Our podcast that takes a closer look at the relationship between design and society.

Workshops for 10 school classes convey the interconnections between nature and society.

An innovative and free learning center for young people outside of school.

Young people in schools work with artists to create slam texts on the project’s theme.

Lecture and discussion series 2025 & 2026, true to the motto: “Virtue lies in action.”

The FzOF sets up small seating areas in the city and engages passers-by in conversation to strengthen cohesion and encourage people to get involved.

Architecture students design and build an inclusive voting booth.

Texts and chansons by Georg Kreisler, Thomas Gsella, Dirk Mattes, and others, which takes up various facets of humor in literature and music.

In a seminar, students ask themselves: What will the theatre of the future be like?

A student competition invites 8–10-year-old pupils to explore the values of democracy in their classrooms through playful activities.

studio formagora is a collective at the intersection of design, craftsmanship and art. Their focus is on designing experiential spaces in public areas.

The project is implemented by the Competence Center for Creative Industries at Wirtschaftsförderung Frankfurt – Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH.

The workshop “Zeichen setzen” combines an exploration of personal values with creative forms of expression.

Design workshops for schools.

The HMKB focuses on cultural education in schools. Strong cultural education fosters creativity, perspective-taking, respect for diversity, and the experience of self-efficacy.

The barrel vault beneath the Mainkai at the Alte Brücke in Frankfurt am Main is set to be transformed into a cultural venue.

Three panels in Frankfurt’s shops show the significance trade had — and continues to have — for people.

Annegret Soltau is one of the most important feminist artists of our time. Her works explore themes of identity, the body and family.

Collective Paper Aesthetics designs and develops audience-engagement materials and STEAM education resources through pop-up architecture and furnishings.

The education programme at the Museum Angewandte Kunst is called CREATE, because everyone can be creative and shape something themselves.

The WDC Hub at Museum Angewandte Kunst is WDC 2026’s central home – a vibrant meeting point where the year’s themes come together. Here, international impulses and regional perspectives converge.

The Goldstein Gallery presents the exhibition “Auftunen und Peppen” featuring drawings and cut-outs by the artist Markus Schmitz. The artist will be on site every Saturday during opening hours.

Children from primary schools in Wiesbaden develop their own projects for a child-friendly city.

The Demokratiekioske project aims to use temporary kiosks and public spaces as discussion hubs, where communities can engage with democratic themes in informal, accessible ways.

Carpets by contemporary artists as critical expressions of socio-political themes.

The ongoing process of AI-based worlding lies at the heart of this thematic group exhibition.

A mobile loom for collective weaving — a symbolic act of participation and shared involvement.

In five discussion rounds, a changing group of experts will explore the nature of the problem area and possible solutions.

In spring, OMC°C wants to work with people from Frankfurt to green many windows with climbing plants as part of WDC 2026.

Rethinking the Senefelderquartier – through dialogue between city administration and civil society.

30 non-material scholarships for young people on the theme Design for Democracy.

An exhibition on the current state of democracy in Germany features cartoons by Katharina Greve, Greser & Lenz, and Hauck & Bauer, accompanied by poems by author and former Titanic editor-in-chief Thomas Gsella.

Kiosk of Solidarity X Bahnhofsviertel is a project in Frankfurt that addresses drug use, homelessness, and social exclusion.

The Office for Artistic Surveying is a method developed by social.form (Darmstadt) for emotional and subjective exploration of urban spaces. It complements conventional, quantitative urban planning tools.

Typography for Democracy features several events that explore the cultural significance of typography as a bridge between cultures.

The Street as a Runway explores the use of public spaces. Streets weren’t always meant for cars. In workshops focused on kite-building and flying, people of all ages will come together in the streets.

Energy-autonomous micro-houses for homeless people. 2026 in Frankfurt RheinMain.

A kitchen container will be stationed in Frankfurt for eight weeks, offering a series of events for everyone.

Young people shaping their neighborhood! Together with experts and the local community they explore and transform public spaces. The city becomes their own project.

This video format creates participatory spaces for discourse online and meets interesting people at well-known locations in Frankfurt am Main.

Conversation format between two people.

This project strengthens digital participation in the Rheingau-Taunus region. Bibliotheken digifit is a mobile, modular makerspace expanding the possibilities of 15 local libraries and enhancing digital expertise.

BEAT BY BITS (BBB) is a dance performance in public spaces across Frankfurt. It tackles the social and political meanings of techno, using a dynamic blend of sound, colour and movement to make these meanings perceptible.

radraum is an innovative place for environmentally friendly mobility and culture in Offenbach – it combines a donation-based repair studio, meeting point and event space at the same time.

Unusual ping pong tables encourage residents to be active, have fun and connect with each other in the city.

The outdoor living room becomes a green oasis in the city centre: with modular furniture, edible plants, and space for connection, exchange, learning, play and culture.

Open Day at the Dyckerhoff Power Plant Hall with lectures, exhibitions, keynotes, and panel discussions on the topic of sustainable building.

A bike race in downtown Frankfurt for all ages and experience levels – makes the bicycle visible in public space and creates a safe environment for cycling.

They are large, mobile, and variably positionable, creating new urban and social possibilities for plazas, schoolyards, or park areas.

For a fair redesign of public streets in Frankfurt am Main.

Making places of democracy visible in public space through AR.

Care, democracy and community in urban space.

Photographic exploration of vacant buildings.

Making the invisible visible through cycling: participatory workshops, creative formats, and guided tours.

In a workshop, ideas, figures, and sets are developed and animated – with a particular focus on upcycling and a sustainable approach to the environment.

A workshop with an urban walk to capture structures in the city, followed by an exhibition and publication.

Four cultural institutions come together under one roof.

Bildungszentrum Innenstadt | Podium für Wissen und Partizipation

Live music and contemporary art come together in the Städel Garden.

A magazine featuring accessible shops for people with disabilities.

Anti-fascist protest songs are translated into artificial birdsong and resound in public spaces.

Freitagsküche as a democratic art space.

Developing democratic interaction spaces.

A participatory exhibition with workshops in schools on the topic of plastics.

An educational role-play game in a converted 20-metre articulated bus.

The exhibition presents current exemplary picture books on the topic of democracy, including high-quality picture book design “made in Frankfurt.”

An exhibition on urban change and gentrification presents perspectives on displacement and transformation.

Improving politics through design-based methods.

Three artistic AR interventions in the Bahnhofsviertel question and promote the democratization of digital space.

Exhibition on the theme: Thinking in cycles for a liveable future.

Living climbing plants open up a new perspective on urban greening and serve as a model for other cities.

Capturing and sharing places that are accessible to everyone through drawing.

Students are shaping a public space for exchange and community.

A neglected green space within Block-10 becomes a sculpture garden.

People gather in public spaces to sing together, creating a sense of community!

Opening of an open space for architects to reflect on the social responsibility of their practice.

The aim is to develop a distinctive place for the city of the European Parliament – a space dedicated to celebrating Europe’s multilingualism and fostering dialogue across social and cultural milieus.

A neglected site in Offenbach becomes a testing ground.

Shared cooking experiences for people with diverse cultural backgrounds, abilities and skills.

For the preservation of a self-managed, non-commercial art and cultural space.

In Wiesbaden, a new MTB trail is planned – from the Platte toward Rabengrund.

Photo series and eat-art-performances about food.

Two raised beds with trees and wild undergrowth at Frankfurts Kleinmarkthalle are being transformed into an inviting meeting place.

Well-designed route guidance and an online portal with an interactive map.

Interdisciplinary research project on the post-migrant urban society.

Architektur der Nachkriegsmoderne und heutige Gestaltung in der RheinMain-Region.

With content input from Frankfurt initiatives, students at the HfG design fonts for a poster campaign.

An open retreat of calm in the midst of the bustling city centre.

An interdisciplinary hackathon will be held in the areas of design, content and programming.

The festival for the independent performing arts in Frankfurt and the surrounding region.

