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Join Collective Clothes is a design and research project that explores fashion as a collective practice and focuses on making and wearing clothes together. It is a modular clothing system that invites people to create clothes together, in a group.

St. Virgil is a center for education, conference and hotel. The Wilhelm Holzbauer building (1976) is surrounded by a spacious park, which in the future will be used as a place for learning and teaching, communication, action and contemplation under the open sky.

Every souvenir (memory) has a narrative core. it is based on an invisible story. at the latest, when every trash can be a souvenir, it becomes obvious that the souvenir does not speak for itself. it needs a context, a story. souvenirs are transmitters of stories, experienced stories, they are souvenirs.

Introduction to the experimental use of the 3D printer: processing and deformation of textile materials - Playing. Mita works by Bettina Aichinger, Iris Bruch, Clara Elixmann, Vanessa Franziska Friedl, Marie-Christin Julia Fritz, Verena Laireiter, Linda Elisabeth Nicolussi and Angelika Schlosser

In cooperation with the Austrian Paper Museum Steyrermühl, students intensively explored the material paper, examining material, form, technique, color, structure and haptics, and developed projects in different scales that were subsequently shown publicly in the museum.

In the context of the project, students dealt with the disposal of objects, with the recycling of waste as well as with values and design per se. Through the surprisingly occurring first Corona semester, a common discussion and reflection on values, attitude and questions about the essential began online.

In the subject Design: Technology.Textiles, especially in the field of technology, there was no dust- and noise-free place to teach, to discuss, to learn, to reflect, to take a break and to cook and eat, apart from the fantastic workshops until 2019.

Based on designs and fashion objects by fashion designer Roberto Capucci, students from the Design: Technology.Textiles program, together with students from the Department of Stage and Costume Design, Film and Exhibition Architecture, explored relevant questions of inspiration and its transformation.

"Fundus" was the title of an exhibition by students of the Department of Design: Technology.Textiles. Selected works from bachelor's and master's projects were shown, which made the diversity of the new course of study publicly tangible for the first time. The students created the exhibition concept on their own and also wrote their own texts.

Zwischen(t)räume is a project by students and teachers of the study program 'Design: Technology.Textile' of the Mozarteum University, residents of the Strubergassensiedlung and the residents' service Lehen & Taxham.