The project “THE DREAM IN EXPERIENCE ” sees itself as an open space for sleep culture. Neurologists and sleep physicians from the Department of Neurology at the Kepler University Hospital Linz, in cooperation with designer Andreas Strauss and artist Reinhard Gupfinger as well as researchers from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, have realized an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of art, science and technology.

At the center is a specially developed capsule hotel in which visitors spend a 90-minute sleep cycle in so-called sleep capsules. Under varying external conditions, their sleep data is recorded and translated into sound and images in real time – a multi-sensory experience that encourages people to reflect on their own sleep.

The project deals with the topic of sleep justice and sees itself as an artistic-scientific contribution to the public debate on health, social participation and the influence of big data and artificial intelligence on the medicine of the future. The aim is to make sleep visible and tangible as a central and individual life factor.