2025
Journey into Design Mediation
Circular Design meets Design Mediation in Viennese conversation
Join a traveling dialogue to re-imagine design processes
Welcome to our participatory community of design dialogue and join Circular Design architect Christian Kroepfl. See how design.mikimartinek is exploring this in relation to her work in Design Mediation. Experience her new product for 2025: Furoshiki, versatile clothing, wrapping and carrying creations. Meet other designers who are also exploring this new interactive design space.
Meet, exchange, try the Furoshiki, be part of the conversation!
+ Circular Design architect Christian Kroepfl meets Design Mediation by Michaela Martinek at Wiener Wohnen & Interieur, 12-16 March 2025
+ Circular Design architect Christian Kroepfl meets Design Mediation by Michaela Martinek at Vienna Design Week, September 26.9.–5.10, at „ZIMMER“ with Marcus Rauer dynamic space provider
+ Circular Design architect Christian Kroepfl meets Design Mediation by Michaela Martinek at Design District, 3-5 October 25, at Hofburg, Trabantensaal, Maria Theresien Appartments
Foto: Rena Leeb, 2025
Furoshiki, design.mikimartinek
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
Connect with us
Meet us in conjunction with das ZIMMER (design hub)
Piaristengasse 6-8, 1080 Vienna
26/09/25 – 5/10/25 5pm
WOHNEN & INTERIeuR
Join us!
Meet us at A-0816c, Nachhaltiges Design
Messe Wien, Ausstellungsstrasse, 1020 Vienna
12/03/25 – 16/03/25, 11-6pm
Design Support
Would YOU like to engage in design.mediation with me?
Meet me for a
Individual Design Support
Belvederegasse 8, 1040 Vienna
designmediation@mikimartinek.com
by prior appointment at
Every Tuesday
www.designmediation.com
DESIGN DISTRICT
Connect with us again!
Meet us again!
HOFBURG, Trabantenstube, 1010 Vienna
3/10/25 – 5/10/25 10-6pm
Vienna Design Week Archiv
You are warmly invited to share my design journey at VIENNA DESIGN WEEK from 2010 to the present.
Let’s begin in the now!
2010-2024
2024
A Journey to Japan
My way to Happiness
A Talk
In the context of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2024, Miki Martinek shares impressions from her Japanese journey with her audience. She is experimenting with Japanese Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing), with Kokedamas (moss balls) and with Ikebana. As a design mediator, she is exploring further the positioning of nature in her creative sustainable design and how interconnectedness can be represented in design. Martinek observes what design.mediation achieves and how design culture develops as a result.
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Let’s share!
2023
Plant Pictures for City Dwellers
We frame Landscape
The aesthetics of nature/human/tech creative fusion
Working across borders, Miki Martinek brings her desire and willingness to work intersectionally to a new and living project in a dynamic new collaboration with Sebastian Hilpold. Using the material of plants and the power of human collaboration, they create living poetic compositions for interiors. The Plant-Pictures are artistic: unique, growing and complex collectibles that combine art, design and technology – honouring nature and the skills of ‘the other’.
2022
abstract meets concrete
Resonance & aesthetics
From aesthetic photography to aesthetic fabric: An experiment
Using digital photography and a novel design process, Rita Newman, photographer, and Miki Martinek, designer, collaborate in an experimental two-step process to transform intangible, invisible resonance (perceived through digital photography) into the vibrant tangible fabric BLUE DROPS.
Have a look to the new fusion!
2021
Love of trees
Design & Crafts
Design- and woodturning lectures, with Hermann Viehauser (woodturner)
With her love for the handmade, Miki Martinek inspires and instigates an exchange about DESIGN & Crafts. Join the new discourse with the crafts of bygone royalty in designer-influenced woodturned collectibles. Contribute to the discussion and thinking through hands-on creative experience.
Join the action-discourse!
2020
Staying in touch
Wool mooi
Handgestrickte Exercise Mat
Die Exercise Mat WOOL MOOI – handgestrickt aus feiner Schafwolle – lädt Sie ein, mit sich in Kontakt zu treten. Um zu träumen, zu entspannen, mit ihrem Körper eins zu werden. Atmen Sie Freude!
