MAK Future Lab

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When millions of jobs are eliminated in the coming years through digitalisation, artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 – what opportunities are there for redefining work? The MAK FUTURE LAB used design methods and citizen participation to stimulate public discourse and find individual answers.

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Background

The starting point of the project was the idea of developing model-like scenarios for new forms of meaningful work in digital modernity. What working environments make sense for people and how can the museum be used as a generally accessible public space for critical discourse?

 

Studio Dankls approach

For the MAK FUTURE LAB, Studio Dankl, together with Vandasye and Expanded Design, developed a design- and architecture-led research format for the project Citizen Science that opens up science to society and enables citizens participation. In workshop rounds, students and seniors collectively developed scenarios and visualized them in a hackathon with design and art teams from Vienna.

„The MAK was perceived as a place of knowledge exchange, participation and creative, intergenerational research between young people, senior citizens and creative professionals.“

Janina Falkner (Curator, Head of MAK FUTURE LAB)

Together with designers and artists, young people and senior citizens developed prototypes of their idea of new work in the digital modern age.

Result

The resulting exhibition presented the working process as well as the elaborated scenarios to the public. Discourse events support a further dialogue about work in digital modernity and research through design.

„Through the method of co-creation, it was possible to develop a common self-awareness from the different perspectives. The participants experienced that creative design can help them think and formulate ideas.“

Janina Falkner (curator, head of MAK FUTURE LAB)

Client: MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst. Co-operation partner: Vandasye (Project Identity und Ausstellungsgestaltung) and Expanded Design. Photos: MAK/Georg Mayer and Mona Heiß

Young people and senior citizens have jointly developed concepts for the future of work in the digital modern age.

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