... SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE ...

Innovative research requires spaces that enable interdisciplinary collaboration. The Johannes Kepler University campus is located on the outskirts of Linz, and the LIT - OIC (Linz Institute of Technology - Open Innovation Center) designed by RIEPL RIEPL ARCHITECTS, is located at the very edge of this campus.The basement and the staircases are built in reinforced concrete, the rest of the building is a pure timber construction. A special detail is the blue spiral chute, it exists as a souvenir of the former Postal Distribution Center in Linz. Now it is linking the coworking-spaces with the lecture hall.

... MARRIAGE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND BUSINESS ...

'The LIT Open Innovation Center (OIC) is a research and development center focused on collaboration projects and projects with companies at the interface of science, academia, and companies in the fields of, Artifical Intelligence, Robot Intelligence, IT Security, Information Technology, Industry 4.0.

Together with the LIT Factory the LIT OIC serves as an open platform to explore, develop, demonstrate and strengthen the potential digitization technologies and create cross-industry solutions for products and production processes.'[1]

... STORYTELLING ...

'Our LIT models were not chosen at random. Like Diana, for example who is pictured on the mechatronics subject. Her granddaughter, who is currently studying business education at the JKU, signed her up for the shoot. As an electrical engineer in Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Diana spent 30 years building electricity pylons and laying cables. Even today she still likes to think back to her student days, especially to her favorite subject: mathematics. She appeals to young women to take up technical professions: 'It's a great pity that fewer women want to go into technology. You don't even know what a pleasure learning is.''[2]

... GROUP PICTURE WITHOUT LADY ...

'Shaping the future: Groundbreaking ceremony for the LIT Open Innovation Center.'[3]