CreateCreate Education Programme

The course is suitable for all levels. Please bring your own mat.
No registration required. Free Admission.

Tatar Dinner-Performance by allapopp at saasfee*pavillon as part of the exhibition when body is not enough.
Registration via saasfeepavillon.de

Tufting with Jia Write (2 days)
Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069/212 38522.
Workshop fee: 96 EUR
FULLY BOOKED

Tufting with Jia Write (2 days)
Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069/212 38522.
Workshop fee: 96 EUR
FULLY BOOKED

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

How do the worlds that increasingly surround us come into being, and whose perspectives are embedded in these worldings? Who bears responsibility for the conscious and unconscious decisions that feed into AI systems and shape their outcomes? And how much chance is involved in the worlds that AI designs for us?

As part of the exhibition AI Worlding. Artistic Research on AI-Generated World Models, the panel brings together artistic perspectives that discuss these questions at the intersection of imagination, technology, and power. Together, the artists explore how AI systems help shape how we see and understand the world and how they are already helping to shape our everyday lives today.

Drawing on their artistic works and processes—in which AI systems function as tools, collaborators, and independent agents as well as subjects of investigation—the panel discusses topics such as authorship, control, (un)predictability, and responsibility.

With Elisa Deutloff, Egor Dmitriev, Chelsea Hartmann and Ava Leandra Kleber.
Moderatet by Johanna T. Wallenborn.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The discussion will be held in German.

Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Marina Wachs, students explore textile heritage, water management, and latest developments in international design education.

Traditional craftsmanship meets new materials and technologies; scenarios for sustainable fibers and water systems are developed, and international courses test participatory, AI-informed learning formats that contribute to the SDGs.

Registration from mid-April.
The event will be held in German. Free entry.
More information at: WDC 2026

We highlight special icons from our collection from a theological, cultural and art historical perspective. We warmly invite you to learn more about the stories, meanings and messages of icons in our time. Icon evenings at the Icon Museum take place once a month on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 pm.

Without registration. Included in the museum admission price.
The event will be held in German.

With the curator Katharina Weiler.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

The course is suitable for all levels. Please bring your own mat.
No registration required. Free Admission.

What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?

From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.

Without registration. Free entry.
Location: Nachbarschaftsbüro Ginnheim, Platenstraße 80

From communal weaving and the redesign of recycled textiles to creating your own resistance in wool and silk: the museum invites you to get creative in workshops and activities. At the WDC Hub, you can learn more about World Design Capital 2026. Live performances will also transport you into atmospheric worlds of sound. Under fairy lights in the museum courtyard, Emma Metzler will be serving up the finest culinary delights and drinks.

Without registration. Included in the ticket for the Night of the Museums.

What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?

From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.

Without registration. Free entry.
Location: Museum Angewandte Kunst

Live performance by Elisa Deutloff, Chelsea Hartmann, Sara Volpe, Marie-Josée Kohfeld and Theodor Ettrich as part of the of the existing soundscape of the installation 10.0.0.0/8, presented by Elisa Deutloff and Chelsea Hartmann.
The performance will integrate with the atmospheric soundscape of the exhibit and utilize a 4.1 multi-channel sound configuration that fills the space with a palpable auditory experience. A unique, generative listening experience unfolds, in which spatial sound distribution, algorithmic structures, and visual dynamics intertwine.

Without registration. Included in the Night of the Museums ticket.

This sound performance takes place live within the exhibition space. As part of the Now Here, Nowhere project, the performance brings to life the audio elements played in the installation, translating recorded sound into a live, embodied act.

NWIT (Nowhere in There) explores the paradox of antinomy—the beauty that emerges from irreconcilable opposites: language and the non-verbal, the familiar and the unfamiliar, presence and absence. Through visual, auditory, and extra-sensory experiences, these tensions are not resolved but continuously enacted as art.

Without registration. Included in the Night of the Museums ticket.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

With Anton Andrienko, Marlon Hesse and Leon-Etienne Kühr.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

This sound performance takes place live within the exhibition space. As part of the Now Here, Nowhere project, the performance brings to life the audio elements played in the installation, translating recorded sound into a live, embodied act.

NWIT (Nowhere in There) explores the paradox of antinomy—the beauty that emerges from irreconcilable opposites: language and the non-verbal, the familiar and the unfamiliar, presence and absence. Through visual, auditory, and extra-sensory experiences, these tensions are not resolved but continuously enacted as art.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.

The newly formed ☿ Ensemble consisting of students from HfG Offenbach and the International Ensemble Modern Academy at HfMdK Frankfurt performs the first piece from Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros (1974) – Teach Yourself to Fly
The ☿ Ensemble plays a mix of traditional and electronic instruments.
Duration approx. 9 min.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.

Democratic gaming? Who are the bad guys, who are the good guys? What kind of industry is this?

Playing cooperatively together. Human Nagafi and Florian Jöckel discuss with students how democratic gaming can be. Through shared gameplay, they address role models, enemy images, economic power, the Hessian games scene, the influence of AI and personalized content, and the question of whether games create collective experiences or intensify individualization.

Registration from mid-April.
The event will be held in German. Free entry.
More information at: WDC 2026

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

With junior curators Sofia Simeth and Leon Lukas Plum.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

The course is suitable for all levels. Please bring your own mat.
No registration required. Free Admission.

What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?

From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.

Without registration. Free entry.
Location: Lebenshilfe Gut Hausen Frankfurt

What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?

From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.

