Design Revolution Now! 20.9.2024, 11am–8pm 21.9.2024, 11am–10pm 22.–29.9.2024, 11am–8pm Children’s workshop: 22.9.2024, 11am–1pm Dialogue afternoon with experts: 26.9.2024, 4pm–8pm Guided tour with the curators: 21.9.2024, 2pm Guided tour with the curators: 21.9.2024, 3pm Workshop: 22.9.2024, 2pm–4pm Guided tour with the curators: 24.9.2024, 5pm Guided tour with the curators: 24.9.2024, 6pm Workshop: 28.9.2024, 10am–4pm Finissage with […] Read more – ‘Exhibition: A DESIGNER’S TOOLBOX FOR REVOLUTION’.
Fr, 27.09.2024 19.00 p.m. (in German) Stage MuseumsQuartier Wien free entrance The Institute of Design Research Vienna is staging a show of destruction in the inner courtyard of the MQ. Everyday objects will be dismantled and critically analyzed with the help of a hammer and a digital tool for the practical implementation of circular product […] Read more – ‘The Great Destruction Show’.
The aim of the project is to provide recommendations for measures that promote the widespread application of circular design in Austria. Based on the circular design rules developed by the IDRV the status quo in circular design in Austria is surveyed, obstacles to implementation are identified and best practice examples are presented. We are planning […] Read more – ‘Circular Design – from theory to practice’.
Installation. Lab. Exhibition. 27th April – 23rd June Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin As part of the discursive platform “More Than Human”, two projects will be launched at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts: The two-part experimental exhibition “Imagine Coral Reef. Regenerative Design” is dedicated to the complex ecosystems of corals and uses them to develop guidelines for […] Read more – ‘Imagine Coral Reef. Regenerative Design. in Berlin’.
12.03–01.04.2024 Agimia Art Center, Albania Bajram Curri Blvd, Tirana 1001 EOOS and the IDRV in collaboration with Polis University Tirana, will be showing the experimental design exhibition “Imagine Coral Reef. Regenerative Design” in the “Agimi”, a cinema that has also functioned as a modern exhibition center since 2023. The exhibition attempts to transfer the […] Read more – ‘Imagine Coral Reef Tirana’.
After our Open Lecture at University of Applied Arts Vienna in the MuseumsQuartier last semester, the lecture series will be continued for the coming semester. A group of selected students will develop a contribution to the Design Revolution Now movement, which will be implemented as part of Vienna Design Week 2024, September 20-29. The revolutionary […] Read more – ‘Design Revolution Now!’.
Wir laden alle ein, die mit den gestalterischen und theoretischen Werkzeugen ihrer Disziplin einen radikalen, sofortigen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Wandel unterstützen und herbeiführen möchten. Designtheorien aus den Bereichen Circular Design und Regenerative Design dienen als diskursive Grundlage, um die Verortung der eigenen Position im Design zu reflektieren und aus dieser heraus neue Lösungsansätze für sich […] Read more – ‘Open Lecture!’.
05.–31. october 2023 Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina The first edition of the experimental exhibition format “Coral Reef. Regenerative Design.” initiated by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, takes place at the Historical Museum in Sarajevo. Conceived by the IDRV together with the social enterprise […] Read more – ‘Exhibition: IMAGINE CORAL REEF’.
CDR X DESIGN EVERYDAY 22.9.2023, 11am–8pm 23.9.2023, 11am–10pm 24.9.–1.10.2023, 11am–8pm Cocktail Hosted by Bildrecht: 23.9.2023, 4pm–6pm Festivalzentrale im Prater 2., Laufbergergasse 12, Vienna The rules for Circular Design (CDR) developed by IDRV in 2021 will be made digital with the support of the Ministry of Climate Protection and the Vienna Business Agency. The tool is expected to […] Read more – ‘CDR X DESIGN EVERYDAY’.
May 16th 2023, 7pm Impact Hub Berlin, Rollbergstraße 28A, 12053 Berlin “Coral Reef” is an exhibition project by EOOS NEXT and the Institute of Design Research Vienna. The coral reef serves as a metaphor and inspiration for the research on “Regenerative Design”, a design strategy that goes far beyond the concepts of sustainable or circular […] Read more – ‘Coral Reef. Transformative Design/Research Talk’.
We offer a position as research fellow at the Institute for Design Research Vienna starting February 2023. The varied position offers creative freedom and demands personal initiative. The activities range from communicating research content to developing participatory formats and curatorial work. Here you find the whole job vacancy. Read more – ‘Join IDRV’.
16.–25.9.2022, 11–20 Uhr Führung: 21.9.2022, 11–12 Uhr Festivalzentrale im GEWÖLBE 6., Rahlgasse 8 (Rahlstiege) Zehn Jahre nach der Ausstellung TOOLS FOR THE DESIGN REVOLUTION beleuchtet das IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna damals entwickelte Werkzeuge im Kontext seiner heutigen Tätigkeit. Die 2022 zur Kreislaufwirtschaftsstrategie des Bundesministeriums für Klimaschutz präsentierten Regeln dienen dabei genauso wie der im Vorjahr […] Read more – ‘VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2022 Circular Design Rules and Tools’.
Saturday, 11 June 2022, 10:00-18:00 Museumsquartier Wien, Hof 7, Vienna As side event of the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels, the Kreislaufkultur Fest will take place for the first time at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier on 11 June, focusing on the circular economy as one of the most important topics of the future. The programme offers interactive stations with diverse design contributions where […] Read more – ‘Kreislaufkultur Fest 2022’.
In cooperation with Tsinghua University in Beijing, IDRV was able to realise a translation of the Circular Design Rules V 1.0 for product design into Chinese. With the support of the University of Minas Gerais and the Design & Sustainability Research Center at Paraná University in Brazil, another bilingual version of the CDR in Spanish […] Read more – ‘NEW RELEASE: Circular Design Rules in Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese’.
