In Progress
Reallabor
Project
Der Angriff der Gegenwart
Der Angriff der Gegenwart - Aussichten im Postwachstum
In Progress
Stadt aufmöbeln
Tackling undiscovered possibilities of urban furniture
In Progress
Re-sourcing Commons
Collective Refurbishing of a Viennese Park
Project
PlaceCity
Urban Research & Open Call Floridsdorf
Project
Working out the Binary
Misha Zadykowicz
Project
Improper Reactions for Inappropriate Comments
In order to process
Project
Social Design - Summer School 2022
"HANDS ON" - material and immaterial resources in urban futures
In Progress
Heimstätten für alte Leute
A Viennese Housing Experiment of the 1950-70s
In Progress
Kukhina
Field
Liquid Public Space
Unconditional access to water, the possibility to swim and live such resources should be open to all
Project
Floating Skin
Marlene Hübner and Amelie Schlemmer
Project
Schwimmverein Donaukanal
A fluid-structure that aims to weave a social fabric around the practice of urban bathing
Project
Wir gehen alle baden
Social infrastructures are not limited to water, gas, electricity or public transport.
Project
Wildbad - Weltbad
reclaiming commodified touristic spaces in Bad Gastein
Field
The City After Dark
Project
Sound Escapes
Frank Daubenfeld
Project
Nightwalk III
Full-height 90% Black Strikethrough
Project
Coronity Radio
An ongoing virtual space project that opens a counter-position to the reality of social distance
Project
Night Walk II
Long walk exploration through the night in Vienna in search of the unknown
Project
Submersion
Essay film that captures conversations with underground explorers.
Project
Stadt WerkStadt
A magazine that focuses on the appreciation of human labour within and for the urban fabric.
Project
Vienna Dream
A walk-in installation and performance creating a space of social encounter
Project
Full Height 90% Black Strikethrough
an interactive night walk
Project
Trans-Forma
The power of dancing in times of socio-political crisis - a symposium and exhibition
Field
Speculative Futures
Project
Sour Possibilities
Eliza Chojnacka and Lena Michalik
Project
Artificial Mushroom Cultivation
Artificial Mushroom Cultivation as a Solution to Food Source After a Global Catastrophe
Project
Avatar Pleasures
Avatars are in paradox situations reflecting on the new digital (social-distance) relationships
Project
Unsichtbares Gift*
During covid-19, a fictional movie tells a story about a family (without them being aware of it).
Project
NOBODY IS AN ISLAND
The Call triggers a discourse and examination of the idea of a UBI along creative minds
Project
When Matt Damon met Fayiz
Artistic research project investigating the impact of the film industry on the Jordanian desert.
Project
ZEIT ZU GEHEN – Car As Extinct Species
The project examines the domination of cars in urban space
Field
Collective Identity
Project
Socks
Jelena Maschke, Laura Mann, Paulina Flores
Project
Sound & Solder
A self replicating synthesizer
Project
From “Reading rooms” to “The National Palace
Dissertation exploring aspects of how cultural buildings in Bulgaria arose from 19th C. until today.
Project
“Social Design Is Invisible” Summer School 20
The programme explored on the potential impact of Social Design in Bad Eisenkappel.
Project
The Staircase Choir
A democratically organised Choir uses the acoustics of staircases to create atmospheric stages
Project
ENDANGERED INDIGENOUS SONGS
A focus on rescuing and revitalizing indigenous songs from Latin America through an online Archive
Project
“Schumi Maritza”
This Project deals and reacts to the concept of National anthems as a political instrument.
Field
Absence of touch
Project
Sexuality and Self-identification
Viktoriia Slynchuk
Project
Magical Thinking
Ana - Marija Vašiček
Project
Offene Ventile. Installationen einer Stadt
Clara Hirschmanner, Alberta Sinani
Project
schnee von gestern
A story on handing on and passing on
Project
The Global Pandemic as a Magnifier
A Series of Psychological Perspectives on the Corona Crisis
Project
Coronity Radio
An ongoing virtual space project that opens a counter-position to the reality of social distance
Project
What is Corona doing to us?