Without registration. Free entry.
Location: Museum Angewandte Kunst

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Tuqtuli is a dialogical communication principle where signs are lined up like words in real time. It is useful wherever people lack a shared language, an interpreter and translation apps – such as when travelling, with refugees, in connection with humanitarian aid. Tuqtuli can also be used in a more elaborate, vectorised form for longer-lasting messages – such as in public spaces, in books, on package inserts, in connection with games.

Tuqtuli aims to involve as many as different people as possible as co-creators and testers of a new visual way of global communication. It brings together popular culture of our days with the visual heritage of communities and the creativity of individuals. It seeks to bridge divides and enhance cross-cultural understanding. And it’s great fun!

The project started in 2024 and since then has been at conferences, festivals and universities in Belgium, France, Germany, Japan and the US.

Program on 6 May

11am–5pm: Frankfurter Botschaft

Building on the workshop on the Frankfurt Jacket taking place two weeks earlier, this session focuses on creating a message written in TUQTULI as a patch or print. Your democratic convictions can find expression here as a greeting, a personal statement, or a reminder to yourself — individual or universal, eye-catching or discreet.

from 7 pm: Language-Independent Communication Worldwide

Juli Gudehus will give a lecture on her TUQTULI project, followed by a panel discussion focusing on the potential and future perspectives of TUQTULI.

Guests include:

• Dr Eliane Ettmüller / Frankfurt / scholar of Islamic studies and political science, active in the field of educational work
• N.N. from the field of linguistics
• Dr Tobias Gantner / Cologne / physician, now consultant in the field of health literacy
• Andreas Knauf / Darmstadt / attorney specializing in copyright and trademark law

Registration opens mid-April.
The event will be held in German. Free entry.
More information at: WDC 2026

What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?

From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.

Without registration. Free entry.
Location: Gustavsburgplatz

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Lecture by Professor Christopher Daase, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, as part of the exhibition Wool. Silk. Resistance.
5 EUR, no prior registration required.

The event will be held in German.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Without registration. Free entry.

Frankfurt is one of Europe’s most diverse cities: 180 nations, countless languages, perspectives, and stories. Yet people often remain within social and cultural filter bubbles, meeting mostly those who think alike, live alike, and grew up alike. What if encounters were not left to chance, but intentionally designed?

This evening focuses on encounter as a matter of design. A society in which people genuinely meet on equal terms forms the foundation of a resilient democracy.

Agnesa Kolica, founder of Grow Together Germany, will be joined by representatives from Frankfurt’s civil society and political sphere, as well as two participants from the Vielfaltsfreundin programme, who will share what happens when Encounter by Design succeeds – when intentionally designed connections shift perspectives and spark empathy. The discussion will be moderated by Marie Anny Bertsch, co-founder of Grow Together Germany.

This evening is an invitation to reflect and to act: How can democracy be designed through encounter – structurally, individually, and institutionally?

On the panel.
In conversation with the audience.
And in practice through guided speed-matching – experiencing Encounter by Design first-hand.

Registration from mid-April.
The event will be held in German. Free entry.
More information at: WDC 2026

With Lilian Korner, blind art historian and inclusion activist, and art educator Linda Gottwald.

Included in the admission price. Information and registration at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de or 069 212 38522.

If necessary, we can assist you with planning your journey and pick you up at the “Schweizer Platz” station. Please make arrangements during registration.

The tour will be held in German.

Without registration. Free entry.

What happens when people don’t go to the museum, but the museum comes to the people instead—with a mobile loom that symbolizes connection, communal creativity, and participation?

From February to May 2026, raumlaborberlin’s LOOMCYCLE will travel through Frankfurt’s neighborhoods. It will stop at places and events where people come together and new connections are formed. In community centers, marketplaces, and neighborhood festivals, we invite local actors and partner institutions to participate—to weave, engage in conversation, and experience design as a collaborative, democratic process.

Closing event with a community picnic on and around the woven carpet.

Without registration. Free entry.
Location: Museum Angewandte Kunst

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Guided tour on the topic Wolle, Werte, Widerstände: zeitgenössische Teppiche zwischen Kunstmarkt und Weltpolitik with art historian Francesco Colli.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Design in the Peri-AI Era: On 20 May human-AI co-creation is explored in the “Synthetic Studio.” Boris Eldagsen, Christoph Grünberger, and AI ART MAGAZINE’s GLOBAL FUSION examine responsibility, intuition, and new concepts of authorship.

The end of solo authorship is becoming tangible. Design practice is shifting from the monologic paradigm of autonomous individual authorship toward a synergetic conversation between biological and artificial intelligence. In the “Synthetic Studio,” human impulses and AI-generated ideas merge into entirely new forms.

At the core lies the redefinition of authorship: iterative feedback loops between human intuition and machine computation amplify the creative act. The role of designers shifts from manual shaping to conceptual direction of complex ideation processes and curatorial evaluation of hybrid results.

The goal is the critical positioning of an aesthetic that understands technological sovereignty not as a mere tool but as a constitutive element of a new, socio-technical understanding of design.

The event will be held in German. Free entry.
More information at: WDC 2026

We highlight special icons from our collection from a theological, cultural and art historical perspective. We warmly invite you to learn more about the stories, meanings and messages of icons in our time. Icon evenings at the Icon Museum take place once a month on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 pm.

Without registration. Included in the museum admission price.
The event will be held in German.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Without registration. Free entry.

With the curator Katharina Weiler.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Everything stands still in the museum. But in the workshop, we’ll set the exhibits in motion!
Free workshop for families with children aged 7 and up.
Registration required at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de.

Everything stands still in the museum. But in the workshop, we’ll set the exhibits in motion!
Free workshop for families with children aged 7 and up.
Registration required at create.angewandte-kunst@stadt-frankfurt.de.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.