The steel trusses that fit so well into the architecture of the Kunsthaus have had a previous life.

The panelling of disused ÖBB wagons comes from materialnomaden.

Building rubble and fragments of sculpture cover the floor in Martin Roth’s sound and space installation. A posthuman landscape of ruin – yet solitary pioneer plants are reclaiming the signs of humankind’s exploitation and destructive power.

From the 1970s on, Lois Weinberger explored the interdependence of nature and society. He worked on a poetic and political network that directs the focus onto marginal zones and calls into question hierar-chies of various kinds.

It is no secret that our affluent society is also a throw-away society: plastic waste is accumulating in the oceans, electronic waste ends up as an environmental problem in the global south.

These two research projects are laying the groundwork for the use of wood in structural components in vehicle construction.

Behind the ‘Common Good Balance Sheet’ lies the ‘Economy for the Common Good (ECG)’ – a movement originating in Austria that sees itself as a fundamental critique and practical alternative to capitalist economic activity. The ECG wants to turn capitalism ‘upside down’, i.e. from profit directly to the ‘common good’.

The design of these signs is based on the system of isotypes (Interna-tional System of Typographic Picture Education). This was developed in 1925 by Otto Neurath who, as a Jew, fled from Vienna in 1934.