The Distributed Design Residency at Happylab Wien goes into the next round! In collaboration with the Distributed Design Platform, Happylab is again supporting creative talents working at the intersection of design and the maker movement.
Duration: September 2023 - February 2024 // The Open Call runs until June 10 at: happylab.typeform.com/ddxHL23.
As part of the Distributed Design Residency at Happylab Wien (September 2023 - February 2024), Maker*s and designers will be supported in the makerspace to realize their projects. The goal of the residency is - depending on the current project status - the realization of an idea, first prototypes or a small series, which will be exhibited at Happylab in March 2024. The program includes a package individually tailored to the needs of the participants:
- Access to the machines at Happylab (3D printer, laser cutter, CNC router, wood & metal workshop,...).
- Contingent of trainings and workshops in the makerspace
- Project-related, individual consulting by experts
- Studio space at the Happylab co-working space incl. meeting room
- Access to our network of cluster partners (material suppliers, funding programs,...) incl. discounts & benefits
- Promotion and visibility of the project through Happylab communication channels and partnerships
- Exchange with the Happylab community as well as designers and makers all over Europe via the Distributed Design Platform.
Link to Open Call: happylab.typeform.com/ddxHL23 Deadline: June 10, 2023.
From September 2022 to February 2023, the first round of the Distributed Design Residency took place at Happylab. For six months, our eight Distributed Design Residents tinkered with their projects, created prototypes, and produced their first small batches. The results were impressive projects at the intersection of design and making, which were exhibited in March 2023. Click here for the projects & results of the first round!
What is Distributed Design?
Distributed Design combines design skills and the "making" approach to enable new forms of entrepreneurship and local production. On the one hand, designers are acquiring more and more technical and practical skills. On the other hand, makers are discovering the design world for themselves. Design and production practices are extended by a digitally networked, globally distributed infrastructure of digital production machines in Fab Labs and Makerspaces: data (designs) can move globally, while atoms (materials) remain local. This paradigm represents a new, sustainable alternative to the "take, make, waste" industrial model. Designers and makers can produce personalized products locally and exchange ideas with like-minded people worldwide.
Happylab has been part of the Distributed Design Platform since 2018. Creative talents from all over Europe are supported in numerous activities to create impactful work in the age of digital production and in the context of the emerging maker movement. The Distributed Design Platform is coordinated by Fab Lab Barcelona and has been co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe program since 2017.
