Vienna Design Week
The Vienna Design Week is a design festival that has been held annually in Vienna since 2007 . It is considered the largest and most established design event in Austria and is dedicated to disciplines such as product and furniture design , social design , graphic design , industrial design, game design , architecture and craft as well as experimental design approaches. The festival program consists of exhibitions, presentations, tours, workshops, lectures and discussion events.
The festival is built on constant formats and changing focuses. The main venue, the so-called festival headquarters, and the host country also change from year to year. The Vienna Design Week can be attended free of charge, with the festival being financed half by public funds and the other half by sponsors from the private sector. Target groups are both the specialist audience and the general public.
The Vienna Design Week is particularly well known for its curated program.
history
The Vienna Design Week goes back to an initiative by Tulga Beyerle , Thomas Geisler and Lilli Hollein : In 2006 the three Viennese curators started a project entitled “Passionswege”, which has since dealt with the interaction between craftsmanship and design, and organized it with the University of Applied Arts the conference "DESIGN 06 - Time Zones". In 2007 these became the basis for the newly founded Vienna Design Week. Until 2010, the founders ran the growing festival with three people. Beyerle and Hollein were co-directors from 2010 to 2013. Since then, Lilli Hollein has headed the organizational team alone.
From 2007 to 2015 the number of events as part of the Vienna Design Week and the number of visitors increased. In 2007 there were 12,000 visitors at 26 events, in 2015 more than 36,000 visitors were counted at 184 events. The latest figures from 2018 indicate around 40,000 visitors to around 200 program items.
Formats
The Vienna Design Week program is organized using a number of formats that are thematically and organizationally different. The formats form the basic framework of the festival and are supplemented by year-specific focuses, such as “Protest” in 2018 or “Game Design” in 2019.
Passion ways
The curatorial team of the Vienna Design Week brings together couples from traditional craft businesses and designers and accompanies their collaboration. In this dialogue, objects and installations are created at the invitation of the Vienna Design Week and thus outside the usual relationship between contractor and client, which newly link craftsmanship and conceptual design ideas. These results will be shown during the festival in the workshops of the craftsmen.
Participating companies were J. & L. Lobmeyr , Rudolf Scheer & Söhne , the Augarten porcelain factory and Jarosinski & Vaugoin . Among the invited designers were Martino Gamper , Gregor Eichinger , EOOS , Max Lamb , mischer'traxler , Philippe Malouin , Tomás Alonso , Charlotte Talbot , chmara.rosinke , Sebastian Herkner and BIG-GAME .
City work
For the “Stadtarbeit” format, project submissions are collected via an open call for proposals. A jury of experts will select five of them, which will be provided with an implementation budget and shown in the Vienna Design Week program. The subject area is social design, i.e. dealing with social challenges using design tools.
A design award has been given to one of the city work projects every year since 2015.
Urban food & design
Since 2018, the Vienna Design Week has been organizing the “Urban Food & Design” format in cooperation with the Vienna Business Agency , in which innovative approaches to the production, distribution and marketing of food in urban areas are presented. The projects shown are submitted via an open call and selected by a jury.
Festival editions
| year | running time | Focus district | Festival headquarters | Host country | particularities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | October 3-21 | - | - | Switzerland | |
| 2008 | October 1-11 | - | - | - | |
| 2009 | October 1-11 | - | - | Belgium | |
| 2010 | October 1-10 | Hernals | - | Sweden | |
| 2011 | September 30th - October 9th | Leopoldstadt | stilwerk Vienna | Poland | |
| 2012 | September 28th - October 7th | Ottakring , Hernals | The Gschwandner | Spain | |
| 2013 | September 27th - October 6th | Wieden | empty school building | - | |
| 2014 | September 26th - October 5th | Country road | Schwarzenberg Palace | Hungary | |
| 2015 | September 25th - October 4th | Favorites | former anchor bread factory | France | |
| 2016 | September 30th - October 9th | Margareten | former Bothe & Ehrmann exhibition halls | Czech Republic | |
| 2017 | September 29th - October 8th | Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus | "Blaues Haus" (formerly ÖBB administration building), formerly Bank Austria branch on Sparkassaplatz | Romania | |
| 2018 | September 28th - October 7th | New building | formerly Sophienspital | Poland | Focus on "Protest" and "Virtual & Augmented Reality" |
| 2019 | September 27th - October 6th | Alsergrund | so-called "Althan Quartier" | Finland | Focus on "Game Design" |
Web links
Official website of the Vienna Design Week
Individual evidence
- ^ Vienna Design Week: About. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Lilli Hollein: "Every now and then you just stand there as a dumb girl" - derStandard.de Retrieved November 5, 2019 (Austrian German).
- ↑ Vienna Design Week returns for 2015. September 23, 2015, accessed on November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Passionswege, a dialogue between designers and artisans. Retrieved November 4, 2019 (UK English).
- ^ Al via la Vienna Design Week. In: Icon Design. September 28, 2019, accessed November 4, 2019 (it-IT).
- ↑ Lilli Hollein, Tina Thiel (eds.): Stadtarbeit: Ten Years of Design Featuring the City . Umstaetter, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504266-0-1 , p. 28 .
- ↑ a b Lilli Hollein, Tina Thiel (eds.): Stadtarbeit: Ten Years of Design Featuring the City . Umstaetter, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-9504266-0-1 , p. 396-412 .
- ^ Vienna Design Week: About. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Wallpaper * Magazine: Vienna Design Week features protest graphics, AI and Polish creativity. September 27, 2018, accessed November 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Vienna Design Week 2019: Processing Video Games. In: TLmagazine. September 27, 2019, Retrieved November 5, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Tulga Beyerle, Thomas Geisler, Lilli Hollein: Seeing with new eyes . In: MAK, Vienna Design Week (Ed.): WerkStadt Vienna: Design Engaging the City . Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503477-1-5 , pp. 6-10 .
- ↑ Vienna Design Week: City work. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ^ Vienna Design Week. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Vienna Design Week: Urban Food & Design. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .