Neigungsgruppe Design
Tulga Beyerle, Thomas Geisler and Lilli Hollein, who set up the Neigungsgruppe Design in 2006, describe as follows their joint goals: to define more precisely the term design in Austria, to stimulate a discourse and examination of this theme, to illustrate the position held by design in the field of tension between culture and business, all in all to convey and spread their enthusiasm for design. With DESIGN 06 – dialogues about design based on the theme “Time Zones” – these three curators, together with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, initiated an interdisciplinary conference series that will be continued this year under the title DESIGN 07, this time focussing on the theme “The Middle”. The Tendency Group Design is also responsible for the VIENNA DESIGN WEEKs, which runs from 3 to 21 October 2007 during which visitors and others can follow “paths of passion” (Passionswege) that help them discover selected places and designers in the inner city of Vienna, and in this way to pursue their passion for design.
www.neigungsgruppe-design.org
www.viennadesignweek.at
Lilli Hollein, Thomas Geisler, Tulga Beyerle; Photo: Katharina Gossow
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, 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) and curator (last „Elke Krystufek, Liquid Logic, MAK, Vienna; also: „Peter Eisenman, Barfuß auf weißglühenden Mauern“, MAK, Wien 2004; together with Vitus Weh „Global Tools“, Künstlerhaus, Wien 2001).
Thomas Geisler
Designer and design researcher, Vienna (A)
Thomas Geisler (*1971), studied product design with Ron Arad at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at Danmark Designskole, Copenhagen, and has an MAS in Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management. Since 2001 he is partner of the design collective maupi where he does scenographies for exhibitions and theatre productions. After teaching at the FH Joanneum as well as Vienna Technical University he since 2005 is senior researcher at the Institute of Design, design history and theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna with Professor Alison J. Clarke. A research project on Victor Papanek (1923-98), author of Design for the Real World as well as an exhibition about design and war at the Design Museum London are forthcoming.
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 as well as magazines, among them Domus, blueprint, Frame, MARK, H.O.M.E.; also, she works as a freelance editor for Austrian national TV.
She was recently assigned the curator of the Austrian contribution for Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial 2007. As a curator she has recently shown AustriArchitecture - seven debuts from Austria in Berlin (2005) and Vienna (2006), in 2002 Memphis - Kunst/Kitsch Kult was shown at Looshaus, Vienna.