The Circular Design Rules V 1.0 (CDR) consist of a deck of 9 cards that feature a rule that is indispensable in the design of recyclable products. On the backside of each card, concrete steps are described to support the design process of circular products. The scorecard gives an overview of the circularity potential of […] Read more – ‘Download version available: Circular Design Rules’.
We invite you to the presentations of the Circular Design Rules – Version 1.0 Product Design on 28.09. and 01.10. Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 6-7 p.m., DEU designforum Vienna Museumsquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Registration required, by email to ru@idrv.org Friday, 01 October 2021, 4-5 p.m., EN Vienna Design Week Festival Headquarters at Sachsenplatz Sachsenplatz 4-6, […] Read more – ‘Save the date! PRESENTATION: Circular Design Rules’.
24. – 26.9.2021, 12 – 19 Uhr 29.9. – 3.10.2021, 12 – 19 Uhr Cocktail: 1.10.2021, 17 Uhr As part of “Stadtarbeit” during Vienna Design Week, the IDRV explores how societies form and organize themselves in physical and digital spaces. For this purpose, the participatory project uses a shared Google Docs list under the URL […] Read more – ‘VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2021 Stadtarbeit: im20.wien’.
“Quality Standards for Circular Design, Design criteria for sustainable development” is now available in English! Download (English version): Quality Standards for Circular Design The goal of ecological and social sustainability in design encompasses a system change that requires a rethinking from linear to circular processes. The underlying thinking model of a circular design is to be […] Read more – ‘English version available: Quality Standards for Circular Design’.
Design criteria for sustainable development The goal of ecological and social sustainability in design encompasses a system change that requires a rethinking from linear to circular processes. The underlying thinking model of a circular design is to be conveyed in an understandable way and described for various stakeholders (designers, manufacturers, customers and politicians). What requirements must […] Read more – ‘Quality Standards for Circular Design’.
DESIGN the CHANGE! Sustainability Experts designaustria 06.03.2019, 6-8 pm designforum Vienna quartier 21/MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna The Sustainability Experts designaustria invite you to the start of the event series DESIGN the CHANGE! The focus of the event series DESIGN the CHANGE! is ecological sustainability in design. In an interactive exchange, members of the Experts […] Read more – ‘Save the date! DESIGN the CHANGE! meets IDRV’.
Please join us for the presentation of the Notebook for Change, the outcome of this years CityFactory. Book presentation: Notebook for Change Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 7 p.m., MAK FORUM “Would you rather have things right or make the right things?” “Do you look for economic turnover or ecological overturn?” These and many other questions […] Read more – ‘CityFactory 2018: #wiegehtveränderung’.
Qualitätsstandards für Sustainable Design In Kooperation mit dem Mitgliederverein Designaustria arbeitet das IDRV 2018/19 an einem Leitfaden für Gestalter*innen aller Bereiche, der auf bereits gültigen Standards des ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Designs basiert. Dieser Leitfaden soll die Dokumentation von zukunftsfähigeren Produktionsmethoden und Materialien sichtbarer und in angemessenerer Weise für Gestalter*innen zugänglich machen. Folgende Fragen werden […] Read more – ‘IDRV-Umfrage’.
We kindly invite you: From Labour to Work – IDRV meets Post-Labouratory For the Vienna Design Week the IDRV together with the designer Ottonie von Roeder opens a temporary office in order to prototypically abolish labour and to visualize a future withour labour: What happens when robots, machines and A.I. take your job? What would you teach this technology about your […] Read more – ‘VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2018 IDRV meets Post-Labouratory’.
IDRV Street Lecture: #wechange We kindly invite you to join our Street Lecture: 14.05.2018, 16-17h Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, 1010 Vienna As a non-profit research institute, we represent an open education approach that stands for making education and knowledge available. Since 2008, we have been promotiong an open access to (scientific) knowledge and want to provide our own […] Read more – ‘IDRV meets Oskar nimmt Platz, 14.05.2018’.
CityFacotry 2018 A cooperation between the MAK and the Vienna Business Agency “What are all these cities compared with Vienna? he said. We hate Vienna, and yet we love it like no other city.” Thomas Bernhard, Wood Cutters, 1988 The CityFactory is a “real-time” research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries, […] Read more – ‘CityFactory 2018: Design Future Map Vienna’.
CityFactory. New Work. New Design This open source catalogue documents the exhibition “CityFactory. New Work. New Design,” which was shown from 21.06.–01.10.2017 at MAK, the Austrian Museum of Applied Art / Contemporary Art in Vienna, as part of the Vienna Biennale 2017. The intensive preparatory work for the exhibition involved research of pioneering international projects and writing a […] Read more – ‘CityFactory: Open source catalogue online NOW!’.
We Make, Give Al. Don’t waste Al In cooperation with the Montanuniversität Leoben, the necessity of closing materials cycles becomes a design task. So that it stays in the materials loop, household aluminum waste is melted down in a smelting furnace in the middle of the city. This valuable material circulating through our daily lives […] Read more – ‘CityFactory: Demonstrators in Vienna’.
Demonstrators The term refers to the scientific principle of a “demonstrator”—an experimental arrangement on a 1:1 scale. The six City Factory demonstrators presented in the context of the VIENNA BIENNALE are design projects and design interventions placed directly within the city space to accompany the exhibition. Their associated project presentations are marked with a D […] Read more – ‘CityFactory:Demonstrators’.
21. Juni – 1. Oktober MAK- Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna Six “demonstrators” within the city and the sweeping exhibition at the MAK make visions of new fields of work in the digital future tangible from a design perspective. In front of a background of increasing digitalization and […] Read more – ‘CityFactory: New Work. New Design.’.