Online sessions to learn about strategies of how to adjust to challenging and stressful times
Project
Matters of Relationships
Artistic Practices as an active way to reflect on situations and emotions and deal with them
Project
Abstand
Short experimental film referring to the absence of touch and the sense of distance.
Project
Avatar Pleasures
Avatars are in paradox situations reflecting on the new digital (social-distance) relationships
Project
Unsichtbares Gift*
During covid-19, a fictional movie tells a story about a family (without them being aware of it).
Project
Letters from a Window
A journey in search of communication tools that alternate the virtual forms of human interaction
Project
The New Content of Form
Students developed concepts to approach consumerism around the industry of food and goods
Project
Visualizing the World: from Observations, Inf
Focus Week based in exploring and experimenting methodologies in map-making and information design
Project
Urbanize! 2020 »Common Spaces, Hybrid Places«
Cooperation with urbanize! 2020 »Common Spaces, Hybrid Places«
Field
Right to the public
the needs of a multivocal collaborative basis for sustainable interventions
Project
HOPE ON HOPE OFF
Fabian Ritzi and Felix Hohmann
Project
Karl-Marx-Hof-Reitschule
Amanda Sperger, Robert Bettinger
Project
kleine stiege
Fabian Ritzi and Raphael Volkmer
Project
Minimal Furniture Mutations
A series of chair prototypes following the principles of re-use and circular economy
Project
insitu ani·motion
A platform for real time participation using time-based visual media
Project
[ ə ɡeɪm ]
A game in the city. With the city. For the city. A game that can become a manifestation.
Project
The places we carry
A public performance staged at the Austrian train stations
Project
Vienna Dream
A walk-in installation and performance creating a space of social encounter
Project
Magistrale
Staging daily urban interventions of the city administrations artistically
Project
Unlearning City Behaviour
Finding new perspectives on human behaviour in cities
Project
Literal Stair Chair
Alternative usage of staircases
Project
Shop on - Shop off Tours
An audio guide for Wien Mitte – The Mall
Project
Let's write a Fairy Tale
Creating an urban fairy tale at Österreichischer Platz in Stuttgart
Project
Departure Transit Arrival
Examining railway stations as "non-places"
Project
Wildbad - Weltbad
reclaiming commodified touristic spaces in Bad Gastein
Project
7000 benches
Encouraging city-making from below through benches
Project
Giardino in Comune
Fostering community and participation in Gemona del Friuli
Field
Next generations
Project
Futuring Workshop
Teenagers visualized ideas that point towards a socially and ecologically sustainable city
Project
Hacking public space towards climate justice
Minimal interventions reflecting the role of public space for young adults
Project
Kinderunikunst Kreativwoche 2019
The Studio held 3 workshops reflecting on: What children have to say about the future of our cities?
Project
Kinderuni
Social Design workshops at the annual children's art university
Project
Urban Wildness
A project dealing with urban wildness and how children can relate to it.
Project
Pink Pong
A project working with school girls on their participation in public space.
Project
Left Behind Children
Addressing one of the tragic social drawbacks of China's rapid economic development.
Project
“Spielfeld” – A Ping Pong tournament on the b
Installation inspired by the game and the unsurmountable borders separating regions around the world
Project
„Wo ist das Kind?“
Exhibition in the Gallery of the City of Villach with projects and works of the Social Design Studio
Project
Objects as tools for communication
The focus week explored the potentials of objects in relation to current societal challenges
Field
Alumni Talk Series
Project
Alumni Talk - Elaine Liu
Surfing while juggling. My years in Berlin as an independent designer
Project
Alumni Talk - Klaus Kodydek
Circular Strategies - Material Matters
Project
Alumni Talk - Michel Gölz
Talk on the experience at the City of Vienna employment.
Project
Alumni Talk - Julia Wohlfahrt
An insight on the professional life experience at the department of urban planning in Graz.
Project
Alumni Talk - Markus Gebhardt
Talk with an insight into intergenerational practices
Project
Alumni Talk - Klelija Zhivkovikj
Presentation of the Project “Labor Concept Store"
Field
Conditions of Existence
re-thinking, re-shaping and re-inventing conditions of existence in the city
Project
Packaging and Unpacking
Ana Mumladze
Project
Convergent Spaces: SDS Interface
Orest Yaremchuk
Project
Space Language
Evgeniia Kozlova
Project
SATISFACTORY The Human Production
Neslihan Kiran
Project
#ofthedead
Susanne Gutsche, Evgeniia Kozlova, Dimitrije Andrijevic
Project
Quirky Cookbook
The publication is a collection of stories and recipes by people who challenge food norms
Project
TETA GJYL
Podcast episodes that look further into the Albanian community in Vienna by sharing experiences
Project
Room 127
Miniature dioramas show excerpts of daily lives of people who are affected by a chronic condition.
Project
Landprobe
“Landprobe” invites city dwellers to try out life in the countryside in autumn 2020.
Project
NOBODY IS AN ISLAND
The Call triggers a discourse and examination of the idea of a UBI along creative minds
Project
Der Berg ruft zurück!
Alpine spaces between world flight, national eroticism and political activism
Project
Dementia. Arts. Society
changing society’s approach to dementia through art and deisgn
Project
Die Maulbeere
Redesigning the entrance of a hospital
Project
Heumat
Examining Austrian identity - idealized traditions and aesthetics of Apline regions
Project
From Othering to Intersection
tackling the topic of physical disabilities and the challenges that arise from "othering"
Project
Full Height 90% Black Strikethrough
an interactive night walk
Project
Diamonds
creating a supportive space for women with migration background
Project
Exploring Tiblisi and the power of dance
Exploring Tiblisi and the power of dance
Project
Inevitable Gamble
Exploring the malleable culture of Malta
Project
At Home in a Liminal World
On liminality or the feeling of being in-between a state or space
Field
(Im)material Resources
urban mining - the city as a source of (im)material resources
Project
Invasive Gardening
Susanne Gutsche
Project
Red Fences, White Flags
The city as an extreme habitat
Project
The Fabric of Soils
A Work in Progress
Project
Wandering
Wandering in our city
Project
Archive of Bricks
Rural and Peripheral Regeneration Strategies
Project
Focus Week Degrowth
The workshop explored various communication strategies to challenge the global growth imperative
Project
Other than happy [Anders als glücklich]
The exhibition aims to show the unrest against the exploitation of material and immaterial resources
Project
Hacking public space towards climate justice
Minimal interventions reflecting the role of public space for young adults
Project
Croupiers and Croutons – The Climate Casino
Global Players and Climate Sinners gathered around one table to gamble for the climate crisis
Project
Spotting Treasures in Bełchatów
Concept for a series of interventions and workshops in Bełchatów, a monotown in central Poland
Project
Fundus Sophienspital
an exhibition against the ‘business as usual’ in the construction industry
Project
Let's face it!
A Code of Conduct of how to battle climate change
Project
AZW Care & Repair
A public workspace in the framework of the Vienna Biennale 2017
Project
Opening Up for Circular Change
Deconstruction and Re-Use of materials within the city development of Vienna
Project
OMI
OMI is an investigation into the the potentials for Re-use and Urban Mining of construction waste.
Project
Lost and Found
An Exhibition + a site intervention to enhance the resources of ‘Nordbahnof’.
Project
Some Call Them Balkans
'Some Call Them Balkans’ is a frame for the next Ground Tour (#1), taking place in 2018/19.
Project
GELATI TALKS
GELATI TALKS was a public installation to challenge discourse within upcoming socio-spatial changes.
Project
Handy made
Playful strategies against Nomophobia
Project
Auschwitz on Sale
a temporary inflatable installation in historically loaded places in Cracow
In Progress
Unentdeckte Möglichkeiten von Stadtmobiliar
Unentdeckte Möglichkeiten von Stadtmobiliar
Project
Oskar Nimmt Platz
A public square as open platform for the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Project
The Invisibles
“The Invisibles” addresses the situation of Roma people in Bulgaria and Macedonia
Project
Un.documented
Creating resilience in Roma communities
Project
Wagon Wide Web
Connecting passengers of the train between Bratislava and Vienna through of stories of commuters.
