Marilena Tumler honored: "Vorarlberg's brains of tomorrow"
01.04.2025
The Vorarlberger Nachrichten brings those people who are helping to shape our country with courage, inventiveness and commitment to the forefront with the "Minds of Tomorrow" 2025. Since 2007, a VN jury has been selecting those personalities who stand out for their exceptional achievements in their field and have the potential to enrich our society in the long term.
Bringing history to life digitally
At the FHV, Marilena Tumler deals intensively with the pressing ethical issues of our time. Among other things, she uses the Design Futuring method. This technique develops speculative future scenarios to make potential problems visible at an early stage. In her view, many of the ethical difficulties in the media and technology sector arise precisely because ethical considerations are often neglected - with consequences that are usually only recognized late. Her aim is to provide students on the FHV's "InterMedia" and "Design & Creative Leadership" degree programmes with thinking tools that they can use to develop visionary ideas for the future.
In addition to her academic work, Marilena Tumler launched the i.appear project - a platform that uses augmented reality (AR) to bring urban history to life. The idea came about during her master's degree when she was researching the history of a Jewish family in Dornbirn. She realized that she passed places steeped in history every day, but that their stories remained invisible. She wanted to change that: hist.appear, an interactive tour through 600 years of Dornbirn's history, was the result. Augmented reality proved to be the ideal way to enrich real places with virtual information and convey history in a tangible way.
Today, i.appear offers cities, regions and companies a platform to make history, culture and other content an interactive experience. "What is spatially and emotionally close to us affects us more," emphasizes Marilena Tummler. For this reason, she is particularly interested in the digital transfer of knowledge on site - in an accessible, playful and uncomplicated way.