City Factory 2017 The research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries—the City Factory—is a cooperation project between the Vienna Business Agency with its creative center departure and the MAK, curated by IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna. The discovery and visualization of future urban potentialities will be continued in 2017, […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik [CityFactory] 2017’.
Wed, 21 Jun – Sun, 1 Oct 2017 MAK Exhibition Hall In the framework of the VIENNA BIENNALE 2017, the exhibition City Factory: New Work. New Design will develop three socially relevant topics about the work of the future: new creative work and transdisciplinary co-creativity; new social work, including work for the common good (Commoning); […] Read more – ‘City Factory: New Work. New Design’.
Tue, 1 Dec 20166, 7:00 p.m. MQ designforum, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Design for Future Consumption What does design for sustainable or intelligent forms of consumption look like? Design for the consumption of tomorrow On the one hand, the consumption of fast-moving goods is increasing unabated; on the other hand, the rise of alternative consumer […] Read more – ‘Circle 00011 (r=4): Design for Future Consumption?’.
Tue, 04 Oct 2016, 7 p.m. MAK DESIGN SPACE and MAK Columned Main Hall How can design contribute to maximize the potentials of refugees in terms of integration and jobs? Since the end of June, the topic of INCLUSION has been the subject of research, work, thought, networking, and inquiry in the StadtFabrik. In dealing […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik INCLUSION The presentation of work’.
Wed, 19 Oct 2016, 12-6 p.m. MAK Columned Main Hall Co-Creating for a Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities Workshop with Miquel Ballester, product and innovation manager at Fairphone, Amsterdam. Fairphone is one the most advanced makers of mobile telephones worldwide and renowned for social innovations in the supply chain. In a Fairphone design workshop, a […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik FUTURE PRODUCTION Workshop’.
Tue, 18 Oct 2016, 6 p.m. MAK Columned Main Hall How will we produce goods tomorrow? In front of a backdrop of increasing resource scarcity, future-oriented production emphasizes social and ecological sustainability, whether through new concepts for energy and resource efficiency, fair production conditions, the use of local resources, or the support of corresponding technologies. […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik FUTURE PRODUCTION Discussion’.
At the end of June Christa Minkin and Maria von Usslar from www.derstandard.at, the online channel of a national daily broadsheet newspaper, visited us at the StadtFabrik to do research for an article and make a video portrait. See the video here (in german only): The headline says “How 37000 people can change Vienna”, referring […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik featured by derstandard.at’.
Wed, 29 Jun 2016, 12–6 p.m. MAK FORUM Access to the occupational realm is the most important factor (besides education) for successful integration of foreigners. In this intercultural workshop, designers, architects, and artisans who recently immigrated to Austria, together with local changemakers and people from the creative fields, will take up the question of how […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik INCLUSION Workshop’.
Tue, 28 Jun 2016, 6:30 p.m. MAK FORUM Without a doubt, a city with an increasing number of inhabitants can consider its resources to also include those people that have found refuge in European countries and cities in the past months and years. People who immigrate bring knowledge, new perspectives, cultural capital, and professional skills, […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik INCLUSION Discussion’.
Tue, 21 Jun 2016, 6 p.m. MAK DESIGN SPACE and MAK Columned Main Hall Since the beginning of May, the topic of commoning has been the subject of research, work, thought, networking, and inquiry in the StadtFabrik. In the format of presenting the work, we will introduce the initial results and experiences gleaned in the […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik COMMONING The presentation of work’.
A city’s commons are its material, spatial resources just as much as its intangible goods of information, knowledge, art, culture, or software. Commons only become usable via their concomitant, creative social processes—commoning. Practices of co-creation, co-production, and co-utilization open new business and creative fields of endeavors. For the debate, principles of the economy for the […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik COMMONING Discussion’.
“Thackaras’s strategy is to bring together bottom-up initiatives with professional design competence to make change mass-scalable. The specific knowledge possessed by designers could turn many a grassroots initiative into a sizable movement.” Harald Gruendl John Thackara, thought leader for positive change through design, as well as author and director of the organization Doors of Perception, […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik COMMONING Workshop with John Thackara’.
The StadtFabrik, curated by the IDRV, is a “real-time” research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries. Read more – ‘StadtFabrik – City Factory’.
Discovering / understanding / designing sustainable lifestyles A project investigating sustainable lifestyles, carried out under the Sparkling Science program, supported by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. CONTENTS OF “HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?” The “How should we live?” project deals with the question of how we can create our lifestyles in a way […] Read more – ‘Wie leben? How Should We Live? Results’.
at MAK DESIGN SPACE, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna from 8.2. 2016 The StadtFabrik is a “real-time” research laboratory for new professional fields with a focus on creative disciplines which aims to discover and highlight future potentials of cities in Digital Modernity. It will continue the approaches of the project 2051: Smart Life in the City, […] Read more – ‘IDRV hosting StadtFabrik [City factory]’.
Participatory design or co-design is both, a design stance, as well as a design strategy. Herein, potential future users are equally involved in some or all of the phases of the design process to create solutions to problems, together with “design experts”. The collaboration with the future users intends to pave the way towards […] Read more – ‘Circle 00010 (r=4): We are all Designers?’.
A project initiated by Harald Gruendl at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2014 with Oliver Kartak and students of the class for graphic design. How to cook in relation to a daily ecologically and socially fair amount of CO2-eq? A meat, fish or vegan meal, each corresponding to a combined value of 2.7 […] Read more – ‘World Meal – DinnerQuest’.
Friday, November 21st 2014, 07 pm at Impact Hub Vienna, Lindeng. 56, 1070 Vienna. We want to examine and discuss the potential of “design for use” in order to apply it in a new context and generate motivation toward sustainable lifestyles. Read more – ‘Circle 00009(r=4) Usage. Where’s the design for that?’.
