Tulga Beyerle   Design consultant, curator and author, Vienna (A) Tulga Beyerle (*1964) studied industrial design in Vienna. From 1993-2000 she was teaching assistant in theory and history of design at the University of applied Arts Vienna. Since 2001 she is a freelance consultant (presently for Wittmann; from 2001 to 2005 managing partner of section.a art.design.consulting), author (amongst others together with Karin Hirschberger editor of A Century of Austrian Design 1900-2005, Basel 2006; On the Re-edition of Frederick Kiesler in Friedrich Kiesler, Designer, Ostfildern 2005; together with Deyan Sudjic Home: The Twentieth-Century House, London 1999) and curator (last together with Jasmin Ladenhaufen Miss/Fit fashion and furniture design in Freiraum, Quarter 21, MQ Vienna; amongst others Peter Eisenman, Barefoot on white hot walls, MAK Vienna 2004; together with Vitus Weh Global Tools, Künstlerhaus Vienna 2001). Together with Thomas Geisler and Lilli Hollein, Tulga Beyerle ist responsible for the development of Passionswege, Vienna Designdays, to be launched in October 2006 for the first time. www.passionswege.at

		Thomas Geisler   Designer, researcher, Institute of Design, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (A) Thomas Geisler (*1971) studied product design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Danmark Designskole, Copenhagen, and holds an MAS in Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management. Since 2005 Senior Researcher at the Institute of Design, Designhistory and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna publishing in design and material culture (amongst others This Chair had to be torpedo proofed in: banal militarism, transcript, 2006) and curates (amongst others CUTS:fashion/graphics/theory, dieAngewandte, 2005). Further lecturing at Technical University Vienna and at University of Applied Science FH Joanneum Graz. Since 2001 partner of the design practice maupi; scenographies for exhibitions and theatre, i.e. Alexander Rodtshenko – Moscow, 2004; Mahleriana – The Making of an Icon, 2005, both at the Jewish Museum Vienna, Sissi in the Movies – Imperial Furniture for the Sets, Imperial Furniture Museum Vienna 2006. www.passionswege.at

		Lilli Hollein   Journalist und curator, Vienna (A) Lilli Hollein (*1972) studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and has worked since 1996 as a freelance journalist, architecture and design critic for  daily newspapers (such as Der Standard), magazines (among others Domus, ottagono, Frame, MARK, H.O.M.E) and TV. As a curator she has recently shown AustriaArchitecture - seven debuts at Aedes East Gallery in Berlin (2005) and Zumtobel Staff Lichtforum Vienna (2006), in 2002 Memphis - Kunst/Kitsch Kult was shown at Looshaus, Vienna and Memphis- 21 years after the designrevolution at Kunsthalle Krems. Together with Tulga Beyerle and Thomas Geisler, Lilli Hollein founded Neigungsgruppe Design with the ambition to support design’s public visibility and the awareness for the tension between culture and economy. Their first project Passionswege, Vienna Designdays, is launched 9 – 14 October 2006. www.passionswege.at