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Gertrud Fischbacher and her cooperation partner Marius Schebella (FH Salzburg) were awarded with the project "Nexus of Textile and Sound" at the annual funding program of the FWF for the development and opening up of the arts (PEEK)! They won the Research Competition Mozarteum (RCM) at the end of 2019, the PEEK application, which is based on intensive local cooperation with the FH Salzburg, is a further development of the RCM project.

After a break due to corona, the Department of Fine Arts and Design is finally opening its workshops and studios again: from April 6 to 8, interested parties will have the opportunity to gain insights into the diverse work of young artists and to try their hand at numerous workshops. Concerts and performances round off the program. The Tour 2022 will be accompanied by a charity art sale for Ukraine.

In a competition organized by Segafredo Zanetti Austria, students from the Department of Fine Arts and Design at the Mozarteum University are designing the first collection of cups for enjoying coffee at home, which will be launched when the company's own online store goes live in summer 2022.

St. Virgil is a center for education, conference and hotel. The Wilhelm Holzbauer building (1976) is surrounded by a spacious park, which in the future will be used as a place for learning and teaching, communication, action and contemplation under the open sky.

Every souvenir (memory) has a narrative core. it is based on an invisible story. at the latest, when every trash can be a souvenir, it becomes obvious that the souvenir does not speak for itself. it needs a context, a story. souvenirs are transmitters of stories, experienced stories, they are souvenirs.

The kimono is often seen in its uniqueness as a symbol of Japan and an important part of Japanese tradition and culture. It is considered timeless in its form and yet is also a mirror of cultural change. It is in many ways a source of inspiration for fashion designers worldwide.

Design is increasingly turning to questions of social design and process design. Cooking and eating: In company or alone? Digital or analog? Slow food or fast food? Made with love or industrial?

In cooperation with the Austrian Paper Museum Steyrermühl, students intensively explored the material paper, examining material, form, technique, color, structure and haptics, and developed projects in different scales that were subsequently shown publicly in the museum.

In the context of the project, students dealt with the disposal of objects, with the recycling of waste as well as with values and design per se. Through the surprisingly occurring first Corona semester, a common discussion and reflection on values, attitude and questions about the essential began online.

In the subject Design: Technology.Textiles, especially in the field of technology, there was no dust- and noise-free place to teach, to discuss, to learn, to reflect, to take a break and to cook and eat, apart from the fantastic workshops until 2019.