Archiv 2019 — Vienna Design Week

PLATFORM

Talk

YOUNG EXPERTSCLUSTER: WHAT DA FUTURE?

designforum Wien, designaustria

1.10.2019, 5.30pm–7.30pm

The Young ExpertsCluster (Y_EC) of designaustria, a knowledge center and advocacy group, is the platform for young designers in all disciplines. The design dialogue focuses on four thematic blocks: design and education, design and work, design and sustainability, and design and technology. What … more

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Workshop

X-OVER WORKSHOP: HOW CAN I CREATE THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY EFFECT FOR MY COMPANY?

KAT – Kreativwirtschaft Austria

2.10.2019, 11.30am–5.30pm

The KAT workshop invites companies and creatives to consider the eponymous question. Creatives get to know various business models better, while companies gain insight about the work method and process of the creative industry. As a start, Karin Emprechtinger presents the aws Creat(iv)e Solutions … more

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Exhibition

WHERE IS OUR COFFEE KEPT?

J. Hornig

27.9.–6.10.2019

“Ask not what your coffee can do for you, ask what you can do for your coffee.” In cooperation with the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, J. Hornig issued a call for ideas relating to coffee storage in the run-up to the festival: How should the bean – whether ground or whole – be stored, stocked, or hoarded at … more

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Talks

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WE HAVE A CHOICE!

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

29.9.2019, 11am

Do we have a choice? In which direction should a national cultural strategy lead in the future? A clear commitment to the cultural nation of Austria? More private sector, less federal government? A cultural foundation? What value does culture truly have in Austria? In a government paper and among … more

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Guest Country

Exhibition

WILD AT HEART – A COLLECTION OF MODERN FINNISH DESIGN AND ART

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

27.9.–6.10.2019

Finnish design is world famous. It’s prized around the globe for its high quality and distinct formal language. Simple, natural colors and clear lines are trendsetters. Originality, boldness, and use of vibrant color characterize the design language. The extensive Guest Country showcase WILD AT … more

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Guest Country

Talk

WILD AT HEART – A COLLECTION OF MODERN FINNISH DESIGN AND ART

Talk

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

1.10.2019, 5pm

Finnish design is world famous. It’s prized around the globe for its high quality and distinct formal language. Simple, natural colors and clear lines are trendsetters. Originality, boldness, and use of vibrant color characterize the design language. The extensive Guest Country showcase WILD AT … more

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Presentation

VIENNESE MODERNISM 2.0

Österreichische Werkstätten

27.9.–5.10.2019

For the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the Österreichische Werkstätten will cooperate with domestic manufacturers and present installations that illustrate the lasting significance of Viennese Modernism in the daily work of contemporary artists and designers. Because beautiful things have attracted people … more

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Passionswege

Presentation

VILLE KOKKONEN with J. & L. Lobmeyr

J. & L. Lobmeyr, Ville Kokkonen, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

When people think of glass, they must also think about light. Nowhere else is this more apparent than at J. & L. Lobmeyr. There, the light doesn’t merely refract into the innumerable facets of the crystal chandelier, it also plays on the surface of the virtually immaterial frosted glass.

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Special

Presentation

VIENNA DESIGN GAMES

PrintStones GmbH, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–6.10.2019

Games play an important and often underestimated role in our society. They pick up on the mechanisms of human coexistence, transform them, and present us with a stylised mirror image of life. Ideally we can reflect on routines and test creative solutions like this. Also games are refreshing refuge … more

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Exhibition

VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019: BRAVE NEW VIRTUEP. SHAPING OUR DIGITAL WORLD

27.9.–6.10.2019

What values can provide a basis for the real utopia of an economically and socially just and also ecologically sustainable future? “The VIENNA BIENNALE provides the possibilities offered by art, design, and architecture to shape a values-based future,” stated Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director … more

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Guided Tour

VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019: BRAVE NEW VIRTUEP. SHAPING OUR DIGITAL WORLD

Expert tour “No Boring Paths"

3.10.2019, 4.30pm

Expert tour “No Boring Paths” through the reinstallation of the MAK DESING LAB with the MAK LAB APP. Expert guided tour with Janina Falkner (Curator, MAK), Stefan and Florian Lechleitner (Huangart | digital branding).

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Guided Tour

VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019: BRAVE NEW VIRTUEP. SHAPING OUR DIGITAL WORLD

Curator tour with mischer’traxler studio

4.10.2019, 4.30pm

What values can provide a basis for the real utopia of an economically and socially just and also ecologically sustainable future? “The VIENNA BIENNALE provides the possibilities offered by art, design, and architecture to shape a values-based future,” stated Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director … more

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Guided Tour

VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019: BRAVE NEW VIRTUEP. SHAPING OUR DIGITAL WORLD

Expert tour “CLIMATE CHANGE!"

6.10.2019, 3pm

“CLIMATE CHANGE! From Mass Consumption to a Sustainable Quality Society” Expert tour with Harald Gründl (EOOS) and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (General Director, MAK).

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Guided Tour

VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019: BRAVE NEW VIRTUEP. SHAPING OUR DIGITAL WORLD

Expert tours with Harald Gründl

1.10.2019

With the project CIRCULAR FLOWS, commissioned and curated by the MAK, EOOS presented the official Austrian contribution at the XXII. Triennale in Milan in 2019, which raised pivotal questions regarding the condition and repair of our planet under the title of Broken Nature. Design Takes on Human … more

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Guest Country

Talk

RICHNESS, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

1.10.2019, 5pm

The extensive Finnish Guest Country exhibition WILD AT HEART at the Festival Headquarters in the Althan Quartier sees itself as a curated composition of new materials, form, and techniques, as a noteworthy and experimental cross section that visualizes the approaches of a veritable design nation.

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Presentation

VEGETABLE LIVING ROOM TAKEOVER!

raiseaplant

27.9.–6.10.2019

I want a garden! The dream of raiseaplant is to make home vegetable gardening a reality for everyone – whether they have a green thumb or not. Vegetables can be grown in your home with the indoor garden “Shreba.” Watering and lighting is fully automatic, and the room temperature will be improved.

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Exhibition

TONI R. TOIVONEN: MADNESS INVITED

27.9.–5.10.2019

The artist Toni R. Toivonen, born in Helsinki in 1987, examines the duality of life and death, takes on the various aspects of existence. Beginning with painting, Toivonen began working with such media as oils and charcoal on canvas before developing a conceptual approach through experimentation:

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

27.–29.9.2019

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Talk

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Talk “Althangrund a Hip Quarter?"

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

29.9.2019, 5.30pm

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

30.9.–2.10.2019

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Talk

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Talk "Human Greatness?"

