We are deeply honored that our CEO, Co-Founder and Design Director Martin Lesjak contributes to this year´s Continuing Education Unit (CEU) program at NeoCon in Chicago. The session „Holistic Buildings: translating biophilic design strategies into the built environment“ manifests 13&9‘s and INNOCAD‘s humanistic and democratic design approach shown at recently completed MAM competence center. Martin Lesjak invited one of the leading scientists for fractal patterns, Dr. Richard Taylor, to discuss how stress-reductive qualities and biophilic design strategies can be implemented in the workplace. Register for their Wellness track session on June 13th at 11.30 A.M. CDT.

Volksbank Steiermark invited Patrick Handler to hold the keynote “Holistic Sustainability for Residential Buildings” for their lecture series alongside board member Hannes Zwanzger. They were holistically reflecting on the theme of social, economic, and ecological sustainability for the residential sector. The event took place on May 11th at 7:10 PM CET.

13&9 Design and INNOCAD were part of interdisciplinary thinking hub “Museumsakademie” by Universalmuseum Joanneum with the topic “The museum as soundscape – possibilities of acoustic exhibition design” from April 25th-26th, 2022 in Bern, Switzerland. The event, fostered the exchange and collaboration of sound designers, curators, and exhibition designers, charting the field of audible experiences and emphasizing how sound, noise, and silence could be content and “tool.” Martin Lesjak was contributing the keynote talk “Storytelling with Sound Design,” that exemplified the subject by INNOCAD’s most recent exhibition project “how it was. Space and History” at History Museum Graz, where he created an immersive sound installation in collaboration with Severin Su x 13&9 Design.

INNOCAD was part of 20th anniversary edition of Viennese architecture festival Architekturfestival TURN ON and we are looking back with gratitude on several contributions, fostering the dialogue between architecture and construction industry. INNOCAD´s keynote presented the recently finished hotel THE ROCK Radisson RED Vienna, the first one in German-speaking area. The talk by partner and project leader Oliver Kupfner on Friday, March 4th, 2022 elaborated the monolithic building`s facade design in cooperation with PREFA .