Richard Sickinger

Mag. Richard Sickinger is a Scientific Staff member at the Research Lab Sustainable Cultural Heritage within the University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria. His academic work focuses on sustainable building practices, pattern languages for societal change, and educational technologies in construction contexts.

• Role: Principle Investigator for EU-funded projects (2013-2016)
• Expertise: Pattern languages, sustainable building engineering, migrant workforce education

Research Interests: Richard develops innovative educational tools like multi-lingual ConClips for construction skills training. His work bridges technical heritage preservation with modern sustainable building methodologies, emphasizing tacit knowledge transfer and feedback-oriented learning systems.

He actively contributes to academic discourse through publications on pattern languages and lectures at international conferences like PUARL (2016-2018), where he explores storytelling applications for architectural pattern communication and coherence-building in design processes.