Alexandra Graupner, head of AIL - Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab, opens an external URL in a new window, is a cultural manager with a special focus on transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary art projects and artistic research projects at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Having worked in the field of architecture as a cultural manager in Graz and Vienna for more than a decade, followed by an assistant position to the rectorate of New Design University St. Pölten, she has started to build up and develop AIL since its beginning in 2014. 

The core of her work focuses on supporting artists, scientists, and external partners to present and realize their interdisciplinary projects, connecting people from different fields, and providing a safe space for experimental ideas to develop. It is her goal to make the results of those projects comprehensible for a public audience, limelight the role of art in those processes and show the impacts they have on society. 

Since 2023 she is the project leader of the PEEK funded artistic research project Sensing Living Systems together (AR 776-G. DOI 10.55776) with Jeanette Mueller and Paul Divjak. 

In addition, she teaches „Perspectives of Professional Practice“ at the University of Applied Arts since 2022.