Reviews: 2018

Stadtarbeit 2018

Stadtarbeit

Stadtarbeit means togetherness. Design in general makes our world more beautiful and worth living. Social design in particular addresses social challenges and issues, and analyzes these themes over and above aesthetic and functional interpretations. It promotes knowledge sharing and makes demands on its public. Via an open call a specialist jury has picked five projects that reveal outstanding creative quality in their potential for society. Intensive and unconventional in their form of presentation they show how design reaps results in the lives we live together every day. The projects are realized in part in cooperation with Caritas. Also the Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Design Award has again been presented in 2018.

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J. Pichlbauer / K. Kender / A. Fruhstorfer / L. Hofer

Stadtarbeit – City Work

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1070 UNSEEN – SIGNALS FROM OFFSTAGE

Johanna Pichlbauer/Kay Kender/Alexandra Fruhstorfer/Lisa Hofer

28.9.–7.10.2018

The home-based care provided by Caritas supports people who’re no longer able to leave their living spaces, people who are easily forgotten in the daily hustle and bustle of Vienna’s Neubau. The project team, after tracking the caregivers, read several mostly unknown and extremely personal stories … more
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A limousine appears at the roadside and occupies several of the contested parking lots at once. It is a representative for the luxury of appropriating public (parking) space, it opens up and celebrates possibilities. Together with car-lovers as well as haters, the project team wants to discuss the car in the city: Sports car versus minivan? Parking in the vacant shop downstairs? How sustainable is the car ride to the organic food store? The new subway is stealing my parking space – where should I park, I just have to buy milk? Five hours’ ride by public transport to visit grandma? Drive-in cinema, mixtapes, caraoke, and much more transform the parked stretch limousine, as an exaggeration of a car, into a real-life laboratory offering much more than homemade lemonade.

Stadtarbeit – City Work

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AUF ’NE LIMO

28.9.–7.10.2018

When strolling, running, or driving down Burggasse, it couldn’t be missed. The pink stretch limousine was too flashy, and passersby were too worked up by the chutzpah that had monopolized this location, which provided enough room for several hotly contested parking spaces. With a multifarious … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Kollektiv Fischka / P. Gapp

Stadtarbeit – City Work

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A TON

ZOOM Kindermuseum, Sarah Maria Kamleitner / Johann Kamleitner

29.9.–4.10.2018

Father, daughter, and Mother Nature – in their joint project, Johann (Farmer) and Sarah Kamleitner (Fine artist) addressed themes involving agriculture and the food industry: From the field to the germinating seed to the threshed ear – how much energy, time, and effort is required to produce a ton … more
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Niko Havranek