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

1.10.2019, 3pm

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

3.–6.10.2019

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Talk

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Talk „No Design, Just Function?“

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

4.10.2019, 5.30pm

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

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Exhibition

TIMOTHEUS TOMICEK: PLATO'S NIGHTMARE

Bildrecht | Bildraum 01

4.–5.10.2019

In PLATO’S NIGHTMARE, Timotheus Tomicek takes up the philosopher’s allegory of the cave, and his installation in Bildraum 01 explores phenomena of visual perception and projection. The arc extends from cave painting to the classical age to the question of knowledge in today’s complex visual … more

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Special

Work-in-Progress

THERE ARE MORE THINGS

Kohlmaier, rudolf

27.9.–6.10.2019

With its Festival Headquarters, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK doesn’t just open the door for contemporary design, it also provides a window to a time that we’re in part already extremely unfamiliar with. Some of the design ideas that are inscribed in the Bank Austria’s former office building are now … more

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Special

Experience

THE CHROMATIC DINNER

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

29.9.–3.10.2019

Cuisine, art, and science meet in a restaurant. What admittedly sounds like the beginning of a bad joke is without a doubt one of the most exciting gastronomic experiences in this year’s festival: THE CHROMATIC DINNER explores new possibilities of interdisciplinary encounters. The result: a … more

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Passionswege

Presentation

TERESA BERGER with Galvanik Austria

Teresa Berger, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

28.9.–3.10.2019

Metal is not commonly associated with naturalness. The fact that organic material and hard, shiny surfaces are in no way mutually exclusive is proven by Helga Tauer with her highly individual galvanizing business. Electrical current is used to apply a metal coating to items brought in by … more

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Passionswege

Presentation

TEEMU SALONEN with Glas Bauer

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

Plastic palms, pastel lettuce leaves, a car radio, a greenish chunk of glass – the set pieces used by the Finnish designer Teemu Salonen in his works seem to come from the most remote nooks of everyday life. Frequently set in hand-shaped connecting pieces, these found objects are on the one hand … more

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Exhibition

techLAB RESIDENCY: DIGITAL/DEMOCRATIC/DESIGN

Technisches Museum Wien

28.9.–6.10.2019

Inviting young designers, a two-part residency at the new techLAB revolves … around democratic design and digital production technologies: In a workshop, Klemens Kohlweis shows how he reinterprets materials between analogue and digital production – such as by combining 3-D printing with knitting … more

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Workshop

techLAB RESIDENCY: DIGITAL/DEMOCRATIC/DESIGN

Workshop

Technisches Museum Wien

28.9.2019, 10am–1pm

Inviting young designers, a two-part residency at the new techLAB revolves around democratic design and digital production technologies: In a workshop, Klemens Kohlweis shows how he reinterprets materials between analogue and digital production – such as by combining 3-D printing with knitting … more

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Urban Food & Design

Food in Progress

TASTE THE NOW

Orlando Lovell

27.9.–6.10.2019

TASTE THE NOW sees itself as an homage to regional baked specialties. Vienna’s bakers meet with local designers and consumers. During the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, they’ll search for individual pathways for Vienna that don’t depend on global marketing strategies. Connections to tradition and enhancing … more

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Passionswege

Presentation

STUDIOTUT with Tischlerei Bretschneider – DIE WERKSTATT

studiotut

27.9.–5.10.2019

Workshops are places of encounters: Materials meet forms, innovative approaches come together with time-honored skills, and design solutions are found for problems. Most importantly, people come together, share experiences, and work together. One of these workshops is that of Maria-Theresia … more

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Passionswege

Presentation

STUDIO SAIN with Drechsler Hermann Viehauser

Studio Sain, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

It’s a feast for the eyes, watching the swiftly rotating wood as it literally melts away under a skillfully operated lathe, leaving an elegantly rounded form behind. As one of the last of his trade in Austria, Hermann Viehauser knows the satisfaction of woodturning. He possesses the age-old skills … more

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Exhibition

LINE, DOT, PIXEL. TYPOGRAPHY AND PERCEPTION.

New Design University (NDU) St. Pölten

27.9.–6.10.2019

The exhibition LINE, DOT, PIXEL examines the connections between typography, perception, and legibility – at the same time exploring the emotional effect of writing. Because a world without writing would be unimaginable: On the one hand, it’s used for communication. On the other, writing involves … more

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Exhibition

STEFAN OLÁH

rauminhalt_harald bichler space & content

27.9.–5.10.2019

Curated by Ulrike Matzer, the gallery rauminhalt_harald bichler presents from 12.9. to 12.10. for the first time ever an impressive cross section of the varied oeuvre of Stefan Oláh in a solo exhibition. The journey will take visitors into unfamiliar micro- and macrocosms that pose new and exciting … more

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Talk

STEFAN OLÁH

Talk

rauminhalt_harald bichler space & content

2.10.2019, 7pm

Curated by Ulrike Matzer, the gallery rauminhalt_harald bichler presents from 12.9. to 12.10. for the first time ever an impressive cross section of the varied oeuvre of Stefan Oláh in a solo exhibition. The journey will take visitors into unfamiliar micro- and macrocosms that pose new and exciting … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

A SEARCH FOR TRACES – LISTEN BEHIND THE FACADES!

Tamara Bauer / Natascha Ickert

27.9.–6.10.2019

It’s not what you say, but how you say it, as they say. This district is where a highlighted atmospheric picture will be sketched with the aid of original sounds. In the virtual scavenger hunt, the public will undertake an interactive stroll through the neighborhood for the purpose of investigating … more

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Game Design

Talk

PLAY VS. GAME

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

4.10.2019, 4.30pm

Has the digital turn changed the game forever? At present, since children play on screens and managers play with Legos, one could ask who, when, and for what purpose games are played. The spectrum seems to be overwhelming and the answers varied. Along the keywords gamification … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

SPECULATIVE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS

SISI - Spekulatives Institut für Soziale Interventionen

27.9.–6.10.2019

SISI tests new pathways in urban design through the connection between concrete and digital space. The search for alternative approaches of co-existence and the reclaiming of cities will begin at the speculative locations of the digital and should add new perspectives to public space. The institute … more

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Presentation

SOTTOSOPRA: THE FAMILY TREE OF THE APULIAN SHEEP

Pecore Attive

27.9.–6.10.2019

Wool has been a valuable material throughout human history. In the hinterlands of southern Italy’s Bari in particular, this raw material was vital to the economy into the 1970s. Against the background of more and more scarce resources and the progress of digitalization, Pecore Attive is devoted … more

