Shrine people

shrine is shaped by people who take responsibility for how technology engages with memory, identity, and lived experience.


This is the team, partners, and advisors who contribute their work, perspective, and care to the project.

Team

The core team responsible for the vision, research direction, and day-to-day development of shrine.

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Gabriella Chihan Stanley

Project Lead · Behavioural Systems Designer
Creative technologist and project lead shaping shrine as a human-centered memory-to-meaning system. Works at the intersection of technology, identity, and lived experience.
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Axel Dietrich

Technical Lead · Creative Technologist
Technical director and systems architect behind shrine’s infrastructure. Focused on scalable, secure, and future-proof participatory technologies.
Lead Researcher and Methodological Architect of the shrine project

Eveline Wandl-Vogt

Research Lead · Participatory & Cultural Innovation
Researcher and participatory design lead bringing art-driven innovation into collective memory work. Focuses on care-based, inclusive approaches to knowledge creation.
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Philipp Thayer

XR Developer & Technical Implementation
XR & spatial computing developer with a strong full-stack mindset, supporting shrine’s technical implementation across immersive systems and supporting infrastructures.
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Michael Hochreiter

Full-Stack & XR Developer
Developer working on shrine’s core systems and immersive components. Focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure that keeps the project effective, stable and coherent.
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Sabine Trettensteiner-Schuff

Project Coordination & Research Support
Project coordinator supporting shrine through research coordination, documentation, and collaborative processes across participation and operations.