Festival Headquarters in the former Bothe & Ehrmann Exhibition Halls — Archiv 2016 — Vienna Design Week

Festival Headquarters in the former Bothe & Ehrmann Exhibition Halls

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Marcell Nimfuehr

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Marcell Nimfuehr

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Marcell Nimfuehr

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Bueronardin / Markus Guschelbauer

“Art and Decoration”, “Arts and Crafts”, “To the Exhibition Rooms”. What was written here in large letters on the façade was plain and simply the program happening behind it.
A firework of talks, workshops, installations, and exhibitions made the former Bothe & Ehrmann Exhibition Halls on Schloßgasse 14 into probably the most nuanced festival living room in the ten years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK history. From the resplendent timber staircase to the stateroom, from marble emblem to the domed hall, the listed rooms of the former cabinetmakers to the monarchy became the pivot of Austria’s largest design festival, the hotspot for visitors from all over the world. An incandescent piece of luck, representing everything the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK has always aimed to stand for.

Special

Exhibition

OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2016 – EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE

30.9.–9.10.2016

As part of the festival opening of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK on September 29, the Austrian Federal Chancellery is presenting the outstanding artist award 2016 in the category of experimental design. Organized and realized this year by the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK for the second time already, the prize … more

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Exhibition

ISOCHRONE

Schloss Hollenegg for Design, mischer'traxler studio

30.9.–9.10.2016

You just had to stop and stare! A pendulum swings over a multi-layered turning tabletop. We, the visitors, stop, are interested, listen to the scratchiness of the grinding, crude mechanism. With every swing, the pendulum grinds deeper into the board, gradually revealing one by one the layers of the … more

Special

Exhibition

SPOTLIGHT ON: MORAG MYERSCOUGH

30.9.–9.10.2016

It wasn’t just the spotlight that caused the orange-pink-red writing to light up. It was the installation itself by Morag Myerscough, a hugely pithy and brash graphic work, which beamed out from within as a visual commentary. Myerscough was invited to create a typographic work in the Festival … more

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Presentation

LATEST DESIGNS: LIGHTING AND TABLEWARE PROJECTS

Lasvit

30.9.–9.10.2016

Shine bright like a diamond! Like scintillating blocks of ice, the twenty rows of hexagonal honeycombs of the breathtaking light sculpture by Moritz Waldemeyer hovered in the entrance of the Festival Headquarters. Something else as taking the stage here, too, under the luminaires that were as … more

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Exhibition

PRESENTING KONSTANTIN GRCIC

Rado, Konstantin Grcic

30.9.–9.10.2016

From production process to product launch, from watch face to hand design, from original form to watchstrap design. Result and process of a magical design cooperation were shown to the public by the Swiss watchmaker Rado in the Festival Headquarters – and revealed a well kept secret: a contemporary … more

Anniversary Program #tenyears

Exhibition

MAXIM VELČOVSKÝ: CITY SHADES

WienTourismus

30.9.–9.10.2016

The Vienna Tourist Board was delighted to receive an international visit, and in … multiple ways. The visit – on one hand by the skylines of Vienna, New York, and … Moscow, and on the other by the designer Maxim Velčovský – was reciprocated with a humorous shadow play, standing simultaneously … more

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Presentation

TEA CULTURE IN SERIES

Demmers Teehaus, POLKA

30.9.–9.10.2016

It’s teatime in wonderland. DEMMERS TEEHAUS served up macaroons in matching colors and the finest sorts of tea in the Festival Headquarters in the setting of a magical salon installation by the POLKA design bureau. Visitors not only enjoyed aromatic afternoon tea in the delicate cups and teapots … more

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Exhibition

POSSIBLE TOMORROWS

Biofaction

30.9.–9.10.2016

A doughnut construction kit with coli bacteria, bricks of bio-cement, textiles made of plant roots, crockery, beakers, and bowls made of fungus cells. A preliminary taste of what is possible or will be in the sector of biotechnology and synthetic biology was offered at the exhibition POSSIBLE … more

