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L‘Avventura di due sposi
A miniature bed for the 1958 story by Italo Calvino
The Critical Caryatid
An AI as music critic: a fairy tale about AI, musical rating systems, and automated criticism
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Damaszener Stahl
Damascus fraud! The knife that would like to be something better.
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DIN2121
Measuring instruments for the year 2121, among them: the last sextant
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Kalender–revolution
Variations on the Styrian Mandl-Kalender
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Kind Hands
Corner protection: a caring gesture translated into an object
King GAFA and the Magical 0–1 Crop
A modern fairy tale about digital sovereignty and platform capitalism
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Kugellager Publishing House
On the trail of the ball bearing, with a five-year-old who at the time liked spinning around her own axis in big dresses
Mounted Ceramics
Porcelain objects with speculative extensions, loosely following the tradition of mounted ceramics
Stadt der Temperamente
A theatre project taking a comedic look at research on networked neighbourhoods in the Seestadt
Suchagent: Schweren Herzens
An exhibition on search culture on online marketplaces, in collaboration with willhaben
There Will Be! People! On The Sun! Soon!
An exhibition on the cultural significance of solar energy, with historical and contemporary objects
1070 Unseen
A social design project on invisible Viennese realities and the everyday work of home care
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Wiener Gold
An attempt to reconstruct the history of a place where the Jewish Natowic family ran a lemonade business
CONCEPT
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DING
DING began as a shared studio and as an attempt to think design less in isolation. Workshop, exhibition, discussion, and shared infrastructure grow into one another here.
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UNDING
A group exhibition about what it means not to be a Ding, but an Unding
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CODING
The exhibition gathers questions around code and digital order: How do you furnish a cyber home? Who wants to date an intelligent Furby? And how is it that something associated with logic, patterns, and order produces such complex chaos?
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DING DONG
For DING! DONG!, eleven apartments for Arbio were furnished with Viennese design. The flats were meant to let travellers experience a piece of Viennese design culture – beyond beautiful furniture.
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BUILDING
An engagement with one’s own address, and a neighbourhood talk format for gathering information
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KNIT & WEAVE
An exhibition on textiles in contemporary design – embedded in the historical fabric of Schloss Hollenegg
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ECoC Nürnberg
For Nuremberg’s bid to become European Capital of Culture, formats were developed around toys, inventiveness, and urban storytelling – among them a festival for digital guilds, a search for Hanswurst, and a residency on the Toys of Tomorrow.
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OFFSPRING
What could an exhibition look like when its visitors have only just begun to put the world in order?
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School of Maybe
A summer school for experimental design and artistic research at Forum Stadtpark
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Islands of Loners
A group exhibition on the bed as a setting for loneliness and me-time
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Besessene Berge
How does one come to own a mountain? And by which spirits are mountains possessed? An exhibition on what ownership does to landscape.
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Projekt: Berggasse 19
A speculative contemporary interior for Sigmund Freud