Friday, June 13 th, 07 pm at ‘das weisse haus’, Kriehubergasse 24-26, 4th floor, 1050 Vienna Designers are, in principle, part of a “courageous” profession: they are constantly searching for alternatives, bringing about new things through their creativity and treading unfamiliar paths. We have long known that the sustainable development of our society is only […] Read more – ‘Circle 00008 (r=4) Courage. Why don’t we design what we know?’.
How can you determine the climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions of an espresso machine using a hammer, a screwdriver and a kitchen scale? Switching between activist demands and subtle humor, Tools for the Design Revolution illustrates the role design can play in formulating a sustainable society based on global solidarity. Many barely noticed everyday objects have […] Read more – ‘Book Launch: Tools for the Designrevolution. Design Knowledge for the Future.’.
Opening: 12 MAY 2014, 06.30 pm MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna The Institute of Design Research Vienna has over the past few months supported the MAK in the development and implementation of the MAK DESIGN LABORATORY. The semi-permanent reinstallation of the former study collection will be opened on […] Read more – ‘IDRV in the MAK DESIGN LAB’.
Dinner Quest – world meal. A temporary exhibition of a project by graphic design students of Oliver Kartak at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Cooperation with the IDRV. May 12th to May 25th. MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna Eco Pecha Kucha Night, Erdgespraeche 2014 side event […] Read more – ‘Upcoming Events’.
Wednesday, November 20th, 07 pm IDRV as a guest of pataform, Malzgasse 12a, 1020 Vienna?? As part of the exhibition “Tools for the Design Revolution”, we presented opportunities for assessing and improving products in terms of their social and environmental sustainability. Central to this was the “world formula”, which results from dividing the world’s available […] Read more – ‘Circle 00007 (r=4) Wie leben? The Art of Sustainable Living’.
Do we have what it takes to do? – Shop window installation Argentinierstraße 1, 1040 Vienna 27.9. – 6.10.2013 Guided Tour Stadtarbeit – City Work Saturday 28.09.2013, 14:00–16:00 Thursday 3.10.2013, 16:00–18:00 Start: Argentinierstraße 1, 1040 Wien (In front of the shop window) Talk Stadtarbeit – City Work Radlager, Operngasse 28, 1040 Wien Thursday 3.10.2013, […] Read more – ‘Do we have what it takes to do? Vienna Design Week 2013’.
One-day symposium on tools and methods for sustainable design - In cooperation with departure: four international tools and methods for sustainable design will be presented by their developers, tested for their applicability in workshops with small groups, and discussed. Read more – ‘Circle extended: Sustainable Design – but how? Tools and Methods’.
Sweeping nothing under the carpet. Thanks to the WKO the IDRV got the chance to show an excerpt of “Tools for the Design Revolution” as a small intervention at the “Austrian Design DETAILS 2013” exhibition in Milano. Some of the know-how of the “Tools for the Design Revolution” has now been used to calculate the […] Read more – ‘Review – Milano | Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2013’.
Tools for the Design Revolution An exhibition on Sustainable Design by the IDRV in cooperation with Creative Industries Styria With pilot projects by: breadedEscalope, DANKLHAMPEL, Spirit Design And new ones for Graz by Animal Design Studio and Veronika Tzekova May 4– June 2, 2013 Opening: May 3, 2013, 7.30 pm Read more – ‘The exhibition on tour – Tools for the Design Revolution at the Designmonat Graz’.
“Culture Connected” is a project by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, aiming to promote cooperation between schools and cultural partners. Students can get the possibility to work on cultural projects. The IDRV developed a project based on the ideas of Buckminster Fullers “world game”. In cooperation with designaustria and BaKip8 we […] Read more – ‘Culture Connected – »We are all astronauts«’.
An exhibition on Sustainable Design by the IDRV in cooperation with designforum Vorarlberg. March 15 – April 19, 2013 Opening: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:00 pm At the designforum Vorarlberg, CAMPUS, (Hintere Achmühlerstraße 1, 6850 Dornbirn) With pilot projects by: breadedEscalope, DANKLHAMPEL and Spirit Design as well as an intervention of the initiative „A better […] Read more – ‘The exhibition on tour: Tools for the Design Revolution – designforum Vorarlberg’.
Intervention at the imm cologne, 14th to 20th, 2013, Hall 3.2, Place E-045. Do we realize that we don’t sit on just a chair – we sit on crude oil and on vast quantities of water used in production? Only a few companies are assessing the environmental impact of their products and, in so doing, […] Read more – ‘The Consequences of Design’.
Wednesday, December, 12th, 2012, 19:00 designforum Vienna, MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Sustainable design is not an endeavor dominated by questions of aesthetics, but a fundamental re-conception and redesign of objects, products or service systems with regard to environmental and social sustainability. But without the knowledge of the significance of symbolic and aesthetic attributes, it […] Read more – ‘Circle 00005 (r=4) The Aesthetics of Sustainable Design’.
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 18:00 Part of the Tools for the Design Revolution exhibition Designforum Vienna Museumsplatz 1, at the MQ 1070 Vienna What are the politics of design? Can design help to bring about social change? As part of the Tools for the Design Revolution exhibition, we will discuss a contemporary formulation of revolution […] Read more – ‘Circle 00004 (r=4): Revolution. What now?’.
Deutsche Version / German Version An exhibition by the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna in cooperation with designaustria. Pilot projects by danklhampel, breadedEscalope, and Spirit Design. Exhibition duration: September 29 – November 4, 2012 Opening: Friday 28 September 2012, 5.30 pm, for the Vienna Design Week. At the designforum Vienna, quartier 21/MQ The […] Read more – ‘Tools for the Design Revolution’.
