Austria.
A night-train cabin rethinks privacy. A café turns older bakers’ knowledge into valued work. A wafer factory shares its heat with the neighbourhood. Different scales, the same attention to what people already have.
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A room for one. A train for many.
An overnight train gives solo travellers a lockable private sleeping space without requiring them to buy an entire compartment.
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One hand. A whole keyboard.
Austria’s TiPY brings typing and pointer control into a reversible keyboard designed for either the left or right hand.
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A room becomes a shared instrument.
Deep Space 8K in Linz combines large wall and floor projections with tracking, turning astronomy, anatomy, art and other subjects into shared spatial experiences.
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A café built around older bakers.
In Vienna, a good cake can carry more than a family recipe. Vollpension makes older people's baking skills central to a café business and, later, a teaching offer. Experience that might remain private becomes work, income and a reason for generations to meet.
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Baking heat, used twice.
Heat leaving a wafer bakery is captured and sent into the neighbourhood’s heating network.
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Keep the message readable without its computer.
An archive puts readable information onto ceramic surfaces instead of depending on a future computer to decode a file.
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A hotel where a stay helps build a career.
A working Vienna hotel combines hospitality jobs, apprenticeships and support for people facing barriers to employment.
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Start the sport with a different sense.
Goalball uses an audible ball, tactile court markings and eyeshades so blind and partially sighted athletes can compete in the same game.
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