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Design with responsibility, design for a healthy planet, designing the cycle: The work of designers is a key to sustainable business and a sustainable society. The design scene shares this conviction with an increasing number of decision makers in politics and business. But what do design processes … more

Many things are designable, but not all. Design festivals in particular like to present design as an ingenious solution for everything, which of course can never exist. Design, like everything else in the world, has its limits. The long arm of designers reaches to many places, but not where nature … more

KOMPOST studio and the Vienna Business Agency are jointly organizing the symposium THE CITY AS A RESOURCE in the Festival Headquarters of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. The special theme day presents the design solutions that emerged from the challenges in the format Urban Food & Design and deepens the … more

The presentation by the Polish Husarska Design Studio focuses on the potential of hemp fiber as an environmentally-friendly alternative to conventional materials: RE-HEMPTATION illustrates technologies and products that enable us to use the one-year-old plant in such industrial sectors as food and … more

The call for more sustainability has also been strong in the architecture and design sector for a considerable time. The use of the existing clearly saves resources while also activating additional space – which has become a particularly important issue in cities. How can we creatively (including … more

The Young ExpertsCluster of designaustria is organizing a series of discussions, in which designers talk about beginnings: about the start and the hurdles facing creatives and also about the stimuli that we need in order to trigger social change and sustainable scenarios for the future. Speakers:

“At TREWIT, we like tools. A good tool is reliable, lasts forever, and sits perfectly in the hand. This guiding principle – enhanced by the factor of aesthetics – also applies to the latest chairs developed by TREWIT and our company in general: function that forms and form that functions. One … more

The first edition of the Mono Residency, which is organized together with German Design Graduates, an initiative that supports product design graduates, started at the beginning of 2023. Following a kick-off session in the Mono manufactory in Mettmann in Germany, the ten designers, all of whom … more

How does that fit into the picture? During this year’s festival, the designer Miki Martinek presents her cooperation partner for botanical commissions, Sebastian Hilpold. Working with plants as their material, they jointly create individual poetic compositions for interiors that are in harmony with … more

Typical IKEA, but still surprising and new: IKEA has filled six former hotel rooms with new life at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK festival headquarters. Here, design classics meet new products and are presented in a way that has never been seen before - surprising and bold, but still typically IKEA. Each … more