Cape Town is the 2014 World Design Capital, and Austria will be visiting the city to present its AustriaDesignNet platform. This offers an opportunity to exchange ideas about processes of design and innovation in different latitudes. “Südnovation [Southnovation],” an initiative by kulturen in bewegung from Vienna, will show what the North can learn from the South in a “living room” installation, including topics such as fugal innovation, upcycling, highly flexible and collective working processes, and more. The upcycling designer Heath Nash from Cape Town will apply this collaborative dialogue to new products with local partners from Austria in a dynamic work in progress progress – e.g. he curated a selection of South African designs by courtesy of HABARI, a Vienna based concept store.

Austria Design Discourse South Africa: 6.-13.11.14
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In cooperation with designforum Wien/kulturen in bewegung.