Reviews: 2024

Debüt 2024

A first performance that contains the promise of something new, reveals the unknown, and takes a look at the next generation: The format Debut enables the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK to draw attention to design education in Austria and abroad. Debut goes beyond marketing messages in order to address the basic orientation of design training – the objectives that are set and the talent and vision that emerge in the next cohort of designers. Hence, the format is both an international networking platform and an autonomous laboratory for aspirational design.

The impulse for this year’s Debut contribution was provided by the Design Revolution Now! course at the Institute of Design of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, which was led by Harald Gründl and Gabriel Roland. The course delivered the basis for the intervention in the festival program, which was independently and autonomously organized by the participating students.