2019
touching eternity
Horn Handles
Window display at Hartmann Wien, 1010 Vienna
Twenty years ago I discovered my love for the material Horn. I brought this back to life for the exhibition Design from the Alps in 2019. HORN HANDLES for timeless furniture were launched at Vienna Design Week.
A touch of natural elegance!
2018
pouring the source of life
Blaues Gold
Water tasting and design launch at Stamm Concept Store, 1010 Vienna
Pure drinking water is one of the natural resources in Austria. Now it can be enjoyed in a form that does justice to its health and environmental value. I developed the Drinking Water Set BLAUES GOLD as a gift for the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism. 1 Water Carafe + 2 Glass Tumblers, hand-blown Crystal Glass.
To your health!
2017
contribute purposefully to everyday life
Give life a change
Experiential and dynamic action-reading at Riegelnik, 1080 Vienna
GIVE LIFE A CHANGE was my call to action: to include others in contributing purposefully to sustainable change and so to well-being for people. I designed a show case to reach people and chose words as my medium in the window of the printers.
I furnished it with custom-made text-wallpapers on the theme of the call. I invited other designers to showcase their projects in the event: to stimulate different ways of thinking and working together and to stimulate positive action in the heart of the community. Every month we added new projects to the window.
Get involved!
2016
the mystery of lighting
Bloom, Seed, Completion
Product development Dotzauer Lighting, 1010 Vienna
The unanticipated chandelier collection was produced and presented with collaboration partner Dotzauer Decorative Lighting. Miki Martinek was supported in this cutting-edge production by Harry Spraiter. The new LED chandelier was a recognition and a response to movements in society.
Live in the light!
2015
the values of diverse cultures
FLOW, INTO THE MIDDLE, EVOLVE
design.text, talk & discussion at d.sign-gallery, 1010 Vienna
Unique hand-knotted carpets individually designed for you by design.mikimartinek. Respecting ourselves and others through working together across cultures and honouring each others’ traditions. Lovingly produced in Nepal by Geba. Fairtrade. A marriage of state of the art technology and timeless skills to keep old traditions alive.
Honour diversity!
2014
Leichtigkeit in Papier gepackt
Lightweight hammock in a backpack
Guided tours through Viennese gardens, 1040 Vienna
See how easily a lightweight hammock can enhance well-being in everyday city life. Introduced in the walled garden of Upper Belvedere in the context of the CHELSEA FRINGE VIENNA. Produced in collaboration with Kohlmaier Wien. Vienna – Birth place of the city hammock.
Let your soul swing free!
2013
Communicate the design process
Sitting Ball
“design.caching“ and window displays in the Freihausviertel, 1040 Vienna
Enjoy Haute Couture sitting balls in everyday life. Eleven shops in the Freihausviertel, a district of Vienna, were invited to take part in a design game called “design.caching“ and in linked window displays. The challenging and innovative aspect of my design process was to share my design know-how as well as the know-how of the makers with the customers. My intention was to develop and support a sustainable design-making community.
Innovate through sharing!
2012
Connecting positively with the past
BORN 1929, HOMMAGE to Franz Baumann, EDITION TIROL
Exhibition and talk at d.sign gallery, 1010 Vienna
Furniture collections to celebrate and honour design from the Alps. I experimented with how I could transform and re-present valued cultural artefacts across time to allow them to become re-integrated into the present. Continuity between the past and the present, re-affirming positive local values and contributing to a sense of well-being for the future.
Value your own culture!
2011
a sense of home
Oil Sheik
Window-performance at Pregenzer Fashion Store WIEN, 1040 Vienna
Home furnishings knitted in Merino wool. To focus awareness on the qualities of textiles in giving a sense of home I created knitted blankets, cushions and stools.
Local experts in the field of fabrics like Veronika Persch’e were commissioned as equal partners.
Luxuriate in wonderful wool!
2010
Taste your water
Trinkwasser Österreich
Water bar & window exhibition at Saint Charles Apothecary, 1060 Vienna
First things first! How good does your water taste? Do you really see what you are drinking? Carafe and award-winning glasses presented in a water-tasting bar with window exhibitions about the history of drinking glasses from the year 1700. Let’s think about what is essential in life; really see, taste and pay attention to water.
Appreciate the source of life!