Focus District — Vienna Design Week

In addition to festival events throughout the city, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK also explores an annually changing Viennese district as a "Focus District". Local structures are increasingly being integrated into the program, with the aim of focusing on local businesses and special locations. Below you find the Focus Districts of the last few years.

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FOCUS DISTRICT MARIAHILF

Nach zwei dezentraleren Bezirken in den Vorjahren (12. und 20. Bezirk) rückte die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2022 wieder näher in die Stadtmitte und machte mit Mariahilf einen Stadteil zum Fokusbezirk, der nur allzu oft als bestens bekannt, weitgehend erschlossen und mitunter sogar schon zu naheliegend für…

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FOCUS DISTRICT BRIGITTENAU

“Brigittenau speaks for itself – and it does so in a wealth of languages,” was the proud claim in the program to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2021. And all those who came to the 20th district – some for the first time – were able to convince themselves that this is indeed the case as they discovered a…

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FOKUSBEZIRK MEIDLING

Mind you: Meidling is no longer only highly sought-after among apartment seekers. Meidling is booming! But this is not the only reason why the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is using its Focus District label as a means of casting a spotlight on the district, which is also well-known for its phonetic…

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Focus District Alsergrund

How do you literally get to know design from the ground up? This is how! Bordered by the Danube Canal and the Gürtel, the district of Alser grund, with numerous wide streets and elegant buildings from the Gründerzeit, invites you to discover a variety of design treasures. Where work such as…

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Focus District Neubau

Admittedly, the choice of 2018's Focus District seemed obvious. But assuming that everything worth discovering in Vienna's 7th district is already familiar could not be more wrong. At first glace, it seems that a colorful mixture of international chains and small local business are predominant…

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Fokusbezirk Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus

Vienna 15 has been out of the up-and-coming category for a long time now. Not so long ago, the district was associated with suburbs filled with down-at-heel, mid-to-late nineteenth-century buildings, worker migration, and street sex workers, but since the turn of the twenty-first century it has…

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Fokusbezirk Margareten

Im Zentrum der Stadt, im Zentrum der Aufmerksamkeit. Margareten, der Fokusbezirk 2016, ist ein typischer innerer Bezirk. Urban, dichtbesiedelt, wenige Grünflächen. Gleichzeitig gilt der 5. Bezirk als … Arbeiterbezirk mit zahlreichen Gemeindebauten. Im 19. Jahrhundert war Margareten zunächst sogar…

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Focus District

From Passionswege to Stadtarbeit, from product design to culinary matters, from the Central Station to Oberlaa – this year’s VIENNA DESIGN WEEK focus district was well worth exploring and more multifaceted than in hardly any other year. With its 190.000 residents Favoriten is Vienna’s most densely…

Fokusbezirk Wieden 2013

With a multiplicity of events “on the Wieden”, in other words in the 4th Viennese District, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK has chosen an area full of contrasts as the 2013 Focus District. Besides the cosmopolitan Favoritenstrasse we can find narrow and winding alleys, experience the wide gap between the…

Fokusbezirk Ottakring/Hernals 2012

Formerly a typical, so-called working-class district of Vienna, Ottakring (16th Viennese District) has been utterly transformed in recent years. Artists, creative people and students have all moved in; the concentration of studios and shops and cafés has grown enormously, especially around…

Fokusbezirk Leopoldstadt 2011

Fifteen years ago hardly anyone looking for an apartment or business premises in Vienna would have thought of the second district, Leopoldstadt. And this, although only the Danube Canal separates it from the inner city. This has radically changed. The second district has become “hip”, particularly…