Beyond Virtual Reality – Designing for the multi-sensory mind
Talk with Paula Strunden
Building Worlds
Talk with Ali Eslami

Paula Strunden explores VR’s potential beyond its visual territory and explains how mixed reality objects can trigger an embodied cognition of being present at once in physical and digital reality. By presenting a series of 1:1 interactive models and experimental installations, VR will be discussed from a phenomenological perspective and examined for its potential to break the binary divide between actual and virtual worlds, between reality and imagination.
Based between Amsterdam and Vienna, Paula Strunden is an interdisciplinary designer and PhD researcher at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is the co-founder of Soft Bodies and Virtual Fruits.
More information: paulastrunden.com

Ali Eslami uses VR as a medium to imagine and create radical forms of space, time, and bodies. In this talk, Ali unpacks the thought process behind making o ‘False Mirror’, a Long-term research project that speculates a growing world where humans (or post-humans) live a completely virtual life.
More information: alllesss.com

Late Breakfast with Doringer
At the Social Design Studio*
ZOOM ID 455 161 7763

*Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Vienna
Late Breakfast with Doringer is a five-part series with artist Bogomir Doringer and is a cooperation of two departments of the University of Applied Arts Vienna: Site-Specific Art and Social Design - Arts as Urban Innovation and the Artists-in-Residence program of Q21 / MQ