Stadtarbeit 2019 — Archiv 2019 — Vienna Design Week

Cities live. Cities change. Spatial and social structures are therefore constantly confronted with everchanging challenges. New concepts are needed. For the city.
For our daily coexistence. Social design faces these challenges and thematizes them beyond aesthetic and functional interpretations. This encourages exchange and demands something of its audience. In the format Stadtarbeit, the jury choosesby means of an open call five projectswhose particular design quality brings to light social potentials and addresses social and urban issues in this year’s Focus District Alsergrund. They show the alternatives design can produce in daily coexistence.For the fifth time, the Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Design Award will be awarded to one of the Stadtarbeit projects this year.

Kollektiv Fischka/Daniela Jakob

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

COOKING UP STORIES – COOKING WITHOUT BORDERS

27.9.–6.10.2019

Marginalization and distrust of foreign cultures, refugees, and migrants can currently be sensed on many levels. The consequence: a split in our society. Against this background, the project COOKING UP STORIES is intended to eliminate prejudices, increase the amount of direct dialogue, and … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

ALSERGRUND ON DISPLAY

Lucy Li / Stephanie Kneissl

27.9.–6.10.2019

District museums are lovingly curated institutions with peculiar opening hours where specific local history is reviewed. ALSERGRUND ON DISPLAY represents a branch of a district museum that, instead of the Alsergrund’s history, focuses on that of the visitor. What could such a democratic museum be … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Maria Noisternig

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

TO COUCH IN PUBLIC

Mechthild Ebert / Elina Kränzle / Jonas Malzahn

27.–29.9.2019

Meeting place: the couch. By means of a piece of street furniture, TO COUCH IN PUBLIC returns current questions regarding urban coexistence to where they began: the streets and squares, among the people. Hardly any other piece of furniture is given a personality to the same extent as the couch … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

A SEARCH FOR TRACES – LISTEN BEHIND THE FACADES!

Tamara Bauer / Natascha Ickert

27.9.–6.10.2019

It’s not what you say, but how you say it, as they say. This district is where a highlighted atmospheric picture will be sketched with the aid of original sounds. In the virtual scavenger hunt, the public will undertake an interactive stroll through the neighborhood for the purpose of investigating … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

SPECULATIVE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS

SISI - Spekulatives Institut für Soziale Interventionen

27.9.–6.10.2019

SISI tests new pathways in urban design through the connection between concrete and digital space. The search for alternative approaches of co-existence and the reclaiming of cities will begin at the speculative locations of the digital and should add new perspectives to public space. The institute … more

Kollektiv Fischka/Stefanie Freynschlag

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Talk

We are the City

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2019, 4pm

Design has many different functions, particularly in cities. Hardly anywhere else does the discipline vary to the same degree between driving gentrification and public engagement – both often with the same goal in mind: by performing in public space, making it useful out of whatever motivation, and … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Maria Noisternig