EOOS: Designing Impact
About this book
EOOS: Designing Impact is a designer monograph on the Vienna-based studio EOOS, for industrial design students, product designers, and readers interested in socially engaged practice. Edited by EOOS and published by Lars Müller in 2025, the 460-page English-language softcover traces the studio from its founding in 1995 and its award-winning furniture to its later focus on the global sanitation crisis. It presents these two strands, ambitious furniture design and social design, as intertwined parts of one practice.
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For coursework, the book offers a case study in how a studio can change direction while keeping a consistent design approach. Students can use it to examine how research, partnerships with industry, and field testing shape products meant to have social impact, and to compare these methods with those of commercial furniture projects. As a monograph, it also supports precedent studies and critical discussion on the responsibilities of designers. On a university reading list, it connects form-making with questions of use, access, and real-world consequences.
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