DIGITAL ARTS/Ruth SchnellThis talk is about adventurous
design, music making packaging, burning posters, pornography of smoking, asking nature and the alphabet of life. Or: What
happens when art, design, science and life fall in love with each other.
Elisabeth
Kopf, Design activist, artist, researcher, inventor, curator, educator
Autodidactic studies and projects succeeded
in the opening of her studio Design Buero Baustelle in 1999. National and international clients
as well as self-initiated projects keep her busy and interconnected with a highly transdisciplinary, global network. Her work
stands for cross-border-thinking, for conceptual and progressive design. She is the founder of Babylon Design
School a playground for passion, fantasy and creativity, and she has co-initiated the research, education and exhibition
project Alphabet of Life – Nature`s Learning Lab. Since 2004 she has been teaching at the University of
Applied Arts Vienna. Member of AGI – Alliance Graphique Internationale (2012-2016 board member) and of Design
Austria (2006-2008 board member).