Bio
Dr. Paula Strunden is a transdisciplinary artist with a background in architecture, having studied in Vienna, Paris and London. She has worked with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and Raumlabor Berlin and completed her design-led PhD as part of the Horizon 2020 project TACK - Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing. Her dissertation on multisensory perception through Extended Reality Models (xRM) was recognized with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Prize for Best Research Work 2023/24. Paula's room-scale xR models have been nominated twice for the Dutch film award Golden Calf and have been presented internationally at festivals and museums including the Royal Academy of Arts London, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam, Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, MAK Los Angeles, Ars Electronica Linz, and Museum der Moderne Salzburg.
As part of her research into the role of women in virtual technologies, she founded the online educational platform www.xr-atlas.org, hosts a podcast, and has taught at institutions including the Bartlett School of Architecture, the Architectural Association London, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Architecture Amsterdam, and the University of the Arts Berlin. Paula's teaching focuses on multisensory design methodologies and their application in spatial practice, in a variety of formats, including xR seminars, workshops, and summer schools.