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Talk

SIMON TYRRELL: DESIGN STORIES

Ruby Marie Hotel & Bar

2.10.2019, 4.30pm

A lesson in the history of design above Vienna’s rooftops: As part of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Ruby Marie Hotel & Bar will invite the public to a traditional festival sundowner, with Austrian and international guests. As an introduction to his exclusive talk, Simon Tyrrell will use selected objects … more

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Presentation

SEBASTIAN MENSCHHORN: CLOUD COLLECTION

Engelstein & Grünberger studios

27.9.–6.10.2019

For Europe’s largest online shop of steel products, Engelstein & Grünberger studios developed the idea of launching a small but select edition with steel objects. The Viennese company brought on board Sebastian Menschhorn for the design, a partner and kindred spirit who was assigned the task of … more

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Presentation

RAW . RECYCLED PORCELAIN . EXTENDED VERSION

feinedinge* porzellanmanufaktur

27.9.–5.10.2019

With the goal of recycling colored porcelain rejects in the best possible way, feinedinge* has produced the series RAW since 2016. Unfired shards from a variety of collections are used for products in new, unexpected shades, and the spectrum includes all nuances of wonderful gray shades. RAW is … more

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Presentation

RADO STAR PRIZE AUSTRIA

Rado

27.9.–5.10.2019

In the run-up to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Rado will reveal the winner of the Rado Star Prize Austria 2019: For this competition, the Swiss watchmaker invited talented designers to creatively employ the brand’s motto, “Master of Materials.” From January to August, they had an opportunity to present … more

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Game Design

Exhibition

PRESS START – EXPERIENCE AUSTRIAN GAMES INTERACTIVELY

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, SUBOTRON

27.9.–6.10.2019

For a decade, passionate dedicated hobbyists, visionary studios, and established companies have attracted attention to the local gaming scene from around the world thanks to ambitious and innovative works. The spectrum and opportunities offered by the medium as an inspiration for creatives will be … more

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Talks

Talk

POSTPRODUKT – A NEW SELF-IMAGE OF THE DISCIPLINE

postprodukt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2019, 2.30pm–4pm

What can a postproduct be? Under the programmatic name postprodukt, the Vienna design offices Vandasye, Studio Dankl, mischer’traxler studio, Robert Rüf Industrial Design, and bkm design working group are jointly considering the opening of the concept of design and an integrated understanding of … more

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Talk

POLITICS OF RESEARCH

Ebru Kurbak (AT/TR)

5.10.2019, 4pm

The artist and designer Ebru Kurbak deals with the political dimensions inscribed into everyday places, technologies, and routines. She questions how this design of the common influences our values, practices, and ideologies. In her lecture, Kurbak presents current and future projects: artistic … more

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Presentation

POETRY ∞ REDUCTION

mano design

27.9.–5.10.2019

The new bonechina collection from the studio of mano design, “TWOTONE,” unites poetic elements and a clear, reduced formal language. Expressively designed, haptic surfaces, an extensive range of colors, and bicolor molded products are suitable for numerous uses in table settings and living … more

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Get together

POETRY ∞ REDUCTION

Dinner “All Things Figs”

mano design

4.10.2019, 7pm

One of the oldest cultivated plants meets one of the oldest materials. Designer Hedwig Rotter invites visitors to an exclusive dinner prepared by Saporito chef Bruno Ciccaglione with the theme “All Things Figs” – a four-course meal with wine will be served on suitable mano design tableware, and … more

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Presentation

PHONOCUT MINI-MANUFACTORY AND RECORDING SESSION

25hours Hotel beim MuseumsQuartier

3.10.2019, 6pm

The days when phonograph records were unromantically produced in gray stamping plants from hot plastic are hereby history. In cooperation with Vienna’s record manufactory PHONOCUT, the lobby of 25hours Hotel at the MuseumsQuartier will proudly present a limited edition of the label Cutting Edge … more

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Special

Presentation

PHOBIA – ON DISGUST, ANXIETY & FEAR

Melanie Asböck / Ronja-Elina Kappl / Anna Niederleitner / Sabrina Wegerer

4.–6.10.2019

In “Phobia,” Melanie Asböck, Ronja-Elina Kappl, Anna Niederleitner, and Sabrina Wegerer examine anxiety disorders from an artistic perspective. Their focus is on atypical phobias relating to specific structures, materials, and objects. These objects were photographed, examined under an electron … more

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Talk

PECHA KUCHA NIGHT VIENNA: GAME DESIGN

Pecha Kucha Night Vienna

28.9.2019, 8pm

At the PECHA KUCHA NIGHT VIENNA, presentations will be fast, to the point, and – in a sense – a competition. The rules: Everyone presents their ideas with the aid of 20 PowerPoint slides, each 20 seconds in length – totaling a lightningfast six minutes and 40 seconds. This evening will be wholly … more

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Presentation

PATRICK WERTHEIMER: THE ESSENTIALS OF INTERIOR DESIGN

Wertheimer Interiors

27.9.–6.10.2019

Taste is said to be in the eye of the beholder. But what kind of foundation is necessary for the success of joint projects in interior design? At the premises of Heissenberger & Rainer Immobilien, the designer and interior designer Patrick Wertheimer will present one of his latest office projects.

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Presentation

OPTI-KNOT-3-D-PAVILLON

patonic.com

27.9.–6.10.2019

The project “Opti-Knot 3-D” shows that current topics such as digitalization, industry 4.0, and mass customization are directly related to economic uses in the creative industries. The employment of digital planning and calculating approaches can considerably expand the potential complexity of … more

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Talk

OPTI-KNOT 3-D PAVILION

Talk “Opti-Knot 3-D –Digital Planning and Manufacturing of Freeform Frames”

patonic.com

5.10.2019, 6pm

The project “Opti-Knot 3-D” shows that current topics such as digitalization, industry 4.0, and mass customization are directly related to economic uses in the creative industries. The employment of digital planning and calculating approaches can considerably expand the potential complexity of … more

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Presentation

OPEN STUDIO

Lukács László Vienna

28.9.–5.10.2019

What does the perfect man’s shoe look like? And modern, highquality, individualized product design? Answers can be found wherever traditional methods are combined with innovative design – at Lukács László Vienna in the city’s Wieden district. As part of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the design studio … more

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PLATFORM

Presentation

ONE

for co/rizom

co/rizom

27.9.–6.10.2019

Many become one to showcase multitude: in addition to cocreative design processes, the focus of ONE is the reinterpretation of regional traditional crafts. Created in cooperation with artsandcrafts groups from Albania (Nesa), Georgia (Borjgali), and Romania (Zestrea), the first co/rizom … more

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Talk

ONE

Talk „Do Handmade Products Have a Right to Survive?”

