What happens when five teams, five topics, and five target groups come together? »Design plus« presents the results of a creative experiment: students from the Master’s degree programme in Exhibition Design at FH JOANNEUM have developed five independent exhibition concepts – each with a clear focus and a distinctive form of presentation.

Topics, target groups, and spaces in dialogue

Whether sustainable design, inclusion, emotion, digital worlds or invisible design in everyday life – each concept is aimed at a specific target group: from young people and families to senior citizens, creatives, or companies. The spaces are not only designed but become part of the story themselves: immersive and accessible.

Making design tangible

The exhibition invites visitors to explore, participate, and reflect. Prototypes, previews, and installations make design processes visible and demonstrate how exhibitions can function as spaces of communication.

Exhibitions

Emotions You Can Feel
How design affects our mood

This exhibition explores how design influences our emotions and makes this tangible through interactive experience stations on joy, fear & more – presented in a playful way for families with children. At the heart of it all lies the question: What does design feel like – and how do we design with feeling?

Team: Elena Vogler, Lea Türck
Theme: Design & Emotion: How design influences emotions
Target group: Families with children

Waste Escape
Your way out of the throwaway society

This exhibition takes a gamified approach: young visitors are playfully challenged to dive into the world of materials, use natural resources more smartly through sustainable design methods, and rethink waste in the process.

Team: Isabella Aistleitner, Antonia Ditscherlein
Theme: Sustainable Design: Circular economy, upcycling
Target group: Young people

AI LAB
Invisible tools, visible design

In the AI LAB, AI becomes a playmate, a silent assistant, a creative tool. In an interactive team-building setting, teams explore analogue and digital stations to discover how artificial intelligence can make design visible – not as a ready-made solution, but as a source of inspiration for new perspectives, shared experiences, and creative processes. The focus is on experimenting, marvelling, and collaboration.

Team: Jonathan Pala, Hannes Schöller
Theme: Everyday Design: Invisible design that surrounds us
Target group: Businesses

NEXT
The Future of Digital Design

NEXT brings the latest technologies, tools, and trends in digital design to the stage. Test out innovative programmes, connect with others in the creative industries, and discover what tomorrow’s creative work looks like.

Team: Julia Pfäfflin, Natascha Schröer
Theme: Digital Worlds & Design: AI, VR, AR
Target group: Creative industries & designers

INclusion with Barriers.
Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in design

Experience, understand, adapt – this exhibition makes barriers visible and inclusive design tangible. Visitors discover how good design can make everyday life accessible to all.

Team: Mirjam Heyne, Anna Kausch
Theme: Design & Inclusion: Accessibility, diversity in design
Target group: Seniors (60+)

Master’s Programme Exhibition Design, FH JOANNEUM
Exhibition Direction, 2nd semester

Isabella Aistleitner, Antonia Ditscherlein, Mirjam Heyne, Anna Kausch, Jonathan Pala, Julia Pfäfflin, Hannes Schöller, Natascha Schröer, Lea Türck and Elena Vogler under the direction of Stefanie Schöffmann