The playful inventions of Johanna Pichlbauer explore our emotional relationships with objects and machines. Linking the technical with the poetic, the mechanical with the delicate, the designer looks for new tales to tell about the technologies we are surrounded with.

Johanna Pichlbauer studied Mechanical Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology and Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts (Fiona Raby, Anab Jain).︎︎ 
 
Her cooperation partners and clients have recently included Vossen, the MAK, willhaben, the Vienna Design Week, the Kunstuni Linz and the ars electronica Center, as well as the city of Nuremberg. Her works are repeatedly part of international exhibitions and festivals: Design Museum Holon (IL), Triennale di Milano (IT), Gent Design Museum (BE), Vitra Design Museum (D), Design Museum London (UK), Bal Robotov (RU), Vienna Design Week (AT), Biennal of Change (AT), Jerusalem Design Week (IL), Biennale Internationale de St. Etienne (F). In 2018, the designer was included in the Forbes 30 under 30 list.

For the past three years, Johanna Pichlbauer has been teaching regularly at the Vienna University of Technology (Institute for Human Computer Interaction), and she is also one of the organizers of Design in Gesellschaft, a studio community in the 20th district of Vienna – come visit!


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