Eine Ausstellung des IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna in Kooperation mit designaustria. Pilotprojekte von danklhampel, breadedEscalope, und Spirit Design. Ausstellungsdauer: 29. September – 4. November, 2012 Eröffnung: Freitag, 28. September 2012, 17 Uhr im Rahmen der Vienna Design Week. Ort: designforum Vienna, quartier 21/MQ Die Ausstellung des IDRV – Institute of Design Research […] Read more – ‘Werkzeuge für die Design-Revolution’.
A two-day design lab held by IDRV during the MAK exhibition “MADE 4 YOU. Design for Change“. For change to come about, a design revolution is necessary after which designers attend to further defining or redefining what exists, that is, radically improving it, rather than designing a steady stream of new variations of products. The […] Read more – ‘Documentation. Workshop: Tools for the Design Revolution’.
29. -30.6.2012, 10 am – 6 pm A two-day design lab held by IDRV during the MAK exhibition “MADE 4 YOU. Design for Change“, which will provide the spatial and thematic environment for the interdisciplinary d>lab. In the context of design> new strategies. A cooperation between departure and MAK. For change to come about, a […] Read more – ‘Workshop: Tools for the Design Revolution’.
May 11, 2012, 12 pm Cradle to Cradle expert talk at Hofburg Vienna An event of ÖGV – Österreichischer Gewerbeverein The “Cradle to Cradle expert talk” was the opening event of the Green Business World Congress at Hofburg Vienna. The EC Sustainable Design invited our peer experts from the design field to discuss and exchange […] Read more – ‘Closing the Loop. Experts talk on Cradle to Cradle’.
Sustainable (Industrial) Design. Form follows formula. On Saturday, May 5, 2012, 7 pm Harald Gruendl is going to talk in the course of Selected: Sustainable Design at DesignHalle in Graz about sustainable industrial design. The topic of the lecture is on the question which strategies design and industry are going to follow in the future, […] Read more – ‘Sustainable (Industrial) Design – presentation by Harald Gruendl at Selected: in Graz’.
Duration of the exhibition: September 29 – November 4, 2012 Opening reception: Friday, September 28, 2012, in the context of the Vienna Design Week designforum Vienna, Quartier 21 / Museums Quarter The exhibition at the designforum Vienna takes a look at possible solutions for implementing social, ecological and ethic sustainability into the design process. What’s […] Read more – ‘Tools for the Design Revolution’.
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!’.
The Experts Cluster Sustainable Design 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 Sustainable Design EC are: to contribute to […] Read more – ‘Sustainable Design 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! 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’.
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. 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’.
Design Revolution Now! 20.9.2024, 11am–8pm 21.9.2024, 11am–10pm 22.–29.9.2024, 11am–8pm Children’s workshop: 22.9.2024, 11am–1pm Dialogue afternoon with experts: 26.9.2024, 4pm–8pm Guided tour with the curators: 21.9.2024, 2pm Guided tour with the curators: 21.9.2024, 3pm Workshop: 22.9.2024, 2pm–4pm Guided tour with the curators: 24.9.2024, 5pm Guided tour with the curators: 24.9.2024, 6pm Workshop: 28.9.2024, 10am–4pm Finissage with […] Read more – ‘Exhibition: A DESIGNER’S TOOLBOX FOR REVOLUTION’.
Fr, 27.09.2024 19.00 p.m. (in German) Stage MuseumsQuartier Wien free entrance The Institute of Design Research Vienna is staging a show of destruction in the inner courtyard of the MQ. Everyday objects will be dismantled and critically analyzed with the help of a hammer and a digital tool for the practical implementation of circular product […] Read more – ‘The Great Destruction Show’.
The aim of the project is to provide recommendations for measures that promote the widespread application of circular design in Austria. Based on the circular design rules developed by the IDRV the status quo in circular design in Austria is surveyed, obstacles to implementation are identified and best practice examples are presented. We are planning […] Read more – ‘Circular Design – from theory to practice’.
Installation. Lab. Exhibition. 27th April – 23rd June Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin As part of the discursive platform “More Than Human”, two projects will be launched at the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts: The two-part experimental exhibition “Imagine Coral Reef. Regenerative Design” is dedicated to the complex ecosystems of corals and uses them to develop guidelines for […] Read more – ‘Imagine Coral Reef. Regenerative Design. in Berlin’.
12.03–01.04.2024 Agimia Art Center, Albania Bajram Curri Blvd, Tirana 1001 EOOS and the IDRV in collaboration with Polis University Tirana, will be showing the experimental design exhibition “Imagine Coral Reef. Regenerative Design” in the “Agimi”, a cinema that has also functioned as a modern exhibition center since 2023. The exhibition attempts to transfer the […] Read more – ‘Imagine Coral Reef Tirana’.
After our Open Lecture at University of Applied Arts Vienna in the MuseumsQuartier last semester, the lecture series will be continued for the coming semester. A group of selected students will develop a contribution to the Design Revolution Now movement, which will be implemented as part of Vienna Design Week 2024, September 20-29. The revolutionary […] Read more – ‘Design Revolution Now!’.
Wir laden alle ein, die mit den gestalterischen und theoretischen Werkzeugen ihrer Disziplin einen radikalen, sofortigen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Wandel unterstützen und herbeiführen möchten. Designtheorien aus den Bereichen Circular Design und Regenerative Design dienen als diskursive Grundlage, um die Verortung der eigenen Position im Design zu reflektieren und aus dieser heraus neue Lösungsansätze für sich […] Read more – ‘Open Lecture!’.
05.–31. october 2023 Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zmaja od Bosne 5, Sarajevo 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina The first edition of the experimental exhibition format “Coral Reef. Regenerative Design.” initiated by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, takes place at the Historical Museum in Sarajevo. Conceived by the IDRV together with the social enterprise […] Read more – ‘Exhibition: IMAGINE CORAL REEF’.