co/rizom

2.10.2019, 4.30pm–6.30pm

In an era of globalization and digitalization, do local and traditional crafts have a right to exist? How can we ensure that traditional knowledge survives? Are crafts necessary, do they make sense? What strategies are possible for transferring craft-based knowledge into the future? co/rizom … more

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Presentation

NIMM PLATZ / TAKE A SEAT

Patrick Rampelotto

27.9.–6.10.2019

Patrick Rampelotto’s works range from commercial mass products to artistic objects. For his installation, the designer resorted to both old and new furniture, which he designed jointly with Fritz Pernkopf for the Belgian manufacturer SDC lab: A stackable chair meets a simple, functional table. A … more

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Presentation

MOBILE KITCHENS

chmara.rosinke

27.9.–6.10.2019

The design duo chmara.rosinke plays with common ideas about designer kitchens and the accompanying lifestyle, turning established concepts upside down! Kitchens are not regarded in terms of space, but as objects. What constitutes kitchens in their essence? What’s really necessary so that they … more

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Presentation

MOWO FURNITURE COLLECTION – MOVE WITH WOOD

Lisa Stolz

27.9.–6.10.2019

Wood that moves people: The new furniture brand move with wood, MOWO for short, specializes in elastic seats made of molded plywood, which adds more movement and fun to everyday life. The current collection of the Viennese architect and furniture designer Lisa Stolz explores two types of elastic … more

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Presentation

MINGLE

27.9.–6.10.2019

Together with the team behind the design exhibition WILD AT HEART, Habitare, the leading design fair in Finland, invites festival visitors to enjoy refreshments and look ahead: Creative director Laura Sarvilinna will give a preview of the 2020 edition, the fair’s 50th anniversary. Habitare is the … more

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Presentation

MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES: FLINT

J. & L. Lobmeyr

27.9.–5.10.2019

Glass has a number of different facets – and for nearly 200 years, Vienna’s longestablished manufactory J. & L. Lobmeyr has transformed it into lasting products with the most interesting designers of the day. After the series of lights “Captured” in 2012, designer Michael Anastassiades has … more

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Presentation

MEMENTO – A TOOL FOR INTERACTION AND CONTEMPLATION

Ariane Shirvani

27.9.–6.10.2019

Inspired by historic architectural elements and tools, the series of objects “Memento” is oriented toward interaction with its users. The tool “A Drop of a Second,” for example, is based on the laws of fluid mechanics and helps visitors understand time as a controlling force that alters reality.

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Exhibition

MASTERPIECES / MODEL ROOMS – WERKRAUM BREGENZERWALD IN THE IMPERIAL FURNITURE COLLECTION

27.9.–6.10.2019

What Vienna’s Imperial Furniture Collection and Werkraum Bregenzerwald have in common is a love of old craft traditions and modern furniture design. This shared passion will be put on display for the 20th anniversary of Werkraum Bregenzerwald: In the historic Biedermeier berths of the Imperial … more

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Presentation

MAK DESIGN NITE: CIRCULAR FLOWS – THE TOILET REVOLUTION!

1.10.2019, 5.30pm–10pm

It is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time: the contamination of our water bodies with nitrogen. With the Urine Trap, the Viennese design studio EOOS has developed the revolutionary prototype of a toilet for urine separation which offers a systemic design solution in the battle … more

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Talks

Talk

MAK DESIGN NITE: CIRCULAR FLOWS – THE TOILET REVOLUTION!

Talk

1.10.2019, 7pm

It’s one of the most urgent environmental problems of our time: nitrogen pollution of water. With the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and at the initiative of Eawag, the renowned Viennese design studio EOOS, together with the LAUFEN company, developed the revolutionary prototype … more

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Presentation

LUMINOUS CREATIONS, FIRED FROM CLAY!

NEU/ZEUG, Lucy.D

28.9.–4.10.2019

A porcelain manufacturer meets 3-D printing. Based on its successful lamp collection “Pearls,” the Austrian design label NEU/ZEUG presents Surfaces to show how brightly porcelain can shine. The idea behind the newest series is creating a bridge between technologies and setting aesthetic … more

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Work-in-Progress

KARAK MEETS WANDERKIOSK

Karak

30.9.–6.10.2019

“The mobile kiosk makes no promises because the world has too many expectations.” Let one thing be said: The tile manufacturers Karak is associated with the modular free space near its origin west of the Arlberg massif and its preference for the traditional. Both can now be seen in Vienna.

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Presentation

IT’S IN THE DETAILS

Peugeot

27.9.–6.10.2019

Details are what make for extraordinary design. This attitude is reflected in the Peugeot e-mobility campaign. Under the hashtag #Unboring TheFuture, all new models are systematically offered as a plug-in hybrid or fully electric version. Some of the design highlights are the new Peugeot 208 and … more

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Presentation

IRIS VAN HERPEN AND OBJECTS FROM THE ATELIER SWAROVSKI HOME COLLECTION

Swarovski Kristallwelten Store Wien

27.9.–5.10.2019

Swarovski’s known for its creativity, exceptional quality, and precise manufacturing of cut crystal. At the Swarovski Kristallwelten Store Wien – a place blending design, contemporary art, and a crystalline shopping ambiance – VIENNA DESIGN WEEK visitors can discover how the multifaceted richness … more

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PLATFORM

Presentation

HORN HANDLES – TOUCHING ETERNITY

design.mikimartinek

27.9.–5.10.2019

A balance of wild power and sensuous tranquility – the natural material tells, layer by layer, unique personal histories meant to last forever. design:mikimartinek investigates them and conjures up delicate handmade horn handles: clear, serene, and warm to the touch. In doing so, the designer Miki … more

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Presentation

HIVEOPOLIS: BIO-HYBRID SUPERORGANISMS DIVERSIFY URBAN ECOLOGICAL NICHES

Artificial Life Lab

27.9.–6.10.2019

Urban habitats often focus on only one species: us humans. According to the visionary city HIVEOPOLIS’ strategy, these niche ecological systems are improved through diversity, which prepares them for future challenges such as climate change. To increase their resilience, the model combines new … more

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Talk

HIVEOPOLIS: BIO-HYBRID SUPERORGANISMS DIVERSIFY URBAN ECOLOGICAL NICHES

Talk

Artificial Life Lab

6.10.2019, 4.30pm–5.30pm

Urban habitats often focus on only one species: us humans. According to the visionary city HIVEOPOLIS’ strategy, these niche ecological systems are improved through diversity, which prepares them for future challenges such as climate change. To increase their resilience, the model combines new … more

