About - Bernd  Kräftner

Sen.Lect. Dr. Bernd Kräftner

Bernd Kraeftner (b. Lake Constance, Austria) studied medicine and worked as filmmaker and author. Since 1998, he has explored the messy interfaces between science and society. He conducted various transdisciplinary research projects funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, the Wellcome Foundation/SciArt, London; the ZKM, Karlsruhe, the Humboldt University, Berlin etc. He co-curated the science exhibition “the true/false.inc”, Wien 2006.

Currently (2008-2010), he is principal investigator of the research / art project “Pillow Research: multiple diagnoses and hidden talents”, sponsored within the “Translational-Research-Program” of the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF L528-G14); furthermore he is principal investigator of the science & art project (2010-2012) “'In the event of?' Anticipatory and participatory politics of emergency provision", sponsored within the “Arts & Science Call 2009” of The Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). As founder/member of the "research centre for shared incompetence" he investigates method developement in science(s) and art, transdisciplinarity, science and technology studies and the arts.

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http://sharedinc.net