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Research Project

Hans Herzheimer’s Chronicle

Research Team: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Enno Bünz, Universität Leipzig
Research Project

Continued Inventory of Ceramic Holdings

Project Manager: Rainald Franz, MAK curator, Glass and Ceramics; Team: Harald Bauer, Lisa Nowy
Research Project

Majolica from the MAK Collection

Project Manager: Rainald Franz, MAK Curator, Glass and Ceramics; Team: Harald Bauer, Lisa Nowy
Research Project

Traces

Archtecture and Museum Route Austria-Czech Republic
Research Project

Gustav Peichl Archive

Project management: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Research Project

Missing Link – The Architecture Group

Project Manager: Sebastian Hackenschmidt, MAK Curator, Furniture and Woodwork; Editing: Anna Dabernig
Research Project

Hagenauer Archive

Project Manager: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Editor: Maria-Luise Jesch
Research Project

ART NOUVEAU 2

Art Nouveau Heritage in the Danube Region
Project Management MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Project Assistant: Helena Grünsteidl
Research Project

Textiles in the Visual Arts

Project Editor: Bärbel Vischer, Curator, MAK Contemporary Art Collection
Research Project

Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte

Project Manager: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
With the participation of Michael Hölters, Maria-Luise Jesch

Research Project

The Commercial Graphic Design of the Wiener Werkstätte

Project Manager: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive 
Research Project

Online Thonet Archive

Project Manager: Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Curator, MAK Furniture and Woodwork Collection, and Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive in cooperation with Wolfgang Thillmann
Research Project

The History of the Geymüllerschlössel

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
With the participation of Peter Klinger, Aline Müller, Stephanie Rosenkranz
Research Project

A Prototype Building for the Applied Arts

150 Years of the Museum on the Stubenring
Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive 
With the participation of Peter Klinger, Stephanie Rosenkranz
Research Project

Helmut Lang Archive

Project Manager: Lara Steinhäußer, Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection
Project Editor: Helena Grünsteidl, Nicole Miltner
Research Project

Creative Climate Care

Project Manager: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection
With the participation of Lara Steinhäußer
 

Research Project

Planet Love

Climate Care in the Digital Age
Project Manager: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection, in cooperation with Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, General Director, MAK
Curatorial assistant: Antje Prisker; with the participation of Ivana Andrejic-Djukic
Research Project

The MAK—History of an Institution

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Project Editor: Hannah Gasperl
Research Project

Ornamental Prints Collection

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Project Editor: Peter Fuhring, Freelance Scientist
Research Project

ATCZ264 – JH Neu digital / JH Nově digitální / JH New digital

Josef Hoffmann mediated anew. The Josef Hoffmann Museum as an interface of international collaboration, and the work of Josef Hoffmann as a testing ground for innovative museum work, in particular for the use of digital technology
Research Project

Conservation of the Khevenhüller Chronicle

A cooperation between the MAK Vienna and Castle Hochosterwitz.
Project team: Beate Murr, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel
Research Project

Collection policy influenced by colonialist aspects? (Part 1)

Oriental Museum, Trade Museum, Museum of Art and Industry and their collection strategies (working title)
Project Manager: Rainald Franz (Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collections, Cross-Collection Coordination and EU Projects, Provenance Research and Restitution)
Lara Steinhäußer (Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection)
Mio Wakita-Elis (Curator, MAK Asia Collection)
 
Scientific Assistance: Alexandra Nachescu
 

MAK 3D – Digitization, Data, Display

Project head: Christian Michlits, Head Digital MAK
Project duration: since May 2023

CultHeRit

Identifying solutions for labor market imbalances in the cultural heritage sector in the Danube region by improving its accessibility to young professionals

Research Project

Collection policy influenced by colonialist aspects? (Part 2)

Oriental Museum, Trade Museum, Museum of Art and Industry and their collection strategies (working title)
Project Manager: Rainald Franz (Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collections, Cross-Collection Coordination and EU Projects, Provenance Research and Restitution)
Lara Steinhäußer (Curator, MAK Textiles and Carpets Collection)
Mio Wakita-Elis (Curator, MAK Asia Collection)
 
Scientific Assistance: Robert Kotasek
 

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Research Project

Commercial Graphic Design

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive
Editor: Anne-Katrin Rossberg, MAK Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Assistant: Aline Müller
Research Project

Notions of Design in the Context of Digitalization

Research Team: Marlies Wirth, K Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Janina Falkner, MAK New Concepts of Learning; mischer'traxler studio
Assistant: Viktoria Heinrich 
Research Project

New Work. New Design

Project Management: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Project Assistant: Viktoria Heinrich
Research Project

Design between Human and Machine

Research Team: Amelie Klein, Vitra Design Museum; Thomas Geisler; Marlies Wirth, Curator Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Fredo de Smet, Design Museum Gent
Curatorial Assistance: Erika Pinner, Vitra Design Museum 
Research Project

Human Enhancement—The Human Being as Design Challenge

Editor: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection
Research Project

CityFactory

Project Management of Content:
IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna: Harald Gruendl, Viktoria Heinrich
MAK: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection, Janina Falkner, New Concepts for Learning
Vienna Business Agency: Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Head of the creative center departure, Alice Jacubasch, Project Management
Research Project

Artificial Intelligence

Research Team: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Paul Feigelfeld, Media Theorist