Let’s talk about it! Through inspiring lectures and engaging panels, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK highlights the many facets of design.

With the MEETING SUITES by Bene, the talk program of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2025 has a dynamic stage within walking distance of the festival hub.

MEETING SUITES by Bene
4., Weyringergasse 30

Florence Hawkins

Urban Food & Design

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SYMPOSIUM BIOFABRIQUE VIENNA – WIENER FARBEN

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

26.9.2025, 2.30pm

How can color design be both economically and ecologically sustainable? The SYMPOSIUM BIOFABRIQUE VIENNA – WIENER FARBEN – this year’s focus topic at Biofabrique Vienna – explores this question in depth. Biofabrique Vienna, an initiative of the Vienna Business Agency, promotes bio-based and … more

Audience of a talk — VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / eSeL.at / Joanna Pianka

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CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT – PERSPECTIVES ON DESIGN WITHIN HISTORY

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

29.9.2025, 5.30pm

Nowadays, design and architecture are often presented as either timeless necessities or hyper-ephemeral trends. However, like any cultural expression, both disciplines are historically interconnected and conditioned in many ways. From postmodern obsession with historicity to various forms of … more

Brigitte Felderer during her talk at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2024 — VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/eSeL.at/Robert Puteanu

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DESIGN SCROLL – CONTEMPORARY ONLINE VOICES

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Nina Sieverding, b0ysfirm

30.9.2025, 5pm

The shift from (web) pages to feeds has made itself felt in design media, as in all other areas. The way we consume images, promotion, and criticism of design objects and spaces has changed fundamentally. Digital channels seem to remove many of the limitations of traditional media while offering … more

Sophie Menegaldo

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BETTER THAN NEW - ADAPTIVE REUSE

Bo:IA – Bund Österreichischer Innenarchitektur

1.10.2025, 6pm

The talk highlights the special competence of interior design in dealing with existing buildings, sustainability, and creative transformation. ADDITIONAL PROGRAMME: Exhibition "WE SAY HI INNENARCHITEKTUR" 26.9.–5.10., daily 11am–8pm … Festival Headquarters … 4., Wiedner Hauptstraße 52 … Experience … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/eSeL.at/Joanna Pianka

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FUTURE BRIDGE – WHERE IDEAS MOVE

What Matters

3.10.2025, 5pm

What Matters, the platform for cross-border creative and cultural dialogue founded by Tetiana Stakhivska and Yulia Mukhoid, invites you to a moderated roundtable discussion. Designers from Austria, Hungary, Sweden, and Ukraine will explore how the industry can respond to current changes and enable … more

TALK PROGRAMME IN THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

Talk with Gabriel Roland and Irina Nalis at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2024 — VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/eSeL.at/Robert Puteanu

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RED’S IN A SACKERL

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, honey & bunny

3.10.2025, 4pm–7pm

“We want to talk it out, not talk our way out of it!” With a public debate at the Festival Headquarters, the internationally renowned Austrian food design duo honey & bunny will bring a long-term democracy project to a provisional conclusion. In the lead-up to the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the market … more

PARTNERS AND SPEAKERS

Florian Mooshammer

MEETING SUITES by Bene

Meet in style – the modern MEETING SUITES by Bene are the ideal venues in the heart of Vienna for meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences, and more. Featuring spectacular interior design, premium Bene furniture, and professional service, the bookable Meeting Suites provide the perfect setting … more

Marc Krause

Nina Sieverding

Nina Sieverding is the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of “the thing Magazine”. She studied Visual Communication and Art History in Braunschweig, and Integrated Design in Bremen. Nina worked as a journalist, copywriter, and graphic designer before joining the editorial department of the renowned … more

b0ysfirm

b0ysfirm

b0ysfirm is an anonymous meme page founded by a group of friends in a Korean restaurant after they graduated from architecture school. b0ysfirm makes jokes about design, the internet, and contemporary life that come from their conflicted relationship with architecture. Their goal is to make … more

Sophie Menegaldo

Bo:IA – Bund Österreichischer Innenarchitektur

The Austrian Council of Interior Architects is an Austria-wide advocacy group for interior architects and creative designers in the fields of interior architecture and interior, space, and object design.

What Matters

What Matters, a multidisciplinary platform for creative and cultural dialogue founded by Tetiana Stakhivska and Yulia Mukhoid, promotes East-West cooperation through design, forward thinking, and cross-border exchange.

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

The Vienna Business Agency supports the diversity of the creative industries in the city with a range of formats, initiatives, and funding programs. It facilitates new projects, establishes innovative and unexpected focuses, and pushes activities designed to network, strengthen, and increase … more

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