bank´s collection of preciouse instruments |
| | Concerts with many orchestras, including the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, the Vienna Concertverein under Fabio Luisi, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra or the Israel Chamber Orchestra |
| numerouse internationally awarded cd recordings mainly for the German CD Label ARS Production |
| since 2007 | developing special cultural project together with his wife Heidrun Maya Hagn |
| 2015 | foundation of "Get a Hearing" association of artists supproting children with hearing loss together with Heidrun Maya Hagn and pianist Andreas Woyke |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg
Research Fellow, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg
| 2006-2007 | Research Associate, Viennese Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology |
| 2008-2015 | Research Fellow, HCI Unit, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg |
| 2013 | Visiting Researcher, MOBILE LIFE, Stockholm University |
| since 2015 | Senior Scientist, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg |
Scientist, Center for Technology Experience, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna
Managing Director, Rohde-BeSB Noise + Vibration GmbH; Lecturer, Graz University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna; Salzburg
Research Fellow, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg
