Institute Team
Joint Board:
Dr. Gernot Tscherteu
Dr. Oliver Schürer
DI. Wolfgang Leeb
Dr. Martin Tomitsch
Dr. Gernot Tscherteu
Gernot Tscherteu studied political science at the University of Vienna. He wrote his dissertation about the influence of digital media on the development and communication of knowledge at the Institute for Scientific Research and Theory with supervisor Prof. Helga Nowotny and Prof. Ulrike Felt. Since 1991 he has worked as a software interface designer and interactivity researcher for internet systems. He has managed several industrial collabortion projects at the Austrian Academy of Science, the Academy of Applied Arts, EDVG, Sysis AG, ZKM Karslruhe, MQ Wien, Caritas Austria and Belleville CH and made numerous publications. In 1999 he founded the architectural and design practice planhaus in collaboration with DI Claudia Pöllabauer.
Between 2002 and 2005 he worked as coordinator for the LED project „Leuchtathletik“ at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna Co-organiser of Media Architecture Conference 2007, manager of research consortium mediafacade.net, a group comprising design consultancies and major architectural and manufacturing companies and research institutions, which aims to develop standardised state-of-the-art technology for media facades. 2008 curator of Media Facades Exhibition Berlin 2008 and co-curator of Media Facades Festival 2008. Organiser of the Media Facades Summit 2010.
http://www.realitylab.at/
http://www.mediafacade.net
Dr. Oliver Schürer
Oliver Schürer is professor and researcher at TU Vienna, faculty of architectural theory in the School of Architectural science. He is an architecural analytic, curator and independent author and editor with numerous national and international publications focussing on digital technolgy and economy in the context of architecture.
His books ‘Beyond the Machine’ and ‘architektur:consulting’ were published by Birkhäuser. Originally trained as a carpenter, Schürer studied architecture at the TU Vienna, and graduated in 1999 specialising on the concepts of space and time in the work of Gilles Deleuze. In 2005 he received a doctorate with a thesis about the evolution of the automation of buildings/architecture and functional concepts with regards to contemporary research on perception and technical systems.
http://www.a-theory.tuwien.ac.at/
DI Wolfgang Leeb
Wolfgang Leeb is an architect and architectural photographer, working
at planhaus and realitylab since 2002. Constantly skimming the web in
seek of new media architectures.
http://www.realitylab.at/
http://www.wolfleeb.com/
Dr. Martin Tomitsch
Martin Tomitsch works as lecturer and researcher at the Design Lab, which is a research discipline within the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. Before moving to Sydney he was working and teaching at the Research Group for Industrial Software in Vienna where he was also involved in several projects as usability consultant. At the University of Sydney he currently teaches Interaction Design and Human-Computer Interaction.He has a background in Informatics with a special focus on Human-Computer Interaction, which he studied at the Vienna University of Technology and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm. During his Master’s degree he spent six months at the in situ research lab at the University of Paris Sud. While working on his PhD he visited the Key Centre for Design Computing and Cognition in Sydney doing research on interactive media facades.
He currently works on several research projects that involve the design of urban screens and the exploration of new forms of interaction to elicit user engagement and social interaction. Human-centred design and evaluation methodologies represent a core element in his research. His work has been published at international conferences on Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing and exhibited at the Visual Connections exhibition in Sydney.
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/design_lab
http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~mtomitsch/
