CreateCreate Education Programme

The iGDN Dialogue Workshop brings together international perspectives from the fields of design, research, medicine, education, and activism. Through lectures, book launches, a moderated panel discussion, and open conversations, the workshop highlights the diversity of gender design today: as a creative practice, a research perspective, a topic in design education, and a social responsibility.



The program spans a wide range of topics, from an introduction to gender design through education, the history of graphic design, digital systems, and AI, to gender-sensitive medicine, political activism, and the question of how gender can be taught in design. With contributions from Prof. Dr. Uta Brandes, Dr. Julia Pierzina, Prof. Dr. Petra Eisele, Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele, Claudia Herling, Prof. Dr. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, Catharina Dörr, and Prof. Dr. Griselda Flesler, as well as a panel of experts from design, medicine, branding, activism, and research, the event creates a space for exchange, networking, and new perspectives.



Starting at 6 pm, a get-together invites participants to engage in informal conversation.

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

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

Volume 4 of the iF Design Foundation’s Designing Design Education series, titled Learning Sciences, is scheduled for publication in 2026. It will present established findings from the international discourse for practical application in design education. Workshop participants will be able to apply these insights directly to their (design) studies, both in teaching and learning. Also suitable for design professionals.

With Prof. Annette Diefenthaler (Technical University of Munich), Prof. Dr. René Spitz (Cologne University of Applied Sciences)

More information at: WDC 2026

Gender-Sensitive Design Methods in Practice.
In this two-and-a-half-hour workshop, we’ll explore the fundamentals of gender-sensitive design and examine how visual communication shapes societal notions of identity, the body, and gender. Together, we’ll analyze examples from design and brand communication and discuss which design decisions can create visibility, reproduce stereotypical narratives, or open up alternative perspectives.


The focus is primarily on practical application: What questions should designers ask during the design process? What methods and tools can be used to implement gender-sensitive design in practice? And how can this knowledge be meaningfully integrated into your daily work?
The workshop combines theoretical foundations with practical strategies and is aimed at anyone who not only wants to understand gender-sensitive design but also actively incorporate it into their design practice.

The workshop is part of iGDN Week, held as part of the Falling in Love with all Genders exhibition in the WDC-Hub at the Museum Angewandte Kunst.

Registration and more information at: WDC 2026

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.

The Kunstgewerbeverein Frankfurt am Main e.V., in partnership with Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH (FES), the Start-ups Working Group of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V., and as part of the Frankfurt Next Generation initiative, is announcing the Circular Design Emerging Talent Award 2025/2026. The award acts as a catalyst for social change, promoting themes such as sustainability, resource conservation, waste prevention, and circularity. It encourages innovative, experimental thinking and responsible design practices. The competition is open to design and craft students, as well as young designers and craftspeople in their first to third year of professional practice from Hesse.

The main award Circular Design Emerging Talent Award (3,500 Euro) honors projects that are creative, innovative, and sustainable in their approach to the circular economy, material use and reuse, recycling, and upcycling.

The special award Entrepreneurship Circular Design (1,500 Euro) recognizes conceptual approaches for founding a start-up aimed at implementing a developed design idea in practice.

The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, 13 June at 6 pm, at the Kunstgewerbeverein, in the Historic Villa Metzler at the Museum Angewandte Kunst.

More information at: WDC 2026

Motion Creation Design is dedicated to the dynamic interaction between generative AI systems and the human body in motion. In this innovative approach, artificial intelligence functions as an interface that processes past and present world knowledge in real time, reinterpreting it through creative associations of images and information.

At the center lies the question: How do we shape our environment—spaces, objects, images—and how do these things, in turn, shape our perception, our actions, and our interactions? Through dance movements, the transformative power of architectural spaces becomes tangible, reflecting both their adaptation to and transformation by human needs. Choreography here serves as a medium of communication, creatively interpreting knowledge and translating human movement into visual associations.

