Welcome to meublounge!
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meublounge is a community-based platform, enabling furniture design based on needs - directly expressed by users and enriched comments of an active community.
Learn more about:
 How meublounge revolutionizes the traditional furniture development process
Our vision and the team that makes the idea come true
How you (as a designer or design lover) can benefit from meublounge
What happened in the first competition
Our latest activities
Latest News:
22nd June 2009, posted by Katharina
meublounge in 50 seconds
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31th May 2009, posted by Roman
meublounge @ mini-barcamp Vienna
On Friday, 15th May 2009, the meublounge team attended the mini-barcamp for creative people as part of the "Fake it till you make it" festival.
During a 15 minute session we had the chance to present our vision and started a discussion on various aspects of design participation and user expectations. Not being able to answer all questions the discussion continued very lively after the end of the official sessions. Getting so many different responses and questions is a clear sign for us that meublounge is a polarizing idea at the state of the art.
Main areas of discussion:
Participation in design competitions – all for the money?Participation without formal education or deep understanding in design
Dealing with intellectual property
Production partners and terms of delivery
Thanks to all participants for the different insights and suggestions and many thanks to Meral Akin-Hecke from digitalks for inviting us to this event.
If you have any comment to this posting or the content please let us know: office@meublounge.com
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22th April 2009, posted by Katharina
meublounge wins MINGO Award
On Monday, 20th April 2009, Mingo (sub-organization of the Vienna business agency) awarded promising small enterprises. meublounge was awarded with the Mingo Award for innovative organizational structure and social dimension and was selected by an expert jury out of 110 participating enterprises. The award was handed over by the vice-mayor of Vienna Mrs. Renate Brauner.
For us, the award is a clear sign that meublounge's vision is valued by experts and that public authorities and business partners are supporting our efforts. We would like to thank everyone who participated in our beta phase and helped us with valuable feedback!
Other awarded enterprises: Digitalks, Veronika Persche, Hannovermarkt, Radlager and HeelDice
 | |  | | After being questioned by Stermann and Grissemann...
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| | ...celebrated the award with officials, mingo managers,...
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| | ...in the "MQ Hofstallungen"
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Traditional way of furniture production
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- Product design based on assumptions on user needs
- One way process without consideration of potential interest groups
- Limited communication between stakeholders leads to lack of interaction and feedback
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- Product design based on user needs - expressed by users
- Fully moderated interaction between all traditional stakeholders – enriched by meublounge community
- Communication across all groups and institutionalized feedback processes as key element of product development
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