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Vienna Club Commission (VCC)

The Vienna Club Commission (VCC) is a diverse and inclusive service and mediation interface that works on behalf of Vienna City Council to support all those involved in the area of clubs and events in the city. Its low-threshold, participative approach focuses on the provision of consulting … more

Das Rechercheprojekt Unsichtbares Handwerk geht Geschichten von Wiener Handwerksbetrieben nach und setzt sie in Beziehung zur baulichen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung der Stadt. Das Projekt erforscht die Rolle der Produktionskultur in Wien. Im Zuge der Recherche werden Handwerksbetriebe … more

Unsichtbares Handwerk

The teaching of the research area for Interdisciplinary Structural Design and Timber Engineering (ITI), which is led by Professor Peter Bauer, is dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary thinking at the interface between structural engineering and architectural design. Its research principally … more

TU Wien, Forschungsbereich für interdisziplinäre Tragwerksplanung und Ingenieurholzbau (ITI)

The teaching of the research area for Interdisciplinary Structural Design and Timber Engineering (ITI), which is led by Professor Peter Bauer, is dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary thinking at the interface between structural engineering and architectural design. Its research principally … more

TU Wien, Forschungsbereich für interdisziplinäre Tragwerksplanung und Ingenieurholzbau (ITI)

The library of TU Wien is a central social infrastructural element of TU Wien and the City of Vienna and offers low-threshold access to scientific knowledge for all. It is committed to open science and networking between technology and art. By staging co-creation workshops and teaching information … more

TU Wien Bibliothek

Tracing Spaces, which was founded in 2012 by Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel, conceives, designs, and produces research projects and artistic interventions in the public realm as well as exhibitions, publications, and communication formats on subjects from the fields of architecture, urban … more

Tracing Spaces

The Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design of the Institute of Architecture and Design at the Vienna University of Technology increasingly grants a central position to conveying a kind of design, both in teaching and research, that conserves resources and is ecologically friendly. This … more

Technische Universität Wien (TU), Abteilung für Raumgestaltung und nachhaltiges Entwerfen

Studio Sain is a contemporary design studio that combines experimental product design with educational workshops. Having formed their partnership after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, the German Namuun Zimmermann and the Dutchman Martijn Rigters founded Studio Sain in order to … more

Studio Sain

Helena Schmidt ist Kunstwissenschaftlerin und Kunstvermittlerin in Theorie und Praxis. Sie lehrt an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien, wo sie zum Bildbegriff sogenannter «poor images» (nach Hito Steyerl) promoviert. Schwerpunkte: Digitale Bildlichkeit, Post Internet Art & Education … more

Helena Schmidt

Johanna Reiner researches the role of the culture of manufacturing in the development of … the Viennese districts located inside the Gürtel. She does this by investigating crafts … businesses and their cooperative networks, documenting their specific know-how, and … making these visible and … more

Johanna Reiner

Alexandra Rauschgold is a spatial strategist and project manager. With a background in retail and interior design, Alexandra's most recent focus has been on urban space. She has written texts, given workshops and lectures on her focus of gender planning. With her penchant for numbers and her … more

Alexandra Rauschgold

Ottonie von Roeder is a designer in the field of critical and speculative design as well as design mediation. Since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017 (Automation and Future of Work), she has been working independently in various collaborations in Germany and the Netherlands. Her … more

Post-Labouratory (Ottonie von Roeder)

ovos creates digital worlds of experience that convey content through fun and excitement. The work done by the owner-operated digital agency in Vienna is networked and multifaceted – in terms of thought and action. These principles are reflected in the list of what it offers: Development of online … more

ovos media

Design deserves attention, and a place where creative achievements can be presented and discussed. This is the conviction of the Austrian Designstiftung and designaustria, the association of Austrian designers. For this reason, they joined forces in 2006 to found the designforum Wien in the Vienna … more

designforum Wien

designaustria represents the Austrian design scene and promotes its achievements at the national and international levels. The designforum Wien is a center for dialogue, expertise, and education that provides design with a specialist spatial platform. Its role is to think aloud about design and its … more

designaustria

Miki Martinek teaches design and interior design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her goal is to bring contemporary interior design from Austria to the very forefront. The relationship between humans and objects plays a central role in her creations; and by consciously forming a context … more

design.mikimartinek

Die City Farm Augarten stellt den Gemüse- und Obstanbau in nachhaltiger Bewirtschaftung ins Zentrum ihrer Arbeit und den Garten als ästhetischen und entschleunigenden Lebensraum in den Mittelpunkt der gesellschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit. Sie will auf beiden Ebenen bewusst Impulse setzen. Erwachsene … more

City Farm Augarten

7Reasons is a Vienna company that is active in the fields of information technology and media and film production. Building upon its many years of working for well-known institutions and businesses, 7Reasons specializes in presenting and communicating research in exhibitions, documentary films, and … more

7Reasons

When something doesn’t work out, the question of responsibility is likely to fly around sooner or later. But shouldn’t it also be asked when something does work? Whether an edition of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is considered a success ultimately depends less on concrete figures than on the subjective … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/eSeL.at/Robert Puteanu

Education

Guided Tour

WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS?!

Gabriel Roland

22.9.2024, 4pm–5.30pm

A binding reservation must be made in advance at … viennadesignweek.at/booking … Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start of the tour. Language: German, English upon request … Tickets: adults € 12, students € 10, up to 18 years € 7, children under 6 and Kulturpass holders free … … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided tour ON THE MOVE IN THE FOCUS DISTRICT

Laura Winkler

28.9.2024, 1pm–3pm

From the climate courtyard to the kiosk, from the 17th to the 3rd district: This tour with the project manager Hanna Fachinelli connects the three interventions in the format Stadtarbeit and leads from the courtyards of Hernals to the heart of the Third, where busy locations and yet-to-be … more

Education

Guided Tour

STADTARBEIT – NEW WAYS OF GETTING ALONG

Hanna Facchinelli

24.9.2024, 3pm–4.30pm

The centerpiece of the contribution from the Bo:IA is a hands-on workshop on 27.9., during which participants will have an exclusive opportunity (registration is required) to become acquainted with and test new ecological materials that are conceived for use in interior architecture. The event is … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/eSeL.at/Joanna Pianka

PLATFORM

Presentation

SALON IN PRACTICE – MATERIALS: INNOVATIONS FOR AN ECOLOGICAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AT THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

Bo:IA – Bund Österreichischer Innenarchitektur

20.–29.9.2024

The centerpiece of the contribution from the Bo:IA is a hands-on workshop on 27.9., during which participants will have an exclusive opportunity (registration is required) to become acquainted with and test new ecological materials that are conceived for use in interior architecture. The event is … more

PLATFORM

Presentation

SALON IN PRACTICE – MATERIALS: INNOVATIONS FOR AN ECOLOGICAL INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AT OBJECT CARPET

Bo:IA – Bund Österreichischer Innenarchitektur

20.–27.9.2024

On 24 September 2024, the MAK Design Nite, the annual highlight of the MAK's cooperation with the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, will be dedicated to the exhibition AUT NOW. 100 × Austrian Design for the 21st Century, which presents 100 examples of particularly remarkable and innovative Austrian product … more

PLATFORM

Party

MAK Design Nite

MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

24.9.2024, 6.30pm–11pm

Are you okay? Are we okay? Is it okay? From the starting point of these questions, the designers Lena Beigel, Tobias Lugmeier, and Georg Sampl reflect upon the role and potential of their design generation. What should be the purpose of design? Which subjects should it address? What do our society … more

PLATFORM

Exhibition

IS OK IT?

Lena Beigel / Tobias Lugmeier / Georg Sampl

20.–29.9.2024

The Arena is cult! The event location was already a hot topic well before the most recent discussions with neighboring residents. During this exclusive tour, the Arena Wien is opening its doors and baring its soul. The two-hour-long tour will present the architectural history, urban development … more

Education

Guided Tour

INSIDE ARENA – ARCHITECTURE AND POLITICS

Constanze C. Czutta

23.9.2024, 3pm–5pm

As head of production, Alexandra Brückner is responsible for virtually everything related to the organization of the Festival Headquarters. During this exclusive guided tour, the trained exhibition designer offers a look behind the scenes of the building that was designed by ARTEC Architekten and … more

Education

Guided Tour

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

Alexandra Brückner

28.9.2024, 11.30am–1pm

Miki Martinek has been looking behind the scenes of the design world for a decade and a half. And the designer has been surprising us at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK with a constant stream of new editions and educational formats for almost as long. This year, Martinek presents an artistic production in … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/eSeL.at/Marisel Bongola

PLATFORM

Presentation

HAPPINESS IS THE WAY

design.mikimartinek

20.–24.9.2024

This tour combines craftsmanship with footwork! Participants pedal along with Alma Fiala, project manager of the format PLATFORM, to reach selected contributions with special manufacturing qualities by bike. The tour connects the glass and mirror art of the Istanbul design studio HOMA with the … more

Education

Guided Tour

GLASS – TEXTILES – WOOD

Alma Fiala

27.9.2024, 3pm–5pm

In a constantly changing world, our design processes are also changing. The basic principle “Form follows function!” has long since ceased to apply. Emotions, artificial intelligence, or chance influence the design process. This Team Tour with Alexandra Rauschgold sheds light on a variety of design … more

Education

Guided Tour

FORM FOLLOWS WHAT?

Alexandra Rauschgold

23.9.2024, 11am–12.30pm

The company ART for ART, set supplier to the Burgtheater and Akademietheater, the Vienna State Opera, and the Volksoper Wien, has around 360 employees and Austria’s largest set workshops. Participants in this extensive tour gain insights into the impressive spaces in the former Arsenal. They visit … more

Education

Guided Tour

ARCH ON WALK 2: ART FOR ART IN THE ARSENAL

ARCH ON TOUR

27.9.2024, 2pm–5.30pm

The tour led by Marion Kuzmany connects two architectural icons in the Focus District Landstraße, both of which date from the mid-1920s. While moving through the spaces of Haus Wittgenstein, the group learns some fascinating facts about the special constructional geometry and remarkable minimalist … more

Education

Guided Tour

ARCH ON WALK 1: HAUS WITTGENSTEIN AND THE RABENHOF

ARCH ON TOUR

26.9.2024, 2pm–4.30pm

Gloopy Glazes are special glazes whose viscous yet flowing texture recalls liquid lava or dripping paint. In this two-hour-long workshop, the participants design organic stoneware coasters inspired by underwater worlds. After the selection of the blanks, these are painted in a wide range of colors … more

Education

Workshop

CANCELLED: GLOOPY CORALS

Teresa Berger

22.9.2024, 11am–1pm

What is the history of handcrafts in the 2nd district? And what role do they play today? The outreach team of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK joins up with the research series HIDDEN CRAFTS, which stretches back several years, to search for answers and take a look behind the workbench! Participants in the … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR OF WORKSHOPS IN THE 2ND DISTRICT 2

Rosalie Lorenz, Miriam Raggam-Alji, Mariyam Malik, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Unsichtbares Handwerk

22.9.2023, 5pm–8pm

What is the history of handcrafts in the 2nd district? And what role do they play today? The outreach team of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK joins up with the research series HIDDEN CRAFTS, which stretches back several years, to search for answers and take a look behind the workbench! Participants in the … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR OF WORKSHOPS IN THE 2ND DISTRICT

Rosalie Lorenz, Miriam Raggam-Alji, Mariyam Malik, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Unsichtbares Handwerk

29.9.2023, 5pm–8pm

The Festival Headquarters in the Prater are very close to the Giant Ferris Wheel and the rollercoaster. Here: amusement and excess. There: spacious parkland. Design also feels this same dichotomy – torn between consumption, sustainability, minimalism, and abundance. How can we achieve sustainable … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR THROUGH THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

BETWEEN INTERVENTION AND SERIES – DESIGN CHANGES THE CITY!

Rosalie Lorenz, Miriam Raggam-Alji, Mariyam Malik, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

24.9.–1.10.2023

The Danube Canal used to flow outside the city. However, since the regulation work that was carried out between 1868 and 1875, the minor arm of the Danube flows through the center of Vienna, connecting several of its districts. Leisure, recreation, natural habitat, nightlife, transport, art, and … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR ALONG THE DANUBE CANAL, AUDIO TOURS

Miriam Raggam-Alji, Rosalie Lorenz, Mariyam Malik

22.9.–1.10.2023

The Danube Canal used to flow outside the city. However, since the regulation work that was carried out between 1868 and 1875, the minor arm of the Danube flows through the center of Vienna, connecting several of its districts. Leisure, recreation, natural habitat, nightlife, transport, art, and … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR ALONG THE DANUBE CANAL

Miriam Raggam-Alji, Rosalie Lorenz, Mariyam Malik, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

23.–30.9.2023

Dear Pupils! Dear Teachers! This year we will once again be visiting the festival together and taking a look in and around the Festival Headquarters in the Prater. This will give us the opportunity to talk with the designers and experts who are present at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and to gather … more

Education

Guided Tour

SCHOOL TOURS

Miriam Raggam-Alji, Rosalie Lorenz, Mariyam Malik, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

25.–29.9.2023

The fairground ride operator Stefan Sittler-Koidl invites visitors to join a tour offering exclusive glimpses behind the scenes in the Wiener Prater. The two-hour tour begins with a ride on Vienna’s Giant Ferris Wheel, during which participants can learn more about the historical background to and … more

Education

Guided Tour

PRATERTOUR

WIENER PRATER KOIDLS

30.9.2023, 2pm–4pm

Living a kosher life also means living within walking distance of shops selling everyday items and the closest synagogue. This is why Jews have organized their lives for centuries in densely structured urban settings – such as Vienna’s Leopoldstadt! There is nowhere in Austria where one finds so … more

Education

Guided Tour

JEWISH LIFE IN LEOPOLDSTADT

KENH Architekten

28.9.2023, 4pm–6pm

The City Farm Augarten is all about organic growth. Since 2012, the initiative in Vienna’s Augarten has been devoting itself to sustainable vegetable and fruit growing in the urban realm and the low-threshold sharing of the corresponding know-how. Inspired by this guiding principle as well as by … more

Urban Food & Design

Installation

GROWING THE CITY FARM

Liquid Frontiers, Vandasye, City Farm Augarten, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

22.9.–1.10.2023

Is that art or just scribbling? The participants in this children’s workshop jointly explore the various sides of graffiti art. After being inspired by examples of Vienna’s colorful graffiti scene on the Danube Canal they get to work themselves: Equipped with gloves, facemasks, and spray cans, they … more

Education

Children's Workshop

GRAFFITI WORKSHOP

Rosalie Lorenz, Miriam Raggam-Alji, Mariyam Malik, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

23.–30.9.2023

Google Maps increasingly determines which parts of the city are noticed and used. At the same time, users voluntarily enhance the platform by uploading places, photos, information, and evaluations – in a process that Google deceptively calls participation. But to what extent are users really part … more

Education

Guided Tour

MARKED MAPS – THE LIMITS TO DESIGN

Gruppe Laokoon

29.9.–1.10.2023

Playing children, visitors to the Wurstelprater, commuters, people with no fixed abode … around 150,000 individuals with a wide range of behaviors and lengths of stay cross Vienna’s Praterstern every day. The objective of the latest remodeling of the transport hub by KENH Architekten and D\D … more

Education

Guided Tour

DESIGN CHALLENGE PRATERSTERN

KENH Architekten, Isabella Lehner-Oberndorfer

29.9.2023, 4pm–5.30pm

Bars, dance halls and nightclubs are places of artistic expression - this applies to the dance floor or the stage as well as to their interior design and acoustics. Artists and designers have always used different creative means to create unique spaces of the night. For the first time, the Vienna … more

Education

Guided Tour

FORM FOLLOWS THE DANCEFLOOR – CLUB WALK DURCH DEN FOKUSBEZIRK

Vienna Club Commission (VCC)

29.9.2023, 4pm–6.30pm

Inspired by the notion of concept-based curation and the thrill of finding hidden gems in everyday surroundings, the designers Diego Faivre and Olga Flór invite visitors to participate in a unique DESIGN TREASURE HUNT in the Festival Headquarters in the Prater. The immersive experience, which can … more

Education

Experience

DESIGN TREASURE HUNT

Olga Flór, Diego Faivre

23.–28.9.2023

A walk to the crafts businesses of Mollardgasse: The research series UNSICHTBARES HANDWERK (HIDDEN CRAFTS), which stretches back several years, investigates the history of Vienna’s workshops and their relationship with the physical, social, and economic development of the city. The focuses of the … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Maria Noisternig

Education

Tour

HIDDEN CRAFTS IN MARIAHILF

Johanna Reiner

21.9.2022, 4pm–6pm

A completely legal dumpling tour: Two designers with Chinese roots follow the traces of the Austro-Asian lifestyle and invite visitors to join them on a multi-stage tour of the 6th district. Along the way, Lucy Li and Angela Neubauer shed light on the niche history of Vienna’s Chinese community … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Patrizia Gapp

Education

Tour

DUMPLING TOUR

Lucy Li / Angela Neubauer

17.–24.9.2022

Participants in this tour explore, question, and discuss the highlights of the Festival Headquarters in Mariahilf. This year, these can be concisely referred to as 3-G: GASSE, GEWÖLBE, and GSTÄTTN. The district is home to many discreet examples of extraordinary architecture that are offering … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Karo Pernegger

Education

Tour

PORTALS TO THE FESTIVAL: GASSE, GEWÖLBE, AND GSTÄTTN

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

18.–25.9.2022

Design for every … one! The format Debut of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK highlights excellent educational institutions in Austria and abroad. This year’s guest institution is the Institute for Education in the Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. For the first time, a contribution in this series … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Kramar

Debut

Work-in-Progress

PERFORMING CARE – PRACTICING DESIGN!

Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Institut für das künstlerische Lehramt (IKL)

16.–25.9.2022

The practice of embellishing Asian porcelain objects in Europe with gold-bronze or silver mounts in order to make them more attractive to Western collectors can be traced back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Vases became candlesticks or were given lids or decorative handles. An act of ignorance or … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Philipp Podesser

PLATFORM

Presentation

JOHANNA PICHLBAUER: MOUNTED PORCELAINS

Schloss Hollenegg for Design

16.–25.9.2022

A museum visit that recalls the consumption of fast food: In the middle of the columned main hall, the Viennese collective Design in Gesellschaft is serving a selection of oversized and very striking design icons on an accessible tray. But the huge menu isn’t alone: Curated tours through the … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Niko Havranek

PLATFORM

Presentation

DESIGN IN GESELLSCHAFT: MAK MENÜ

MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

16.–23.9.2022

Where better to get to know a neighborhood and its inhabitants than in the Beisl, the pub? The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invites its visitors to discover Mariahilf on a tour of its pubs with two special guests from the district. In beer gardens, pubs, and coffee houses, or at the sausage stand … more

Education

Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #2 WITH ODIE

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt

23.9.2022, 7pm–9pm

Where better to get to know a neighborhood and its inhabitants than in the Beisl, the pub? The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invites its visitors to discover Mariahilf on a tour of its pubs with two special guests from the district. In beer gardens, pubs, and coffee houses, or at the sausage stand … more

Education

Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #1 MIT NOUSHIN REDJAIAN

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt

16.9.2022, 7pm–9pm

Really extraordinary: This themed walk is dedicated to the architectural characteristics, history, and special topography of this year’s Focus District Mariahilf. It starts with a real highlight: with the studio visit of the architectural office GERNER GERNER PLUS. in the longest and most important … more

Education

Tour

ARCH ON WALK: MARIAHILF #2

ARCH ON TOUR

23.9.2022, 4pm–7pm

Mariahilf is steep – also in the topographical sense. The buildings and places visited on this tour illustrate how the special locational qualities and unique history of the district have influenced its architecture, old and new. The tour starts with a brief introductory visit to the Festival … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Stefanie Freynschlag

Education

Tour

ARCH ON WALK: MARIAHILF #1

ARCH ON TOUR

21.9.2022, 4.30pm–7.30pm

From movement to movements: Visitors have two opportunities to join project manager Hanna Facchinelli as she explores this year’s Focus District Brigittenau by bike, crisscrossing it in line with the special subject of resilient neighborhoods. The three selected social design contributions of the … more

Education

Guided Tour

TEAM (BIKE) TOUR: STADTARBEIT

with Hanna Facchinelli

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

2.10.2021, 11am–1pm

How design and design festival gain momentum? Like this. Together with Laura Winkler, the project manager of the Program Partner format, participants in the bike tour will visit program items throughout the city. This not only opens up the contributions of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, but also allows … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided tour TEAM (BIKE) TOUR: PROGRAM PARTNERS

with Laura Winkler

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Laura Winkler

29.9.2021, 2pm–4.30pm

When something doesn't work out, the question of responsibility is likely to fly around sooner or later. But shouldn't it also be asked when something works? Whether an edition of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is considered a success ultimately depends less on concrete figures than on the subjective … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Petra Rautenstrauch

Education

Guided Tour

TEAM TOUR: WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!

with Director Gabriel Roland

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Gabriel Roland

26.9.2021, 11am–12.30pm

Education

Guided Tour

TEAM TOUR: URBAN FOOD & DESIGN

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

2.10.2021, 2pm–4pm

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Unlike the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK (which is only here temporarily as a guest), countless artists and ateliers have been based in Brigittenau for many years. Alongside these many studios, one can also find dozens of off spaces all of which are dedicated to showing contemporary art from Vienna. The tour … more

Education

Guided Tour

OFFSPACES: BRIGITTE, NOW!

Helena Schmidt, Sophie Lingg, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

26.9.2021, 4pm–6pm

In the airy spaces of the Festival Headquarters on Sachsenplatz the participants in this tour will explore their own understanding of design in line with one of this year’s mottos: “Bridges not borders!” What do design and creativity have to do with bridges and borders? How can they help to tear … more

Education

Guided Tour

FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS: BRIDGES NOT BORDERS!

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

25.9.–3.10.2021

This city tour is dedicated to the vibe of Vienna’s 20th district. The artist duo Benjamin Nagy & Anton Defant will guide participants to their favorite places for skating, eating, or simply hanging out and watching people. The tour lasts an hour and a half, participants should come with empty … more

Education

Guided Tour

BRIGITTENAU CITY TOUR

Benjamin Nagy & Anton Defant

24.9.–1.10.2021

The Festival Headquarters of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2021 are situated in a truly wonderful location: on Sachsenpark. The green heart of the neighborhood and its playground provide the setting for this outdoor workshop for children of up to twelve years of age. Out in the fresh air – and thus as … more

Education

Children's Workshop

BRIGITTE, NOW! IN SACHSENPARK

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

25.9.2021, 4pm–6pm

In soccer, a box-to-box player is the name given to a player who operates between both penalty boxes. And while Itai Margula was and still is involved in planning such sporting and cultural projects as the Generali Arena in Vienna and the Donauparkstadion in Linz, the key area of activity of the … more

Education

Guided Tour

BOX TO BOX: SPIELFELD AUSSTELLUNGSDESIGN

Itai Margula (Margula Architects)

30.9.2021, 3pm–5pm

Where better to get to know a neighborhood and its inhabitants than in the Beisl, the pub? The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invites its visitors to discover Brigittenau on a tour of its pubs with two special guests from the district. In beer gardens, pubs, and coffee houses, and at the sausage stand … more

Education

Guided Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #2 WITH KATARINA MARIA TRENK (KMT)

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

1.10.2021, 6pm–8pm

Where better to get to know a neighborhood and its inhabitants than in the Beisl, the pub? The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invites its visitors to discover Brigittenau on a tour of its pubs with two special guests from the district. In beer gardens, pubs, and coffee houses, and at the sausage stand … more

Education

Guided Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #1 MIT HANS SCHABUS

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

30.9.2021, 6pm–8pm

This tour begins at precisely the point where the Danube and the Danube Canal part and agree to meet again a little further downstream: on the Schemerlbrücke. Passing the two iconic bronze lions, participants will cross onto the “island of Brigittenau”, where they will visit Otto Wagner’s Nussdorf … more

Education

Guided Tour

ARCH ON WALK: BRIGITTENAU #2 – OTTO WAGNER AUF DER INSEL

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

1.10.2021, 2.45pm–7pm

This tour illustrates that flagship projects aren’t always characterized by their breathtaking height. The unique “Millennial View” from the roof terrace of the Millennium Tower offers an introductory overview of Brigittenau as well as information about the subsequent tour through the district. The … more

Education

Guided Tour

ARCH ON WALK: BRIGITTENAU #1 – WOHNHÖFE AUS ALLEN PERSPEKTIVEN

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

24.9.2021, 2.15pm–7pm

The designer Miki Martinek adapted to corona by shifting the exercise sessions that she offered to Zoom, enabling festival visitors to move in unison virtually, every day (!). The so-called Freemotion Sessions, which were led by Sandra Ableitner, were best spent on a hand-knitted WOOL MOI, an … more

PLATFORM

Experience

WOOL MOOI – AN EXERCISE MAT

design.mikimartinek

25.9.–1.10.2020

The architectural educator Marion Kuzmani offered an invitation to take a walk through one of Vienna’s most legendary municipal housing estates. Am Schöpfwerk (Franz Schuster, 1951–1957, and a team of architects led by Viktor Hufnagl, 1976–1980), which is well known as the setting for the cult film … more

Education

Tour

AM SCHÖPFWERK HOUSING COMPLEX

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

2.10.2020, 4pm–6pm

A brand new format at VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2020 was the Tik Tok Tour. Hanna Facchinelli from the team and Valentin Eisendle, who was responsible for the online stream that broadcast this year’s DESIGN WEEK right around the world, offered an invitation to visit the festival on a smartphone. Valentin … more

Education

Tour

Tik Tok Tour

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

This was the third year in which the Vienna Business Agency and VIENNA DESIGN WEEK jointly addressed the groundbreaking subject of URBAN FOOD & DESIGN: In a tour staged as a double act, Alice Jacubasch (Vienna Business Agency) and Julia Schanderl (VIENNA DESIGN WEEK), who were responsible for the … more

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: URBAN FOOD & DESIGN

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2020, 3pm–4.30pm

The theme of the personal Team Tour of Hanna Facchinelli, project manager of the Stadtarbeit format, was “Social Design”. She invited participants on a short, urban voyage of discovery through Vienna’s 17th and 18th Districts. The first station was the INSTITUTE FOR VALUATION that, as part of the … more

To Couch in Public, Stadtarbeit 2019, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Maria Noisternig

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: SOCIAL DESIGN

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2020, 11am–1pm

Gabriel Roland, the newly appointed deputy director of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, offered two invitations to enjoy a private peek behind the curtain at the Festival Headquarters. In his PRIVATE VIEW, he explained his own subjective approach to the exhibition. Because, despite the 14-year history of the … more

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: Private View

Gabriel Roland (VIENNA DESIGN WEEK)

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Gabriel Roland, Lilli Hollein

4.10.2020, 11am–12.30pm

A festival program is like one’s own children: Each individual item should receive equal treatment. And yet: Towards the end of the festival, Lilli Hollein, director and co-founder of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, singled out aspects of the 2020 festival that, from the perspective of the unquenchably … more

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: Private View

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Lilli Hollein

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Lilli Hollein

30.9.2020, 2pm–3.30pm

Participants in the PASSIONSWEGE Team Tour were able to enjoy a double dose of design expertise. Lilli Hollein and Gabriel Roland — the joint, so to say, spearhead of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK – guided visitors through their favorite project PASSIONSWEGE as a double act. For the past 15 years, the … more

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: Passionswege

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Lilli Hollein & Gabriel Roland

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Lilli Hollein, Gabriel Roland

26.9.2020, 4pm–6pm

Gabriel Roland, the newly appointed deputy director of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, offered two invitations to enjoy a private peek behind the curtain at the Festival Headquarters. In his PRIVATE VIEW, he explained his own subjective approach to the exhibition. Because, despite the 14-year history of the … more

