The “Design plus” exhibition presented the results of a design experiment and exhibited them during this year’s Design Month at the Hornig Areal festival center.
Themes, target groups and spaces in dialog
Whether sustainable design, inclusion, emotion, digital worlds or invisible design in everyday life – each concept is aimed specifically at a different target group: from young people and families to senior citizens, creative professionals and companies. The spaces were not only designed, but became part of the narrative themselves: immersive and accessible.
Bringing design to life
The exhibition invited visitors to explore, participate and think. Prototypes, previews and installations make design processes visible and show how exhibitions can function as communication spaces.
These concepts were shown:
Emotions you can touch
How design influences our mood
The exhibition explores how design influences our emotions and makes this a playful experience for families with children through interactive experience stations on joy, fear and more. The focus is on the question: How does design feel – and how do we design with emotion?
Team: Elena Vogler, Lea Türck
Topic: Design & Emotion: How design influences feelings
Target group: Families with children
Waste Escape
Your way out of the throwaway society
This exhibition has a gamification character: young visitors are playfully challenged to immerse themselves in the world of materials, to use natural resources smarter with sustainable design methods and to rethink waste in the process.
Team: Isabella Aistleitner, Antonia Ditscherlein
Topic: Sustainable design: circular economy, upcycling
Target group: Young people
KI LAB
Invisible tools, visible design
In the KI LAB, AI becomes a play partner, a silent helper, a creative tool. In an interactive team-building setting, teams use analog and digital stations to discover how artificial intelligence can make design visible – not as a ready-made solution, but as a source of inspiration for new perspectives, shared experiences and creative processes. The focus is on trying things out, being amazed and working together.
Team: Jonathan Pala, Hannes Schöller
Topic: Design in everyday life: invisible design that accompanies us every day
Target group: Companies
NEXT
The Future of Digital Design
NEXT brings the latest technologies, tools and trends in digital design to the stage. Test innovative programs, network with others from the creative industry and discover what tomorrow’s creative work will look like.
Team: Julia Pfäfflin, Natascha Schröer
Topic: Digital worlds & design: AI, VR, AR
Target group: Creative industries & designers
EINschluss mit Barrieren.
Diversity, inclusion and accessibility in design.
Experience, understand, adapt – this exhibition makes barriers visible and inclusive design tangible. Visitors discover how good design makes everyday life accessible for everyone.
Team: Mirjam Heyne, Anna Kausch
Topic: Design & inclusion: accessibility, diversity in design
Target group: Senior:innen (60+)
Exhibition direction, 2nd semester
Master’s degree programme in Exhibition Design at FH JOANNEUM
Isabella Aistleitner, Antonia Ditscherlein, Mirjam Heyne, Anna Kausch, Jonathan Pala, Julia Pfäfflin, Hannes Schöller, Natascha Schröer, Lea Türck und Elena Vogler
under the direction of Stefanie Schöffmann
