FESTIVAL 2021

With a tongue on its coat of arms and bridge-building at its heart: The first large-scale regulation of the main arm of the Danube, which was carried out between 1868 and 1875, created new land that later became the district in which the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is lowering its anchor this year:

Die Suche nach einer Festivalzentrale ist jedes Jahr aufs Neue aufregend – für das Team der VIENNA DESIGN WEEK genauso wie für das Festivalpublikum. Die Ansprüche sind hoch: Ein leerstehendes Gebäude muss es sein, ein verborgenes Juwel, eine übersehene Landmark mit besonderem Charme – aber bitte…

Southern lifestyle, the eternal summer retreat. Ducks, swans, and other waterfowl calmly making their rounds. All this is Millstatt am See in Brigittenau. Seriously! With the coffee that they originally produced for their own hotel (Villa Verdin), which combines the robust body of an Italian…

For the fourth time in a row, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and the Vienna Business Agency are cooperating closely by organizing the format Urban Food & Design. In this extension to the Vienna Business Agency’s current focus “Let’s talk food”, they are putting the potential for artistic innovation of…

The European project is a design task. Many of the challenges facing the EU can also be observed and addressed from the design perspective. In other words, issues such as sustainability, digitalization, the creation of inclusive identities, the encouragement of interdisciplinary and cross-border…

The Stadtarbeit format brings together projects that aspire to address the permanent transformation of our urban and social fabric: Projects that search for concrete answers and seek to use design resources as social levers. In the run-up to the festival, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and Erste Bank…

Festivals are places for experiencing and discovering. They provide informal spaces and safe surroundings for exchanging and understanding. In this sense, the varied education program of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK takes visitors of every age by the hand and offers opportunities to experience, access…

Dear pupils,  … dear teachers! This year, we’ll be visiting the festival together again. We’ll be taking a look at the Festival Headquarters on Sachsenplatz and at this year’s Focus District Brigittenau, partly in small groups and partly in entire classes. And, as we do this, we’ll also take the…

More than 70 Program Partners, over 50 locations, exactly ten days: Local and international companies, museums, institutions, initiatives, and design offices present themselves and their work together with contributions that have been specially developed for the festival. In the process, the VIENNA…

The general plan: to present design, make it accessible, and talk about it. The special plan: to broaden the notion of design. Alongside its many other functions, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK sees itself as a space for experimentation with a ceiling that is built to be broken through. This applies in…

Let's talk about it! In lectures and panels the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK will once again discuss different aspects of design.

Mit der VDW23-App können Sie sich eigene Routen zusammenstellen und spielerisch durch die City Full of Design navigieren: Punkte sammeln, Favoriten speichern, Erlebnisse mit Freund*innen teilen und so nie den Überblick über persönliche Programmhighlights verlieren.  … Entwickelt wird die VDW-App in…