VIENNA DESIGN WEEK News 2/24
Dear friends of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK,
There's a lot going on here! The KLIMA BIENNALE VIENNA opened last weekend. The exhibition DESIGN WITH A PURPOSE, curated by us, can be seen until July 14.
The OPEN CALL for the third edition of FOKUS is now open! The theme: Trash!
The social design format STADTARBEIT, which is supported by the Erste Bank sponsoring program - Vermehrt Schönes! - runs until April 21. Apply now!
The second round of RADO MOVING MATERIALS has got off to a great start and will be playing on the video wall in the RADO Boutique every month until the festival.
Matthias Heschl, the long-time editor of our festival program, is now also our press spokesman. We are looking forward to working together more closely! To stay up to date, subscribe to his newsletter.
The team of the URBAN FOOD & DESIGN PRACTICE has been announced: the dreiSt collective convinced over the jury with their vision.
See you soon & best regards,
the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK team
TOPICS OF THIS NEWSLETTER
- KLIMA BIENNALE VIENNA: DESIGN WITH A PURPOSE
- FOCUS 2024: TRASH
- URBAN WORK: APPLY NOW!
- PLATFORM - BECOME PART OF THE FESTIVAL
- KICK-OFF RADO MATERIAL
- NEW PRESS SPOKESPERSON: MATTHIAS HESCHL
- WINNERS URBAN FOOD & DESING PRACTICE
KLIMA BIENNALE VIENNA: DESIGN WITH A PURPOSE
Last week saw the opening of Design With a Purpose - A VIENNA DESIGN WEEK group exhibition commissioned by the Vienna Climate Biennale. The exhibition presents Austrian design and sheds light on the ecological, systemic and symbolic effects of the underlying design and production processes as well as the survival of objects in circular systems. Read more...
OPEN CALL
FOCUS: TRASH
"Trash is omnipresent: whether as a Y2K revival, a luxury bag in the form of
chip bag or islands of garbage in the ocean. We think it's time to take this ambivalent aesthetic phenomenon seriously." - Anton Rahlwes & Nina Sieverding (The Thing Magazine), guest curators
In 2024, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invited curators Anton Rahlwes & Nina Sieverding (The Thing Magazine) to create the FOKUS format. The theme they chose for the group exhibition: Trash.
For the third edition of FOKUS, we are going to the bottom of the (aesthetic) garbage can together and asking: What makes trash trash? For us, "trash" describes a spectrum that operates between abstract stylistic form and concrete materiality.
This year's edition of FOKUS is looking for collectibles that explore the aesthetic concept of trash, deal with topics such as the circular economy/recycling through their materiality or design or experiment with biodegradable materials. What treasures and opportunities lie in our waste - or what we call garbage?
APPLY UNTIL 21.4.2024 AND WIN THE FIRST BANK SOCIAL DESIGN PRICE 2024
STADTARBEIT has been an essential part of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK for ten years.
With the support of the Erste Bank sponsorship program - Vermehrt Schönes! - and in exchange with Caritas Vienna, the format enables social design projects.
The format supports projects that deal with social issues of social coexistence. This can be the analysis of urban and social spaces, the improvement of the coexistence of different social groups or the living conditions of minorities in the city. The projects take place in public spaces and also in cooperation with social institutions and should be accessible and comprehensible to the public.
A jury will select three projects from the submissions, which will be given a budget and included in the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK program. Learn more.
PLATFORM: JOIN AND SHAPE THE FESTIVAL
Would you like to become part of the festival? Then now is exactly the right time to get in touch with us! PLATFORM brings together content from a wide variety of players - from design studios, architecture firms, large and small companies, but also cultural institutions, universities, museums, international and national - and communicates it to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK audience. It is precisely this diversity of different design content that PLATFORM wants to discover and present.
PLATFORM: JOIN AND SHAPE THE FESTIVAL
Would you like to be part of the festival? Then now is exactly the right time to get in touch with us! PLATFORM brings together content from a wide variety of players - from design studios, architecture firms, large and small companies, but also cultural institutions, universities, museums, international and national - and communicates it to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK audience. It is precisely this diversity of different design content that PLATFORM wants to discover and present.
Take part and show your content from September 20-29, 2024 in the unique festival atmosphere of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK! Find out more...
RADO MOVING MATERIALS
In collaboration with the Swiss watch manufacturer Rado, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK will be showing new works by six motion designers over the coming months. As part of the RADO MOVING MATERIALS competition, they will have the unique opportunity to showcase their work on the video wall of the Rado Boutique with installations created especially for the location. This year, the public can also vote.
KLIMENTINA LI kicked things off with SOLIS SCORE. Find out more...
MATTHIAS HESCHL BECOMES PRESS RELATIONS MANAGER OF THE VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
With his agency What 1f. Communications, Matthias K. Heschl informs editors, multipliers and interested parties about projects in architecture, design, crafts, film and photographic art.
What 1f.'s current clients include the Fotomuseum WestLicht, Galerie OstLicht, Stadtkino Filmverleih, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the Viennese artisan bakery Felzl, the architecture firm KENH and the Advertising and Market Communication Section of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce.
From 2015 to 2023, Matthias K. Heschl worked as a freelance press officer for the Diagonale, the festival of Austrian film. In 2021 and 2022, he was also responsible for the communication agendas of the Vienna Media Art Festival CIVA. Matthias K. Heschl has been supporting the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK in editorial matters since 2015.
The annual VIENNA DESIGN WEEK press preview will take place on Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 9:30 am. You will find more details about the location in the official invitation soon. To receive this and all other press releases about the festival, you can subscribe to the What 1f. press mailing list here.
a b c works, Ana Berlin's agency, will continue to be responsible for the international press and press trips.
We look forward to working together!
THE TEAM OF THE URBAN FOOD & DESING PRACTICE HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
Together with the Vienna Business Agency, we were looking for design solutions for the lounge and hospitality area of this year's festival headquarters.
The collective dreiSt, Martin Kohlbauer, Luisa Zwetkow & Sophie Coqui, convinced the jury with their vision of the interplay between material research, design and architecture.
The production of sustainable materials for the realization of the design objects can already be experienced at Biofabrique Vienna. Find out more.