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

Talk

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

Sam Jacob — Sam Jacob Studio

Talks

Discussion

CONTEXT, CONTEXT, CONTEXT – PERSPECTIVES ON DESIGN WITHIN HISTORY

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Andreas Fogarasi, Sam Jacob, Johanna Pichlbauer, Sophie Stackmann

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

Portrait of Isabelle Angèle — Isabelle Angèle Wuilloud

Talks

Talk

DESIGN SCROLL – CONTEMPORARY ONLINE VOICES

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, dreamspaces, b0ysfirm, Nina Sieverding

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

Talks

Talk

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

Talks

Talk

CANCELLED: FUTURE BRIDGE – WHERE IDEAS MOVE

What Matters

3.10.2025, 5pm

Unfortunately, this event has to be cancelled due to health reasons. We kindly ask for your understanding. … What Matters, the platform for cross-border creative and cultural dialogue founded by Tetiana Stakhivska and Yulia Mukhoid, hosts a moderated roundtable discussion. Designers from Austria … more

TALK PROGRAMME IN THE CITY

LAUFEN

PLATFORM

Talk

RADICALLY NORMAL PERIOD.

LAUFEN

29.9.2025, 6.30pm

Lotte Kristoferitsch, Heribert Wolfmayr, and Oliver Gerner share a radical approach as an expression of attitude: indispensable values in the design process in order to translate innovation into reality. The result of this shared vision and pioneering work is the new residential building … more

Mavric

PLATFORM

Talk

CAUTION: FASCIST! DESIGN BETWEEN CONTEXT AND CRITICISM – THE RENOVATION OF THE STADTKINO IM KÜNSTLERHAUS

Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus

2.10.2025, 5pm–6pm

In the summer of 2025, the auditorium of the Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus was closed for extensive renovation. Artist Anna Paul and designer Daniela Mehlich were commissioned to redesign the auditorium in accordance with historic preservation considerations. In this talk, the duo provides insights … more

Enrico Zago / Civa

PLATFORM

Talk

BUILDING FOR QUANTUM – FROM QUANTUM COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE TO SPECULATIVE ARTISTIC APPROACHES

Civa

3.10.2025, 5pm–6.15pm

Quantum computers are at once a scientific revolution, an architectural challenge, and a speculative idea. The starting point of the discussion is the film Building for Quantum, which follows the construction of Spain’s first quantum computing facility. Speakers Ivona Brandic (TU Wien) … more

TALK PROGRAMME IN THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

honey und bunny mit Gabriel Roland und Rodeln mit Papiersackerln, auf denen Zitate zu Demokratie stehen — Christoph Wimmer

Talks

Discussion

RED’S IN A SACKERL

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, honey & bunny, Wiener Zeitung

3.10.2025, 4pm–7pm

„Wir wollen ausreden, aber keine Ausreden!“ Mit einer öffentlichen Diskussion in der Festivalzentrale setzt das über die Grenzen beachtete österreichische Food-Design-Duo honey & bunny am 3.10. einen vorläufigen Schlusspunkt unter ein längerfristig angelegtes Demokratieprojekt: Im Vorfeld der … 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

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.

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

Isabelle Angele Wuilloud

dreamspaces

Dreamspaces is a global design platform and community exploring architecture, interiors and objects that shape our spaces. Founded and run by curator and consultant Isabelle Angele Wuilloud, her perspective, voice and taste influences the tastemakers of today.

Matthias Zifko

Andreas Fogarasi

Andreas Fogarasi is a visual artist whose research, installations, sculptures, and videos explore the materiality of the built environment and its social, political, and historical implications. His works have been shown internationally, with solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien; Galerie Florence … more

Sam Jacob Studio

Sam Jacob

Sam Jacob is the director of Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design – a collaborative practice that makes buildings, places, strategies and objects. Recent projects include a new mixed use building in Hoxton, offices for Art Review, the V&A Museum's Cromwell Road entrance, the Science Museum … more

Johanna Pichlbauer

The playful inventions of Johanna Pichlbauer, who studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and mechanical engineering at TU Wien, explore our emotional relationships with objects and machines. Her work has been shown at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK on several occasions as well … 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

Tara Mücke

Sophie Stackmann

Since February 2023, Sophie Stackmann has been a University Assistant at the Chair of Heritage Conservation and Building in Existing Contexts at TU Wien. Previously, she was a research associate in the Department of Heritage Conservation at the Competence Center for Heritage Sciences and … more

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

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/esel.at/Joana Pianka

Vienna Design Week