What are the potential benefits of meaningful work and lifelong learning? And how can these help sustainably enhance the quality of life for all? These questions provided the focus for a workshop series with school pupils and seniors that was conceived of and run by the designer team Vandasye, designer Kathrina Dankl, architect and architectural theorist Andreas Rumpfhuber, and the MAK. In October 2017, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, the MAK presented the results of the pilot project MAK FUTURE LAB for Citizen Science, which focused on the Smart City.
 
During the project, scenarios were developed based on the assumption that robots undertake all “necessary” work and a universal basic income is available. However, which aspects of human work do we nonetheless consider essential for our social wellbeing? Each scenario was visualized in collaboration with a designer and presented in the MAK.
 
One of the groups foregrounded the necessity of work as a tool of social interaction and developed a model of communication that, in collaboration with the designer team breadedEscalope, they then consolidated and translated into a prototype known as Idea Camping. This involves a setting where there are a number of tents and a series of dialogues is conducted among participants. Playful and theatrical directions allow interests to precipitate out of shifting dialog and new ideas to be discovered together. In the context of this year’s Forward Festival, Idea Camping is to be played and put to the test in the MAK DESIGN LAB.

PLEASE NOTE: Number of participants limited to 32 persons
Admission only with valid Forward Festival Ticket. 

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Working group Idea Camping: Brigitta Bottke, Leona Sara Maier, Valentin Payr, Paula Ure
Project accompaniment: Janina Falkner, New Concepts for Learning, MAK
Designers: breadedEscalope

MAKour is a workshop developed together with and for people with experience of displacement as part of the seminar Teaching Methodology & Refugees at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in cooperation with the MAK. It will take place for the first time during the Vienna Integration Week.

The main focus lies on the museum as a special meeting point where personal stories are connected with objects. Following the principle of “less is more,” individual objects are chosen and their history is linked to personal experiences. Playful tasks and especially developed materials invite participants to explore the museum in small groups accompanied by art mediators.

Depending on the group, the workshop will take place in English, Farsi, or Arabic.

Meeting point: MAK, in front of the main entrance, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Duration: 120 min.
Limited number of participants
Participation is free of charge

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This events takes place in context of the WIENER INTEGRATIONSWOCHE 2018.


 

MAK on TOUR reveals how Gustav Peichl’s architectural drawings relate to real buildings. The tour begins in the MAK with a guided tour through the exhibition GUSTAV PEICHL: 15 Buildings for His 90th. It continues with a bus ride to Südstadt in Maria Enzersdorf, where participants enjoy a viewing and guided tour of the EVN headquarter and the evn collection.

The EVN headquarter building stands out due to its clear-cut, modernist cuboid form. Designed in the late 1950s by the team of architects Wilhelm Hubatsch, Franz Kiener, and Gustav Peichl , it was conceived as a central building in a modern garden city, the Südstadt. The seven-storey building is a highly functional office complex; its characteristic features are the free-standing concrete supports and the strict linearity of the strip windows looking east and west. In 1993 the EVN FORUM was added, a spacious event center also designed by Gustav Peichl.

Program
2 p.m.: Tour of the exhibition GUSTAV PEICHL. 15 Bauten zum 90sten
3 p.m.: Departure from Vienna (per bus, opposite Weiskirchnerstraße 3, bus parking place at the entrance to Stadtpark, 1010 Vienna) 
4 p.m.: Guided tour of the EVN headquarter and evn collection in Südstadt
ca. 6:30 p.m.: Arrival in Vienna

Total cost
€ 35
€ 32 for MAK Annual Card Holders

Limited number of participants, registration for the tour is essential.

After a short guided tour through the exhibition in the MAK we will visit the Imperial Royal Austrian Postal Savings Bank, one of Otto Wagner’s most important works. Anne Marie Gusmik, long-time employee of the present PSK (Postal Savings Bank) gives us very special insights into the building. In addition to the Entrance Hall and the Banking Hall, we will see other rooms, such as the Manager’s Stairway and the originally furnished Manager’s Offices, which are usually not open to the public. Furthermore, a special glimpse of the Banking Hall from above, as well as of the glass floors in the post office underneath the Banking Hall is also granted.

Meeting point: MAK Ticket Desk, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Total price: € 28 or € 26 for MAK Annual Ticket holders

Limited number of participants, registration for the tour is essential.

Owned by the Counts Piatti since 1834, Loosdorf Palace is a Baroque treasure in Austria’s Weinviertel district. The Piatti family’s passion for collecting is little known: in addition to the largest private collection of pewter figures, thanks to the efforts of Marquis Friedrich August Piatti in the 19th century they also owned an immensely rich collection of porcelain, which could compete with the great collections of the Esterhazy and Liechtenstein families.

This collection featured porcelains by all the famous factories. Despite being immured in the basement, the porcelain collection fell into the hands of the approaching Russian army in 1945 while on the search for objects of value. Ignorant of their value, the soldiers smashed the entire collection.

A unique feature of Loosdorf Palace is a room of shards—a “porcelain memento mori”—that is the only one of its kind in the world. After the Russian soldiers’ retreat, the shards found in the palace buildings and park were arranged according to manufactory, laid on the ground, and pieced together. On the one hand, this collection of shards gives an impression of the once vast magnitude of this porcelain collection, while on the other it, the broken fragments of Baroque furniture, and the signposts in Cyrillic script around the palace grounds document the senseless violence of war.

