Following last year’s success of the module “Sudeco… for sustainable design and communication strategies” at the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design at the Technical University Vienna, this year’s summer term Harald Gruendl again will be co-supervisor in the workshop. This time the module will emphasize on the important role of future designers as agents to trigger a changeover towards a sustainable [...] Read more – ‘Summer term at TU Vienna: Sustainable Design in Theory and Practice’.
Just as we were starting to do some field research on actual (non-)recycling of upholstered furniture at the city’s waste collection places (view our current home page photo), great news arrived: The Institute of Design Research Vienna was granted funding by the ZIT for conceptualizing and running an exhibition bearing the promising working title “Sustainable [...] Read more – ‘IDRV was granted funding for Sustainable Design exhibition’.
“I am calling for transitional design. This is a design approach that advances social change within a sustainable system. Transitional design frightens and fascinates, bridges and enables. It helps to anticipate a new form of life. The seductive power of design is committed to a new purpose.” Harald Gruendl The focus of the research activities of [...] Read more – ‘IDRV goes green!’.
Sustainable Design. Strategies for social change! Friday Dec 2nd 2011, 6 pm! designforumWien, at the MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Today, the industrialized countries consume so many resources that developing countries will take every chance to achieve a similar level of prosperity. Why do we fail to design reasonable production and consumption patterns that would [...] Read more – ‘Circle 00003 (r=4)’.
RITUAL DESIGN. NEW CATHEDRALS OF CAPITALISM Discussion/dialogue. Oct 6th, 7 PM, Frankfurt An introduction to research by Kai Rosenstein with respondent Harald Gruendl, Ritual Designer and Design Researcher, Vienna. Within the framework of a series of events at the “Salon Frankfurt” October 6-11, 2011 Research with Images: why and to what end do we conduct research on [...] Read more – ‘Ritual Design, presented and discussed by Harald Gruendl and Kai Rosenstein’.
ecoLUCY! In the summer semester of 2011, Harald Gruendl co-supervised the module “Sudeco… for sustainable design and communication strategies” for the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design (Prof. Françoise-Hélène Jourda) at the Technical University of Vienna. The students’ task was to design hanging lamps made of a material with sustainability in mind (paper!) and get [...] Read more – ‘ecoLUCY! Co-supervised by Harald Gruendl and now exhibited!’.
Circle 00002 (r=4) Design science – and what makes it tick! The themes of a young discipline Fr, 16.09.2011 – 18.00, Designforum Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Design influences all phases of product development and distribution and is a relevant factor in our everyday consumer culture. A well-grounded engagement with design’s development conditions and [...] Read more – ‘Circle 00002 (r=4) Design science – and what makes it tick!’.
SustainableDesign ExpertCluster wants to network and bundle all initiatives, actors, resources and available know-how on the subject of sustainable design [1] in Austria. “Learning by sharing” for an overarching goal: responsible action for environmentally and socially sustainable products (product service systems, graphic products, etc.). The goals of SustainableDesign EC are: to contribute to the development of the [...] Read more – ‘SustainableDesign EC – Join us!’.
Agriculture and the City. Design Strategies for Urban Agriculture In the future, the design field will require new approaches and new design skills! The aim of this seminar is to strengthen these skills, and to challenge artistically the role of design in society. The well-designed consumer product is no longer central; rather it is the [...] Read more – ‘Agriculture and the City’.
As a member of LeNS (the Learning Network on Sustainability), the IDRV was chosen to launch the associated LeNS network for German-speaking countries. Under the motto “learning-by-sharing”, course content, methods and tools relating to the essential theme of Sustainable Design will be made available on the online-accessible platform in cooperation with renowned partner institutions. The [...] Read more – ‘LeNS for German-speaking countries’.
During the summer semester, Harald Gruendl will take over a newly created module on “Practice and Theory of Sustainable Design” in the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design (Prof. Françoise-Hélène Jourda) at the Technical University of Vienna. Accordingly, the entire focus of the 2011 IDRV will be on exploring new design pathways for the transition [...] Read more – ‘Sustainable Design at the Vienna University of Technology’.
Institute of Design Research Vienna with it´s “Poetry and aesthetics of sustainable design” at the 5th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices! We are glad to announce that our proposal to contribute to the Design Principles and Practices Confernce, which will be held between 2011/02/02 and 2011/02/04 in Rome, has been accepted! “Poetry and aesthetics of [...] Read more – ‘IDRV at the Conference on Design Principles and Practices!’.
Harald Gruendl, Chairman of the Institute of Design Research and a founding member of EOOS Design, was on 1 October 2010 appointed as a Visiting Professor of Design at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) of Hamburg. As part of this year’s theme “Agriculture and the City”, Harald Gruendl will work with the students to develop [...] Read more – ‘Harald Gruendl as Visiting Professor in Hamburg’.
In three months of intensive research in archives, collections, libraries and numerous discussions with experts, we could not find a single piece of convincing evidence that Josef Hoffmann is the creator of the armchair shown, and we would like to emphatically advocate for the posthumous copyrights of Koloman Moser! We discovered that there is a remarkable [...] Read more – ‘Josef Hoffmann or Kolo Moser? The Problem´s Answer’.
IDRV’s ”Schere-Design-Papier” performance has taken place in MAK Design Shop in the afternoon. Harald Gruendl has cut out photos from the book “1000 chairs” by Charlotte and Peter Fill for more than one hour and newly arranged them according to a design historical social network analysis. Thanks to FAS Research for supporting us! Here are some pics from the [...] Read more – ‘Vienna Design Week 2010: This was “Schere-Design-Papier”’.
