Thu 3.9. – Tue 8.9.

Ars Electronica Center, Maindeck

Walking-Chair Design Studio (Karl Emilio Pircher & Fidel Peugeot) (AT)  in cooperation with LYNfabrikken (DK)
www.walking-chair.com

YOU MAY takes the public space

YOU MAY is a new furniture for the urban public space. YOU MAY does many things: it is a bar and a bench, conference table and quiet corner at the same time, it functions as a lounge as well as a stage or workspace. YOU MAY works with innovative materials, different seat heights, it plays with niches and corners. It provides communication and privacy for up to 15 persons in the same spot. The furniture itself becomes a vivid meeting point, it invites to work, discuss, eat and relax. YOU MAY enables the modern, mobile person to much more than just passive relaxing and therefore significantly differs from all current standard furnitures for parks and public spaces. The Vienna based design duo Karl Emilio Pircher & Fidel Peugeot provides mayors, urban planners and residents with a versatile instrument for enhancing the quality of the public space and filling it with a new lively spirit. YOU MAY is a cooperation between Walking-Chair Design Studio and the danish platform LYNfabrikken. The first edition was finished during May 2009 for the Aarhus Festuge (Århus Festival Week) in Denmark and will also be used for the Vienna Knowledge Space at Karlsplatz, Vienna from June 2009 on. Further exhibitions and shows are already being planned.

Special thanks to our YOU MAY cooperation partner in Denmark: LYNfabrikken.dk & The Aarhus Festival. YOU MAY is powered by departure, wirtschaft kunst und kultur gmbh

You can also find You May Furniture in the History Lounge (Brucknerhaus).