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Presentation

PICNIC

Meșteshukar ButiQ, zerunianandweisz

30.9.–9.10.2016

The Meșteshukar ButiQ put its presentation on this year in a small but smart sales room in the middle of the Festival Headquarters. Here, authentic … household goods of all kinds were put on display to appeal to both man and woman. The product group PICNIC consists of copper, wood, and cane-weaved … more

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Exhibition

EXOTIC BIRD

zerunianandweisz

30.9.–9.10.2016

Probably the subtlest temptation since copper, brass, and silver have existed. In part made by Roma craftspeople in Transylvania, who have been working with the materials for centuries, the poetically presented table sets by zerunianandweisz prompted a diversity of interpretations, meanwhile always … more

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Presentation

OF NATURAL PHENOMENA AND FASCINATING PRECISION

Porzellanmanufaktur FÜRSTENBERG

30.9.–9.10.2016

Theatrically presented behind arm-thick velvet cords, the porcelain manufactory of FÜRSTENBERG and the EOOS design studio placed their elegant black and white porcelain series in the limelight. The extraordinary installation inspired by natural phenomena like rivers of lava and accumulating … more

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Exhibition

MAG DES DING

Objektas

30.9.–9.10.2016

Where design meets development history, the juxtaposition tells of original career paths, diverse types of work, and different fields of activity. Under the title MAG DES DING – a pun on the academic degree Mag. des. ind. – twelve women industrial designers juxtaposed their own works to the … more

Special

Exhibition

THE TOOL & THE OBJECT

Vöslauer

30.9.–9.10.2016

As rucksack, shoulder bag, or with a practical clip? How do you transport a mineral water six-pack home without too much effort? This was the question addressed by young designers in the Vöslauer Design Competition 2016, managed and advised by the VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE. The winning project by … more

Anniversary Program #tenyears

Work-in-Progress

MAGAZINE

Say Say Say, Inc., Bleed, Vinz Schwarzbauer, Christian Hoffelner, Daniel Triendl, Maria Prieto Barea, Afloat, phospho, Cin Cin, studioelastik.com

30.9.–9.10.2016

A magazine can be two things: a depot or store, for instance. But in English mainly a “richly illustrated, entertaining, or popularly informative printed periodical”. In the design experiment in the Festival Headquarters, the two meanings were represented in a way – both the journalistic and the … more

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Exhibition

FRIENDLY ENEMY: JAPANESE KNOT WEED IN THE PAPER LABORATORY

Re-generacija

30.9.–9.10.2016

Making friends of enemies. Or: How we can make an invasive plant species useful. In a mobile presentation unit, the Slovenian collective Re-generacija presented the results of an ongoing research process for alternative cellulose fiber production – from the harvesting of the Japanese knotweed in … more

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Presentation

HIGH-PROFILE DESIGN FROM THE PEUGEOT DESIGN LAB

Peugeot

30.9.–9.10.2016

Design is drive, means dynamism. Seen like this, the partnership of the VIENNA … DESIGN WEEK with Peugeot seems an obvious option. Because with its Design Lab, the French automobile brand is the experimental force in the design world – whether for cars, bikes, scooters, pepper mills, or … more

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Get together

Pop-up Heuriger Zum Gschupftn Ferdl in the inner courtyard of the Festival Headquarters

30.9.–9.10.2016

To celebrate the tenth birthday of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the urban Heurige (traditional wine inn) concept was spontaneously relocated onto Schloßgasse, where Ferdl dreamed up delicacies and spritzers – wine and soda –, siphoned soda, and other Heurigen classics. In the evening, the pop-up … more

Anniversary Program #tenyears

Exhibition

10 DEKA

30.9.–9.10.2016

What would a birthday party be without a photo album? Selecting the best-of from the last ten years, the Vienna Kollektiv Fischka devised a photographic review of the birth and development of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK – a first decade that was also a double occasion for celebration. Because: Ten years … more

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Talk

Superscape 2016 – Start

JP architektur perspektiven

28.9.2015, 7.30pm

The overture to the biennial architecture competition Superscape 2016 was struck up by a big-name discussion panel and the keynote delivered by the trend researcher Oona Horx-Strathern. The well-attended and multifaceted discourse event simultaneously marked the start of the submission phase. In a … more