Project
Shared Walks
An initiative that promotes social encounters by movement in the city
Project
SecuriWas?
on the conditions of new and precarious labour in the security sector
Project
Bad Gastein
Exploring the former Monte Carlo of the Alps
Project
Unlayering Centers - Platz für Originale
Reframing the traditional urban planning perspective by emphasizing the idea of ‘human’ elements
Project
questionism
Exploring the transformative potential of questions
Project
Essence 2018
A soft machine replacing "solutionism" with "questionism"
Project
short movie on Social Design
Watch a short movie about the Social Design studio
Project
Schallaburg
exhibition on the cultural- and contemporary history of craftsmanship / Schallaburg 2019
Project
PlaceCity – Placemaking for thriving cities
PlaceCity – Placemaking for thriving cities
In Progress
Design & Innovation
Cross-border cooperation between design institutions transitioning to the digital age
Project
Our Silk Road
challenging the existing narrative(s) of the silk road
Project
Design is invisible
Tackling undiscovered possibilities of urban furniture - a study and on-site project
Field
Radical Housing
Examining issues of housing and co-existence in urban and rural contexts.
Project
a ghörigs hus?
Rezoning of word and Wälderhaus
Project
A Cup of Stories in The Ruin
来我 “家” 喝茶拉呱
Project
Housing – A Wandering Exhibition in Favoriten
Travelling exhibition through Vienna’s 10th district Favoriten reflecting on the housing crisis.
Project
Urbane Knautschzone mit Potential
Interdisciplinary research study on a public space in Vienna's 2nd district
Project
ur9banize! Festival 2018
A Social Design view on Grätzelhood
Project
EinHaken
neighborhood and how to contribute to it
Project
Aus dem Rahmen
„Aus dem Rahmen“ aims to create visibility and exchange for elderly queer people.
Project
U2 Turnover
Turnover = to bring the bottom to the top or vice versa; to invert
Project
Anton Brenner’s „Wohnmaschine“
Visit to Anton Brenner’s „Wohnmaschine“ on March 8th 2017.
Publication
Fanzine #2 – Wahnsinn
Output of the Focus Week on issues of housing and co-existence.
Project
Urbanize 2016 Opening Parade
A cooperation for the Urbanize 2016 Opening Parade in Vienna!
Project
PK 5500
A project using creative tools for engagement with the local community in Lovech, Bulgaria.
Project
#analogposting
Intensive distribution of positive impulses through sticky notes in a politically heated atmosphere.
Project
Die Labile Botschaft
An advocate for a culture of diversity and platform for exchange around belonging.
Project
TerPra calls PraTer
Narrative Interventions as Strategy for Site Description and Social Transformation
Project
global studio
Observing and experiencing team and presentation skills in context of a design process.
Project
Auslage in Arbeit
Project
Meine Favoriten Deine Favoriten
grasping Vienna's 10th district
Project
1.Hartberger Tombola
Project
A Temporary Collective Memory - The Design Mu
Permanent Temporality of Refugee Camps
Project
Kanal 10 — a visual bridge
The ship is the heterotopia par excellence. Michel Foucault
Field
Fear of Life
What is the role of art and design in the context of an atmosphere of fear?
Project
Perverted Utopia
Dimitrije Andrijević
Project
Wollen Sie sich beschweren?
Project
NO HOPE NO FEAR
Project
Café Namsa
Café Namsa is a social business that functions as a bridge to the labourmarket for refugees.
Project
POLITICS OF FEAR
A project dealing with the phenomenon of fear in politics, minds, cities and public spaces.
Project
Social Design Symposium #3
Fear of Life. The City as a Habitat to All dealt with fear in society, art and design.
Project
50 Hz
Using the medium radio as a tool to communicate with and avoid the victimisation of refugees.
Project
Dance Empowerment
Adressing conflictual situations by using strategies of dancing and movement.
Project
Offenthaltstitel
A project dealing with the effects of bureaucratic lunacy on individual lives.
Project
Bis hierher/ So Far
In dem handgezeichneten Stopmotion-Film erzählen Migranten über ihre Ankunft in Wien.
Project
TBA 21
Two series developed in the context of the "Green Light" project by Olafur Eliasson at TBA21.
Project
Hello VoZo
A collaborative project creating spaces for and with refugees.
Project
Taste of Home
Using the sensation of taste to relate to the issues of belonging, home and identity.
