Passionswege 2024

Ever since this format was introduced to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, it has brought international and Austrian designers together with Vienna’s craft-based businesses. Their dialogue takes place away from the commercial pressure of normal working relationships and enables the curated pairs of artisans and designers to focus on the passion in their work: They experiment, share knowledge – and create an installation in the workshop that expresses this joint process.

In this way, the Passionswege not only create a free space for the participants and facilitate the emergence of an extraordinary project, but also invite visitors to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK to discover established Viennese companies. This helps to ensure that the city’s crafts tradition remains vibrant, rather than merely being preserved in museums. This is also extremely important to the Vienna Tourist Board, which recently became the patron of the oldest format of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK.