News
IDRV participates in Vienna Design Week 2010 (12/07/2010)
The IDRV is very pleased to be able to participate in the Vienna Design Week 2010 in the form of a “Carte Blanche”. From 1 to 10 October of this year, Design Week, in the Austrian city on the Danube, will focus attention on and raise awareness of design. We are still working on the program, but what we will present will be exciting and performative.
Our survey is going on (12/07/2010)
More than 300 European and American design students have already taken part in our online survey. Thanks to everyone! The survey will help the IDRV to reconcile the “designlectures”, currently in development, with the future needs of learners. In the fall, we will publish the highlights of the results; until then, we are grateful for the continued support of all design students and graduates. Here you can take the survey!
IDRV at LeNS conference 2010, Bangalore (09/07/2010)
The IDRV will be one of the speaking participants, as chosen by an international jury, in the “Sustainability in Design: NOW! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century” conference in Bangalore, India, from 29 September to 1 October 2010. The lecture on the aesthetics of sustainable design, will enrich the discourse on the LeNS Network; the key speakers at the conference will include Ezio Manzini, Geetha Narayanan, and John Thackara, among others.
Take part in our survey on design history teaching (07/06/2010)
The experimental development of our web-based designlectures is moving forward! In addition to innovative content and multimedia contextual material, designlectures should also be especially well suited to the future needs of learners. For this reason, we’re currently undertaking a broad-based survey of more than 40 international universities and training centers. All students or graduates in the fields of design, architecture or graphic design are invited to participate. To the survey!
The IDRV likes in June 2010 ...
The major exhibition on the Alessi Design Factory at the Neue Sammlung in Munich.
Collaborations with MAK and Bröhan Foundation (15/04/2010)
The designlectures.org project brings together teaching and research. Original sources are the ideal starting points for our web-based course on design history. In order to gain access to real, historically relevant design objects and contextual materials from the original period, we are currently securing collaborations with the most prestigious design museums and private collections in German-speaking Europe, including the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna and the Berlin Bröhan Foundation. Other collaborations will be announced soon!