Thank you PKF hospitality group for having us at your inspiring three-day event 196+ forum Vienna. Martin Lesjak and Severin Su were performing a live electronic music set for the reception at the opening night on November 27th taking place at Radisson Red Vienna. On Monday, 300 guests from different sectors - hospitality, living, tourism, leisure culture and museum - were attending the conference, where Lesjak held the lecture “The Future is here – Hotels,” followed by a gala dinner “THE PLACE TO BE” at Vienna City Hall. On the last day, the event was completed with several curated city tours, showing the latest hotel projects such as our new hotel for Radisson RED.

Our hotel “THE ROCK” for Radisson RED Vienna will be included in the innovation and hospitality investment programming of 196+ forum Vienna revolving around the topic “Place Making” from November 27 - 29, 2022. The first Radisson RED in the German-speaking area will be part of the “Wild & Wacky” city walk and Martin Lesjak will contribute the lecture „The future is here: hotels“ on November 28th, 4 – 5 P.M. On the opening night of the conference, taking place at the hotel´s skybar, that aims to gather leaders of tourism and museum industry for exchange across the disciplines, Lesjak will perform a live electronic music set with Severin Su, both part of the audio-visual collective Doctors on Decks that just released their first concept album THE M-INUS.

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.

The Office Design Week, hosted by number-one online community for architecture and design Architonic, focuses on how architects and designers can support well-being in offices and how design serves to drive changes in behavioral culture. Director Editorial, Simon Keane-Cowell, interviewed four renowned office experts, such as Peter Ippolito (Ippolito Fleitz Group - Identity Architects), Julian Weyer (C.F. Møller Architects), Lauren Touhey-Otto (KINZO Berlin) and 13&9 Design’s and INNOCAD’s Martin Lesjak. Addressing the importance of human-centered design, Lesjak elaborates on the question “How can we create spaces according to elementary human needs?” in order to create community-based, inspiring as well as creativity and innovation enhancing workplaces and to foster health and well-being by implementing biophilic design strategies.

DESIGN4ARCHITECTS invited Anastasija and Martin Lesjak to host and curate a panel discussion for #WERFTSCHAU, that took place in Werft Kroneuburg on October 15th! The panel, focusing on 13&9 Design`s and INNOCAD architecture`s holistic design approach “NEW HOLISM”, included renowned international designers and scientists with diverse background. Special thanks to the panelists Philipp Brandstätter (Interior Designer Branddesigners, AT), Stefan Diez (Diez Office, DE), Markus Jehs (Designstudio Jehs + Laub, DE), Leo Lübke (COR Sitzmöbel Helmut Lübke GmbH & Co. KG, DE) as well as Dr. Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade (Technische Universität Graz, AT) and Prof. Richard Taylor (University of Oregon and Fractals Research, USA) for their inspiring impulse talks!