CDR X DESIGN EVERYDAY 22.9.2023, 11am–8pm 23.9.2023, 11am–10pm 24.9.–1.10.2023, 11am–8pm Cocktail Hosted by Bildrecht: 23.9.2023, 4pm–6pm Festivalzentrale im Prater 2., Laufbergergasse 12, Vienna The rules for Circular Design (CDR) developed by IDRV in 2021 will be made digital with the support of the Ministry of Climate Protection and the Vienna Business Agency. The tool is expected to […] Read more – ‘CDR X DESIGN EVERYDAY’.
May 16th 2023, 7pm Impact Hub Berlin, Rollbergstraße 28A, 12053 Berlin “Coral Reef” is an exhibition project by EOOS NEXT and the Institute of Design Research Vienna. The coral reef serves as a metaphor and inspiration for the research on “Regenerative Design”, a design strategy that goes far beyond the concepts of sustainable or circular […] Read more – ‘Coral Reef. Transformative Design/Research Talk’.
We offer a position as research fellow at the Institute for Design Research Vienna starting February 2023. The varied position offers creative freedom and demands personal initiative. The activities range from communicating research content to developing participatory formats and curatorial work. Here you find the whole job vacancy. Read more – ‘Join IDRV’.
16.–25.9.2022, 11–20 Uhr Führung: 21.9.2022, 11–12 Uhr Festivalzentrale im GEWÖLBE 6., Rahlgasse 8 (Rahlstiege) Zehn Jahre nach der Ausstellung TOOLS FOR THE DESIGN REVOLUTION beleuchtet das IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna damals entwickelte Werkzeuge im Kontext seiner heutigen Tätigkeit. Die 2022 zur Kreislaufwirtschaftsstrategie des Bundesministeriums für Klimaschutz präsentierten Regeln dienen dabei genauso wie der im Vorjahr […] Read more – ‘VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2022 
Saturday, 11 June 2022, 10:00-18:00 Museumsquartier Wien, Hof 7, Vienna As side event of the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels, the Kreislaufkultur Fest will take place for the first time at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier on 11 June, focusing on the circular economy as one of the most important topics of the future. The programme offers interactive stations with diverse design contributions where […] Read more – ‘Kreislaufkultur Fest 2022’.
In cooperation with Tsinghua University in Beijing, IDRV was able to realise a translation of the Circular Design Rules V 1.0 for product design into Chinese. With the support of the University of Minas Gerais and the Design & Sustainability Research Center at Paraná University in Brazil, another bilingual version of the CDR in Spanish […] Read more – ‘NEW RELEASE: Circular Design Rules in Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese’.
The Circular Design Rules V 1.0 (CDR) consist of a deck of 9 cards that feature a rule that is indispensable in the design of recyclable products. On the backside of each card, concrete steps are described to support the design process of circular products. The scorecard gives an overview of the circularity potential of […] Read more – ‘Download version available: Circular Design Rules’.
We invite you to the presentations of the Circular Design Rules – Version 1.0 Product Design on 28.09. and 01.10. Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 6-7 p.m., DEU designforum Vienna Museumsquartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Registration required, by email to ru@idrv.org Friday, 01 October 2021, 4-5 p.m., EN Vienna Design Week Festival Headquarters at Sachsenplatz Sachsenplatz 4-6, […] Read more – ‘Save the date! 
24. – 26.9.2021, 12 – 19 Uhr 29.9. – 3.10.2021, 12 – 19 Uhr Cocktail: 1.10.2021, 17 Uhr As part of “Stadtarbeit” during Vienna Design Week, the IDRV explores how societies form and organize themselves in physical and digital spaces. For this purpose, the participatory project uses a shared Google Docs list under the URL […] Read more – ‘VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2021 
“Quality Standards for Circular Design, Design criteria for sustainable development” is now available in English! Download (English version): Quality Standards for Circular Design The goal of ecological and social sustainability in design encompasses a system change that requires a rethinking from linear to circular processes. The underlying thinking model of a circular design is to be […] Read more – ‘English version available: Quality Standards for Circular Design’.
DESIGN the CHANGE! Sustainability Experts designaustria 06.03.2019, 6-8 pm designforum Vienna quartier 21/MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna The Sustainability Experts designaustria invite you to the start of the event series DESIGN the CHANGE! The focus of the event series DESIGN the CHANGE! is ecological sustainability in design. In an interactive exchange, members of the Experts […] Read more – ‘Save the date! 
Please join us for the presentation of the Notebook for Change, the outcome of this years CityFactory. Book presentation: Notebook for Change Tuesday, 27 November 2018, 7 p.m., MAK FORUM “Would you rather have things right or make the right things?” “Do you look for economic turnover or ecological overturn?” These and many other questions […] Read more – ‘CityFactory 2018: 
Unsere Umfrage zum Folder “Qualitätsstandards für Sustainable Design” kann noch bis Sonntag, 18.11.2018 ausgefüllt werden. Starten Sie die Umfrage! Read more – ‘DEADLINE 18.11.2018 
Qualitätsstandards für Sustainable Design In Kooperation mit dem Mitgliederverein Designaustria arbeitet das IDRV 2018/19 an einem Leitfaden für Gestalter*innen aller Bereiche, der auf bereits gültigen Standards des ökologisch und sozial nachhaltigen Designs basiert. Dieser Leitfaden soll die Dokumentation von zukunftsfähigeren Produktionsmethoden und Materialien sichtbarer und in angemessenerer Weise für Gestalter*innen zugänglich machen. Folgende Fragen werden […] Read more – ‘IDRV-Umfrage’.
We kindly invite you: From Labour to Work – IDRV meets Post-Labouratory For the Vienna Design Week the IDRV together with the designer Ottonie von Roeder opens a temporary office in order to prototypically abolish labour and to visualize a future withour labour: What happens when robots, machines and A.I. take your job? What would you teach this technology about your […] Read more – ‘VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2018 
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IDRV Street Lecture: #wechange We kindly invite you to join our Street Lecture: 14.05.2018, 16-17h Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz, 1010 Vienna As a non-profit research institute, we represent an open education approach that stands for making education and knowledge available. Since 2008, we have been promotiong an open access to (scientific) knowledge and want to provide our own […] Read more – ‘IDRV meets Oskar nimmt Platz, 14.05.2018’.
