FESTIVAL 2024

May we invite you … to the Third? Landstraße is untypical amongst Vienna’s inner districts. It is the only one that doesn’t end at the outer ring road, the Gürtel, but extends even further from the city center. Correspondingly, the area, which dates back to Vienna’s first formal expansion in 1850…

For the first time, the now grown-up (18!) VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is moving into a new building – into a headquarters that offers the freedom for one thing in particular to happen: a successful introduction to the festival. There’s a reason why the annually itinerant location is seen as the heart of…

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…

The City as a Resource … This year’s edition of Urban Food & Design, the format jointly presented by the Vienna Business Agency and the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, is addressing the subject of innovating with recyclable materials. How can the city’s previously unused resources – including those…

Vermehrt Schönes! Social design for Vienna! The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK’s Stadtarbeit format – which is supported by Vermehrt Schönes!, the sponsorship program of Erste Bank, and organized in cooperation with Caritas Wien – is an internationally respected framework for the implementation of social…

New perspectives and innovative solutions through sustainable cooperation! Re:Form brings designers, management consultants, and industrial companies together to find ecologically and socially acceptable ways of doing business. This format, which was introduced last year by the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK…

A first performance that contains the promise of something new, reveals the unknown, and takes a look at the next generation: The format Debut enables the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK to draw attention to design education in Austria and abroad. Debut goes beyond marketing messages in order to address the…

While we are surrounded by an impenetrable world of merchandise that is making it ever harder for us to identify the qualities that lend validity to good design, the eighth edition of Design Everyday offers insights into the day-to-day activities of Austrian design studios. The format displays the…

What defines trash as trash? For the third edition of the group exhibition format FOKUS, the guest curators Anton Rahlwes and Nina Sieverding have sought out outstanding design objects that explore the aesthetic concept of trash, use their composition or design to address issues like recycling and…

Festivals are places for meeting people and experiencing things. They create informal settings and safe surroundings for exchanging and understanding. This is the spirit with which the diverse outreach program of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK takes visitors of every age by the hand and offers them…

BUCHEN SIE IHRE SCHULTOUR BEI DER VIENNA DESIGN WEEK! Was macht gutes Design aus? Umfasst es mehr als die ästhetische Gestaltung eines Objekts? Ja! Ein wesentliches Anliegen der VIENNA DESIGN WEEK ist es, vor allem jungen Menschen die Möglichkeit zu geben, ein eigenständiges Bewusstsein für Design…

Let’s talk about it! In lectures and panels, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK will once again discuss different aspects of design.

Special things are placed on the PLATFORM: Austrian and international companies, museums, cultural institutions, universities, galleries, and architectural and design offices of every size cooperate closely with the festival team as they present contributions that they have specially produced for…