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Since the digital revolution at the latest, we have been confronted with a new dimension of reality that fundamentally changes communication, consumer behavior, socialization processes, image culture and world view. A conversation with Elisabeth Schmirl about the current relevance of visual education.

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.

Based on designs and fashion objects by fashion designer Roberto Capucci, students from the Design: Technology.Textiles program, together with students from the Department of Stage and Costume Design, Film and Exhibition Architecture, explored relevant questions of inspiration and its transformation.

Idling refers to the operation of a system or machine without it doing the work for which it is intended. When does an activity make sense? Is idling a reset? a cure? a pause? What happens during the idle time?

The students approached the design through different parameters: For one, the starting point was movement, for another the material, for a third the form or even the target group, and for the last the function. Courage! and laziness! are terms that the various objects proudly trumpet to their future users.

On the design of everyday life: As part of the design project "I (discover) the table", eleven students of the subject Design: Technology.Textiles asked themselves questions about eating together. How do I eat? What do I eat? Where do I eat? With what do I eat? With whom do I eat? And how do the others eat?

Students of the master's project Textiles in Motion at the University Mozarteum Salzburg first dealt with their location in the city of Salzburg, the city in which they moved every day. The question arose as to their very personal 'favourite places' within the city.