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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: Claudia Marchtrenker
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?

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
 

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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

Drawings

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection; Research and Documentation: Julian Möhwald
Research Project

Partage Plus – Digitising and Enabling Art Nouveau for Europeana

Project Manager: Gordon McKenna, Collections Trust (London, UK) / Project Manager MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of Library and Works on Paper Collection; Project Assistant: Anne-Katrin Rossberg
Research Project

Asia and Europe in the 18th Century

Project Manager: Johannes Wieninger, Curator, Asia Collection
Research Project

Sumi-e

Project Manager: Johannes Wieninger, Curator, Asia Collection
Research Project

Austrian Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Project Manager: Heidemarie Caltik, MAK Curator, Design Info,  Pool; Project Assistant: Claudia Marchtrenker
Research Project

Special Archive: Design Pioneers

Project Manager: Heidemarie Caltik, MAK Curator Design-Info-Pool
Research Project

MAK Collection - online: Viennese Porcelain Part II, Du Paquier (1718-1744)

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

New Work on the Wiener Werkstätte Design Drawings

Project Manager: Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Curator, Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive; Project Assistant: Maria-Luise Jesch
Research Project

Wiener Werkstätte Lace and Embroideries

Project Manager: Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Curator, Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive; Project Assistant: Angela Völker
Research Project

Nomadic Furniture III

Research team: Martina Fineder, Thomas Geisler, and Sebastian Hackenschmidt
Research Project

Baroque Library

Project management: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Processing: Judith Huber-Stocker
Research Project

Collection of Bentwood Furniture

Project Manager: Sebastian Hackenschmidt, MAK Curator, Furniture and Woodwork
Research Project

Batik Textiles from Indonesia

Project Manager: Barbara Karl, Curator, Textiles and Carpets Collection, Project Assistant: Elisabeth Seyerl
Research Project

Fabrics of the Wiener Werkstätte

Project Manager: Barbara Karl, Curator, Textiles and Carpets Collection; Project Assistant: Isabella Frick
Research Project

English Arts-and-Crafts Fabrics at the MAK

Project Manager: Barbara Karl, Curator, Textiles and Carpets Collection; Editor: Dagmar Sachsenhofer
Research Project

English Arts-and-Crafts Tapestries at the MAK

Project Manager: Barbara Karl, Curator, Textiles and Carpets Collection; Project Assistant: Dagmar Sachsenhofer
Research Project

Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur’s Design Drawings

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Appraisal: Ulrike Scholda
Research Project

Exemplary Sample Collection

Project Manager: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head of MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Appraisal: Alexandra Hois
Research Project

Art Nouveau Danube

Art Nouveau Architecture in the Danube Region
Project management, MAK: Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Head, MAK Library and Works on Paper Collection/Archive; Project 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

Bilateral Design Networks:
Design Innovation from Early 20th Century Modernity to Digital Modernity

Project Manager MAK: Rainald Franz, Curator,  MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection
Project Assistant: Klára Prešnajderová
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 
Research Project

Design & Innovation

Cross-Border Cooperation between Design Institutions Traditioning to the Digital Age
Project Manager: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Assistants: Viktoria Heinrich, MAK Design Collection; Eva Adam-Maxa, Project Assistent EU Interreg SK-AT