In the research phase, an interactive AI system will be developed and introduced to dancers in workshops. At the same time, an inclusive, interdisciplinary workshop opens this process to everyone: people of different backgrounds, age groups, and physical abilities meet on equal terms. Design thus becomes an experience of democratic action, where participation, sensuality, and dialogue play central roles.

The outcomes will be presented in a series of exhibitions at museums across the Rhine-Main region, complemented by live performances with dancers from the Hessian State Ballet. Visitors will be able to actively participate in the design process and experience in real time how their influence shapes evolving visual visions.

More information at: WDC 2026

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-kunst@stadt-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-kunst@stadt-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.

With the curator Matthias Wagner K.
Without registration. Included in the admission price.
The tour 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.

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.

How can negotiations be modeled? Democratic Tableware explores how design can support discussions, decision-making processes, and conflict solutions. In practice, negotiations are often characterized by misunderstandings, imbalances, or conflicts. Time pressure, differing interests, varying levels of information, or personal prejudices can lead to discussions failing. At the same time, democracy lives on both – controversial debate and the ability to develop joint solutions.

The designed objects address precisely this issue. They explore how physical artifacts can structure, visualize, or moderate communication processes – not only about language as the central medium of democratic discourse. The body also plays an important role: gestures, movements, postures, and spatial relationships influence how people communicate with each other and make decisions.

Based on embodiment research, the objects experiment with physical, visual, and haptic elements. These design elements enable new forms of multimodal negotiation situations that involve multiple senses and open up alternative ways of participation. The objects developed are intended as tools that can help to make communicative barriers visible and make conversations more productive.

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

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.

Without registration, Free entry.

Without registration. Free entry.

Without registration. Included in the admission price.

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

Prof Dr René Spitz presents the iF Foundation series Designing Design Education, a flexible framework for reorienting design education. It addresses the balance between analog and digital skills, the re-politicization of design, interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration, and the social mission of design. Volume 4 is presented along with accompanying workshops, lectures, and a panel.

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

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.

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

The Okeanos Foundation has developed a method for teaching cooperative interaction and collective teamwork while the team is on a sailing trip. Our quality of life and the future development of democracy depend not only on the preservation of ecosystems – fundamentally sustained by the global ocean. How we, from the perspective of the Main River, keep the sea and its demands on us in view is conveyed by design students from the Hochschule Darmstadt, accompanied by greenD and supported by the Okeanos Stiftung. They are developing and testing new sustainable, cooperative, and self-empowered forms of living together and will make them tangible at the WDC Campus.

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

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.

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

This workshop demonstrates the design thinking methodology in three phases. With Prof Markus Weisbeck and Vera Kunz, students develop design-thinking processes in three phases, moving from individual approaches to collective results. Visual experiments, exchange, and teamwork lead to works with shared authorship and present design as an open process of shaping the future.

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

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.

Without registration. Free entry.

For 168 years, the Frankfurt Zoo has shaped the cityscape and served as an oasis of biodiversity. The traditional center for nature and species conservation is being modernized. The first step is the new Africa area, inviting visitors on a journey through the Serengeti. The public area of a zoo serves many purposes. Design and furnishings consider aspects such as immersive animal experiences, quality of stay for individuals and groups, accessibility, climate, education, information, and furniture.

The planned savannah area at Frankfurt Zoo includes an animal house and an outdoor area of about 24,000 m². Different species are housed together wherever possible. The visitor path stretches over 1,000 m, leading to hippos, giraffes, flamingos, and more.

Immersive zoo design visually connects the habitats of animals and visitors. Visitors move along clearly defined paths through the new habitats, with the path becoming a central architectural element: it guides movement, creates visual connections, and enables varied encounters between visitors and animals.

In cooperation with Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Department of Architecture, this topic was explored as a project task.

Program:

Starting at 1 pm, an exhibition will present the results of the collaboration and provide insights into the Frankfurt Zoo’s master plan, ZOOKUNFT2030+.

At 5 pm, a panel discussion will follow: students, zoo representatives, and zoo planners discuss the complexity of building in zoological facilities.

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

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