Date: 25th October 2016

Time: 07:00 pm

Venue: IDS, Building 8, GTU, 75 Kostava Street, Tbilisi

Event: Seven steps towards sustainability

Format: Lecture-seminar

Speaker: Prof. Miki Martinek, Austrian Designer, Lecturer at University  of Applied Arts Vienna

More information on http://www.mikimartinek.com/en/

Poster © Nino Akhobadze         Poster © David Droni

Miki Martinek’s seminar was held during the International Design School and Vienna Applied Arts University joint project and demonstrated a wide scope of interests of the Austrian designer: a playful hammock for urban well-being pictured on her poster, crystal glass chandelier she calls “’no beginning and no end”, blankets and cushions for knitted stools using Merino wool, or clear hand-blown glass decanter (this one was a subject for a competition between the students with the winning poster pictured here) –the images of all these objects shared with the IDS and Vienna students participating in the seminar, and the motivations and strategies discussed. Miki’s individual designs transform everyday items into feature points in the people’s interiors. She showed a great concern in putting Austrian contemporary interior design in the front position by emphasizing, in her, projects the relationship between user and object plays a key role: as she said during the seminar, her design is deliberatively put in its context and she therefore creates a balance between past, present and future.