design

ELEKTRA, Montréal

ELEKTRA is an international media and contemporary digital art organization based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Since 1999, it has presented artists and works that combine creative technological genres, such as music, video, cinema, performance, design, audio, robotic, interactive and visual arts.
Workshop: Open Standards & Services
Academic Design Network Austria

MON 9.9. | 13:45 – 14:45 The afternoon workshop will give an overview to Open Standards and Services and how designers can benefit and contribute when making their toolchain choice.
Designing the Futures We (Do Not) Want: Speculative Design Lab
Academic Design Network Austria

SAT 7.9. | 13:45 – 16:45 The burning questions identified in the morning session will form the starting point for developing utopian and dystopian scenarios to address challenges and opportunities of the future.
Symmetry
Lee Sooyeun (KR)

An animation that considers the reflections of the media façade in the Danube. Simple shapes, sinus waves, mandala patterns that double in the water.
Tape
Kudo Mayuko (JP)

In Tape, the AEC is transformed into an oversized, sparkling ribbon-wrapped box. If you point an AR-app on it, the ribbon disengages and opens a gate that reveals the content: fleeing color dots, which slowly form figures that rise from an intangible, all-energy world into our reality.
Nord Süd
Moritz Laumert (DE)

Nord Süd deals with two important non-representational painters: Josef Albers and Günther Fruhtrunk. Both have great art-historical relevance and are points of reference to consumer culture and design alike. Fruhtrunk designed the plastic bag for Aldi-Nord, which irrevocably connects him to the brand. Albers’ famous painting, “Homage to the Square,” has surprising parallels to the Aldi-Süd or Hofer logo. Both of the painting-inspired graphics are processed and animated on the façade.
This is grown.
Jen Keane (US)

This is grown. was motivated by a frustration with plastics and a visible disparity between scientific research and design manifestations around natural materials. Taking an organism-driven approach to material design, the project began under the premise that a greater understanding of nature could help us not just replace the petrochemical based materials of today with more sustainable ones, but perhaps allow us to devise entirely new systems of making and categories of materials previously unimagined. After all, nature has had 3.8 billion years to perfect the ultimate circular economy: Life. Maybe we can still learn something.
Pets
New Design University Privatuniversität GesmbH (AT), BA Design, Handwerk & materielle Kultur, MA Innenarchitektur & Visuelle Kommunikation

Based on artistic and scientific research, students investigate how our material world is changing and what role design plays in it.
Experiencing a future design process
Fachhochschule Vorarlberg/Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (AT) InterMedia MA – Masters’s Degree Program Design

Experiencing a future design process addresses the possible effects of artificial intelligence on the communication design profession. Which tasks can be solved with the help of algorithms? For which requirements will human services be indispensable in the future? With the help of an interactive game, design processes can be played through and the possible role of technological support can be experienced.
Designing the Commons
Academic Design Network Austria

MON 9.9. | 10:00 – 13:00 Day 4 offers an additional workshop on the responsibility of design to support collaboration cultures. We will be sharing best practices and will have a closer look at two application fields.The morning session will be focusing on Creative Commons and its impact on the sharing culture. We try to extend its concept for brands with a Label Commons Public License and investigate the #fairmove use case.