«Design statement:
- Design is intervention, is change.
- Design raises questions. Design is goal-oriented action. Design sets things in motion.
- Design opens new spaces and perspectives.
- Design expands our perceptive faculties.
- Design is the source of and the grounds for a new reality and its possible imitation.
- Design allows us to partake in the archaic. For the first man was a designer! Design is universal.
- Each revolution has its own design, each designer is a revolutionary.
- Design in space is a culture’s most powerful statement against the void. Design in space is more than just a passive object in space. By establishing a space, design triumphs over the void.
- Design is a reflection of culture, is a genuine language of forms.
- Design is both principle and process.
- Design is always accompanied by a political impulse since it has an impact on the world and on the way it is experienced.
- Visions and Utopias may only become real in design!
- Design is an engine of reconciliation and connects the possible and the real.
- Design is transformation, is a metamorphosis of ideas into forms and figures.
- Design is a permanent process of searching, finding, and dismissing solutions.v
- Design is to think. *
This is why perception, communication, and strategy are the essential pillars of the MAK’s unshakable design position.»
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
ref. Mission Statement, from Peter Noever, Politik und Kunst. Eine Designstrategie (Politics and Art. A design strategy), Vienna 1980