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City Factory

21. June–1. October 2017
MAK Exhibition Hall

(6.2) City Factory: New Work. New Design

In the framework of the VIENNA BIENNALE 2017, the exhibition City Factory: New Work. New Design developed 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); and new sustainable work in the sense of the circular economy and innovative utilization of urban resources.

International designers and architects presented projects developed especially for the Biennale in all three areas. The themes and associated concepts were presented around the central objects using additional projects and extensive visual material, texts and videos.

Demonstrators, which were discovered together with the Vienna Business Agency and its creative center departure through a call for proposals and which was curated and supervised by IDRV, worked on these three topics directly within the confines of the city. Demonstrators are prototypical experimental arrangements in urban space that contend with sustainable fields of work in the creative industries. They correspond to the core topics of the exhibition City Factory: New Work. New Design and will be located in the MAK exhibition accordingly.

Curated by: IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna, Harald Gruendl, Ulrike Haele

Project Coordinaton: Thomas Geisler, Curator, MAK Design Collection: Miriam Kathrein, Vienna Business Agency, creative center departure