How must we change our habits and patterns of consumption to positively influence the health and development of nature and civilization? What is the material from which the fabric of the future will be woven? What are the positive or negative side-effects of human achievements and innovative problem solving? What forms of production will still make sense tomorrow? Who shapes what shapes us? What new “applied values” or guidelines for action can facilitate meaningful coexistence between humans and machines? What dilemmas will confront design in the future? How and what should we produce in a post-growth society, and how can our consumption habits be fair, sustainable, and rational? What consequences will a public welfare economy have for the market economy, and new forms of education for the future of work? How can we develop from being “quantified selves” to being a “qualified us”?
This cooperation between the Slovak Design Center and the MAK (EU Interreg SK–AT) examines “Design & Innovation” from a number of perspectives: it investigates new materials, post-abundance design, food design, commons, and the rational use of new digital technologies in the field of design and discusses these in a public forum with selected international experts associated with the partner institutions.
The results of the project will flow into the newly conceived MAK DESIGN LAB within the framework of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019.
Project Manager MAK: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Assistants: Viktoria Heinrich, MAK Design Collection; Eva Adam-Maxa, Project Assistent EU Interreg SK-AT
Project Partners:
Slovenské centrum dizajnu | Slovak Design Center (Lead Partner in project)
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst | Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave | Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Slovenská verzia >>
The project “Design & Innovation” (2018–2020) is financially supported by the EU program INTERREG V-A Slovakia–Austria.
This cooperation between the Slovak Design Center and the MAK (EU Interreg SK–AT) examines “Design & Innovation” from a number of perspectives: it investigates new materials, post-abundance design, food design, commons, and the rational use of new digital technologies in the field of design and discusses these in a public forum with selected international experts associated with the partner institutions.
The results of the project will flow into the newly conceived MAK DESIGN LAB within the framework of the VIENNA BIENNALE FOR CHANGE 2019.
Project Manager MAK: Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection; Assistants: Viktoria Heinrich, MAK Design Collection; Eva Adam-Maxa, Project Assistent EU Interreg SK-AT
Project Partners:
Slovenské centrum dizajnu | Slovak Design Center (Lead Partner in project)
MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst | Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave | Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Slovenská verzia >>
The project “Design & Innovation” (2018–2020) is financially supported by the EU program INTERREG V-A Slovakia–Austria.