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: Guest Country

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Gabriel Roland

27.9.2020, 11am–12.30pm

Did you notice that a former caretaker’s apartment was concealed amongst the exhibition spaces of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2020? This and other gems were amongst the facts revealed on the Team Tour by Alexandra Brückner. Each year, the festival tradition is to find empty space that can offer a temporary … more

Education

Tour

TEAM TOUR: Headquarter & Solarium Behind the Scenes

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

28.9.2020, 1pm–2.30pm

In 2020, the members of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK team offered personal tours through the festival and their own specialist areas for the very first time. Laura Winkler, bundle-of-energy and project manager of the Program Partner format, was joined by participants in the Radtour on a visit to program … more

Education

Tour

TEAM (BIKE)TOUR : PROGRAM PARTNERS

Laura Winkler ( VIENNA DESIGN WEEK)

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Laura Winkler

29.9.2020, 2pm–5.30pm

The art and design educators Sophie Lingg and Helena Schmidt explored VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2020 together with school classes, children, and young people. This exploration took the form of tours and workshops in and around the Festival Headquarters in Meidling, during which design could be experienced … more

Education

Children's Workshop

CITY: #PHOTOGRAPHY AND #OPEN SPACE

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2020, 4pm–5.30pm

The art and design educators Sophie Lingg and Helena Schmidt explored VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2020 together with school classes, children, and young people. This exploration took the form of tours and workshops in and around the Festival Headquarters in Meidling, during which design could be experienced … more

Education

Children's Workshop

MEIDLING DIGITAL DESIGN TOUR – HASHTAGS, LINKS and MEMES

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt

3.10.2020, 2pm–3.30pm

One novelty of this year’s VIENNA DESIGN WEEK was the educational format the Beisl Tour. Well-known Meidling faces took visitors on a tour of their favorite ‘Beisl’ or pubs – for where does one get to know a neighborhood better than in its pubs? On the final day of the festival, the performer … more

Education

Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #2 WITH DENICE BOURBON

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

4.10.2020, 5pm–7pm

One novelty of this year’s VIENNA DESIGN WEEK was the educational format the Beisl Tour. Well-known Meidling faces took visitors on a tour of their favorite ‘Beisl’ or pubs – for where does one get to know a neighborhood better than in its pubs? The special guest who was invited to lead the first … more

Education

Tour

BEISLPROTOKOLLE #1 WITH STEFAN ZEISLER

Sophie Lingg, Helena Schmidt, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

3.10.2020, 8pm–10pm

The architectural guided tours offered by Marion Kuzmani (ARCH ON TOUR) during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK have been a fully-booked success story for years. This year, the architectural expert devoted one of the two formats to Friedrich Achleitner, the author of the historical guide “Österreichische … more

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK/Kollektiv Fischka/Phillip Podesser

Education

Tour

ARCH ON WALK – ACHLEITNER RELOADED IN MEIDLING

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

26.9.–3.10.2020

Other than in a straightforward language, Finnish design often manifests itself in a marked reference to nature. This is true of both it and architectural formal aesthetics. With these ideas, the focus tour with the architect Tiina Parkkinen, which draws on the Finnish Guest Country exhibition WILD … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 5: TRACKING FINLAND

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Marion Kuzmany (ARCH ON TOUR)

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

4.10.2019, 2pm–5pm

Vienna’s city center is full of history and stories. From the perspective of architectural design, it can also be regarded as a melting pot. Sprinkled with architectural treasures, this walk, which meanders between the two disciplines, offers opportunities to visit selected shops and manufacturers … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 4: DESIGN IN THE CITY CENTER

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK / Marion Kuzmany (ARCH ON TOUR)

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

2.10.2019, 3.30pm–6pm

Train stations are places of departure, just like this tour. After starting at the Althan Quartier above Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof, which was designed by the work group of architects around Karl Schwanzer and erected between 1974 and 1978, the overview tour provides insight into the building’s history … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 3: DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN VIENNA’S ALSERGRUND

ARCH ON TOUR, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

1.10.2019, 3pm–5.30pm

On foot, at the table, it's all about the future of consumption. Along with the increase in urbanization and the related changes in living conditions, the area of food production and consumption is being confronted with a number of challenges. On their culinary stroll through the Festival … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 2: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?

Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

What distinguishes the 9th district? How can its soul and spirit be characterized? And what do its residents and visitors think, feel, and wish for themselves? Together, participants of this tour explore the potential of design for the city’s Alsergrund district. The spectrum extends from … more

Education

Guided Tour

Guided TOUR 1: LIVE AND DESIGN ROOMS

Alexa Brauner, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

27.9.–5.10.2019

Itself a stronghold of concentrated creative energy, in 2019 Hotel Altstadt Vienna will sponsor a design prize worth 2,000 euros for the first time: As part of a competition held in cooperation with the master’s program Interior Design & Visual Communication at the New Design University (NDU) St.

PLATFORM

Presentation

ALTSTADT VIENNA DESIGN AWARD 2019

Hotel Altstadt Vienna

1.10.2019

Itself a stronghold of concentrated creative energy, in 2019 Hotel Altstadt Vienna will sponsor a design prize worth 2,000 euros for the first time: As part of a competition held in cooperation with the master’s program Interior Design & Visual Communication at the New Design University (NDU) St.

PLATFORM

Exhibition

ALTSTADT VIENNA DESIGN AWARD 2019

Hotel Altstadt Vienna

27.9.–6.10.2019

Vienna’s 7th district is a design universe in the best sense of the term, and exploring a cross section of it is the declared goal of this tour with Marion Kuzmany. It began with the Festival Headquarters in the former Sophienspital, where designers of selected contributions were present to answer … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 5: DESIGN IN NEUBAU – FROM VIRTUOSO TO VIRTUAL

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, ARCH ON TOUR

5.10.2018, 3pm

There’s a great deal to discover in the center of Vienna – particularly in terms of architecture, virtual reality, design, and ceramics. The tour began at the Wideshot agency, which presented, along with its studio, projects in the area of virtual reality and a recently released short film. At its … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 4: BRAND-NEW SIGHTS IN THE CITY CENTER

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, ARCH ON TOUR

2.10.2018, 3.45pm

With tours and talks on lighthouse projects relating to building design, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK focuses each year on selected themes in the transitional areas of design and architecture. For example, the highly popular tour with Hermann Czech began at the Bridge Club, an apartment Loos arranged for … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 3: CZECH INTERPRETS LOOS

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, ARCH ON TOUR

1.10.2018, 12.30pm

The city center is a veritable crystallization point of design. Traditional crafts and artistic reinterpretations meet there, contemporary galleries stand next to venerable businesses and new exhibition spaces. On a tour of discovery through the diversity of design in Vienna’s center, participants … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 2: DESIGN IN VIENNA’S CENTER

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter

29.9.–5.10.2018

From leather, yarn, and silver to urban and rural space, from traditional craft companies to new life designs: That was the thematic arc this tour to stations of the Passionswege and Stadtarbeit formats followed through the Focus District Neubau. Currently, work represents an important pillar of … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 1: PASSIONSWEGE IN BRILLANTENGRUND AND GOING OUT FOR A LIMO AFTER WORK