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PLATFORM

Exhibition

HILARIOUS T/ABOR

T/abor

27.9.–6.10.2019

Discoveries are made every day at T/abor: colorful, diverse, adaptable, breathable, associative, and coarse. These experiences are shared with visitors in an interactive framework at the exhibition HILARIOUS T/ABOR. Works in the field of tension of city and climate, society and … more

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Party

HILARIOUS T/ABOR

T/abor

28.9.2019, 9pm–midnight

Discoveries are made every day at T/abor: colorful, diverse, adaptable, breathable, associative, and coarse. These experiences are shared with visitors in an interactive framework at the exhibition HILARIOUS T/ABOR. Works in the field of tension of city and climate, society and … more

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Presentation

HEART, BRAIN, AND HAND

TU Graz, Institut für Raumgestaltung, amm – architektInnen machen möbel

27.9.–5.10.2019

amm is design attitude and a commitment to quality. amm is located at the Institute of Architecture at the TU Graz. amm is based on a seminar. amm was born from the seminar Furniture Design Manufacture. amm is its selected results. amm stands for a concept that’s unique in Europe, possibly the … more

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Presentation

HEAVY METAL

Studio Marco Dessí

27.9.–6.10.2019

Manufacturer meets industry: The clients of the multidisciplinary design office Studio Marco Dessí, located in Vienna, include international institutions (cultural and otherwise) of various sizes. Its activities extend from furniture and product design to space solutions. The presented objects … more

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Special

Exhibition

HDS59: OUR BUBBLE

Spazio Pulpo

4.10.2019, 7.30pm

Spazio Pulpo sees itself as a space for discourse relating to questions between art and design. As such, it has played a permanent role in the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK since 2015. Formerly a stationary laboratory, this year’s performance is dedicated to the new studio complex HDS59 on Hütteldorfer … more

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Exhibition

HOUSE BY THE SEA

Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel

27.9.–6.10.2019

How can design develop in a place like Kiel without assimilating in a stream of global codes? The exhibition shows a snapshot of a dynamic work process of the Industrial Design program at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design. The focus will be design identity, which can be interpreted … more

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Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 5: TRACKING FINLAND

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Marion Kuzmany (ARCH ON TOUR)

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

4.10.2019, 2pm–5pm

Other than in a straightforward language, Finnish design often manifests itself in a marked reference to nature. This is true of both it and architectural formal aesthetics. With these ideas, the focus tour with the architect Tiina Parkkinen, which draws on the Finnish Guest Country exhibition WILD … more

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Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 4: DESIGN IN THE CITY CENTER

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Marion Kuzmany (ARCH ON TOUR)

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

2.10.2019, 3.30pm–6pm

Vienna’s city center is full of history and stories. From the perspective of architectural design, it can also be regarded as a melting pot. Sprinkled with architectural treasures, this walk, which meanders between the two disciplines, offers opportunities to visit selected shops and manufacturers … more

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Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 3: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN VIENNA’S ALSERGRUND

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

1.10.2019, 3pm–5.30pm

Train stations are places of departure, just like this tour. After starting at the Althan Quartier above Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, which was designed by the work group of architects around Karl Schwanzer and erected between 1974 and 1978, the overview tour provides insight into the building’s history … more

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Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 2: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?

Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

On foot, at the table, it's all about the future of consumption. Along with the increase in urbanization and the related changes in living conditions, the area of food production and consumption is being confronted with a number of challenges. On their culinary stroll through the Festival … more

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Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 1: LIVE AND DESIGN ROOMS

Alexa Brauner, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

What distinguishes the 9th district? How can its soul and spirit be characterized? And what do its residents and visitors think, feel, and wish for themselves? Together, participants of this tour explore the potential of design for the city’s Alsergrund district. The spectrum extends from … more

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Urban Food & Design

Food in Progress

GROWN THIS WAY – AN AESTHETIC ATTACK ON A SOCIETAL BEHAVIOR

27.9.–6.10.2019

What’s normal? That’s the question asked by the project GROWN THIS WAY – AN AESTHETIC ATTACK ON A SOCIETAL BEHAVIOR. For this purpose, it employs foodstuffs that are never sold and don't appear on our tables because they do not satisfy certain standards. Society’s view of deviations from the norm … more

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Urban Food & Design

Talk

GROWN THIS WAY – AN AESTHETIC ATTACK ON A SOCIETAL BEHAVIOR

Talk "More than Obvious"

29.9.2019, 5.30pm

What’s normal? That’s the question asked by the project GROWN THIS WAY – AN AESTHETIC ATTACK ON A SOCIETAL BEHAVIOR. For this purpose, it employs foodstuffs that are never sold and don't appear on our tables because they do not satisfy certain standards. Society’s view of deviations from the norm … more

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PLATFORM

Exhibition

GRADUATION PROJECTS 2018 – INTERNATIONAL REVIEW

Polnisches Institut Wien

30.9.–3.10.2019

The Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia are guests in Poland: The exhibition at the Polish Institute Vienna sees itself as a transnational overview of about 30 thesis works by design students from master’s and bachelor’s programs in the four Visegrád countries. Selected by an international jury … more

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Presentation

GLOOT – A MATTER OF PACKAGING

27.9.–6.10.2019

What could simple and also fashionable packaging for high-quality charcoal look like? Together, the industrial designer Thomas Schiefer and the packaging designer Florian Schweiger searched for concrete answers to this question. Produced according to a traditional method from sustainable forestry … more

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Presentation

GLASSY THEMES

Glashütte Comploj

27.9.–5.10.2019

Since the establishment of his glass studio in 2013, Robert Comploj has constantly taken new paths to translate conventional work methods from a variety of glassmaking cultures and technologies into contemporary works. The focus in all this remains above all on the stylish reinterpretation of this … more

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Game Design

Work-in-Progress

GAME+GRAPHICS – LABORATORY

SUBOTRON, Erwin K. Bauer, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–6.10.2019

As it happens in life, together with the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK team, curator Erwin K. Bauer initiated a decade ago a festival format intended to illustrate the exchange of various design disciplines within a temporary experimental framework. Since then, the so-called laboratory has seen itself as an … more

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Game Design

Talk

GAME JAM – STUDENTS DEVELOP PROTOTYPES – TALK

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, SUBOTRON

27.9.2019

One theme, three days, an endless amount of potential. Austrian students form teams with professionals from various fields – such as programming, art design, level design, and sound design – and create playable game prototypes within the extremely short period of three days. VIENNA DESIGN WEEK … more

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Game Design

Work-in-Progress

GAME JAM – STUDENTS DEVELOP PROTOTYPES

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, SUBOTRON

27.–29.9.2019

One theme, three days, an endless amount of potential. Austrian students form teams with professionals from various fields – such as programming, art design, level design, and sound design – and create playable game prototypes within the extremely short period of three days. VIENNA DESIGN WEEK … more

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Debut

Work-in-Progress

GAME DEVELOPMENT CATCHES ON

HTL Spengergasse

27.9.–6.10.2019

One thing’s certain at HTL Spengergasse: Even if the courses offered there are not always child’s play, play’s an important part. And so, students go through various levels in the course of their studies, constantly learning practical skills and in this way realizing projects in the field of game … more

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Exhibition

FUTURES OF DEMOCRACY?

