Vienna Design Week kicks off this weekend in the Austrian capital with a bustling program in celebration of its 10th anniversary. Festival director Lilli Hollein and her team have organized around 150 events, some of them even beyond Vienna’s borders, as in the case of the Hollein curated exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, or this year’s Vienna Design Week “Safari” to Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat in the Czech town of Brno.Predominantly, the anniversary is once more celebrated in its home city, which is opening its doors, studios, and museums to welcome visitors and enthusiasts.To provide a first overview BLOUIN ARTINFO has compiled 10 things to see and experience during the ten-day event. Visit our slide show for an illustrated version.Vienna Design Week runs through October 9, 2016, Vienna, Austria. Click here for more information. Click here for more information on the “Vienna Design Week” exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York.The Future of Product Design: POSSIBLE TOMORROWSA hands-on exhibition dedicated to future living with a special focus on biotechnology and synthetic biology in a design context. Exhibits such as cement formed of micro-organisms and fruit-bearing plants with textile-producing roots explore how synthetic biology could influence product design in the future. For more info visit www.biofaction.comOn view at the Festival HeadquartersBionics and More: KINETOMANICSThe Vienna University of Technology TU’s Department of Three-Dimensional Design presents an exhibition of “Kinetomanics”: kinetic works in “a synthesis of mechanics, electronics, and software.” You’re into 3D printing, bionics, and automation? Then look no further. The show includes exhibits such as a “Plantoide,” described as “the technical interpretation of a vegetal organism,” or the “Topokopierer,” a futuristic kind of copy machine that reproduces three-dimensional objects as sandcast reliefs. For more information visit kunst2.tuwien.ac.atOn view at TTT ech Computertechnik, Schönbrunner Straße 2.Walk-in Filmsets: LIFE ON MARSWhile space enthusiasts such as the applicants for privately organized Mars settlement projects like Mars One are already busily practicing life on Mars under long-term realistic conditions, the students of the New Design University St. Pölten only had three days to create imaginary walk-in film sets that celebrate mainstream sci-fi tropes as well as low-budget productions, courtesy of primitive working materials such as paper and cardboard. Visitors are invited to indulge—and build their own outfits and props. For more info visit www.ndu.ac.at.On view at VHS KunstHandWerk,  Schloßgasse 23Schloss Hollenegg for Design /mischer’traxler studio: ISOCHRONEVienna Design Week traditionally cherishes local and national institutions and craftspeople which are brought together with renowned national and international designers for specific collaborations for the annual fest. In this case, Austrian design studio mischer’traxler—which recently also presented the Austrian contribution at the inaugural London Design Biennale—created an installation themed “Slow” at Schloss Hollenegg near Graz, a self-proclaimed “fairytale castle turned design lab”. The piece sees “a multi-layered tabletop under a large pendulum that in monotonous and continuous movement grinds a bowl-shaped dent in the surface, showing up the colored layers of the tabletop.” For more info visit www.schlosshollenegg.atOn view at the Festival HeadquartersAdolf Krischanitz at MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art: INVENTORY Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz, a member of the experimental architect group “Missing Link” in the 1970s, is presenting a 30-year inventory of his interiors for the first time, in a comprehensive exhibition of originals, drawing, plans, and photos. Many of his most important interests and themes, from urban furniture to spatial management can thus be explored in their authentic chronology. The exhibition, curated by Edelbert Köb, also presents the first catalogue raisonné of Adolf Krischanitz’s entire oeuvre of furniture. For more information, visit www.galerie-mam.comOn view at MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Weihburggasse 26.Kuehn Malvezzi. Artek at the Vitra Showroom: CITY ROOMSBerlin architecture bureau Kuehn Malvezzi presents different “city rooms” at the Vitra Showroom, in other words seating furniture arrangements inspired among others by Adolf Loos. The installation was commissioned by  Finnish design firm Artek and Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat, and was part of the collectors’ lounge at Design Miami/Basel this year. Among the highlights are Artek’s Kiki Collection, created in 1960 by Finnish designer Ilmari Tapiovaara and remodeled for Kvadrat with fabrics by Raf Simons.For more information visit: www.artek.fi; www.kvadrat.dkOn view at Vitra Showroom, Schottenring 12Rado: PRESENTING KONSTANTIN GRCICIndustrial designer and “chair 1” creator  Konstantin Grcic joined forces with Swiss watch manufacturer Rado for a fresh take on the design classic Rado Ceramica. Rado is launching the new wristwatch at the Festival Headquarters, alongside insights into its design process and a presentation of other famous creations by Grcic. For more information visit www.rado.atOn view at the Festival HeadquartersLATEST DESIGNS: LIGHTING AND TABLEWARE PROJECTS by LasvitThe neighboring Czech Republic is Vienna Design Week’s guest country this year, and presented with a number of interesting shows and presentations, including works by the young and upcoming Czech design enterprise Lasvit, which  is reanimating the great heritage and tradition of Bohemian glass production. The collection was realized by designers such as Moritz Waldemeyer and ranges from objects to lighting design and tableware. For more info visit www.lasvit.comOn view at the Festival Headquarters Click here for more info Vienna Design Weeks guest country 2016.BOLS D’OR by Thomas Feichtner at Jarosinski & VaugoinThomas Feichtner presents three receptacles created for silversmith Jarosinski & Vaugoin. The “Bols d’Or” were inspired by water moving in glass, only that in this case, the same effect is created with silver and gold. Witty and subtle. For more info visit www.vaugoin.com; www.thomasfeichtner.comOn view at Jarosinski & Vaugoin Zieglergasse 24GLEN BAGHURST with Klavierwerkstatt Felix LenzVienna Design Week’s “Passionswege” program brings together established local craftspeople and designers for specifically created projects, offering visitors interesting design experiences in often stunning workshops. In this case that of piano master builder Felix Lenz in this year’s Design Week focus district Margareten, where designer Glen Baghurst (Sweden/Australia) created his special chair: “inspired in every way by the piano in construction technique and aesthetics. A design composition—in the truest sense of the word!”On view at Schönbrunner Straße 25 (Corner of Wehrgasse)Click here for more info on Vienna Design Week’s Focus district Margareten, here for the complete “Passionswege” program, and here for more info on the special feature “Best of Passionswege”.  Read more