A bar built collectively from natural materials – a symbol of participation, democracy in action and culture.

Redesign this important place from pen to ballot box in student designs.

Stories to listen to tell the democratic history of Frankfurt RheinMain.

Empty retail spaces are filled with cultural content.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the New Frankfurt.

A concept for the foyer, courtyard and access routes, developed by raumlabor berlin.

Accessible and engaging – good design for citizen participation.

Students work together with school pupils to design classrooms for democratic work and learning.

With the mobile gardens students combine sustainable design, social interaction and ecological responsibility.

A funeral church for everybody.

Using street photography of public spaces, to show how important encounters and dealing with differences are for democratic coexistence.

An urban art and education project promoting legal graffiti in Frankfurt’s public spaces.

31 visions for the art library. Sharing resources and shaping the Kulturcampus together.

Students at BGBA Hanau engage in creative dialogue with the urban community to develop ideas that improve the quality of life and living.

The social design project explores what provides stability and how individuals and societies can maintain stance in challenging times.

Discussion on today's global crises between committed and competent personalities in front of an audience.

Promoting preventive measures through social dialogues.

In two formats, build a resilient community of solutions that initiates tangible change.

A new meeting place for the neighbourhood.

Collective, open construction and design days in the open neighbourhood space at Jordanstraße 3.

With the help of augmented reality, site-specific installations, performances, and interventions emerge, accessible both on-site and digitally.

A documentary about Schütte-Lihotzky and the Frankfurter Küche.

Climate community street play in urban areas affected by climate change.

Members of open workshops are gathering to discuss the sustainable and social aspects of their work and share their experiences.

Ideas for a more attractive learning and living environment are being developed and realized in collaboration with professionals from architecture, art, and design.

Residents and experts collaboratively design a square in their neighbourhood.

A pop-up installation with narrative impulses in public spaces.

The project offers people from diverse groups and cultures in Frankfurt the opportunity to share their stories.

Affordable living for people with and without disabilities.

A workshop series for learning basic craft skills.

Booty Bounce is a performance project over several months that puts queer BIPoC FLINTA* individuals in Frankfurt in the spotlight, while fostering their participation in the cultural scene.

The project examines the extent to which current design standards enable or hinder access to housing for broad sections of society throughout the building life cycle.

A temporary experimental field, a meeting place and a research project on the subject of building and design with a view to developing sustainable, aesthetic and inclusive living environments.

An urban planning student project with a subsequent exhibition in the summer semester of 2026.

Interested parties are invited to make themselves at home in the rooms, try out materials and engage in conversation. There are workshops, open workshop days and a closing event.

An open, auditory archive, a participatory podcast designed to capture different perspectives from east and west.

Various carriages featuring sustainable and responsible content are being developed.

A sound art initiative in the RheinMain region that reimagines church spaces as social and acoustic resonating spaces.

A participatory theatre installation in public space: people can spontaneously win a change in perception on the giant wheel of fortune.

An annual event format that invites discussion on current topics in the field of design and society.

Based on interdisciplinary methods, visitors engage in collective explorations that resonate with public space, re-appropriate it in new ways, and learn from one another through guided dialogue.

An intervention in an urban space perceived as neglected.

Inclusive kiosk for Frankfurt.

In the series of events, in cooperation with the Deutscher Werkbund Hessen e.V. and other partners, ideas and demands for quality are discussed on the basis of various socially relevant topics.

The exhibition sets out to discover how Hanau designs shaped our everyday lives in the past and are shaping our future.

A conference focused on exploring ways to design participatory and democratic processes.

Innovative economic models for the equitable design of the economy and society are developed.

As part of the Hessian Documentary Film Day LETs DOK in Q3/2026, a two-part film forum with an accompanying programme will be organised.

A literary series featuring discussions on current publications on the topic of design for democracy.

With the Ideas Lab, the project sets out in search of the blank spots on the map of sustainable building.

A congress attended by 120 to 150 experts from the fields of sociology, geography, creative disciplines and practical areas.

An intercultural space for exchange – participatory, sustainable city activation.