Festival Headquarters 2012 — Archiv 2012 — Vienna Design Week

With popular traditional fare from Viennese coffee house culture, Bio lunches and Saturday and Sunday brunch. The temporary café also has a lounge area and a stage for live acts (details and programme on Facebook at Morisson Catering and VIENNA DESIGN WEEK). By the way: In this temporary cafe you will be sitting on furniture by the epitome of coffee-house furnishers, to wit, on Thonet 107 by Robert Stadler and at tables from the Muji manufactured by Thonet Collection, designed by James Irvine!

zerlegte Mixer — zerlegte Mixer, 2012, Lena G.

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

Theatre of Destruction

Lena Goldsteiner

28.9.–7.10.2012

The “Theatre of Destruction” is located in a more global context involving repair, production and plastic recycling. Instead of throwing apparently worthless and broken household devices onto the rubbish dump, they can be brought to a place where new life is made possible for them. While experts … more

mostlikely event — mostlikely event, 2011, Chloe Potter

PLATFORM

Work-in-Progress

Of Donkeys and Basilisks – Low Tech Prototyping and the Process of Design

mostlikely

28.9.–7.10.2012

During the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the group mostlikely are reproducing the Vienna Basilisk, now mouldered into stone, as a paper form five metres tall. In order to be able to produce technically complex forms rapidly themselves, they are using low polygon modelling – the 3D computer technology … more

'Mutationen' — 'Mutationen', Sonja Bäumel

PLATFORM

Exhibition

Mutations

Dunbar’s Number, mischer'traxler studio, Konstantin Schmölzer

28.9.–7.10.2012

The association “Dunbar’s Number”, a collective consisting of the studios of Sonja Bäumel, mischer’traxler, Konstantin Schmölzer & the curator Judith Radlegger, is showing new works in the exhibition “Mutations” on the theme of change – of ideas, of insight, of a product or of an activity. For the … more

Croatian Holiday 2012 collection — Domagoj Kunić

PLATFORM

Exhibition

Croatian Holiday 2012

Croatian Designers Association, Ivana Borovnjak & Roberta Bratovic

28.9.–7.10.2012

Croatian Holiday 2012 is a collection of products inspired by tourism. This traveling exhibition is a charming and nostalgic way of dealing with the country’s clichés and stereotypes. Its main purpose is to stimulate debate on the importance of connecting design and tourism in Croatia. 20 young … more

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PLATFORM

Presentation

IOYO & MAIA – Biogenic Product- and Process Innovations

Organoid Technologies GmbH, NOFRONTIERE

28.9.–7.10.2012

Together with the young Tyrolean start-up Organoid Technologies, the Vienna design studio Nofrontiere are designing seating furniture and moulded chairs of a specially sustainable type. The young entrepreneurs have developed a process in which finely ground biogenic materials (grasses, wood chips … more

Kollektiv Fischka

Education

Tour

Guided Tour 3: Design goes Ottakring/Hernals

Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter

1.10.2012, 3pm–6pm

The tour starts at the former “Grand Etablissement Gschwandner” which this year is the festival headquarters with innumerable design events and pop-up café. Various stops round about the Ottakring Brewery and the up and coming Brunnenviertel demonstrate that the districts bordering on Ottakringer … more

Kollektiv Fischka

Education

Tour

Guided Tour 3: Design goes Ottakring/Hernals

Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter

3.10.2012, 3pm–6pm

The tour starts at the former “Grand Etablissement Gschwandner” which this year is the festival headquarters with innumerable design events and pop-up café. Various stops round about the Ottakring Brewery and the up and coming Brunnenviertel demonstrate that the districts bordering on Ottakringer … more

Kollektiv Fischka

Education

Tour

Guided Tour 3: Design goes Ottakring/Hernals

Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter

6.10.2012, 3pm–6pm

The tour starts at the former “Grand Etablissement Gschwandner” which this year is the festival headquarters with innumerable design events and pop-up café. Various stops round about the Ottakring Brewery and the up and coming Brunnenviertel demonstrate that the districts bordering on Ottakringer … more

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Talks

Talk

Talking about: Berlin. The creative scene Berlin versus Vienna

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Lucas Verweij

6.10.2012, 5pm–7pm

As part of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Talks, departure puts a multi-angled spotlight onto forms of exchange and cooperation. The creative axis Berlin-Vienna is characterised by questions of the open transfer of experience and learning from one another; by aspirations, new spaces and work processes.