Members ︎
Tomáš Tichomirov
is an initiator and head of the insitute, an administrator,  babysitter, bibliophile, cyclist, educator , efficiency auditor, historian, political scientist, proofreader, quality controller, pianist, poet, odd-job man and lover of lists.


is an architect and artist with Iraqi roots, born and raised in Germany. She is about to complete her studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with a Master Degree in Art and Architecture in 2020. Duha deals with social injustice and environmental issues, which she expresses in various forms. In her art and activism, she and her collective stand up for human, women’s and animal rights.

Adam Hudec
is a researcher/activist/architect based in Vienna, currently working on his PhD at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Operating at the intersection of art, citizen science and architecture, interdisciplinarity became Adam´s tool to investigate hidden and invisible anomalies of the environment. His projects were published and exhibited internationally at various events that include Bi-City Biennale in Shenzhen or Biennale BIO 26 in Ljubjana.


born in Istanbul, Turkey, lives in Berlin, Germany. He is practicing in various ways intersection between art, architecture and research. He trained as an architect and graduated from Städelschule Architecture Class, Frankfurt am Main. His research and interest areas include landforms, technology, critical spatial and commoning practices, urban and data surveillance methodologies in the post-antrophocene era. He is co-founder of Herkes Icin Mimarlik (Architecture for All), which is is a non-profit organization based in Istanbul that provides democratic and collaborative design processes between architects, urban designers, and citizens. He is the coordinator and editor of the “#occupygezi architecture” project , which exhibited at the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, Salt Istanbul, V&A Museum London, MAXXI Rome and ngbk Berlin. This projects became part of permanent collection of The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture and Design.
Beatrice Zaidenberg
is a trained art historian. She completed her Bachelors in
communication science and art history at the University of Zurich. After graduation, she moved to Berlin and started her Master's at Humboldt University. During her Masters, she worked at the Studio Tomás Saraceno in the Arachnid Research Lab. There, she dove into the world of arachnology, which sparked her interest in interspecies communication, technology, and utopian forms of cohabitation. Beatrice was able to solidify her knowledge in these domains at Goldsmiths University
in London in the Culture Studies department. She investigates these topics around more-than-human agents further with three other artists and researchers as part of the artist collective LIMB.


is most likely the first company to have ever introduced a nanofiber window membrane to the general public. That was in 2013. Since then, they have established themselves as a leading progressive force on the market with nanofiber membranes applied in home protection,personal protection and fashion industries.
The partnership between RESPILON and Dusts Institute emerged spontaneously and has grown organically—just like layers of dust that Adam lets form on his installations. These installations, which are assembled from RESPILON nanofilters, capture the tiniest building blocks of what he transmutes into real works of art. Dusts at Dusts Institute, we confront everything that the wind blows our way, so that we can help others to keep in touch with fresh air.
Filip Moravčík
Born in Vienna with Polish roots, she studied architecture and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She works interdisciplinarily between urban space, society and visual art, as well as in art documentation.

Jakub Węgrzynowicz
is an advocate for nonhuman rights, an architect, and a storyteller who operates on the periphery between Slavic and German-speaking countries. He examines the dynamics of multi-genre cohabitation through the mediums of design, visual representation, and writing. In his practice, he aims to create narratives and spaces that promote bio*diversity and inclusion. Jakub pursued his architectural education at the Technical University of Warsaw and the Technical University of Munich. His bachelor's thesis, entitled "Place of Inhabitation of an Interspecies Commune," was recognized as the best environmentally conscious diploma defense in Poland in 2022.