Debut 2019 — Archiv 2019 — Vienna Design Week

A first appearance that promises newaspects, highlights the unfamiliar, and heralds a lasting power for renewal: This is the format Debut, with which the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK casts its gaze on a selection of outstanding educational facilities in Austria and abroad. The format also serves as an international networking platform and an independent venue for emerging design. Students of the two institutions invited this year reveal various futureoriented perspectives: while the HTL Spengergasse occupies itself withthe pioneering field of game design, thecontribution by Helsinki’s Aalto Universityreflects an experimental approach between robotization and manufacturing. The works on view provide prime examples of the way a new generation’s design culture is expres sed and traces an arc from the elite training center for games to computeraided manu facture of furniture. This is just the begin ning. Or better put: an opening that’s made to measure!

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

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