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Alexa Brauner

28.9.–6.10.2018

With the DREIBAUM project, a microarchitecture for education about the natural environment, hunting, and forestry, the off-grid experiment returned to an urban context. Developed for the Austrian Federal Forestry Agency by TRIALE, a research facility for design research and knowledge transfer, it … more

PLATFORM

Presentation

DREIBAUM

28.9.–7.10.2018

What we expect of food and how it’s consumed, which is becoming increasingly personal, requires innovative concepts from the fields of design and gastronomy. This involves the desire for special taste experiences, various characteristic cultural or ethnic forms of eating, or food allergies, which … more

Urban Food & Design

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 2: FUTURE HOSPITALITY

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

3.10.2018, 3pm

How it must feel to immerse oneself in the mystic and archaic topoi from the works of the painter Zdzisław Beksińsk, who passed away in 2005, was illustrated by the Polish studio 11th Dimension’s virtual reality installation. Accompanied by atmospheric music and ambient noises, users roam the … more

Virtual & Augmented Reality

Experience

DE PROFUNDIS

Adam Mickiewicz Institut

28.9.–7.10.2018

Exclusive guided tour through the historic main building … (Roland Rainer, 1958), also backstage areas and annex Halle F together with Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten (2006). Start: short guided overview tour through the Festival Headquarters North. Three different tours, three different … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 4: URBAN WEST-END VIENNA, The Wiener Stadthalle

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

29.9.2017, 3pm–5pm

With its crowning dome, its façade studded with striking bull’s eyes, the building on Sparkassaplatz 4 erected during the time of industrial expansion in Austria takes on a notable position in the history of urban development. The two bottom floor levels of the building – formerly headquarters of … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 2: ARCHITECTURE ON SPARKASSAPLATZ

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Corona Gsteu

8.10.2017, 4pm–6pm

Guided tours are essential educational tools. This is also true when creating contact with the omnipresent robot species. Robotics – driven by Digital Modernity – has already fundamentally altered our working and daily lives. HELLO, ROBOT. told the story of a convergence of human and machine. More … more

PLATFORM

Exhibition

HELLO, ROBOT. DESIGN BETWEEN HUMAN AND MACHINE

MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst

29.9.–1.10.2017

What was true before the festival is still the case today: “More and more design studios are relocating to the 15th urban district – firstly, because it’s near the center, secondly, because of the relatively reasonable rents.” In the course of this Focus tour, participants visited the design … more

Education

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 3: DESIGN IN FOCUS

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, mischer'traxler studio

6.10.2017, 11am–2pm

“Spotted: three locals.” As it turned out, what we used as a motto for this tour in the Guide 2017, inspired by a well-known travel platform, couldn’t be more fitting. Participants visited companies that produce goods in the Focus District, Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, and learned about them: Starting … more

Education

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 2: LOCAL PRODUCTION IN FOCUS

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

4.10.2017, 11am–1.30pm

The eclectic neighborhood tour through the southern portion of Vienna’s 15th district began at the Festival Headquarters South, once a branch of the Zentralsparkasse bank which was revamped by Johann Georg Gsteu from 1970 to 1974. Heading north, participants then explored urban developments in the … more

Education

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 1: ARCHITECTURE IN FOCUS

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

3.10.2017, 4pm–6pm

Digitalization doesn’t stop at traditional handicrafts and their circulation. Is this … revolution a curse or a blessing? Chance or challenge? This was the issue … dealt with by the wienerSITZgruppe in their panel discussion before a wellattended audience, and they put the ideas to the test … more

PLATFORM

Talk

HOW MUCH “DIGITAL” DOES HANDICRAFT NEED?

wiener SITZgruppe

7.10.2016, 3pm

The villa of Greta and Fritz Tugendhat in Brno, the Czech Republic, was built in 1929/1930 … after designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe … and is today a UNESCO World Heritage … Site. A monument of modern architecture! Comprehensive renovations and restorations … between 2010 and 2012 have completely … more

Education

Guided Tour

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK SAFARI - 2

Villa Tugendhat, VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE

2.10.2016, 11am–8.30pm

Architectural precision and conceptual stringency – this is what hit the attention in the tours through the Villa Tugendhat built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in … 1929/1930, specially devised for the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. The pun is on the word Tugend – virtue in German – and the virtue lies in the … more

Education

Guided Tour

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK SAFARI

VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE, Villa Tugendhat

30.9.2016, 12pm–8.30pm

Architecture meets design in the hidden gem of the 5th District. Three individual walks lead to studio presentations by outstanding Viennese architecture bureaus and further highlights in this year’s Focus District. All three tours start with a short guided tour in the Festival Headquarters … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 4C: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK ON THE MARGARETEN WALK OF FAME

ARCH ON TOUR

7.10.2016, 1.30pm–5pm

Architecture meets design in the hidden gem of the 5th District. Three individual walks lead to studio presentations by outstanding Viennese architecture bureaus and further highlights in this year’s Focus District. All three tours start with a short guided tour in the Festival Headquarters … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 4B: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK ON THE MARGARETEN WALK OF FAME - Cancelled

ARCH ON TOUR

6.10.2016, 3.30pm–6.30pm

Architecture meets design in the hidden geme of the 5th District. Three individual walks lead to studio presentations by outstanding Viennese architecture bureaus and further highlights in this year’s Focus District. All three tours start with a short guided tour in the Festival Headquarters … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 4A: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK ON THE MARGARETEN WALK OF FAME

ARCH ON TOUR

4.10.2016, 2.30pm–5pm

This tour revolves around social design. And social design in turn puts the person in focus. Also the exhibition in the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art by the designer and researcher Ebru Kurbak deals with human community and communication, knowledge sharing and reciprocal regard. It … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 3: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK FROM ANSWERS TO INTEGRADSION

Alexa Brauner

5.10.2016, 2pm–4pm

Margareten is a creative district – and this year especially so. Because the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and its projects happening here in countless corners show how social aspects and local knowledge can be integrated in creative processes. The tour makes its way through the district and provides an … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 2: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK WITH AND FOR ONE ANOTHER

Alexa Brauner

3.10.2016, 11am–1pm

Margareten is a creative district – and this year especially so. Because the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and its projects happening here in countless corners show how social aspects and local knowledge can be integrated in creative processes. The tour makes its way through the district and provides an … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 2: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK WITH AND FOR ONE ANOTHER

Alexa Brauner

3.10.2016, 2.30pm–4.30pm

Margareten is a creative district – and this year especially so. Because the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and its projects happening here in countless corners show how social aspects and local knowledge can be integrated in creative processes. The tour makes its way through the district and provides an … more

Education

Guided Tour

TOUR 2: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK WITH AND FOR ONE ANOTHER

Alexa Brauner

4.10.2016, 11am–1pm

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is already celebrating its tenth birthday! Set up with pencils and paper, children roam through the Festival Headquarters past exotic birds by zerunianweisz and see what they are twittering to them. They hear the stories of the loose collective Objektas and investigate how … more

