Robots. Work. Our Future
The VIENNA BIENNALE 2017: Robots. Work. Our Future focuses on the potential of art, design, and architecture to contribute to an environmentally and socially sustainable concept of the digital age that is also committed to a new humanism. Creative spaces will open up for contemplating meaningful living and working and contributions from the fields of art, design, and architecture will sketch out the joint potential of robots and human work as an opportunity to bring about humanely motivated positive change.
The Vienna Biennale 2017: Robots. Work. Our Future focuses on the potential of art, design, and architecture to contribute to an environmentally and socially sustainable concept of the digital age that is also committed to a new humanism.
The Vienna Biennale was established with the understanding that we are living in a new modernity in which the digital revolution penetrates all areas of our life and is thus fundamentally changing our civilization. Today's Digital Modernity offers considerable potentials for lasting improvements in quality of life as well as innovative living concepts and business models in every sector.
The Vienna Biennale is organized by the MAK, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Kunsthalle Wien, the Architekturzentrum Wien and the Vienna Business Agency, and is supported by the AIT Austrian Institute of Technologyas a non-university research partner.
Curators:
Anne Faucheret (Curator, Kunsthalle Wien)
Angelika Fitz (Director, Architekturzentrum Wien)
Anab Jain (Director and Co-Founder, Superflux, London; Professor of Industrial Design, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien)
Amelie Klein (Curator, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein)
Elke Krasny (Curator, Professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien)
Marlies Wirth (Curator Digital Cuture and Curator of Design Collection, MAK)
IDRV – Institute of Design Research Vienna (Martina Fineder, Harald Gruendl and Ulrike Haele)
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