Dorothé Smit
Dorothé (she/her) is an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In the past four years, she has conducted several research activities in makerspaces to investigate the engagements of women and other underrepresented groups in technological making.
Cornelia Gerdenitsch
Cornelia (she/her) is a postdoc at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT). Her research focuses on the design and use of digital technologies in the context of work and organizations.
Joanna Kowolik
Joanna (she/her) is a project manager at Happylab Vienna. She is committed to promoting an inclusive environment in makerspaces, as well as aiming to provide a forum for female makers and encourage them to speak up and value their work.
Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
Lale is a writer and sonic artist. Lale develops a new Electroacoustic Literature, that enables writers to read and perform in a collective (with electronic artists and humans) and as individuals with a distance to their texts. Since 2003 she has held Radio-Workshops and is engaged in community work.
Leyla Jafarmadar
Leyla (she/her) is a Communications Manager at Happylab. In her role, she focuses on amplifying the voices of the maker community and giving them a platform to present their projects to a wider public, with a strong emphasis on empowering women to confidently showcase their work.
Olivia Jaques
Olivia is a Vienna-based artist, artistic researcher and cultural worker. Her work spins around the relational, socio-political (feminist!) and the performative. Since 2017 together with Marlies Surtmann they are and run Performatorium – a laboratory for practice-oriented research of and through performative means.
Nicole Sabella
Nicole (she/they) is a Vienna-based artist, cultural scientist and art educatrix working with performative strategies that are characterised by a queer-feminist, intersectional, anti-discriminatory attitude and collaborative practices.
Verena Fuchsberger
Verena (she/her) is Postdoc at the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) division at the University of Salzburg. Among others, her research is characterized by empirical investigations of inequalities in access to making from a feminist HCI perspective.
Eléni Economidou
Eléni (she/her) is a maker and design researcher with a background in architecture and interaction design. Through crafting, digital fabrication, and participation, she researches the design of tangible, embodied research products for people’s particular needs in specific socio-spatial contexts.
Martin Murer
Martin (he/him) is an Interaction designer and researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction division at Salzburg University. His research focuses on the interfaces between humans and machines, between the digital and the physical, between high and low tech, between craft and engineering, between construction and de-construction.
Katrin Kober
Katrin (she/her) is a designer and researcher at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg. Her focus is on sometimes-overlooked agencies and activities in the realm of technology-driven making.
Andreas Wildmann
Andreas is an electronics technician and passionate technology educator. He loves combining his programming and soldering projects with digital manufacturing.
Patrícia Reis
Patrícia (she/her) is an artist, researcher, and maker at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab. Her work centers on human-machine sensory interactive interfaces, employing a playful approach to technology that proposes new ways to expand body perception.
Roland Stelzer
Roland (he/him) is a Co-Founder of Happylab. A core focus of his work is science communication, particularly through creating accessible educational formats that invite new audiences into the maker community.
Stefanie Wuschitz
Stefanie (she/her) is an artist and researcher. Her work aims at demythifying and decolonising technology production. Her method of feminist hacking reveals hidden degrees of social inequality. She is influenced by new feminist materialism and ecofeminist values in the realm of open source culture.
Karim Jafarmadar
Karim (he/him) is a Co-Founder of Happylab. He is particularly dedicated to science communication, having developed numerous educational formats aimed at making technical and creative work accessible to a broad and diverse audience, especially within the maker community.
Anna Watzinger
Anna, based in Vienna (A), holds a diploma in sculpture from the Vienna Art School and a master degree in digital/media art from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She works within various media, topics and in collaborations, focusing on this liquid space of encounter of different things and phenomenon. Anna is currently a member of Mz* Baltazar’s Lab.
Georg Regal
Georg (he/him) is a scientist at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. His research is focused on human augmentation, extended reality and interfaces for people with disabilities and how critical making and co-creation can be applied in these domains.