Education

Children's Workshop

A STROLL TROUGH THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

Leonie Spitzer

9.10.2016, 11am–1pm

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is already celebrating its tenth birthday! Set up with pencils and paper, children roam through the Festival Headquarters past exotic birds by zerunianweisz and see what they are twittering to them. They hear the stories of the loose collective Objektas and investigate how … more

Education

Children's Workshop

A STROLL TROUGH THE FESTIVAL HEADQUARTERS

Leonie Spitzer

9.10.2016, 2pm–4pm

Snazzy in the Focus District. Or: Window shopping with a difference! The departure tour FASHION IN FOCUS showed how diversely Margareten … outfits itself by visiting open studios and showrooms of elfenkleid, Margaret and … Hermione, Ute Ploier, and Claudia Brandmair. It was a pavement catwalk right … more

Education

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 3: FASHION IN FOCUS The Vienna Business Agency presents departure in focus

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE

7.10.2016, 11am–2pm

Two landmark projects were scaled by the participants of the on-site architecture tour organized by the Vienna Business Agency with its creative center departure in cooperation with ARCH ON TOUR. First came the presentation of a low-threshold school of administration, then an exclusive guided … more

Education

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 2: ARCHITECTURE IN FOCUS The Vienna Business Agency presents departure in focus

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE, ARCH ON TOUR

5.10.2016, 2.15pm–5.45pm

What was true before the festival still applies more than ever today: Margareten is a great patch for design. Starting out from the wonderful Festival Headquarters in the Margareten Schloßviertel – itself once a master carpentry – visitors took a look behind the scenes of today’s design landscape.

Education

Guided Tour

DEPARTURE TOUR 1: DESIGN IN FOCUS The Vienna Business Agency presents departure in focus

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, VIENNA DESIGN OFFICE

5.10.2016, 11am–1.30pm

With four tours taking place several times, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Education Program – as ever accompanied in her charming and super-informative manner by the city guide Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter – set off through the most extensive Festival ever. It went to selected program items with various … more

Education

Guided Tour

Vienna Design Week Tours

Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter

Starting out from the Kunst Haus Wien, it shows a cross section of the local design landscape, including experimental design, social design and graphic and furniture design. Spurred on by the passion for design, the guided tour traces a geographical arc from the 3rd district, Landstraße, to the 7th … more

Education

Guided Tour

Tour 4: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Passion for Design

25.9.2015, 10am–1pm

Starting out from the Kunst Haus Wien, it shows a cross section of the local design landscape, including experimental design, social design and graphic and furniture design. Spurred on by the passion for design, the guided tour traces a geographical arc from the 3rd district, Landstraße, to the 7th … more

Education

Guided Tour

Tour 4: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Passion for Design

29.9.2015, 4pm–7pm

Starting out from the Kunst Haus Wien, it shows a cross section of the local design landscape, including experimental design, social design and graphic and furniture design. Spurred on by the passion for design, the guided tour traces a geographical arc from the 3rd district, Landstraße, to the 7th … more

Education

Guided Tour

Tour 4: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Passion for Design

1.10.2015, 10am–1pm

This year, too, the inner city awaits visitors with a multitude of festival events during the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK – whether elegant shops, old-established handicraft industries, or museums and exhibition venues. A stroll through the meandering alleys of the 1st district gives visitors an in-depth … more

Education

Guided Tour

Tour 1: VIENNA DESIGN WEEK goes Downtown

25.9.2015, 3pm–6pm

design:mikimartinek launched out on a veritable communication tour: accompanied by objects from the worlds of textile and furniture design, the show was staged on four evenings in different locations across Vienna. The knitting workshop of Veronika Persché had an exhibition space here, also the … more

PLATFORM

Presentation

SUSTAINABILITY IN DESIGN:CONTEXT

design.mikimartinek

28.9.–1.10.2015

With the agenda of organizing its education program as platform for reciprocal exchange and active participation, the LEARNING JOURNEY of the Vienna Business Agency, Creative Center departure led the way to various, locally producing creative studios. In the Werksalon (Vienna’s first co-making … more

Education

Guided Tour

Learning Journey Co-Making and Co-Producing

Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

29.9.2015, 9am–5pm

Organized for the first time this year was an extensive, multi-stopping bus tour with a focus on architecture. Charmingly hosted by Marion Kuzmany, the architect and expert for architectural trips, the route through the city explored the latest developments in kitchen design. After viewing Finn … more

Education

Guided Tour

KITCHENS: HOT AND MINIMAL

ARCH ON TOUR

2.10.2015, 1.30pm–3pm

In its role as communicator and educator, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK constantly strives to open the design scene to new horizons and create awareness for hitherto somewhat neglected partial scenes. The talk of the austria wirtschaftsservice dealt with the increasing significance of game design.

Talks

Talk

COME AND PLAY!

aws – austria wirtschaftsservice

25.9.2015, 5pm–6.30pm

Where did the bricks come from – what does it look like there now? What has become of the former mining and production site? The Wienerberger brick industry brought form, work, and population to the district, leaving an architectural as well as an economic and political heritage behind it. The … more

Education

Guided Tour

No Bricks Any More

GB*10

1.10.2015, 5.30pm–8pm

Zahlreiche Touren mit Schulklassen aus unterschiedlichen Stufen unternahmen die Designvermittlungsexpertinnen und -experten vom design°mobil. Informationsblätter für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer erleichterten es diesen außerdem, selbst schülergerechte Programme für einen Festivalbesuch zusammenzustellen.

Education

Guided Tour

Tours for School Classes

design°mobil

A project devised as a charming way of promoting knowledge exchange and social contact between the generations. Willing & Able sees itself as “learning bar”, where senior citizens can pass on their knowledge by hands-on communication of production techniques and old recipes. And senior citizens can … more

Stadtarbeit

Work-in-Progress

Willing & Able – a social hub for knowledge exchange

Andreas Pohancenik

26.9.–5.10.2014

The festival programme includes the chance for you join in the ZOOM interactive exhibition “Printing Workshop”, where you can design your own poster or invitation card for your next birthday party and print fine paper with colour and with the press. What’s more, you can design a rag bag or one of … more

Education

Children's Workshop

Printing Workshop

ZOOM Kindermuseum

28.9.2014, 10am

The festival programme includes the chance for you join in the ZOOM interactive exhibition “Printing Workshop”, where you can design your own poster or invitation card for your next birthday party and print fine paper with colour and with the press. What’s more, you can design a rag bag or one of … more

Education

Children's Workshop

Printing Workshop

ZOOM Kindermuseum

5.10.2014, 10am

“Textiles are very next things to our bodies,” says the trend expert Li Edelkoort, “but the knowledge about them is a dying subject.” This is the issue dealt with by mikimartinek und Jutta Pregenzer in their series of talks, “good things will come my way” at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK with the round … more

PLATFORM

Talk

talking textiles

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, design.mikimartinek, Jutta Pregenzer

