19 May 2022

From the past to the present and the chances and challenges of digital technologies including topics like fashion and lifestyle explored at the 'Creative Days Vienna 2022' on 1 and 2 June at the Volkskundemuseum in the Garden Palace Schönborn

The Volkskundemuseum in the baroque Garden Palace Schönborn is known for exhibitions based on scientific research on Europe's folk life and folk art with focus on Austrian culture in past times and the present including the dynamics of a changing world. The upcoming 2-days event 'Creative Days Vienna 2022' on 1st and 2nd June pays tribute to the dynamics of chances and challenges of changes caused by digital technologies with experience reports and views by internationally working experts who will show various perspectives in fields like art, interactive design, or new work environments with focus on the creative industries.

The programme reaches from art events like the installation 'Neuro-Traces' (a sort of bio-feedback powered virtual reality), over 'Networking Sessions' with experts such as Ute Ploier, fashion designer and head of the Fashion & Technology course at the University of Art and Design Linz with focus on topics like ecological, social challenges in and through the fashion system, or Sabine Seymour known for her scientific approach for combining lifestyle and fashion with data and new technologies, to get-togethers like the 'Garden Party' at the beautiful garden of the Volkskundemuseum.

The programme is published on the website of the initiators of the 'Creative Days Vienna 2022', the Wirtschaftsagentur Wien (Business Agency Vienna), a service of the City of Vienna, at wirtschaftsagentur.at/veranstaltungen/creative-days-vienna-2022-1480/. The entry to the Creative Days Vienna on 1 and 2 June 2022 is free. Children can visit special workshops with the cultural education team of the Volkskundemuseum Wien on topics like 'From sheep to wool' or 'Back To The Past - Come on, let's take a trip back in time!' (children's programme).

Image: The picture shows the entrance to the Volkskundemuseum at the Garden Palace Schönborn (from the early 18th century) at the Laudongasse 15–19 in the Josefstadt, the 8th district of Vienna. Photo: © Matthias Klos.