Efficient, Secure Structural Detention Design in Prisons in Austria – ESDD

IPIC 2024 Presentation by Hildegard Sint and Claudia Körmer (IPIC2024-PID005)

Authors

Hildegard Sint

Academic and Research Staff, University of Applied Sciences Vienna, Austria

Hildegard studied architecture at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, at the Vienna University of Technology and at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille, France. Hildegard completed studies with a doctoral thesis specialising in Architecture and Identity at the Vienna University of Technology. In the following Hildegard worked as an architect in various architectural offices in Austria and France as well as organising international symposiums and publications such as "Along the Great Wall: Architecture and Identity in China and Mongolia", 2009, and "Indonesia: Architecture, Culture and Identity", 2011 at the Vienna University of Technology.

From autumn 2018 Hildegard worked at the University of Applied Sciences Vienna in the department "Architecture - Green Building" as an external lecturer in the Bachelor programme and since summer 2019 as a full-time lecturer in the Bachelor and Master programme Architecture - Green Building as well as in research for national and international projects including networking with international colleges and universities. The focus of Hildegard's teaching includes skills training for future architects with regard to interdisciplinary working methods and participatory building as well as a critical examination of different building typologies and precarious housing. Together with colleague Claudia Körmer, Hildegard is leading the research project “Efficient, Secure Structural Detention Design in Prisons in Austria – ESDD”.

Claudia Körmer

Academic and Research Staff, University of Applied Sciences Vienna, Austria

Claudia studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Having worked in research and teaching in the "Risk and Security Managemen" department at University of Applied Sciences Vienna since summer 2014, Claudia is also responsible for the realisation of national and international social science projects, such as the study "Economic and Industrial Espionage in Austrian Companies 2015" and the study "Corporate Security in the D-A-CH Region 2016". From 2017 to 2018, Claudia led the Kiras project "AQUS - Training and Quality Standards for Security Service Providers". Since October 2020, Claudia has been project manager of the Kiras follow-up project AQUS II. Prior to 2014, Claudia worked at the KFV (Austrian Road Safety Board) in the areas of road safety education, home, leisure and sports accidents and crime prevention. Together with her colleague Hildegard Sint, Claudia works on the research project "Efficient, Secure Structural Detention Design in Prisons in Austria – ESDD". Furthermore, she is responsible for the "Security Culture in the Austrian Critical Infrastructure" research project.

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