News

2009

The research unit nanodesign, directed by Kristian Kloeckl, has launched its online presence which illustrates the current research undertakings. Efforts focus on exploring how industrial design can contribute to disclosing the new potential opened up by nanotech research.

2009

IUAV's research unit medical design, coordinated by Nicolò Luppino and Kristian Kloeckl are working on trec, a three year research project in partnership with the ehealth group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and financed by the Province of Trento on the design of a public interface for the personal health record system of the area's heallthcare system.

2008

The book accompanying the NYTE exhibition piece at MoMA is out and on sale in all MoMA bookstores and online at www.barnesandnobles.com
Book concept & design was done by Clelia Caldesi Valeri, Editors besides Clelia are Kristian Kloeckl, Francisca Rojas and Carlo Ratti.

2008

The MoMA exhibit Design and the Elastic Mind, inaugurated February 24th in New York, features New York Talk Exchange (NYTE), a project realized by the senseable city lab under the project lead of Kristian Kloeckl. The project's sponsor and partner is AT&T.

2007

In the occasion of the Notte Bianca in Rome, a first prototype of the WikiCity project developed at MIT's senseable city lab is presented to a public audience. Kristian Kloeckl together with Francesco Calabrese are the project leaders of this ongoing research project.

2007

After having given a new graphic feel to the store design of Migros S.Antonino, our new flexible design concept for the restaurant area of the Swiss based corporation has been implemented in the first of their food venues.

2007

Now online, WikiCity is the project Kristian has started working on together with Carlo Ratti's SENSEable City Lab at MIT in Boston. The project explores new application potentials of using real-time location-sensitive data within the urban context and accessible to local authorities, companies and citizens alike.

2007

MIT: un luogo che fa la differenza / a Place that Makes the Difference - Article on the importance of "place/ luogo" regarding centers of research based on the experience at MIT's SENSEable City Lab.
Published in the latest edition on "Difference" of the Italian design research magazine "disegno industriale".

2006

New communication graphics for the 4.000 m2 Migros store in S.Antonino, Switzerland. Part of the project was the entire indoor wall, department and service graphic information structure for the 2 floor building. You can see the new graphics in place now!

2006

5 Lamp projects for a Venice light company in an invitation based competition that aimed at reinterpreting their modern-decorative collection. Projects are now under engineering development and hope to light rooms in 2007.

2006

Ars Elettronica went simple this year with John Maeda in Linz and in beautiful Stift St. Florian. Kristian was there for three days following the various events. Here a few impressions of various artists' work.

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2006

After a collaboration which stretched over several months, Martin Ebenberger and Stefanie Kerschbaumer, tutored by Kristian Kloeckl and Heidi Hohenbüchler presented the excellent results of their design project "Otex - new office textiles" which was developed in partnership with the austrian textile company Sattler.

2006

Project of the new store format and furniture design for the Nordwal retail chain together with Alessandro Righi for Schweitzer/Interstore. These shops are targeted towards professionals and for this reason are thought of mainly as a showroom and information resource of colours and surface treatments in the form of their potential applications.

2006

Together with Heidi Hohenbüchler and the support of Apple store McShark Kristian Kloeckl is organising a design course at the Viennese textile design school Spengergasse. Theme of the course which lasts several months is "talking textures", an experiment on combining acoustic and graphic expression of language and the textiles within product design.

2006

Amongst 400 entries from all over Europe "Recip-it", our entry to Toshiba's "Hard Disk Drive Revolution" Design Competition has been selected as one of the 10 professional entries' finalists. Talks are underway to move forward on realizing project as a product.

2006

For this year's Winter Olympic Games in Turin, the Airport Service Company FAS (a Lufthansa LSG subsidiary) has inaugurated the upper floor restaurant, bar and shop area. Kristian Kloeckl, under the general contractor Interstore/ Format, signed responsible for the Interior Graphics, the new FAS Corporate identity and part of the furniture design.

2005

Article on "Smart technologies between tradition and the future" published in the september-october edition "Public communication" of the Italian design research magazine "disegno industriale".