Project
Learning Room - Tanulószoba
An installation adressing the reciprocal effects of child poverty and deficient education.
Publication
Das Bienvenue Reader #1
"Das Bienvenue: ein Recht auf Raum für alle" investigates possibilities of arriving and staying.
Project
No Hope No Fear
Adressing the problematic nature of binary identity politics through encounter in public space.
Project
Demut
Eine filmische Auseinandersetzung mit Austrofaschismus und Nationalsozialismus.
Project
Fair.versity 2016
The Social Design Studio was invited to participate at the Fair.versity 2016 at MAK, Vienna.
Project
The Ground Tour
The Ground Tour was an explorative excursion to what's behind the Italian Renaissance facades.
Field
Sixth Sense
Projects developing strategies on special needs in the city.
Project
Uterus Collective
A collection of experiences by discovering ways to describe various uterus-related qualities
Project
Co-Designing for Inclusion
Co-Designing tools for children with multiple disabilities - MoMe Budapest
Project
Design Training: Dementia + Design
Potentials of arts-based research and methods for challenges which dementia
Project
Facade Stage
The facade of an elderly home as medium for communication
Project
Ex-life
Ex-Life is a research project and campaign promoting acceptance of organ transplantation.
Project
PROLONG
How could you give your organ to a stranger?
Project
Blind Photography Project
Visually impaired use photography to show us a different way to perceive and discover the city.
Project
Feel Dementia
How can people with dementia participate in public life as long as possible?
Project
Inklusion und Bildung
Entwickelt im Schulkontext Designtools für Kinder mit besonderen Bedürfnissen.
Project
Fluid Personalities
A project dealing with the material translations of indentities.
Project
Discarded Newspapers
A project about culturally defined perceptions of waste.
Project
Wenn ich muss, dann muss ich!
Discussing public space and urban commons along the lines of public toilets.
Project
Fluxum Mirum
Fluxum Mirum frames the city as a living organism in which citizens become local experts.
In Progress
Urbane Knautschzone
A long-term process of research and operations in a zone between Vienna’s Prater and Danube.
Project
Faceless
Field
Spontaneous©ity
Informal practices in the city. Or: the utopia/dystopia of the regulated/ordered city.
Project
Weiterziehen
Theresa Binder
Project
Exploration of the “Closely Unknown”
Program invented and hosted by Social Design first-year students
Project
Right to the city
A public assembly on the right to the city
Project
Oskar nimmt Platz
A project for collaborative programming of public space.
Project
MusikRaumGarage
Weekly live-stream concert series in an underground parking lot.
Project
Deterrent Design
Dealing with deterrent design in public space, adressing subtle strategies of exclusion.
Project
Räume der Unbestimmtheit
Entwickelt ein Soundtool um Potenziale von “Zwischenraum“ in der Stadt zu untersuchen.
Project
Détours
Urban explorations in Vienna trying to discover different dimensions of transition.
Project
Just Around your Corner
Fighting for the right to the city with a pillow and a coffee cup!
Project
Small Victories
A project using personal narratives to counteract the tendencies of radical top-down city planning.
Project
The Great Transfer – Forum Alpbach
A performative installation at Forum Alpbach 2015.
Project
Regarding Death
A project adressing the significance of death and cementeries for (national) identities.
Field
Little Victories
Collecting projects on networks, solidarity and small subversive actions.
Project
Second Hand Book Storm
The potential of second hand book stores for a community
Project
Dear Architects…
Project
Tit For Tat
A networking project to exchange of ideas, skills, knowledge, time and resources.
Project
Learning From
An online platform aiming at connecting solidaric projects all over Europe.
Project
Aura of Revolution
Examining forms of protest and resistance. How are seeds of solidarity planted in social movements?
Project
Small Victories
A project using personal narratives to counteract the tendencies of radical top-down city planning.
Project
Soif / Khatvong
Adressing gender inequality in the context of Vietnam through artistic strategies.
Project
Gesellschaft zur Erhebung der Rolltreppe
Wer würde behaupten, die Rolltreppe wäre eine gute oder eine schlechte Erfindung?
Project
Kulturhauptstadt 2024
A trans-university collaboration preparing the hosting of Kulturhauptstadt 2024 in Austria.
