Artistic approaches to technology with interactive media to support girls and young women in their professional orientation (IBP-GirlsLab)

More recent initiatives to counter the shortage of technical specialists also show little focus on promoting girls by combining technology, art and design. The project aims to investigate which measures can be used to interest girls and young women in technical subjects and how technical understanding can be promoted. The project is based on the assumption that such measures must begin at school. Girls are not introduced to technology by means of traditional forms of technology didactics, but through the sensual and haptic aspect of artistic contexts and working methods. Technology can be experienced in everyday objects that are developed, designed, programmed and presented in the context of the girls' personally meaningful projects.