4.10.2012, 6pm–8pm

Computer games, virtual spaces and augmented reality as a task area for design. Computer games have shifted from being a sceptically regarded marginal theme to become central to our society. In this presentation, ovos Media show Serious Games, computer games for the communication of knowledge, and … more

PLATFORM

Presentation

Augmented Space

ovos media

1.–5.10.2012

kidsroomZOOM will be showing a snapshot of contemporary design for children, with 25 selected international designers coming together to decorate a flat for children. This new format was developed in 2010 by the children’s furniture designers Thomas Maitz … (perludi, Graz) and Paola Noé (the … more

PLATFORM

Presentation

kidsroomZOOM – Design for Children

kidsroomZOOM

30.9.–9.10.2011

On Hernalser Hauptstraße, Dietmar Sulzberger sells valuable, high- priced clocks so specialised he sometimes feels a little lonely there. The two designers from Vandasye, Georg Schnitzer and Peter Umgeher, spontaneously decided to support Mr Sulzberger. They developed a network concept for the … more

Vandasye bei Chronometrie Sulzberger, Vandasye

Passionswege

Exhibition

Vandasye (AT) at the Chronometrie Sulzberger

Vandasye, Verein Neigungsgruppe Design

1.–9.10.2010

In this show by students of the Institute for Aesthetics and Art History, Education, and Communication (Prof. James Skone), a cross-section of the works by the students from the disciplines of wood, ceramics, metal, and paper will be on display.

PLATFORM

Exhibition

Tech „Know“ Logie 2009

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

5.10.2009, 5pm

A Lecture by Kay Stables (GB), Head of the Department of Design and Technology Education, Goldsmiths College (GB). Organised by the Institute for Aesthetics and Art History, Education, and Communication (Prof. James Skone).

PLATFORM

Talk

Designing Education: About the Evaluation of 20 Years of Design and Technology

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

8.10.2009, 6pm

The exhibition shows works from the fields of wood, ceramics, metal and paper by students of the Institute of Art Studies, Art Education and Art Communication at the University of Applied Arts. The exhibits represent a cross-section of the artistic-technical creations of the students in the various … more

PLATFORM

Exhibition

TECH"KNOW"LOGIE

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

6.10.2008, 6pm

What competencies are stimulated by experiencing design processes? Why is the promotion of creativity and unconventional thinking forward-looking for education? What can young people learn from things about themselves and our society? And what general conditions are necessary in order to realise … more

PLATFORM

Talk

Panel discussion: Designing Education

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

9.10.2008, 6.30pm

Mit der Konferenz DESIGN 07 findet an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien am 8. und 9. Oktober erneut ein breit gefächerter und multidisziplinärer Designdiskurs statt, der sich mit sozialen, kulturellen, ökonomischen, ökologischen und ästhetischen Aspekten von Design befasst. Auch dieses Jahr … more

PLATFORM

Talk

Konferenz DESIGN 07 – Die Mitte

Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Verein Neigungsgruppe Design

8.10.2007, 12pm

PLATFORM

Presentation

Buchpräsentation Gerhard Riehl: „Science/Culture: Multimedia, Kreativstrategien der multimedialen Wissensvermittlung

designforum Wien

18.10.2007, 7pm

Die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK schreibt gemeinsam mit der Wirtschaftsagentur Wien mit ihrem Kreativzentrum departure eine departure Challenge zum Thema Urban Food & Design aus. Bis zum 25. Mai 2018 werden Projekte in den folgenden Bereichen gesucht: … • Urban Production / Urban Nutrition … • Future … more

'Mobile Gastfreundschaft', chmara.rosinke

26/4/2018

Ausschreibung  departure Challenge: Urban Food & Design

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 … more

7/9/2021

BOOK TICKETS FOR OUR TOURS AND WORKSHOPS NOW!

Auch dieses Jahr besucht unser Vermittlungsteam Sophie Lingg und Helena Schmidt wieder gemeinsam mit Schulklassen das Festival. Teils in Kleingruppen und teils im gesamten Klassenverband werfen wir Blicke in die Festivalzentrale am Sachsenplatz und den diesjährigen Fokusbezirk Brigittenau. Hier … more

8/9/2021

Ab sofort Tickets für die Schultouren buchen!

Die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, Österreichs größtes kuratiertes Designfestival, findet heuer eine Woche früher, nämlich vom 16. bis zum 25. September, statt. Nach zwei Jahren im zweistelligen Bereich (12., 20.) springt die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK heuer ein bisschen weiter in die Stadtmitte, nämlich in … more

8/3/2022

Was gibt´s Neues bei der VIENNA DESIGN WEEK?

Nach zwei Jahren im zweistelligen Bereich (1120, 1200) springt die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK heuer ein bisschen weiter in die Stadtmitte, um genau dieses Verhältnis von stadtweit gemeinsam genutzten Orten, anonymen Shopping- und Tourismusinfrastrukturen und lokalen Identitäten in einem Bezirk zu … more

14/4/2022

FOKUSBEZIRK 2022: MARIAHILF

Schon jetzt dürfen wir Ihnen einen Einblick in die Formate des heurigen Festivals geben. … Das vollständige Programm gibt es demnächst. … Fokusbezirk Mariahilf … Festivalzentralen … Urban Food & Design … Stadtarbeit – Vermehrt Schönes! Vermittlung … PLATFORM … Spezial … FOKUS … Passionswege … … more

3/8/2022

DIESES JAHR BEI DER VIENNA DESIGN WEEK

Die VIENNA DESIGN WEEK fand heuer zum sechzehnten Mal statt – und war, auch dank Ihnen, ein voller Erfolg! Das Festivalteam freute sich heuer über eine ganze Reihe an treuen sowie neuen Kooperationen, Sponsoren, Mitarbeiter*innen und Besucher*innen. Wir möchten uns ganz herzlich bei Ihnen bedanken … more

5/12/2022

Nachbericht 2022

Kann man guten Geschmack lernen? Vielleicht. Ganz unabhängig davon ist es aber ein zentrales Anliegen der VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, gerade jungen Menschen die Möglichkeit zu geben, ein eigenständiges Bewusstsein für Design zu entwickeln. Im Rahmen des Festivals geschieht das über den spielerischen … more

28/6/2023

BUCHEN SIE SCHON JETZT IHRE SCHULTOUR FÜR SEPTEMBER!

The festival is getting closer and we are gradually presenting this year's program content in our newsletter and our social media channels. Follow us! As usual, you can find the full program on our website and in the VDW23 app at the beginning of September. We are pleased that our festival … more

17/8/2023

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK NEWS 4/2023

Urban Food & Design … The City as a Resource … Urban farming and production, local and social relationships as well as conceptual hospitality and innovative approaches to the circular economy: These topics have been at the center of the Urban Food & Design format of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and … more

31/8/2023

NEWS 6/2023

RÜCKBLICK VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2023 … Ein Nachbericht ist immer auch eine Reflektion darüber, was Erfolg – oder auch Misserfolg – überhaupt bedeutet. Antworten müssen wir meiner Meinung jenseits von Zahlen suchen. Diese bleiben natürlich entscheidende Orientierungspunkte, ihre Aussagekraft für eine … more

16/11/2023

NACHBERICHT 2023