Atlans is an interdisciplinary project-development company operating at the intersection of information technology, cultural management and the creative industries. Our work typically brings together culture, the arts and cutting-edge technology.

Over the past 35 years, we have collaborated with and worked for numerous internationally recognised brands and institutions, including Swarovski, Red Bull, Daimler AG, Porsche, IBM, Autodesk, Sense8, IKEA, VELUX, FIFA, DFB, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, Greenpeace, WWF, as well as the City of Vienna, the United Nations, the Federal Government of Germany, and the Government of the Emirate of Sharjah. We have also collaborated with leading research organisations and universities, including NASA, ESA, the German Aerospace Establishment, Harvard University, MIT, Fraunhofer Institutes and several universities.

Our portfolio includes a number of pioneering initiatives. We developed the methodology for the nationwide digitisation of Austria’s geographical data—an undertaking involving 250 experts from the Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying and the Austrian Federal Computing Centre over a ten-year period. Another milestone was the creation of the world’s first virtual world in 1993, in collaboration with Professor Mario Tokoro of Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo and Professor Carl Loeffler of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The underlying technology subsequently developed into a multibillion-dollar global industry.

Today, our principal focus is Artificial Intelligence.

We are developing ACAP—the AI Climate Adaptation Platform—an expert AI system for climate-resilient planning, design and construction in the Gulf region. ACAP brings together fragmented climate research, engineering standards, regional and historical building knowledge, smart-building and energy-positive practices, and emerging ClimateTech solutions. Drawing on more than 1,000 cooling methods, it transforms this extensive body of knowledge into practical, project-specific guidance.

We are also active in AI-assisted art authentication, a field with the potential to transform the international art market by combining advanced AI technologies with established methods of scholarly and scientific validation. AI enables us to assess the probability of authenticity rapidly and systematically, identify the most promising works and allow our experts to concentrate their attention on those pieces most worthy of detailed investigation.

Further information about the projects of Atlans founder Christian Bauer is available at: https://chrisbauer.com.