Design Investigations, Universität für angewandte Kunst

27.9.–6.10.2019

Core democratic values that we take for granted in the Western world currently seem to be increasingly under fire. Digitalization, artificial intelligence as well as the growing importance of social media are in danger of weakening the independence of political authorities. How will democracy … more

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Urban Food & Design

Food in Progress

FRUITING BODIES – DIE FRUCHTKÖRPER

27.9.–6.10.2019

Fruit, both exotic and domestic, doesn’t simply taste good, it also exercises a great amount of attraction. For some time now, local super markets can hardly be imagined without pine apple and melon, kiwi and pomegranate. The ecological footprint created by their transport and consumption in … more

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Debut

Exhibition

FROM DATA TO FURNITURE

27.9.–6.10.2019

Austria meets Finland, research meets business, manufacturing meets automation. The School of Arts, Design and Architecture of Helsinki’s Aalto University stands for an explicitly practical approach – which is also shown by the student works that the Finnish university will bring to Vienna for the … more

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Exhibition

WOMEN WHO EMBROIDER THEIR STORIES

SKICA

27.9.–6.10.2019

A project that will literally knit people together. A project that makes memorable the stories of women of various religions, social backgrounds, and ages along a common thread. Established in cooperation with the collective Oloop and the humanitarian association Up, it comprises … more

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PLATFORM

Work-in-Progress

OF BRANCHES, ROOTS, AND BLOSSOMS

1.–6.10.2019

“When innovation takes root, it’s time to work a new field.” In accordance with this motto, the florist shop’s branch will open the doors for its new concept in Vienna’s Alsergrund – the Zweigstelle Atelier, a branch studio that transforms the light-flooded location into a blooming stage for … more

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Guest Country

Guided Tour

FINNISH DESIGN AT HEART

Finnland-Institut in Deutschland

27.9.2019, 11am

For the exhibition WILD AT HEART, the Finnish designer and curator Tero Kuitunen created a multilayered and colorful concept that opens to viewers the exciting world of contemporary Finnish design. Works from the eleven participating designers will be gathered in three exhibition complexes with … more

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Guest Country

Presentation

FINLAND LOUNGE

27.9.–6.10.2019

Minimalist forms, dealing with nature sensitively, using renewable materials, and an incomparably high sense of quality – it’s no surprise that Finnish design has long been world famous. After all, this simple, grounded, and natureoriented ideology has accompanied and enriched Finns’ lives for … more

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FINISSAGE AT THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

with the Designers

6.10.2019, 5pm–8pm

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PLATFORM

Presentation

FESTIVAL MIX TAPE

mt masking tape / Kapitza / Kamoi

27.9.–6.10.2019

From Japan to London to Vienna: The works of the internationally celebrated sisters Petra and Nicole Kapitza are the result of constant experimentation with geometric shapes and organic structures and have been presented in cooperative ventures with such renowned brands as Swatch and Comme des … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Preisverleihung

Erste Bank ExtraVALUE-Design Award 2019

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2019, 6pm

It’s a wrap! Award afterwards the Presentation of the 2019 Stadtarbeit projects: How have the projects developed? What’s next? The Stadtarbeit / City Work format of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is an open concept that, via … an open call, enables everybody to participate in the festival with projects in the … more

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Passionswege

Presentation

ERLI GRÜNZWEIL / SUSANNA HOFER with Zinnfigurenoffizin Kovar

at Zinnfigurenoffizin Kovar

Zinnfiguren Kovar, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–4.10.2019

"DREAMING IS OK" … The Passionswege represent a special format per se that asks questions, reveals littleknown aspects, and as a result is intended to enable projects far beyond business as usual. Sometimes, ideas that are too particular even for this open playing field are created. For example … more

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Special

Exhibition

DISTANT FRIENDS: TEXTILES AND CERAMICS

27.9.–6.10.2019

One is hard and fragile, the other is soft and flexible. One is intimately close to our body every day, the other is entrusted with our valuable food. Both are prototypical results of the work of humans who use tools and create culture. They’re defining influences on and expressions of our … more

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Presentation

A PIECE OF THE CITY IS REDESIGNED

27.9.–6.10.2019

Whoever sets foot in the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK’s Festival Headquarters will be in the middle of the future Althan Quartier. In the coming years, 6B47 Real Estate Investors – the festival’s location partner this year – will transform Karl Schwanzer’s glass construction above the Franz Josefs-Bahnhof … more

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Urban Food & Design

Food in Progress

EGG TO GO

27.9.–6.10.2019

“Chicken Run” was yesterday’s news. The future is: Run by Chicken. In addition to an egg booth run by chickens, the focus of the speculative design project EGG TO GO is the idea of a fictitious city where humans and animals live as equals. Liberated from the classic barnyard setting, the urban … more

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Presentation

DISTRIBUTED FASHION DESIGN

MaMaMu

4.–5.10.2019

Fashion in the era of digital production: What role will be played by open-access databases of patterns and local production in fab labs for the fashion industry? As part of this handson experience, interested visitors are invited to discuss trends of the future in the field of fashion designs … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Presentation

WE ARE THE CITY: Stadtarbeit-Projects 2019

Stadtarbeit-Projects 2019

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2019, 5pm–6pm

It’s a wrap! Presentation of the 2019 Stadtarbeit projects: How have the projects developed? What’s next? The Stadtarbeit / City Work format of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is an open concept that, via … an open call, enables everybody to participate in the festival with projects in the field of social … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Talk

We are the City

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2019, 4pm

Design has many different functions, particularly in cities. Hardly anywhere else does the discipline vary to the same degree between driving gentrification and public engagement – both often with the same goal in mind: by performing in public space, making it useful out of whatever motivation, and … more

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Presentation

THE NEW LINE

rudolf, Die Sellerie

1.–5.10.2019

In their carefully curated concept store Die Sellerie, the designers Patrick Bauer and Georg Leditzky have already presented several of their own collections in cooperation with local manufactories. Recently, they’ve been in cahoots with rudolf. It’s true! rudolf unites timeless design with natural … more

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

COOKING UP STORIES – COOKING WITHOUT BORDERS

27.9.–6.10.2019

Marginalization and distrust of foreign cultures, refugees, and migrants can currently be sensed on many levels. The consequence: a split in our society. Against this background, the project COOKING UP STORIES is intended to eliminate prejudices, increase the amount of direct dialogue, and … more

