City of Design Board

The City of Design Board, a consultative board of experts on project development and strategic project management, will manage the activities, tasks and objectives of Graz as a City of Design over and beyond the application. It will ensure that projects and topics are taken forward in the context of design that support Graz in its positioning as one of the UNESCO Creative Cities. The Board will make recommendations to the City of Graz as to what projects to implement.

Members:

Mike Fuisz, designer, CEO of moodley brand identity
Martina Grassberger, Styrian Government, creative economy officer
in the office of Christian Buchmann, holder of the business,
innovation and finance portfolio
Gerhard Heufler, designer, head of the Industrial Design course
at the Joanneum UAS
Martin Krammer, president of the Central Association of
Styrian Architects; board of trustees House of Architecture
Heimo Lercher, advertising entrepreneur, spokesman of the section
Information & Consulting of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce
Andrea Pavlovec-Meixner, municipal council member, vice chairman
of the Green Party, speaker for Environment, Energy and Business
Eberhard Schrempf, CEO of Creative Industries Styria
Hans Schullin, designer, CEO of Schullin & Söhne
Peter Stepantschitz, department head, mayor’s office of the City of Graz
Karl Stocker, exhibition designer, head of the Information Design course and Exhibition and Museum Design course at the Joanneum UAS
Marion Wicher, architect, proprietor of yes architecture