Vienna designers Mischer'traxler are among the panellists in a live conversation for Vienna Design Week exploring how Austrian initiative Co/rizom supports traditional craftspeople around the world. We're now live!
Called Experiences From the Frontline, the talk will focus on the strategies Co/rizom is using to help preserve vanishing crafts from Uzbekistan, Georgia, Bosnia and Albania.
Co/rizom is a Vienna-based social enterprise that aims to equip small manufacturers with the necessary digital tools, knowledge and connections for engaging with international brands.
Co/rizom co-founder Nadja Zerunian will feature on the panel
"Co/rizom uses design principles and product development methods, as well as simple but effective branding and marketing strategies, to help artisans form small social enterprises and become suppliers to retailers," the talk's curators told Dezeen. The panel discussion will be filmed in Vienna and moderated remotely from London by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs.
The first half of the talk will consist of a conversation with Co/rizom co-founder Nadja Zerunian and Mischer'traxler's Katarina Mischer and Thomas Traxler, who collaborated with Co/rizom as mentors to artisans.
The talk will also feature Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler from Austrian design studio Mischer?traxler
Zerunian set up Co/rizom in 2018 with Alina Serban after spending a decade as a senior designer for international corporations such as Georg Jensen, ...