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Talks

Talk

FINNISH-JAPANESE PARALLELS

6.10.2019, 6pm

Finland and Japan, two countries that are considered outsiders on their continents due to their locations, their natures, their languages, and their approach to aesthetics, color, forms, and simple solutions. Without a doubt, parallels can be found – all that’s required is a close look and a will … more

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Talk

DESIGN/SMITHY

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.2019, 5pm

During its visit to Fiskars, about an hour from Helsinki, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK team was struck by certain parallels with the Lower Austrian town of Waidhofen an der Ybbs: For example, blacksmithing was in the past economically important in both places. The current evidence of this fact are the … more

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Talks

Talk

DESIGN GALLERIES/GALLERY DESIGN

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

4.10.2019, 3pm

Vienna’s different, as some people say. Vienna’s unexplored territory, according to others. That Vienna plays a subordinate role on the international scene is heard occasionally when galleries are being discussed. In response to this thoroughly provocative assertion, gallerists, event organizers … more

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Exhibition

DESIGN, ART, AND KISPI

Alexander Lorenz / Your Artist

27.9.–6.10.2019

At the Wiener Salon, recently designed by Alexander Lorenz, his latest works can be seen: Furnishings, design, art, and a modular system (KISPI) for kids from six to 106 speak the same language, talk about lightness, a designer’s temperament, and a love of experimentation. Using the exhibits … more

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Design Everyday

Exhibition

DESIGN EVERYDAY – DESIGN FOR PRACTICAL USE 2019

Vandasye

27.9.–6.10.2019

As a creative service, product design involves much more than simple styling. Responsibly designed, sustainably produced everyday items are becoming more important as the borders between the real and virtual worlds are increasingly fuzzy. The exhibition DESIGN EVERYDAY – DESIGN FOR PRACTICAL … more

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Guest Country

Talk

DESIGN DIPLOMACY – A PLAYFUL DISCUSSION ABOUT DESIGN

27.9.2019, 4pm

Card games function as social mediums and pleasant get-togethers. With this in mind, the Embassy of Finland, together with the Helsinki Design Week, invites visitors to an experimental discussion in the ambassador’s residence in Vienna: Industrial designer and curator of the extensive Guest … more

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Urban Food & Design

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 2: FUTURE CONSUMPTION

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

4.10.2019, 3pm–5.30pm

Food waste and the negative carbon footprint of production necessitate new approaches and alternative concepts for consumption. How can it be utilized as a means of inclusion? What are parameters for the supply, character, and atmosphere of a new consumer culture? How and where can incentives to … more

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Urban Food & Design

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 1: CIRCULATION

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

28.9.2019, 1pm–3pm

As part of this year’s VIENNA BIENNALE, five creative teams will show examples of the unused potentials offered by production in the city in Ottakring. Using experimental prototypes they present in the Ottakringer Brewery, they investigate show production and the circular economy for foodstuffs.

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Urban Food & Design

Talk

DEPARTURE TALK 2: FUTURE CONSUMPTION

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

4.10.2019, 6pm–8pm

What will the future of food bring? How will our social structure affect our everyday lives as consumers? And who will be left out? Are there products, cycles, or instructions relating to the sourcing, preparation, or consumption of food that can contribute to better cooperation between various … more

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Urban Food & Design

Talk

DEPARTURE TALK 1: CIRCULATION

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

29.9.2019, 2.30pm–4pm

Trends in the urban space often set standards for consumer culture. This involves the important issues of production, distribution, marketing, and circulation of food. The origin of foodstuffs and their production cycle, which should be as closed as possible (and the transport, packaging, and … more

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Urban Food & Design

Food in Progress

CONTEMPORARY SILVERWARE

Jakob Glasner

27.9.–6.10.2019

Rather than once again reinterpreting knife, fork, and spoon in a purely formal way, the project CONTEMPORARY SILVERWARE focuses on our society’s relationship with food – and goes far beyond table culture. The silverware elements “Protein Scoop,” “Fasting Fork,” “Fat Scalpel,” and “No Dessert for … more

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COCKTAIL AT THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

with the Designers

28.9.2019, 5pm–10pm

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PLATFORM

Presentation

CIRCULAR SHOWER

EOOS, Vöslauer

27.9.–6.10.2019

EOOS developed an outdoor shower for the Vöslau spa which recycles the used water by means of a plant based treatment system. A stone circle marks the location of the ritual cleansing – originally in the pool, and now at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK’s Festival Headquarters. Slender poles form an … more

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Exhibition

CIRCULAR FLOWS

LAUFEN

27.9.–4.10.2019

SAVE! EOOS Design presents the revolutionary approach of the Urine Trap. The addition of nutrient inputs to natural bodies of water caused by human urine are avoided and can be retrieved as a valuable resource with little effort. This position, which belongs to sustainable design, is confronted at … more

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Talk

CIRCULAR FLOWS

Talk

LAUFEN

30.9.2019, 8pm

SAVE! EOOS Design presents the revolutionary approach of the Urine Trap. The addition of nutrient inputs to natural bodies of water caused by human urine are avoided and can be retrieved as a valuable resource with little effort. This position, which belongs to sustainable design, is confronted at … more

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Special

Experience

BLACKBOX: AN OPEN INVESTIGATION

Sarah Franzl

27.9.–6.10.2019

In order to operate autonomously, smart devices must first acquire an understanding of the world in which they move. They need models generated from isolated data items and then compiled in combination to create a version of reality. While they see a great deal, they’re also discreet. Data is … more

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PLATFORM

Presentation

HABITABLE WRINKLED PLANETS

Kohlmaier

27.9.–4.10.2019

Design from outer space? Long ago, the family-owned Kohlmaier company, founded in 1884, took on as its mission developing upholstered furniture in close cooperation with experts from the fields of architecture, design, and art. The artist Esther Stocker’s wrinkled planet, for example, is a … more

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Exhibition

BEST OF AUSTRIAN DESIGN: WINNING PROJECTS OF THE AUSTRIAN STATE PRIZE 2019

27.9.–6.10.2019

On September 25, 2019, the BMDW (Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs) will once again honor the best, most creative, and most innovative Austrian design solution with the State Prize for Design. In the exhibition in Vienna’s designforum, these premier design creations, awardwinning … more

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PLATFORM

Presentation

BANANATEX – A TEXTILE (R)EVOLUTION

QWSTION

27.9.–6.10.2019

Based on the material it has most recently developed, Bananatex®, the Swiss backpack label QWSTION demonstrates the potential of plant fibers for architecture and design. The waterproof and durable material of sustainably grown banana fibers is biodegradable and represents a non-plastic alternative … more

