Design Investigations

Another guest critic that we were glad to welcome to our semester’s midterm reviews is Pello Rauno 🌐💫

Pello Rauno is Managing Director at Open Future Lab. With two decades of interdisciplinary design experience at agencies such as TBWA and Brand Manual, an ongoing PhD research in human-centred financial well-being, and extensive lecturing background on research design, design thinking and creative problem-solving, Pello uniquely shapes impactful financial life design. 🌍💡



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Our 💥 midterm reviews 💥 are taking place! We are looking forward to share our projects so far with external guests and critics. 🌍

For our semester brief No more Bullsh*t futures, we are delighted to welcome Klára Peloušková! 🎥🌱

Klára Peloušková is a researcher and strategist based in Prague, Czech Republic. She works at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM) where she co-leads the platform SHIFT – Sustainability Transitions Lab and develops strategies for sustainability-related research and education. Previously, she led Planet B, a transdisciplinary educational program at the same institution. As a consultant and designer, she collaborates with the innovation studio Pábení which designs services and strategies for regenerative organizations. In her PhD dissertation, she analyzed approaches to design for sustainability and their practical applications in strategic and systems design projects.



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💫OPEN HOUSE 2025!💫

Design investigations warmly invites you to visit our studio on November 4th for the OPEN HOUSE at 💥

Come and meet our students, explore our studio spaces and ask all your burning questions!

Learn more about our study program during our info sessions at 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. — featuring a short introduction by our professor Anab Jain () and inspiring presentations by our students about their recent works 🤖🎬🎥⚡️

Come by, say hi, and feel the vibe — we’re looking forward to meeting you! 👋
For more information, visit openhouse.uni-ak.ac.at

Soph Dyer helped us start off the new semester with an exciting workshop about discovering value in non-monetary objects, rituals and experiences.🌻🦦
“Follow the value” invited the students to reflect on questions like: What is value? Where is it located? How is it created? We know that value exists beyond money, but non-monetary value can be hard to pin down and is often invisible. 🔎🌱
After some observation and conversation in the whole of the city, they came to present their resulting ritualistic objects in the studio, which for a moment had become the site of an archeological dig in the year 3025, acting as a team of student archaeologists and anthropologists. 🕵️🪲⏱️
“Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will be able to think.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) The Dispossessed




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