Vienna Design Week

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is Austria's most important multidisciplinary and curated design festival.
This year takes place from September 22 to October 1, 2023.

Beyond the preoccupation with the design of products, it poses the question of what role the work of designers* plays for coexistence in the city and worldwide. Since 2007, VIENNA DESIGN WEEK has been a defining part of Vienna's design landscape. Organized by an independent association, the festival comprises around 200 events and welcomes 40,000 visitors each year.

How can design contribute to both socially and ecologically sustainable solutions? How can it be critical and connect us in meaningful ways to the objects, spaces and services we need? Answers to questions like these are sought by VIENNA DESIGN WEEK on ten late summer days with a variety of events in the fields of product, graphic and industrial design, architecture and crafts, but also social design and with digital as well as experimental approaches.

The festival moves around the city from edition to edition, changing its main venue (usually an interim use), Focus District, and Guest Country each year. Locations all over the city are part of the program. The aim of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is to respond to the site-specific circumstances, to involve local actors and to propose relevant solutions. But it is also about networking the design scene locally and internationally.