The IDRV is in the midst of the final preparations on its Carte Blanche contribution to Vienna Design Week 2010. From a prominent design history riddle, to a performance, to a debate in the Wittgenstein House with reputable participants! You can download the “Schatzkarte” for our “Wienerschnitzeljagd” design history riddle here! Save the Dates: Wednesday, 06.10.2010, [...] Read more – ‘Vienna Design Week 2010: IDRV’s Carte Blanche’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘IDRV in Vienna Design Week’.
Today Martina and Harald are heading for Bangalore,India, to represent the IDRV at the Lens Conference on “Sustainability in Design: NOW! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century”. They give a lecture on “Poetry and aesthetics of sustainable design”, the only austrian contribution to this essential event! http://www.lensconference.polimi.it/ Read more – ‘IDRV at LeNS Conference in India’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Our Survey is Going On’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘IDRV at LeNS conference 2010, Bangalore’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘IDRV Survey on Design History Teaching’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Collaborations with MAK and Bröhan Foundation’.
Just as we were starting to do some field research on actual (non-)recycling of upholstered furniture at the city’s waste collection places (view our current home page photo), great news arrived: The Institute of Design Research Vienna was granted funding by the ZIT for conceptualizing and running an exhibition bearing the promising working title “Sustainable [...] Read more – ‘IDRV was granted funding for Sustainable Design exhibition’.
Sustainable Design. Strategies for social change! Friday Dec 2nd 2011, 6 pm! designforumWien, at the MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Today, the industrialized countries consume so many resources that developing countries will take every chance to achieve a similar level of prosperity. Why do we fail to design reasonable production and consumption patterns that would [...] Read more – ‘Circle 00003 (r=4)’.
ecoLUCY! In the summer semester of 2011, Harald Gruendl co-supervised the module “Sudeco… for sustainable design and communication strategies” for the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design (Prof. Françoise-Hélène Jourda) at the Technical University of Vienna. The students’ task was to design hanging lamps made of a material with sustainability in mind (paper!) and get [...] Read more – ‘ecoLUCY! Co-supervised by Harald Gruendl and now exhibited!’.
Circle 00002 (r=4) Design science – and what makes it tick! The themes of a young discipline Fr, 16.09.2011 – 18.00, Designforum Wien, MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Design influences all phases of product development and distribution and is a relevant factor in our everyday consumer culture. A well-grounded engagement with design’s development conditions and [...] Read more – ‘Circle 00002 (r=4) Design science – and what makes it tick!’.
SustainableDesign ExpertCluster wants to network and bundle all initiatives, actors, resources and available know-how on the subject of sustainable design [1] in Austria. “Learning by sharing” for an overarching goal: responsible action for environmentally and socially sustainable products (product service systems, graphic products, etc.). The goals of SustainableDesign EC are: to contribute to the development of the [...] Read more – ‘SustainableDesign EC – Join us!’.
Agriculture and the City. Design Strategies for Urban Agriculture In the future, the design field will require new approaches and new design skills! The aim of this seminar is to strengthen these skills, and to challenge artistically the role of design in society. The well-designed consumer product is no longer central; rather it is the [...] Read more – ‘Agriculture and the City’.
As a member of LeNS (the Learning Network on Sustainability), the IDRV was chosen to launch the associated LeNS network for German-speaking countries. Under the motto “learning-by-sharing”, course content, methods and tools relating to the essential theme of Sustainable Design will be made available on the online-accessible platform in cooperation with renowned partner institutions. The [...] Read more – ‘LeNS for German-speaking countries’.
During the summer semester, Harald Gruendl will take over a newly created module on “Practice and Theory of Sustainable Design” in the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design (Prof. Françoise-Hélène Jourda) at the Technical University of Vienna. Accordingly, the entire focus of the 2011 IDRV will be on exploring new design pathways for the transition [...] Read more – ‘Sustainable Design at the Vienna University of Technology’.
In three months of intensive research in archives, collections, libraries and numerous discussions with experts, we could not find a single piece of convincing evidence that Josef Hoffmann is the creator of the armchair shown, and we would like to emphatically advocate for the posthumous copyrights of Koloman Moser! We discovered that there is a remarkable [...] Read more – ‘Josef Hoffmann or Kolo Moser? The Problem´s Answer’.
IDRV’s ”Schere-Design-Papier” performance has taken place in MAK Design Shop in the afternoon. Harald Gruendl has cut out photos from the book “1000 chairs” by Charlotte and Peter Fill for more than one hour and newly arranged them according to a design historical social network analysis. Thanks to FAS Research for supporting us! Here are some pics from the [...] Read more – ‘Vienna Design Week 2010: This was “Schere-Design-Papier”’.
The IDRV is in the midst of the final preparations on its Carte Blanche contribution to Vienna Design Week 2010. From a prominent design history riddle, to a performance, to a debate in the Wittgenstein House with reputable participants! You can download the “Schatzkarte” for our “Wienerschnitzeljagd” design history riddle here! Save the Dates: Wednesday, 06.10.2010, [...] Read more – ‘Vienna Design Week 2010: IDRV’s Carte Blanche’.
Today Martina and Harald are heading for Bangalore,India, to represent the IDRV at the Lens Conference on “Sustainability in Design: NOW! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century”. They give a lecture on “Poetry and aesthetics of sustainable design”, the only austrian contribution to this essential event! http://www.lensconference.polimi.it/ Read more – ‘IDRV at LeNS Conference in India’.
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 [...] Read more – ‘Collaborations with MAK and Bröhan Foundation’.