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We all have a responsibility to use AI in ways that benefit humanity rather than harm it. To do this, we need to gain a better understanding of it. Shaping AI for a Better Life at the WDC-Campus means that researchers, entrepreneurs, and experts who work with and develop AI collaborate with workshop participants. They present this complex topic in a way that is engaging for people of all knowledge levels.

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

Under the theme Standing Ovations: Assembly in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Icon Museum invites you to an evening that brings tradition to life. The focus is on an icon of the Mother of God that has been the center of veneration for centuries and is still celebrated today. Its timeless radiance and symbolic power continue to move people to this day. Together, visitors will discover the stories behind the icon, which is part of the new special exhibition Icons on the Move: Treasures from the Bode-Museum Berlin.

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.

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

With Hana Spijkers.
No registration required. Included in the admission price.

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.

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.

On the occasion of Oscar Murillo’s exhibition Collective Osmosis at DAS MINSK in Potsdam, people are invited to take part in drawing sessions held around the country as part of a collaborative artwork. These sessions will form part of an ongoing project titled, Social mapping, a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making.

You and your local community will be free to draw and doodle on blank canvases with pens, pencils, crayons, and biros. At the end of the session the canvases will be collected and sent to Potsdam where they will join material gathered from around the world. Visitors to the museum will be invited to paint on top of these marked canvases in a gathering of voices from around the country.

This event is free to attend and participants of all ages are welcome. All canvas and drawing materials will be provided

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

With the curator Anna Scheuermann.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

In the two days workshop Script in Dialogue, an Iranian and an Israeli type designer, together with the participants, create an experimental space to explore the aesthetic and political power of Arabic and Hebrew typography.

Typefaces, which are often interpreted as symbols of conflict, are deliberately reinterpreted and transformed into visual forms of expression for dialogue, rapprochement and coexistence – and ultimately realised as individual works using screen or riso printing.

Registration and more information under: WDC 2026

In the two days workshop Script in Dialogue, an Iranian and an Israeli type designer, together with the participants, create an experimental space to explore the aesthetic and political power of Arabic and Hebrew typography.

Typefaces, which are often interpreted as symbols of conflict, are deliberately reinterpreted and transformed into visual forms of expression for dialogue, rapprochement and coexistence – and ultimately realised as individual works using screen or riso printing.

Registration and more information under: WDC 2026

The winners of the Hessen Design Competition 2025 present their interdisciplinary projects as an exhibition, in workshops, and in talks at the WDC-Hub.

More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

The winners of the Hessen Design Competition 2025 present their interdisciplinary projects as an exhibition, in workshops, and in talks at the WDC-Hub.

More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

The winners of the Hessen Design Competition 2025 present their interdisciplinary projects as an exhibition, in workshops, and in talks at the WDC-Hub.

More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

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

Visitors are invited to look, listen and take part in talks and hands-on activities. Designers, medical professionals and researchers contribute their insights on subjects including everyday life, the body, health, sport and digital technology. A poster collection highlights the various forms of violence against women. A medical influencer, a young entrepreneur and a design expert will discuss gender, design and health. Students will report on public interventions.

A cooperation with international Gender Design Network e.V.
More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

Visitors are invited to look, listen and take part in talks and hands-on activities. Designers, medical professionals and researchers contribute their insights on subjects including everyday life, the body, health, sport and digital technology. A poster collection highlights the various forms of violence against women. A medical influencer, a young entrepreneur and a design expert will discuss gender, design and health. Students will report on public interventions.

A cooperation with international Gender Design Network e.V.
More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

With the curator Anton Rahlwes.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Visitors are invited to look, listen and take part in talks and hands-on activities. Designers, medical professionals and researchers contribute their insights on subjects including everyday life, the body, health, sport and digital technology. A poster collection highlights the various forms of violence against women. A medical influencer, a young entrepreneur and a design expert will discuss gender, design and health. Students will report on public interventions.

A cooperation with international Gender Design Network e.V.
More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

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

With the curator Anton Rahlwes.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

The pop up exhibition Form Follows Friendship in the WDC-Hub shows how design emerges when collaboration itself becomes the guiding principle. For the exhibition, six young designers from Germany and the Netherlands worked in three binational teams over several months on joint projects. Models were built, exchanged and further developed. Design emerged through iteration, dialogue and hands-on experimentation.

Form Follows Friendship is part of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026, initiated by the German Design Council and the diplomatic network of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in cooperation with Creative Industries Fund NL and supported by Stiftung Deutsches Design Museum / Design Networking Hub.

More information under: WDC 2026
Without registration. Free entry.

With the curator Anton Rahlwes.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Guided tour in Russian with art historian Tatiana Khaustova.
No registration required. Included in the admission price.

With curator Katharina Weiler.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Author Frauke Angel will read from her non-fiction book Hunderunde.
Non-fiction reading for students in 5th grade and up.
A collaborative project with the Literaturhaus Frankfurt.

Registration required at create.angewandte-kunststadt-frankfurt.de or 069 212 38522.
Free admission.
The event will be held in German.

Author Frauke Angel will read from her non-fiction book Hunderunde.
Non-fiction reading for students in 5th grade and up.
A collaborative project with the Literaturhaus Frankfurt.

Registration required at create.angewandte-kunststadt-frankfurt.de or 069 212 38522.
Free admission.
The event will be held in German.

Author Massuda Kassem will read from his children’s book Chicken Survivor. C
hildren’s book reading for students in 1st grade and up
A collaborative project with the Literaturhaus Frankfurt.

Registration required at create.angewandte-kunststadt-frankfurt.de or 069 212 38522.
Free admission.
The event will be held in German.

Alexandra von Winning, Alexander Zang, Prof. Dr. Dr. Volker Mosbrugger, and students explore, through social and service design, how public administration can become more citizen-oriented and understandable without losing protective functions.
Lectures, panels, workshops, and excursions focus on user-centered forms, plain language, new participation formats, and shorter feedback loops.

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

Author Massuda Kassem will read from his children’s book Chicken Survivor. C
hildren’s book reading for students in 1st grade and up
A collaborative project with the Literaturhaus Frankfurt.

Registration required at create.angewandte-kunststadt-frankfurt.de or 069 212 38522.
Free admission.
The event will be held in German.

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

With art educator Hana Spijkers.
No registration required. Included in the admission price.

With the curators of the gruppe finger.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.

Designer Diana Tayo Osobu invites participants to come together in interdisciplinary discussion formats to reflect on how design can continue to evolve in order to strengthen Europe as a leading design location.
Design is understood here as a decision-making tool: it helps structure complexity, provide orientation, and make sustainable solutions visible. Against the backdrop of current challenges facing the creative industries—such as design apps that increasingly replace traditional creative processes—new design skills take center stage. These encompass both craft and mindset, as well as the ability to meaningfully connect markets, technologies, and users.

The event will be held in German. Free entry.
More information and registration 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.

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

With the curator Anna Scheuermann.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour will be held in German.