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Design Engaging the City
\nMAK, Vienna 12. 12. 2012 \u2013 17. 03. 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Studio Makkink & Bey<\/p><\/div>\n

In 2006, inspired by their city\u2019s rich heritage of local manufacturers and craftspeople, Tulga Beyerle, Thomas Geisler, and Lilli Hollein, founders of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, began a special project, called Passionswege, which matched young designers with traditional workshops, manufacturers, and retailers in Vienna. By focusing on the transfer of knowledge and skills between the invited partners and carefully guiding the process\u2014yet leaving the potential for results quite open\u2014they generated a series of encounters that worked quite differently from usual design collaborations.<\/p>\n

Here it is not the product that is at the center of interest, but people, knowledge, attitudes, and the process of working together. This exhibition, curated by Sophie Lovell and designed by Studio Makkink & Bey, mixes centuries of craft skills with new design thinking and shows that design can be inspiring to everyone\u2014producer and consumer alike. It is about the soft and hard values of design as a facilitator for bringing people together and enhancing the commercial and creative profile of a city at the same time.<\/p>\n

First presented during World Design Helsinki 2012 this extended exhibition at the MAK also draws on the museum\u2019s rich collection and archive material of works by Viennese manufacturers, some of which have been in business for generations.<\/p>\n

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