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Image still from the film “Sculpting in Time.” Courtesy of Red Star Films

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Presentation

Youssef Nasser: Sculpting in Time

Film My Design (FMD)

26.9.2021, 4.30pm

Film My Design (FMD) presents “Sculpting in Time”, a film that pays tribute to and celebrates the remarkable career of the late Egyptian artist and designer Nagy Shaker (1932–2018). Known principally for his costume design and his puppet-making for the theatrical musical spectacle “The Big Night” … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

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Exhibition

YOUNG POLISH DESIGNERS: CARE, CONNECT, CHANGE

Academic Design Center – Akademickie Centrum Designu

24.9.–3.10.2021

The showcase YOUNG POLISH DESIGNERS: CARE, CONNECT, CHANGE demonstrates how young Polish designers are using the tools that they find at their disposal as a means of transforming a present that is overshadowed by the pandemic and other social and ecological challenges. The exhibition revolves … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

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Presentation

WASTE WARE – PRODUCTS MADE FROM FOOD WASTE

Studio Barbara Gollackner, Peter König

24.9.–3.10.2021

Every year, 90 million tons of food are thrown away in Europe. And, in the same period, disposable crockery accounts for a further 26 million tons of garbage. Based on the assumption that, in future, every household will have a 3-D printer, Barbara Gollackner and Peter König are exploring the … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

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Installation

VIBRANT 01: VERSATILITY

Vibrant Fields, TU Wien, Forschungsbereich für interdisziplinäre Tragwerksplanung und Ingenieurholzbau (ITI), Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

24.9.–3.10.2021

The research project Vibrant Fields – which is based at the Institute of Energy Design of the University of Applied Arts and is supported by the PEEK Program of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) – explores climate change using artistic means. At the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the project team from Vibrant … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

Education

Guided Tour

TEAM TOUR: WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!

with Director Gabriel Roland

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

26.9.2021, 11am–12.30pm

When something doesn't work out, the question of responsibility is likely to fly around sooner or later. But shouldn't it also be asked when something works? Whether an edition of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is considered a success ultimately depends less on concrete figures than on the subjective … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Stefanie Freynschlag

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Workshop

RECLAIMING EXPERTISE

VHS Wiener Urania, Frauendomäne – Datenbank für Expert*innen

1.10.2021

The Wiener Urania adult education center and the Frauendomäne women’s network are committed to the visibility of female design skills as well as to “making these visible” to a wider audience. With a view to refuting the standard phrase “We couldn’t find a suitably skilled woman!” the workshop and … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

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Work-in-Progress

N(OMADIC) D(ESIGN) U(NIVERSITY) – INDEPENDENT STUDY

New Design University (NDU) St. Pölten

24.–25.9.2021

The ongoing pandemic has strongly shaped teaching and learning experiences in the educational sector. In the summer semester of 2021, the students of the bachelor’s course Manual & Material Culture at the New Design University (NDU) St. Pölten intensively addressed the questions of how knowledge … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

MISSING-LINK: EIN VERSATZSTÜCK DER STADTBAHN

Marlene Lübke-Ahrens / Wolfgang Novotny

24.9.–3.10.2021

New York’s High Line Park is world-famous. But what many people didn’t know – at least before the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2021 – is that Vienna also has a former railway viaduct that has been unused for years. The project MISSING-LINK addressed this existing infrastructural situation between the city’s … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Patrizia Gapp

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Talk

LIVESTREAM: SUPERSCAPE 2022 – LAUNCH WITH ARCHITECTURE TALK

Superscape, JP Immobilien, WBV-GPA Wohnbauvereinigung für Privatangestellte

28.9.2021, 6pm

Superscape is organized every two years and honors innovative ideas in the field of architecture and urban planning. The focus of the latest edition is the subject “Green Shift. Visions for sustainable living”. In a moderated conversation between the organizers JP Immobilien and WBV-GPA, the Vienna … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

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Experience

IP GROUP: LUMEN

Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych (CeTA), IP Group (Identity Problem Group)

29.9.–1.10.2021

The interactive and immersive environment created by the IP Group (Identity Problem Group) is based on the novel “Solaris” by Stanisław Lem and sees itself as a cognitive experiment that employs a series of beams of light to induce perceptual illusions and, hence, trace convincing synesthetic … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

Stadtarbeit – City Work

Work-in-Progress

IM20.WIEN – WAS STÄRKT DIE LOKALE GEMEINSCHAFT?

IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna

24.9.–3.10.2021

“The project has demonstrated the extent to which the resilience of a neighborhood is a question of organization,” commented the jury at the presentation ceremony for the Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Design Award on September 30th. In the days running up to this, the IDRV – Institute of Design Research … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

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Exhibition

FUCK YOU VERY MUCH. DESIGNERS AS TROUBLEMAKERS.

Universität für angewandte Kunst, Grafik Design (Klasse Kartak)

28.9.–1.10.2021

What if designers no longer wanted to solve problems? If they preferred to cause trouble? If their favorite response to problems was to offer more problems? If they were pessimists or cynics? If their aim was to ruin the games of others and to put a spoke in their wheel? The exhibition by Klasse … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Niko Havranek

Education

Guided Tour

FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS: BRIDGES NOT BORDERS!

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

25.9.–3.10.2021

In the airy spaces of the Festival Headquarters on Sachsenplatz the participants in this tour will explore their own understanding of design in line with one of this year’s mottos: “Bridges not borders!” What do design and creativity have to do with bridges and borders? How can they help to tear … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Maria Noisternig

Urban Food & Design

Work-in-Progress

EAT LOVE – TOMORROW’S FOOD AND FOOD SPACES

uttnext (urbanthinktank_next)

1.–3.10.2021

A camping trip? Far from it. An adventure? For sure! The nomadic agora spent three days and nights in front of the Festival Headquarters on Sachsenplatz, inviting visitors to take an imaginary journey through another Vienna in the form of workshops, talks, livestreams, and other events. The project … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

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Guided Tour

CREATIVES FOR VIENNA TOUR: SPACES FOR FUTURE COMMUNITIES

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Design in Gesellschaft

1.10.2021, 4.30pm

With its competition Creatives for Vienna, the Vienna Business Agency supports projects that address the subject of Future Communities. The focus of the competition is the establishment of newly defined spaces, experiential worlds, production processes, and related new business models. During the … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

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Presentation

CREATIVES FOR VIENNA: GET-TOGETHER UND KICK-OFF ONLINEVOTING

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

1.10.2021, 6pm

The get-together on 1.10. marks the start of online voting for the Creatives for Vienna competition of the Vienna Business Agency. Representatives of selected projects will speak about their work, after which votes can be cast for the winning projects at wirtschaftsagentur.at. Voting will remain … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

Education

Guided Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #2 WITH KATARINA MARIA TRENK (KMT)

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

1.10.2021, 6pm–8pm

Where better to get to know a neighborhood and its inhabitants than in the Beisl, the pub? The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invites its visitors to discover Brigittenau on a tour of its pubs with two special guests from the district. In beer gardens, pubs, and coffee houses, and at the sausage stand … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

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Exhibition

AUSTRIAN BRAND STORIES – ÖSTERREICHISCHE MARKENGESCHICHTEN

designforum Wien, designaustria

24.9.–3.10.2021

Brands play a significant role in shaping our cultural environment. They are an integral part of that which we recognize as our everyday aesthetic. With their presence, positioning, and values they create relationships and loyalties and establish long-term cultural and national identity. Brands … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Education

Guided Tour

ARCH ON WALK: BRIGITTENAU #2 – OTTO WAGNER AUF DER INSEL

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

1.10.2021, 2.45pm–7pm

This tour begins at precisely the point where the Danube and the Danube Canal part and agree to meet again a little further downstream: on the Schemerlbrücke. Passing the two iconic bronze lions, participants will cross onto the “island of Brigittenau”, where they will visit Otto Wagner’s Nussdorf … more
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VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

Education

Guided Tour

ARCH ON WALK: BRIGITTENAU #1 – WOHNHÖFE AUS ALLEN PERSPEKTIVEN

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

24.9.2021, 2.15pm–7pm

This tour illustrates that flagship projects aren’t always characterized by their breathtaking height. The unique “Millennial View” from the roof terrace of the Millennium Tower offers an introductory overview of Brigittenau as well as information about the subsequent tour through the district. The … more