Christoph Matt is an Austrian eco-social designer. He is the founder of Studio Matt, a nomadic design basecamp for environmentally and socially conscious design currently based in Vienna, Austria. Christoph is educated as an economic engineer with focus on information technology, holds a BA Intermedia with focus on sustainability and graphic design from Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences, Austria, in combination with studies at Bilgi University in Istanbul, Turkey. He continued his education and graduated with a MFA Embedded design with a focus on sustainability and design from HDK-Valand, Sweden and exchange at the Iceland University of the Arts in Reykjavik, Iceland. His works were presented in several group and solo exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Sweden and Iceland. Christoph is an active member of the “Design + Posthumanism Network” and the pan-Scandinavian project “The Conference of the Birds” dealing with the extinction of bird species in anthropocentric cities and landscapes in Sweden and Norway, running until 2024. In the course of this project he was a guest lecturer and hosted workshops with KV Konstskola students in Gothenburg, Sweden. In collaboration with the UNESCO biosphere reserve Großes Walsertal Christoph co-curates with Isadora Alves the “Nature Design Camp” and publishes the artist book “Nature Design Guide”, which aims to build new relations between the human and more-than-human in alpine communities. This ongoing project was awarded with the “The University of Gothenburg Sustainability Thesis Award” (GUSTA) 2022. Within the art research program “De Structura”, Estonia and Netherlands, he co-hosted with Catherin Schöberl a critical design and street art workshop with the public in Narva, Estonia. Christoph is a member of the interdisciplinary art collective “The Sympoietic Society” deeply immersed in the “I.C.E * IN CASE OF EMERGENCY” project, an art and science collaboration dealing with the extinction of glaciers and its multispecies in Finland, Italy and Austria.
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Nature Design Camp (NDC)
In Case of Emergency (I.C.E.)
Archives of the Earth (AE)
The Conference of the Birds
The Local Natives -
Design + Posthumanism Network
DE STRUCTURA art research program
SYMPOIETIC SOCIETY art collective -
ADIDAS / ADIDAS TERREX / AFRY / AIDS AID VORARLBERG / ALLIANZ / CENTER FOR TOURISM AND BUSINESS & DESIGN LAB / DYNAFIT / DESIGN + POSTHUMANISM NETWORK / DE STRUCTURA / FORWARD FESTIVAL / GOTHENBURG CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / HDK-VALAND / ISPO / ICELAND UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS / KV KONSTSKOLA / MOVEMBER / SWEDISH PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT SERVICE / PATAGONIA / POTENTIALE FESTIVAL / POOLBAR FESTIVAL / RAJA FOUNDATION / RECUP / REBOWL / RED BULL / RI.SE / RUNTASTIC / SOS-CHILDREN’S VILLAGES / THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS / UNESCO BIOSPHERE RESERVE GROßES WALSERTAL / UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI / UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG / WELEDA / X-BIONIC
Publication
2023 ARCHIVES OF THE EARTH: Fjords, art book, Isafjordur, Iceland
2022 NATURE DESIGN GUIDE, interactive art book, St. Gerold, Austria
2022 Building relations with nature by design methods, explorative paper, Gothenburg, Sweden
2021 Everything is going to be alright, fanzine, Reykjavik, Iceland
Press
2023 Heimat, newspaper feature, Dornbirn, Austria
2023 Vorarlberger Nachrichten, newspaper feature, Dornbirn, Austria
2023 REGIO-V, newsletter feature, Vorarlberg, Austria
2023 Talschafft, magazine feature, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria
2023 Design and posthumanism network, online feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
2023 REGIO-V, newsletter feature, Vorarlberg, Austria
2022 Gothenburg Center for sustainable development, newsletter feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 The Conference of the Birds, online feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 Talschafft, magazine feature, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria
2022 The Conference of the Birds, online feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 Vorarlberger Nachrichten, newspaper feature, Dornbirn, Austria
2022 Talschafft, magazine feature, UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Grosses Walsertal, Austria
2022 The Conference of the Birds, online feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 Design and posthumanism network, online feature, Gothenburg, Sweden
2017 STRAKS, magazine, Dornbirn, Austria
2017 PAGE, magazine, Hamburg, Germany
2017 Design made in Austria, online platform, Vienna, Austria
Appreciation
2023 TARA Art for Ocean finalist, Paris, France
2023 LEADER Project funding, Vorarlberg, Austria
2023 Erasmus+ enterprise exchange, University of Akureyri, Isafjordur, Iceland
2023 KLAR! Climate Change Adaptation Model Regions for Austria, St. Gerold, Austria
2022 The University of Gothenburg Sustainability Thesis Award (GUSTA) + research grant, Gothenburg, Sweden
2022 KLAR! Climate Change Adaptation Model Regions for Austria, St. Gerold, Austria
2021 Erasmus Scholarship, Reykjavik, Iceland
2020 Theodor och Hanne Mannheimmer Scholarship, Gothenburg, Sweden
2015 Erasmus Scholarship, Valencia, Spain
2015 Erasmus Scholarship, Istanbul, Turkey
Don't hesitate to contact me from Monday to Friday daytime for work and collaboration, availability varies according to the weather of the great outdoors.
Christoph Matt MFA
Eco-Social Designer
Studio Matt
Responsibility for
Nature and Humans
+43 (0)664 95 91 333
christophmatt.com
@christophmatt