The Viennese duo Vandasye (Peter Umgeher and Georg Schnitzer), MAK Designers in Residence of 2012, will be staging a cooperative design happening together with Michael Anastassiades (GB), Patrick Rampelotto / Fritz Pernkopf (IT/AT), taliaYsebastian (AT) and the visitors as a contribution to Vienna Design Week.
Umgeher and Schnitzer, who originated the design for the current exhibition MADE 4 YOU. Design for Change (on view till 7 October 2012) deal with the possibilities of a transformed (post-)industrial paradigm of production, assembling a series of devices for the collective, onsite production of tableware and other items for use by the visitors to this experimental party with an unpredictable ending.
Under the motto of design> new strategies, the MAK and departure will be holding a series of so-called design links. In five evening events all in all, personalities from the areas of design, the economy, and research from all over the world will be entering into a dialogue with the local creative community.
The d>nite will be the highlight of the half-day MAK Design Summit held in the context of the exhibition MADE4YOU. Design for Change, Vienna Design Week (28.9.7.10.2012).
Aside from the public d>link events, two-day design labs (application required) that are informed by the focal themes of the "design> new strategies" cooperation will be held.
Since 2005, the house in Brtnice, Czech Republic where Josef Hoffmann was born has been playing host to temporary exhibitions featuring themes related to Hoffman and his circle with the aim of keeping the life and work of this pioneering Austrian architect alive in the public consciousness.