Field
Teaching
Project
fiction is reality
A workshop programme by Eleni Boutsika-Palles and Matilde Igual
Project
Research Methods & Presentation Skills
with Anna Vasof
Project
Theory Course 20/21
With Brigitte Felderer
Project
Social Design - Summer School 2021
"Hearing the Grass Grow" - Social Design Summer School 2021
Project
City after Dark
What happens to the city when night falls? Who walks alone in the streets? Who programmes the night?
Project
Introductory Theory Winter 18/19
Theorizing Social Design – with Brigitte Felderer, Christina Schraml
Project
Summer School 2019
Social Design is invisible!
Project
Summer School 2016
The Social Design summer school 2016 took place at Steinhaus Domenig, Carinthia
Project
Failure as Strategy
A workshop on failure, chance and coincidence.
Project
Introductory Theory Winter 17/18
The introductory phase transports the fundamental contents of the programme.
Project
Research Skills
A hands-on course on methodology and research skills.
Project
Team Skills
A course on team skills in design processes by Ruth Mateus-Berr.
Project
Presentation Skills
A course on presentation skills within the artistic field.
Project
Projektorganisation
Basic principles of artistic strategies and the organisation of projects
Project
The Value of One Hour Work
Discovering new dimensions of labour and values assigned to it apart from monetary aspects.
Project
Crafts connnected
Creating a network for arts and crafts in post-industrial Bulgaria to support traditional crafts.
Field
Social Design Discourse
A collection of talks, seminars and other formats relevant to the master programme.
Project
TENT TOPICS
Ideas and projects from the Social Design Studio
Project
A Guide to the Future
A workshop for the IF – Social Design for Sustainable Cities conference, Warsaw Oct. 2020
Project
Critical Spatial Practices in China
Socially-Engaged Art/ Architecture /Urbanism
Project
STUTTGART 21 – DENK MAL!
Film screening and discussion with the filmmakers Florian Kläger and Lisa Sperling
Project
Late Breakfast with Doringer
Lectures series in cooperation with Site Specific Art
Project
Urban Fringes
Student's lectures at Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Project
Forum Future Tourism
Conference
Project
Tourism Talks 1-3
with Katarina Šoškić, Jakob Travnik and Philipp Furtenbach, Theo Deutinger
Project
City of the future, seen through the mountain
Research residency - Zdravko Haderlap
Project
Speaking / Public / Art
Fokus Week coordinated by Andreas Fogarasi
Project
Hey! You there!
Programme by Simon Höher
Project
Relics of the future
Focus Days curated by Frida Robles
Project
Visiting artist - Katarina Šoškić
WINTER TERM 20/21
Project
Visiting artist - Andreas Fogarasi
SUMMER TERM 21
Project
Longing for Future • Sehnsucht nach Zukunft
Focus Week November 2020
Project
The Assault of the Present
Exhibition - University Gallery Heiligenkreuzer Hof
Project
Thinking Social Design
Seminar where ideas and concepts were discussed to think and conceptualize Social Design.
Project
Archiving Social Design
How to communicate social design activities?
Project
Linzer Baukultur Stammtisch
Baukultur Stammtisch with afo architekturforum oberösterreich and kulturtankstelle
Project
documenta 2017
The Social Design Studio at the documenta 2017
Project
Alumni programme
Social Design alumni public lecture series
Project
SUSMA!
Project
Dr. Zephania Kameeta studio visit
Visit: Bishop Kameeta, Namibian Minister of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare
Project
Social Design Krampus Do
Project
Hustle and Bustle. The Endless Tour
An urban adventure exploring the hidden treasures of Social Design projects in Vienna.
Project
Bewegt Erinnern
A tour in Vienna in memory of deported Hungarian Jewish forced laborers in 1944/45.
Project
"ACCATTONI" – An Italian Dinner
The Italian Dinner "ACCATTONI" was an event organized in support of the excursion the "Ground Tour".
Project
Artful Science III
A seminar on notions of identity and home in the urban context
Project
Artful Science I
A lecture on notions of identity and home in the urban context
Project
Cup of Stories
Detects hidden cultures in Vienna to find out about potentials of productive exchange.