Monocle’s Alexei Korolyov reports from the 18th edition of Vienna Design Week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Vienna Design Week is Now in its 18th edition and this year its headquarters is located in a building currently under construction not far from the Austrian capitals main train station.
This aligns with the festival's overarching themes of promoting sustainable and future oriented design.
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For everyone who knows us, we do temporary use.
So every year there's a new location, but usually it's after use and this would be for use.
The building has just been finished or not quite so.
We're on a building site.
We're really where the city keeps growing.
Gabriel Roland is the director of Vienna Design Week.
It is a metaphor for what we're trying to do with design, to create an opening where things are not defined yet or not quite yet.
And one good example is the hospitality area.
It's a collaboration between the Vienna Business Agency and us, with a lot of input from Atelier Luhmann, from Arles and Studio Driest.
Try to close the loop on stuff that we have in the city that we don't usually think about, that we have like we're digging out earth while building a metro.
It's often from regulations wise, not so easy to use that stuff somewhere else.
And I think this is a very Vienna design kind of idea.
It's not just making an exhibition, not just showing the stuff, but using the stuff.
We're actually sitting on the stools, we're actually, you know, having the coffee on the bar that's made from the stuff.