During this workshop, participants will learn and understand design-thinking, see examples of artistic projects becoming actors in democratic movement.

The workshop will be lead by Ruth Mateus-Berr, artist, scientist, social designer, and full professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; Head of the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education. Her work focuses on artistic research, (social) multi-sensual design research, interdisciplinary art & design education and topics of humanity, climate change, national socialism, and well-being in the field of health. She received her PhD and Venia Docendi for design education; she has published several articles and books, won nationally and internationally funded (artistic) research projects and exhibits art and artistic research internationally.