Studio Martin Konzett, a transdisciplinary practice 🔎 📸 🥾
Studio Martin Konzett, a transdisciplinary practice 🔎 📸 🥾
(mission statement)
beyond ↗ territories 🎥 📚, decoding spaces through visuals and data to create layered narratives. Social anthropology spanning tangible and virtual realms. Research-led, ops-centric, blending field and desk work. structure ✖️ context 📸 to reveal stories at the edge of the built environment, for publication, exhibition, social media.
(short selection)
Collaborations with studios, companies and institutions including Lechner & Lechner Architects, SUMMARY, Verbund AG, Palisis AG, Alsa, CARRIS, The World Bank, WHO, as well as academic and cultural networks such as ETH Zurich, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, ICT4D.at, Zanzibits, Fundación Cibervoluntarios, e-STAS, ZCGF, oneVillage Foundation and GTZ.
Exhibition participation and screenings at major venues and festivals including Porto Design Biennale, Technisches Museum Wien, Museum für Kommunikation Bern, Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), Internet Governance Forum (IGF / Paris), Cardiff Festival of Creative Technology, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Wien Museum MUSA, Galerie Einblick and Alte Saline Hallein, with applications currently pending with Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam and 25FPS Zagreb.
Publications and editorial work across print and media including nextroom, ArchiDiaries, kntxtr, Urban Zeitgeist International (UZI), Salzburger Nachrichten, derStandard, an array of blogs, social media magazines and feeds, linear television. Books: AXIS (2024), OFF (2021), Stadium (2019), Fabrics (2018), plus various zines, posters, interventions and films: Hello Africa (2009), DWELLERS (2025), TRAVERSING / Kreis 5 (forthcoming 2026).
(recent)
Conversations and documentation with leading architects and scholars including Prof Martin Tomitsch, Prof Tom Avermaete, Samuel Gonçalves, Lucinda Correia, Ricardo Santos, Carolina Delgado and Bráulio Conceição, as well as independent visual research on the architectural legacies of Ricardo Bofill, Karl Schwanzer, Le Corbusier, Michel Écochard and Álvaro Siza.
Studio Martin Konzett is Martin Konzett and his network.
Martin, b. 1978, graduated from engineering school in electrical engineering and ICT (AT) and went on to study and lecture Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology (AT) with focus on Industrial Systems Engineering and Techniksoziologie, complemented by Strategic Dramaturgy at University of Vienna and Media Art at Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
Beside the studio, he is consulting SaaS scale-ups in the travel and transportation domains. He co-founded the Austrian Network for Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D).
The studio space
A former water mill from the 1900s, tracing back hundreds of years, set between meadow and forest along a stream, was transformed into a combined living and working space by Martin Konzett and Caroline Göllner. Through careful, minimal interventions by architect Christine Lechner, the existing structures were strengthened, opened to light, and reconnected to its surroundings while keeping its history visible. The ground floor atelier remains a semi-public space for making, craft and exchange, where the character of the former mill is still strongly present. Living and working are layered above and within, with subtle additions creating a dialogue between old and new, interior and landscape.
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We considered it as essential that our interventions are clearly readable, without concealing the structural supports of the building.