Program
10 a.m.  Meeting point: MAK Ticket Desk, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Guided tour of the exhibition 300 YEARS OF THE VIENNA PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY
11:30 a.m. Bus leaves for Loosdorf
12:30 p.m. Lunch (not included in the price)
2:30 p.m. Guided tour of Loosdorf Palace
4 p.m.  Bus leaves for Vienna
ca. 5:30 p.m. Arrival at the MAK, Weiskirchnerstraße 3, 1010 Vienna

Total price
€ 40 or € 36 for MAK Annual Ticket holders

After a short guided tour through the exhibition in the MAK we will visit the Imperial Royal Austrian Postal Savings Bank, one of Otto Wagner’s most important works. Anne Marie Gusmik, long-time employee of the present PSK (Postal Savings Bank) gives us very special insights into the building. In addition to the Entrance Hall and the Banking Hall, we will see other rooms, such as the Manager’s Stairway and the originally furnished Manager’s Offices, which are usually not open to the public. Furthermore, a special glimpse of the Banking Hall from above, as well as of the glass floors in the post office underneath the Banking Hall is also granted.

Meeting point: MAK Ticket Desk, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Total price: € 28 or € 26 for MAK Annual Ticket holders

Limited number of participants, registration for the tour is essential.

Holíč Palace on the Morava River in western Slovakia was of particular importance for the Habsburgs and the manufacturing industry in the kingdom of Hungary, to which Holíč (German: Holitsch) belonged until 1918. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, bought the palace from the Hungarian count Josef Czobor, whose ostentatious lifestyle had led to his ruin, and established the Holitsch faience factory around 1743, which can be interpreted as the counterpart to Maria Theresa’s imperial porcelain manufactory in Vienna.

Holíč Palace was not only converted into the ostentatious favorite palace of the imperial couple, but also housed another secret from the time when it belonged to Count Josef Czobor—and his secret is what we intend to reveal during this trip. The palace itself has sadly fallen into ruin; nevertheless, we will have the unique opportunity to view it from the inside.

Program
8 a.m.   Meeting point: opposite Weiskirchnerstraße 3, bus parking space near the entrance to the Stadtpark, 1010 Vienna
Bus leaves for Holíč
10 a.m.   Guided tour of Holíč Palace
12 noon Lunch (not included in the price)
2 p.m.   Bus leaves for Vienna
ca. 4 p.m.   Arrival at the MAK, Weiskirchnerstraße 3, 1010 Vienna, followed by a
guided tour of the exhibition 300 YEARS OF THE VIENNA PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY

Total price
€ 50 or € 45 for MAK Annual Ticket holders

Please note:
A valid passport as well as flat, sturdy shoes and clothes that can get dirty are essential!

After a short guided tour through the exhibition in the MAK we will visit the Imperial Royal Austrian Postal Savings Bank, one of Otto Wagner’s most important works. Anne Marie Gusmik, long-time employee of the present PSK (Postal Savings Bank) gives us very special insights into the building. In addition to the Entrance Hall and the Banking Hall, we will see other rooms, such as the Manager’s Stairway and the originally furnished Manager’s Offices, which are usually not open to the public. Furthermore, a special glimpse of the Banking Hall from above, as well as of the glass floors in the post office underneath the Banking Hall is also granted.

Meeting point: MAK Ticket Desk, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna
Total price: € 28 or € 26 for MAK Annual Ticket holders

Limited number of participants, registration for the tour is essential.

MAK on TOUR zur Österreichischen Postsparkasse
mit Anne Marie Gusmik

Anlässlich der Ausstellung POST OTTO WAGNER. Von der Postsparkasse zur Postmoderne

Nach einer Führung durch die Ausstellung im MAK besuchen wir die k. k. Österreichische Postsparkasse, eines der wichtigsten Werke Otto Wagners. Anne Marie Gusmik, langjährige Mitarbeiterin der heutigen BAWAG PSK, gibt ganz besondere Einblicke in das Gebäude. Neben dem Eingangsbereich und dem Kassensaal werden Räumlichkeiten wie die Direktionsstiege und die original möblierten Direktionsbüros, die für gewöhnlich der Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglich sind, besucht. Des Weiteren wird ein besonderer Blick auf den Kassasaal von oben sowie auf den gläsernen Boden im Tresorraum unterhalb des Kassensaals ermöglicht.
 
Times: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Duration: about 2 hours 
Meeting point: MAK Columned Main Hall, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

Free Admission!

     

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MAK on TOUR zur Österreichischen Postsparkasse
mit Anne Marie Gusmik

Anlässlich der Ausstellung POST OTTO WAGNER. Von der Postsparkasse zur Postmoderne

Nach einer Führung durch die Ausstellung im MAK besuchen wir die k. k. Österreichische Postsparkasse, eines der wichtigsten Werke Otto Wagners. Anne Marie Gusmik, langjährige Mitarbeiterin der heutigen BAWAG PSK, gibt ganz besondere Einblicke in das Gebäude. Neben dem Eingangsbereich und dem Kassensaal werden Räumlichkeiten wie die Direktionsstiege und die original möblierten Direktionsbüros, die für gewöhnlich der Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglich sind, besucht. Des Weiteren wird ein besonderer Blick auf den Kassasaal von oben sowie auf den gläsernen Boden im Tresorraum unterhalb des Kassensaals ermöglicht.
 
Times: 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Duration: about 2 hours 
Meeting point: MAK Columned Main Hall, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

Free Admission!

     

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