MAK Design Labor

https://lab.mak.at/#/object/28542

Design contributes to the formation of our world and the way we live together and helps to expand human possibilities of agency and decision making. Afterall, the objects—analog and digital—with which we surround ourselves, which we produce, buy, use, and discard, play a key role in shaping our bodies and our environment. With a thematic tour covering around 2,000 m2, the MAK Design Lab makes the expanded tasks and new roles of design tangible.

The MAK Design Lab is a semi-permanent exhibition in the lower level of the museum in which objects from the MAK Collection are placed into a multifaceted historical and contemporary context with loans and new productions in seven thematically organized rooms.

The presented design ideas look into the challenges of the 21st century such as the climate crisis, digitalization, society and democracy. They explore material innovations, circular design, and new possibilities of producing and consuming. The MAK Design Lab also presents new approaches to designing fair cohabitation in awareness of our interdependence with all species on our planet.

CURATORS
mischer’traxler studio (Katharina Mischer, Thomas Traxler),
Janina Falkner, Neue Lernkonzepte MAK,
Marlies Wirth, Kuratorin Digitale Kultur, Kustodin MAK Sammlung Design
im Dialog mit den Leiter*innen der MAK Sammlung

ASSISTANT
Viktoria Heinrich, MAK Sammlung Design