CityFactory: New Work. New Design.An exhibition of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art and the Vienna Business Agency with its creative center departure. Curators: Martina Fineder, Harald Gruendl, Ulrike Haele (IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna)In the framework of the Alpbach Technology Symposium, the MAK and the Vienna Business Agency are showing a satellite of the exhibition City Factory: New Work. New Design., which is on view in the context of the VIENNA BIENNALE 2017: Robots. Work. Our Future. In front of a background of the increasing digitalization of our work environment and the rapid development of new technologies, the exhibition thematizes new (collaborative) forms of work and design strategies. Seven projects serve as examples on the basis of which three socially relevant future fields of work are deliberated: New creative work and interdisciplinary co-creativity, new social work including working for the common good (commoning), and new sustainable work in the sense of circular economy and innovative usage of urban resources.Project Sponsors:      The Social Furniture Workshop project is realized as a cooperation between the MAK and the Caritas.Alpbach Technology SymposiumEuropean Forum Alpach6236 Alpbach
CityFactory: New Work. New Design.
An exhibition of the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art and the Vienna Business Agency with its creative center departure. Curators: Martina Fineder, Harald Gruendl, Ulrike Haele (IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna)

In the framework of the Alpbach Technology Symposium, the MAK and the Vienna Business Agency are showing a satellite of the exhibition City Factory: New Work. New Design., which is on view in the context of the VIENNA BIENNALE 2017: Robots. Work. Our Future. In front of a background of the increasing digitalization of our work environment and the rapid development of new technologies, the exhibition thematizes new (collaborative) forms of work and design strategies. Seven projects serve as examples on the basis of which three socially relevant future fields of work are deliberated: New creative work and interdisciplinary co-creativity, new social work including working for the common good (commoning), and new sustainable work in the sense of circular economy and innovative usage of urban resources.

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The Social Furniture Workshop project is realized as a cooperation between the MAK and the Caritas.


Alpbach Technology Symposium
European Forum Alpach
6236 Alpbach