CityFacotry 2018 A cooperation between the MAK and the Vienna Business Agency “What are all these cities compared with Vienna? he said. We hate Vienna, and yet we love it like no other city.” Thomas Bernhard, Wood Cutters, 1988 The CityFactory is a “real-time” research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries, […] Read more – ‘CityFactory 2018: 
CityFactory. New Work. New Design This open source catalogue documents the exhibition “CityFactory. New Work. New Design,” which was shown from 21.06.–01.10.2017 at MAK, the Austrian Museum of Applied Art / Contemporary Art in Vienna, as part of the Vienna Biennale 2017. The intensive preparatory work for the exhibition involved research of pioneering international projects and writing a […] Read more – ‘CityFactory: Open source catalogue online NOW!’.
We Make, Give Al. Don’t waste Al In cooperation with the Montanuniversität Leoben, the necessity of closing materials cycles becomes a design task. So that it stays in the materials loop, household aluminum waste is melted down in a smelting furnace in the middle of the city. This valuable material circulating through our daily lives […] Read more – ‘CityFactory: Demonstrators in Vienna’.
Demonstrators The term refers to the scientific principle of a “demonstrator”—an experimental arrangement on a 1:1 scale. The six City Factory demonstrators presented in the context of the VIENNA BIENNALE are design projects and design interventions placed directly within the city space to accompany the exhibition. Their associated project presentations are marked with a D […] Read more – ‘CityFactory:Demonstrators’.
21. Juni – 1. Oktober MAK- Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna Six “demonstrators” within the city and the sweeping exhibition at the MAK make visions of new fields of work in the digital future tangible from a design perspective. In front of a background of increasing digitalization and […] Read more – ‘CityFactory: New Work. New Design.’.
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City Factory 2017 The research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries—the City Factory—is a cooperation project between the Vienna Business Agency with its creative center departure and the MAK, curated by IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna. The discovery and visualization of future urban potentialities will be continued in 2017, […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik [CityFactory] 2017’.
Tue, 1 Dec 20166, 7:00 p.m. MQ designforum, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna Design for Future Consumption What does design for sustainable or intelligent forms of consumption look like? Design for the consumption of tomorrow On the one hand, the consumption of fast-moving goods is increasing unabated; on the other hand, the rise of alternative consumer […] Read more – ‘Circle 00011 (r=4): Design for Future Consumption?’.
Tue, 04 Oct 2016, 7 p.m. MAK DESIGN SPACE and MAK Columned Main Hall How can design contribute to maximize the potentials of refugees in terms of integration and jobs? Since the end of June, the topic of INCLUSION has been the subject of research, work, thought, networking, and inquiry in the StadtFabrik. In dealing […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
Wed, 19 Oct 2016, 12-6 p.m. MAK Columned Main Hall Co-Creating for a Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities Workshop with Miquel Ballester, product and innovation manager at Fairphone, Amsterdam. Fairphone is one the most advanced makers of mobile telephones worldwide and renowned for social innovations in the supply chain. In a Fairphone design workshop, a […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
Tue, 18 Oct 2016, 6 p.m. MAK Columned Main Hall How will we produce goods tomorrow? In front of a backdrop of increasing resource scarcity, future-oriented production emphasizes social and ecological sustainability, whether through new concepts for energy and resource efficiency, fair production conditions, the use of local resources, or the support of corresponding technologies. […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
At the end of June Christa Minkin and Maria von Usslar from www.derstandard.at, the online channel of a national daily broadsheet newspaper, visited us at the StadtFabrik to do research for an article and make a video portrait. See the video here (in german only): The headline says “How 37000 people can change Vienna”, referring […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
Wed, 29 Jun 2016, 12–6 p.m. MAK FORUM Access to the occupational realm is the most important factor (besides education) for successful integration of foreigners. In this intercultural workshop, designers, architects, and artisans who recently immigrated to Austria, together with local changemakers and people from the creative fields, will take up the question of how […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
Tue, 28 Jun 2016, 6:30 p.m. MAK FORUM Without a doubt, a city with an increasing number of inhabitants can consider its resources to also include those people that have found refuge in European countries and cities in the past months and years. People who immigrate bring knowledge, new perspectives, cultural capital, and professional skills, […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
Tue, 21 Jun 2016, 6 p.m. MAK DESIGN SPACE and MAK Columned Main Hall Since the beginning of May, the topic of commoning has been the subject of research, work, thought, networking, and inquiry in the StadtFabrik. In the format of presenting the work, we will introduce the initial results and experiences gleaned in the […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
A city’s commons are its material, spatial resources just as much as its intangible goods of information, knowledge, art, culture, or software. Commons only become usable via their concomitant, creative social processes—commoning. Practices of co-creation, co-production, and co-utilization open new business and creative fields of endeavors. For the debate, principles of the economy for the […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
“Thackaras’s strategy is to bring together bottom-up initiatives with professional design competence to make change mass-scalable. The specific knowledge possessed by designers could turn many a grassroots initiative into a sizable movement.” Harald Gruendl John Thackara, thought leader for positive change through design, as well as author and director of the organization Doors of Perception, […] Read more – ‘StadtFabrik 
The StadtFabrik, curated by the IDRV, is a “real-time” research laboratory for new fields of work in the creative industries. Read more – ‘StadtFabrik – City Factory’.
