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We’re living in an era requiring new solutions and visionary thinking, according to designer Harald Gründl of EOOS

Aimee Shirley — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:30:11 +0000

“We recently got a call from a manufacturer who wanted to produce a ten-year-old design mock-up of ours,” says Harald Gründl with a smile. In his view, the work of his Viennese design studio EOOS isn’t particularly futuristic – though it’s evidently timeless enough to retain relevance one decade on. “I think that’s pretty typical

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Turkish photographer Eylül Aslan fixes her gaze on socially constructed beauty ideals

root — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:52:05 +0000

Born and raised in Istanbul, Eylül Aslan began taking pictures as a way to express and explore her own sexuality. Her work simultaneously became a tool to help overcome the oppression she felt growing up as a woman in Turkish society. Finding freedom in her self portraits, where she alone was in control of the

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Wherever new housing needs to be built, we can learn from Harry Glück’s utopian Alterlaa

root — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 04:54:15 +0000

Man is a “Mängelwesen”. That is, an deficient, incomplete being who needs value systems, rules and frameworks that help to navigate daily life. At least that’s what philosophical anthropologists claimed in the 20th century. Learnings ingrained in humans when they grow up help them get along, to guide them in daily interactions and decisions. Architecture

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How Vienna’s Creative Business Models are Solving Problems Profitably

root — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 21:22:13 +0000

However, this was not always the case: take for instance the socially conscious articles written by Max Winters and published around 1900 in the Berlin periodical Neue Welt and in the Arbeiter Zeitung. His pieces captured the “cave dwellers” in fin-de-siècle Vienna and gave a voice to poor roasted chestnut sellers, soda water merchants and

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Cultivating a city: How inventive urban production is gaining ground in Vienna

root — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 20:21:17 +0000

Our tour of urban production in the city begins here in Brigittenau, the 20th district. Manuel Bornbaum and Florian Hofer cultivate oyster mushrooms in a rather unusual way—using coffee grounds as soil. Originally from Upper Austria, the two students have established a zero-waste project—soon to celebrate its first anniversary—in the city’s center. Vienna’s urban area,

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Tomorrow Today: Gallery Festival in Vienna

root — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 22:30:17 +0000

As part of curated by_vienna, the participating galleries turn their attention to a common theme in exhibitions designed by international curators. This year, it offered fuel for a controversial debate along the way. Under the banner “Tomorrow Today,” curated by_vienna was held in September and October, 2015 for the seventh time. Organized since 2009 by the

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Ania Rosinke & Maciej Chmara

root — Sun, 31 May 2015 23:30:36 +0000

To expand the range requires a lot of research and innovation, nevertheless, “chmara.rosinke” do not lose the inherent grace of their objects and designs. The newest project from both these Polish designers, “Cucina Futurista 2.0”, shows this method, in which their ideas are transformed into a piece of performance art. Along with chefs and other creatives,

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Alexandra Grausam

root — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:41:45 +0000

Before anything else, visitors to her studio and home in the Mariahilf district encounter the powerful smell of solvents. The neatly hung tools, however, give the impression of a doctor’s office. And, indeed, there is something surgical about it when Alexandra Grausam restores art and paintings in her apartment’s studio. Some of the works are

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Margot Deerenberg

root — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:45:11 +0000

At Packhaus more than 170 people from different fields – including IT, technology, fashion, design, science, crafts and social fields – work, tinker and cooperate in over 2800 sqm over seven floors, thanks to the dedication of Margot Deerenberg and the Paradocks team. The project, housed in a 1970s office building directly across from the Sophiensäle,

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Lilli Hollein

root — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 00:02:41 +0000

In addition she would like to offer an international platform where manufacturers and designers can meet. Especially close to her heart is the juxtaposition of ancient and modern – because it is just this that makes the capital of Austria so endearingly charming. Anyone who visits Lilli understands immediately why she’s hung on to

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