Since the beginning of March, the StadtPalais - Museum for Stuttgart has been hosting the "FemPalais - Festival der Frauen*". With a multi-perspective and intersectional approach, the festival makes visible women who have shaped the history of the city of Stuttgart and the surrounding region in the past, as well as helping to shape the present and future. Tanja Blascheck is one of these women.
Born in 1987, Tanja Blascheck studied software engineering at the University of Stuttgart and received her doctoral degree from the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems (VIS) in 2017. After her PostDoc at Aviz at the Inria Saclay research center in Paris, Tanja Blascheck returned to the University of Stuttgart in 2019. Today, she conducts research for the SimTech Cluster of Excellence and works as a research associate at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems.
Tanja Blascheck's research focuses on the development and evaluation of micro-visualizations for smartwatches and augmented reality. Micro-visualizations are visualizations that can be captured at a glance, while a person is engaged in another task, such as jogging, cycling, or taking a walk. The focus here is on how these micro-visualizations can be presented in a comprehensible way, how much information a person can perceive in such a short period of time, and the question of how to successfully combine a smartwatch and augmented reality headset.
In 2020, Blaschek was also named a Margarete Wrangell Fellow. And it is in this function, that she is now part of the special exhibition "Stadt voller Frauen“. The exhibition presents the history of women of historical importance in Stuttgart, such as Margarete von Wrangell, Clara Zetkin, and Else Kienle. These women broke new ground in politics, science, culture and society in an unprecedented way, and their commitment ensured social change beyond the borders of Stuttgart that continues to this day.
In the Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation Program, excellent female scientists in Baden-Württemberg receive the financial support they need to make their habilitation ambitions a reality. The success of this support program is obvious: Of the female scientists who have received financial support since 1997, more than 50% have already received the Venia Legendi - the authorization to teach at scientific universities.
The exhibition, which can be viewed at the StadtPalais until September 10, 2023, will be accompanied by numerous events, concerts, workshops, panel discussions and guided tours. Muhterem Aras , the president of state parliament, is patron of the festival. The exhibitions and projects are organized in collaboration with numerous initiatives, partners, and people involved in this field from Stuttgart's urban society - including the Stuttgart City Library, the Stuttgart Region Pop-Büro, and the State Center for Political Education. The Gallery is supported by the Innovationsfonds Kunst of the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts Baden-Württemberg.