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27/9/2012

Vienna design week '12

Different venues, Wien

Summary of the Program

PASSIONSWEGE

As part of Passionswege – one of the classic programme formats of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK – designers and design teams were invited to collaborate with selected Viennese companies and manufacturers. From this dialogue, works, installations and sometimes products will come into being over the course of several months – all characterized by the experimental nature of this format.

This year’s pairings are:

Austrian product and industrial designer Valentin Vodev meets the glass and chandelier producer J. & L. Lobmeyr (presentation in the 1st District). French industrial designer Charlotte Talbot exchanges ideas with the tradition-steeped silversmiths Wiener Silber Manufactur (presentation in the 1st District). The Netherlands designer duo Daphna Laurens works with Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten (presentation in the 1st District). Brussels-based French designer Julien Carretero cooperates with the upholstery manufacturer Kohlmaier (presentation in the 7th District). London-based Spanish designer Oscar Diaz meets the young start-up firm LightGlass, developing the techniques for coloured architectural glass. Czech designer Klára Šumová is inspired by the tradition-rich chandelier producer Bakalowits Licht Design (presentation in the 6th District).

The Linz-based product design duo March Gut is paired together with the Fleischerei Karl Sterkl butcher shop (presentation in the 16th District). The London-based German product designer Mathias Hahn found a partner in Staud’s, the exclusive manufacturer of vegetable and fruit preserves (presentation in the 16th District) The Polish-born designer, curator, scenographer and design blogger working in Maastricht Matylda Krzykowski confronts the paintbrush producer Norbert Meier as well as Petz Hornmanufaktur (presentation in the 17th District). The Austrian product designer Sebastian Zachl, who studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, will work together with Spezialschlosserei Erwin Klenkhart, a family locksmith business in operation since 1881 (presentation in the 17th District). Passionswege is supported by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce (Wirtschaftskammer Wien) .

LABORATORY and LABORATORY PRESENTATIONS

In this year’s laboratory – the temporary studio – four designers and design firms will take part, having been selected by curator Erwin K. Bauer and the directors of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Tulga Beyerle and Lilli Hollein. Under the title “Pretty Ugly”, Julia Lohmann (Germany), Julian Hagen (Austria), EL ULTIMO GRITO (Spain) and Sebastian Pataki (the Netherlands) will work live during this time on the new design language of the “ugly” and “aesthetically unacceptable”, which is inspired by trash culture and the spontaneity and naturalness of amateurs. Every evening there will be a laboratory discussion on various topics with the participating designers and international guest speakers from the field of graphic and product design. Omar Sosa, art director of the magazine “Apartamento”, is expected, among other participants. Speaking at the opening will be Lupi Asensio and Martin Lorenzo, whose publication “Pretty Ugly. Visual Rebellion in Design” was the impetus for this year’s laboratory. The Laboratory is made possible by the support of Vorwerk Teppiche.

STADTARBEIT and SOCIAL DESIGN

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK will give five design teams or individual designers a free ticket to take part in the festival and introduce themselves on that platform with a programme item addressing the subject of social design. These projects will engage with social issues related to design or create new kinds of scenarios for urban space. The design team mathak + mahlknecht is represented at this year’s City Works with the project “Best Before – On Planned Obsolescence” (“Mindestens haltbar bis – über die geplante Obsoleszenz”). Their installation deals with the common but taboo practice of the managed obsolescence of products and is accompanied by a supporting programme of lectures, a film screening and a panel discussion. Gebrüder Stitch, the full-time makers of custom-tailored jeans, invites seniors to their “full spread” to share secret coffee and cake recipes and life wisdom. In the “Theatre of Destruction,” festival visitors can bring their broken and worthless household appliances. Here the industrial designer Lena Goldsteiner breathes new life into the old plastic parts before they go to the dump.

TOLEDO i DERTSCHEI offers their services as typesetters with “Printing in Place” (“Druckerei am Platz”). In “Slowprinting”, festival visitors learn how to make their own prints in multiple languages. With their survey of “Mankind, Manufacturing, Material” (“Mensch, Manufaktur, Material”), the Cologne design collective büromacht investigates the Caritas Vienna “hke” workshop with regard to the scope of their social responsibilities. The individual Stadtarbeit (City Work) projects are organized in cooperation with Caritas Vienna, Reparaturwerkstatt and Recycling Kosmos, and are supported by Erste Bank.

FEATURED COUNTRY: SPAIN and EXHIBITIONS

For this year’s featured country, Spain has been selected – which is always the starting point for design impulses that are just as strong as they are humorous. A pinch of Spain can be found in all the formats of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK ’12 – from the laboratory to Passionswege to the talks. On top of this, two exhibitions will be devoted to Spanish designers in great detail. The product designer Martí Guixé will present a solo exhibition at Sotheby’s and will give a presentation as part of the laboratory discussion series. For Passionswege, the product designer Oscar Diaz is cooperating with the Vienna LightGlass company, developing the techniques for coloured architectural glass. Omar Sosa, art director of the magazine “Apartamento – an everyday life interiors magazine” will be in Vienna to present a laboratory discussion. Graphic designer Lupi Asensio of TwoPoints.net will address “Pretty Ugly,” the theme of this year’s laboratory. The product designers Rosario Hurtado and Roberto Feo of EL ULTIMO GRITO will work and present on-site in the laboratory. Product designer Jaime Hayon has been scheduled for a talk at k/haus. Héctor Serrano has been invited to be a guest on the opening weekend, and will be represented in the “NUDE 10” group exhibition. He will also be featured among the participants selected for the “European Home Run” design competition, curated by Lilli Hollein.

On the initiative of the Vienna Tourist Board, European designers were invited to design contemporary Vienna souvenirs, which will be presented for the first time during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK at the MAK Design Shop. The “NUDE” exhibition series presents new designs from Spain and will be held as part of the Feria Hábitat Valencia international furniture trade show. The tenth edition of this showcase of Spanish design will be unveiled in Vienna in the k/haus, and will feature objects by CuldeSac, Héctor Serrano, Odosdesign, Herme y Mónica, Stone Designs, estudi{H}ac, Miguel Herranz, Nieves Contreras, Yonoh, Nadadora, Enblanc, Luis Eslava and Alegreindustrial.

EDUCATION

This year’s educational programme consists of tours and workshops that allow beginners as well as experts to experience different aspects of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and gain easy access to design. The city guide and architect Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter will lead “Guided Tours” through the city during the festival on foot and by bus. The local emphasis will be on the 1st District, the 7th District and on this year’s festival focus, 16th and 17th Districts around Ottakringerstraße. Another tour will visit design collections and presentations in museums and institutions all over Vienna. The teachers from design°mobil have put together a special programme to teach design for children and young people: in “Guided Tours for Schools”, students in the lower and upper levels will learn how design fundamentally shapes our everyday lives. In the children’s workshops “Brillenspektakel” and “Hier komme ich”, children can playfully take on the role of designers. These educational offerings are supported by impulse/aws in the context of evolve by the Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth.

Press contact:
E: press@viennadesignweek.at
T: +43 660 47 53 818

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