Changing Values Conference at MAK Vienna Biennale
Ma-tt-er took part in the ‘Changing Values’ conference at the MAK in Vienna as part of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2019: Brave New Virtues Shaping our Digital World. The conference was a collaboration between the MAK and the Slovak Design Center together with the Architekturzentrum Wien and Kunsthalle Wien in the context of the program INTERREG V-A Slovakia-Austria. INTERREG V-A Slovakia-Austria focusses on smart and sustainable growth in the Austrian-Slovak border region.
The conference Changing Values focussed on the topics “valuable data,” “innovative materials,” and “transformation design.” These topics invited dialogues surrounding possible synergies for the common search for sustainable strategies, ethical production conditions, and ecological justice, be it in the Global South or in the Global North. Alongside Ena Lloret-Fritschi,Thomas Traxler and Lilo Viehweg on a panel chaired by Vlasta Kubušová we examined the connections between alternative ecological and economic approaches in innovative material development and use.