The course is aimed at students of all design studies (industrial design, fashion, graphics, teaching) who want to support and bring about radical, immediate social and economic change with the creative and theoretical tools of their discipline.

Design theories from the fields of circular design and regenerative design serve as a discursive basis for reflecting on the location of one’s own position in design and for formulating new solutions for oneself and the discipline from this. The course can be taken to support one’s own artistic work (KE), but also to implement ideas that have been developed within the course of the course. Activist forms of discourse are also possible.

The initiative for the range of courses comes from the activities of the IDRV Institute of Design Research Vienna, which has been actively supporting the “design revolution” with its design research work for more than 10 years with book contributions, exhibitions and discussion events.