What was true before the festival is still the case today: “More and more design studios are relocating to the 15th urban district – firstly, because it’s near the center, secondly, because of the relatively reasonable rents.” In the course of this Focus tour, participants visited the design studios mischer’traxler studio, Vandasye and Lichtwitz Leinfellner visuelle Kultur KG, and also the agency NOUS. All of them are located in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, and they have all achieved international success from there. To paraphrase “Star Trek:” These are the voyages of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK visitors. Their mission: to explore strange new worlds, to boldly go where no man has gone before!