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Dezeen Wire: Vienna Design Week is underway and Dezeen are covering the festival live from Vienna. Highlights include a machine that draws Spirograph-style patterns in quartz sand by Philippe Malouin, a collaboration between Tomas Alonso and one of the city’s oldest silver companies and a wooden treehouse by Konstantin Schmolzer that’s constructed alongside the vertical garden inside Jean Nouvel’s Sofitel hotel. 

Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has been awarded the National Design Prize 2011 for product design and presents a chair with a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame. Watch a movie about it’s manufacture on Dezeen Screen.

Speakers at a series of talks on the theme of Change includes writer and critic Sophie Lovell, founder of Cape Town media company Interactive Africa Ravi Naidoo, London designers Doshi Levien and Berlin designer Jerszy Seymour.

You can watch a preview movie on Dezeen Screen and check out photos of the opening in our album on Facebook.

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Dezeen Space: JAILmake Studio will pack seeds and soil into bricks using their one meter by one metre factory at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space today

The Brick Replacement Service produces bricks from the seeds of wildflowers, trees, grasses and herbs packed into clay and soil.

The bricks fit into holes in existing walls, or can be used to build new structures. As the seeds grow, an array of plant life sprouts from each block.

The bricks are available to buy from Dezeen space until 16 October.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here. There’s more about Dezeen Space here.

Photography is by Zahra Shahabi.

Dezeen Space

17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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