Paula Strunden
Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist who studied architecture in Vienna, Paris and London and has worked for Raumlabor Berlin and Herzog & de Meuron Basel. She completed her design-led PhD within the European research network 'TACK - Communities of Tacit Knowledge' and received the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Prize for Best Research Work 2023/24 for her dissertation on multisensory perception through Extended Reality (XR) models. Her XR installations have been exhibited internationally, including at the Royal Academy of Arts London, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and have been nominated twice for the Dutch Film Award 'Gouden Calf'. As part of her research into female pioneers in the history of virtual technologies, Paula founded the xR Atlas educational platform and has lectured at the Architectural Association London, Bartlett UCL, Bauhaus University Weimar and the Academy van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, as well as running xR workshops at the V&A, Whitechapel Gallery London, UdK Berlin and Kunsthalle Vienna.
EDUCATION
Barlett School of Architecture, University College London
London, United Kingdom
JURY
Michael Obrist
Almuth Spiegler
Krist Gruijthuijsen
Florian Reither
Lilli Hollein
FINAL PROJECT
