Open Lecture Series 2026 by Institute of Design Research Vienna
21—01—2026
16 bis 20:30 Uhr
Workshop registration required. Limited places. Registration via email: office@idrv.org
designforum Wien
MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich
MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Österreich
21—01—2026
16 bis 20:30 Uhr
With the Open Lecture Series 2026 at designforum Wien, the Institute of Design Research Vienna opens a shared field for regenerative thinking spaces and new perspectives on design.
The series begins with Prof. Lukas Franciszkiewicz (Zurich University of the Arts), followed by a lecture from Prof. Andrea Augsten (New Design University), Katharina Mludek (Kunsthochschule Kassel), and Florian Sametinger (Kunstuniversität Linz).
WORKSHOP, TALK
Open Lecture: Becoming-with by Prof. Lukas Franciszkiewicz (Zurich University of the Arts)
Wed, 21 Jan 2026
16:00 – Workshop
Free admission. Limited places. Registration via email: office@idrv.org
Free admission. Limited places. Registration via email: office@idrv.org
19:00 – Lecture
Free admission. No registration required
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Free admission. No registration required
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About
For years, design has focused on damage reduction: recycling, repair, carbon reduction, biomaterials, zero waste. Necessary, yet largely incremental. Becoming-with shifts the frame—from minimising impact to actively shaping conditions in which ecosystems and forms of coexistence can flourish. This requires loosening a strictly human-centred worldview and recognising other beings, systems, and agencies as relevant actors.
The Open Lecture Series 2026 opens with Becoming-with, led by Lukas Franciszkiewicz, combining a workshop with a subsequent public conversation.
Working in small, mixed groups, participants engage in simple practices—observation, attunement, notation—to temporarily inhabit the perspective of a more-than-human entity: materials, infrastructures, animals, microbes, or algorithms. The focus is not on solutions, but on modes of attention: slowing down, listening across difference, and making other forms of agency legible. Sketches, prototypes, scripts, and spatial setups function as tools for thinking and sharing emerging insights.
Open to practitioners and students across all design disciplines. No prior experience required—only a willingness to experiment and to temporarily suspend familiar roles.