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Presentation

BANANATEX – A TEXTILE (R)EVOLUTION

QWSTION

1.10.2019, 7pm

Based on the material it has most recently developed, Bananatex®, the Swiss backpack label QWSTION demonstrates the potential of plant fibers for architecture and design. The waterproof and durable material of sustainably grown banana fibers is biodegradable and represents a non-plastic alternative … more

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Workshop

AWS WORKSHOP: DESIGN – BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE

aws – austria wirtschaftsservice

27.9.2019, 2pm–7pm

In days of complex social challenges, designers provide pioneering solutions for all areas of business and society – whether technology, consumption, the environment, process design, or communication. Design in all its forms is a central factor of social change. The aws workshop DESIGN – BUSINESS … more

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Talk

AWS TALK: CREAT(IV)E SOLUTIONS

aws – austria wirtschaftsservice

2.10.2019, 6pm–7.30pm

What opportunities for designers are created through their cooperation with companies? With the support of Impact Hub Vienna, ja! Natürlich invited emerging creatives to develop concepts for virtual or real-life-participation through consumption in the world of organic farming and food production.

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Exhibition

CROSS-CHANNEL TRAINING

University of Derby, HTL Spengergasse

27.9.–6.10.2019

For more than 25 years, the HTL Spengergasse and the British University of Derby have been linked by extremely successful cooperation: After completing their job-related training in the fields of Animation and Interior and Surface Design, graduates of Vienna’s Spengergasse can sign up for the fifth … more

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Talk

CROSS-CHANNEL TRAINING

Talk

University of Derby, HTL Spengergasse

3.10.2019, 6.30pm

For more than 25 years, the HTL Spengergasse and the British University of Derby have been linked by extremely successful cooperation: After completing their job-related training in the fields of Animation and Interior and Surface Design, graduates of Vienna’s Spengergasse can sign up for the fifth … more

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PLATFORM

Presentation

TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE

Teppichgalerie Geba

27.9.–5.10.2019

Together with the architecture magazine 100 Häuser, the designer and carpet manufacturer Harald Geba issued a call for a design competition. The goal was to encourage the link between handcrafts and design, and make tangible the many different qualities of and advantages provided by the textile.

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Guided Tour

TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECTURE

Special tours with Jonathan Lutter (KLK) and Harald Geba:

Teppichgalerie Geba

2.–3.10.2019

During renovation work on an 18th century building in Vienna’s Berggasse, a walled-up staircase leading to a basement far under Alsergrund was found. In an impressive vaulted room measuring over 400 square meters, Vienna’s new cult bar – krypt.bar – was founded. In addition to the exceptional … more

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Talks

Talk

ARCHITECTURE MEETS ALGORITHM

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

30.9.2019, 5pm

Algorithms and data help us to understand the technology, design, and instruments that were essential to ancient rhetoric: “Copia” is the Latin word for “abundance.” But how can something that isn’t clearly defined and delimited be copied? And what does that mean for the relationship between … more

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Presentation

ANALOG FURNITURE

27.9.–6.10.2019

While the Austrian company Pro-Ject Audio Systems has produced turntables and a complete line of equipment for analogue stereos for nearly 30 years, the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen is known mainly for sensitively reduced, functional furniture design. As part of a unique cooperation, they … more

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Presentation

ALTSTADT VIENNA DESIGN AWARD 2019

Hotel Altstadt Vienna

1.10.2019

Itself a stronghold of concentrated creative energy, in 2019 Hotel Altstadt Vienna will sponsor a design prize worth 2,000 euros for the first time: As part of a competition held in cooperation with the master’s program Interior Design & Visual Communication at the New Design University (NDU) St.

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Exhibition

ALTSTADT VIENNA DESIGN AWARD 2019

Hotel Altstadt Vienna

27.9.–6.10.2019

Itself a stronghold of concentrated creative energy, in 2019 Hotel Altstadt Vienna will sponsor a design prize worth 2,000 euros for the first time: As part of a competition held in cooperation with the master’s program Interior Design & Visual Communication at the New Design University (NDU) St.

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Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

ALSERGRUND ON DISPLAY

Lucy Li / Stephanie Kneissl

27.9.–6.10.2019

District museums are lovingly curated institutions with peculiar opening hours where specific local history is reviewed. ALSERGRUND ON DISPLAY represents a branch of a district museum that, instead of the Alsergrund’s history, focuses on that of the visitor. What could such a democratic museum be … more

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ALSERGRUND ON DISPLAY

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Lucy Li / Stephanie Kneissl

4.10.2019, 6pm

District museums are lovingly curated institutions with peculiar opening hours where specific local history is reviewed. ALSERGRUND ON DISPLAY represents a branch of a district museum that, instead of the Alsergrund’s history, focuses on that of the visitor. What could such a democratic museum be … more

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ALL EYES ON ALVAR AALTO

5.10.2019, 5pm

The architect Tiina Parkkinen, who runs the successful office Berger+Parkkinen Architekten together with Alfred Berger in Vienna and Helsinki, talks in her role as the Austrian chairwoman of the Alvar Aalto Gesellschaft about the work of the great Finnish architect. The focus will be the Stadthalle … more

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Experience

ACCESSIBILITY TRAIL

27.9.–6.10.2019

Accessibility is a hot topic nowadays. But what does it mean in concrete terms? And why is accessibility so important? Basically, its goal is the greatest possible participation in social life (and that doesn’t just apply to people with disabilities). Many disabilities are often obvious to the … more

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Special

Work-in-Progress

475 BARS COVERED IN 2.375 MINUTES

Diego Faivre

27.9.–6.10.2019

A welcome attendant symptom of a visit to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Festival Headquarters is a sometimes casual, sometimes concrete examination of the architecture. In this case: the utilitarian architecture of a fire escape. Initiated by the festival, the French designer Diego Faivre juxtaposes the … more

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100-YEAR WASHING MACHINE

Permanere

27.9.–6.10.2019

The goal of the Permanere association’s team is to developed especially longlived and resource-efficient products. Since 2017, Peter Knobloch, Daniel Kloboucnik, Bernhard Ranner, and Billie Rehwald have worked on a washing machine. Its construction focuses entirely on maximizing service life, ease … more

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100-YEAR WASHING MACHINE

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Permanere

28.9.2019, 7pm

The goal of the Permanere association’s team is to developed especially longlived and resource-efficient products. Since 2017, Peter Knobloch, Daniel Kloboucnik, Bernhard Ranner, and Billie Rehwald have worked on a washing machine. Its construction focuses entirely on maximizing service life, ease … more