Festivalzentrum Hornig Areal


23-24 May, 2025 @ Graz, Austria

Imagining the Personality of an Old Coffee Production Factory through Senses and Storytelling

In this creative workshop, we invite you to awaken the hidden soul of an old coffee factory in Graz. Together, we'll embark on a journey into the past, perceiving the location not just as a building but as a living entity with its own character.

The workshop takes place in the context of the Design Month Graz 2025. It will be divided in four parts inviting different groups of participants to play a similar game engaging with the building through their senses, and attempting different forms of impersonation.

More details about the workshop structure, participation, and final exhibition will be shared soon.

Preliminary programme

Friday 23.5.2025
10—12 Sensing and storytelling (part 1)
Lunchbreak
14—16 Sensing and storytelling (part 2)

Saturday 24.5.2025
10—12 Sensing and storytelling (part 3)
Lunchbreak
14—16 Performance and exhibition

Workshop organizers

Dr. Ruth Mateus-Berr,Social Designer, researcher & Artist, Head of the Center for Didactics of Art and Interdisciplinary Education, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

Dr. Panayotis Antoniadis, NETHOOD, Switzerland

Dr. Elias Messinas, Architect/Urban Planner/ECOAMA/ ECOWEEK, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

MMag.a. Pia Scharler, artistic researcher & designer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

Mag. Thomas Feichtner, Designer, Head of Institute of Industrial Design FH Joanneum Profumo Verde (Udo Pestischek).