Discovering / understanding / designing sustainable lifestyles A project investigating sustainable lifestyles, carried out under the Sparkling Science program, supported by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. CONTENTS OF “HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?” The “How should we live?” project deals with the question of how we can create our lifestyles in a way […] Read more – ‘Wie leben? ![IDRV hosting StadtFabrik [City factory]](http://www.idrv.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_20160208_085224-150x150.jpg)
at MAK DESIGN SPACE, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna from 8.2. 2016 The StadtFabrik is a “real-time” research laboratory for new professional fields with a focus on creative disciplines which aims to discover and highlight future potentials of cities in Digital Modernity. It will continue the approaches of the project 2051: Smart Life in the City, […] Read more – ‘IDRV hosting StadtFabrik [City factory]’.
A Project Investigating Sustainable Lifestyles. Read more – ‘Wie leben? 
Friday, June 13 th, 07 pm at ‘das weisse haus’, Kriehubergasse 24-26, 4th floor, 1050 Vienna Designers are, in principle, part of a “courageous” profession: they are constantly searching for alternatives, bringing about new things through their creativity and treading unfamiliar paths. We have long known that the sustainable development of our society is only […] Read more – ‘Circle 00008 (r=4) 
How can you determine the climate-damaging greenhouse gas emissions of an espresso machine using a hammer, a screwdriver and a kitchen scale? Switching between activist demands and subtle humor, Tools for the Design Revolution illustrates the role design can play in formulating a sustainable society based on global solidarity. Many barely noticed everyday objects have […] Read more – ‘Book Launch: 
Opening: 12 MAY 2014, 06.30 pm MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna The Institute of Design Research Vienna has over the past few months supported the MAK in the development and implementation of the MAK DESIGN LABORATORY. The semi-permanent reinstallation of the former study collection will be opened on […] Read more – ‘IDRV in the MAK DESIGN LAB’.
In more than 50 years of running the award it was the task of IDRV to give a complete overview of the winners ascending from 1962 for the first time. Read more – ‘The Austrian National Design Prizes ascending from 1962.’.
Do we have what it takes to do? – Shop window installation Argentinierstraße 1, 1040 Vienna 27.9. – 6.10.2013 Guided Tour Stadtarbeit – City Work Saturday 28.09.2013, 14:00–16:00 Thursday 3.10.2013, 16:00–18:00 Start: Argentinierstraße 1, 1040 Wien (In front of the shop window) Talk Stadtarbeit – City Work Radlager, Operngasse 28, 1040 Wien Thursday 3.10.2013, […] Read more – ‘Do we have what it takes to do? 
The Status Quo in Education Thursday, June, 27th, 07 pm Das Weisse Haus, Argentinierstraße 11 1040 Wien Read more – ‘Circle 00006 (r=7) 
Tools for the Design Revolution An exhibition on Sustainable Design by the IDRV in cooperation with Creative Industries Styria With pilot projects by: breadedEscalope, DANKLHAMPEL, Spirit Design And new ones for Graz by Animal Design Studio and Veronika Tzekova May 4– June 2, 2013 Opening: May 3, 2013, 7.30 pm Read more – ‘The exhibition on tour – Tools for the Design Revolution at the Designmonat Graz’.
An exhibition on Sustainable Design by the IDRV in cooperation with designforum Vorarlberg. March 15 – April 19, 2013 Opening: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:00 pm At the designforum Vorarlberg, CAMPUS, (Hintere Achmühlerstraße 1, 6850 Dornbirn) With pilot projects by: breadedEscalope, DANKLHAMPEL and Spirit Design as well as an intervention of the initiative „A better […] Read more – ‘The exhibition on tour: 
Intervention at the imm cologne, 14th to 20th, 2013, Hall 3.2, Place E-045. Do we realize that we don’t sit on just a chair – we sit on crude oil and on vast quantities of water used in production? Only a few companies are assessing the environmental impact of their products and, in so doing, […] Read more – ‘The Consequences of Design’.
Deutsche Version / German Version An exhibition by the IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna in cooperation with designaustria. Pilot projects by danklhampel, breadedEscalope, and Spirit Design. Exhibition duration: September 29 – November 4, 2012 Opening: Friday 28 September 2012, 5.30 pm, for the Vienna Design Week. At the designforum Vienna, quartier 21/MQ The […] Read more – ‘Tools for the Design Revolution’.
A two-day design lab held by IDRV during the MAK exhibition “MADE 4 YOU. Design for Change“. For change to come about, a design revolution is necessary after which designers attend to further defining or redefining what exists, that is, radically improving it, rather than designing a steady stream of new variations of products. The […] Read more – ‘Documentation. Workshop: Tools for the Design Revolution’.
29. -30.6.2012, 10 am – 6 pm A two-day design lab held by IDRV during the MAK exhibition “MADE 4 YOU. Design for Change“, which will provide the spatial and thematic environment for the interdisciplinary d>lab. In the context of design> new strategies. A cooperation between departure and MAK. For change to come about, a […] Read more – ‘Workshop: Tools for the Design Revolution’.
May 11, 2012, 12 pm Cradle to Cradle expert talk at Hofburg Vienna An event of ÖGV – Österreichischer Gewerbeverein The “Cradle to Cradle expert talk” was the opening event of the Green Business World Congress at Hofburg Vienna. The EC Sustainable Design invited our peer experts from the design field to discuss and exchange […] Read more – ‘Closing the Loop. Experts talk on Cradle to Cradle’.
Sustainable (Industrial) Design. Form follows formula. On Saturday, May 5, 2012, 7 pm Harald Gruendl is going to talk in the course of Selected: Sustainable Design at DesignHalle in Graz about sustainable industrial design. The topic of the lecture is on the question which strategies design and industry are going to follow in the future, […] Read more – ‘Sustainable (Industrial) Design – presentation by Harald Gruendl at Selected: in Graz’.
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!’.
The Experts Cluster Sustainable Design 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 Sustainable Design EC are: to contribute to […] Read more – ‘Sustainable Design 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! 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’.