WDC 2026
For 10 days, more than 150 studios, companies, universities and institutions across the Frankfurt RheinMain region will open their doors. The Open – Design Week Frankfurt RheinMain offers insights into how design takes shape in practice – from crafts and the creative industries to research, technology and industry. 4 Focus Days put a Spotlight on Frankfurt, Offenbach, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden. 7 Spaces serve as thematic hubs.
As part of the New European Bauhaus Festival, the Open is integrated into a Europe-wide network for design, innovation, and social change. Discover places that are usually not accessible, meet the people behind the ideas and experience how design contributes to new solutions.
The Programme – browse the programme here and filter by day and theme



Highlights during the Open

WDC-Hub – Next Generation Space
This space focuses on design education, cultural production and sustainable consumption.

Massif E – Worldwide Creatives Space
A meeting point for international creatives and the regional scene, featuring exhibitions, talks and film programmes.

Neue Kaiser – Creative Value Space
This venue highlights design as an economic driver and a catalyst for innovation.

Danzig am Platz – Shared Resources Space
Projects on architecture, urban development and new forms of living together.
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Designhaus Darmstadt – Innovative Industries Space
Materials, production and technologies at the intersection of design and industry.

Circle Cube – Circular Construction Space
New approaches to resource conservation and practical insights into how key players in circular construction collaborate across.

WerkRaum Wiesbaden – Future Community Space
The WerkRaum Wiesbaden connects design, urban development, and new forms of living together.
Guided Tours
©HalloBasisTips: Where Designers Eat
During their annual field trips to European design events, the design studio HalloBasis discovered that culinary experiences and connections with locals are just as inspiring and defining for a journey as the official creative programme itself.
With the Open Design Week taking place right on their doorstep in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region, the team is shifting roles from guest to host. This perspective shift inspired the culinary travel guide ‘Where Designers Eat’.
Curated together with local creatives, the guide contains personal gastro recommendations for any time of day, vibe, and budget, inviting you to discover the region off the beaten track.
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions about the Open
Open Partners Focus Days
Focus Day Frankfurt
- PHOENIX-Zukunftswerkstatt
- WEFRA LIFE
- ARTUS interactive
- Trickfilmland und Playlist4You GmbH
- DAMM & BIERBAUM
- unit-design
- NSYNK Gesellschaft für Kunst und Technik
- Barski Design
- Goldschmiede am Park
- MESO Digital Interiors
- whywedo.
- stengele+cie.
- sichtfeld Landschaftsarchitektur
- Studio Jonathan Radetz: Planspiel New Neues Frankfurt
- Verlag form
- Atelier Markgraph
- PSM&W Kommunikation
- MAPP media
- hauser lacour
- AMMON STUDIO
- keinStil.
- STANDARD RAD.
- nitz-Porzellan
- Quartier Frau
- Democratising AI for Marketing & Keep Your Data Safe
- Ausstellungstalk mit Cornelius Réer
- Moogoo Creative Africa
- kama architekten
- Print now – Riot later
- ma ma Interactive System Design
- AMMON STUDIO
- GABC, Agentur für Corporate Branding – Identity, Strategy, Design
- JOP Architekten und Oxygen at work
- R3ASON AI Business Studio
- SPACE AT SQUARE - Conscious Fashion & Design Spot
- LAX CYCLES
- A Pyramid of Tiles
- Ag Jewelry
- Mühleck-Designbüro
- Studio Sasch
- Hafen der Hoffnung – Design, Beats & Friedensvisionen
- Studio leramics
- Studio Linné
- Kardham P.O.T.
- andless
- MFA - Material für Alle
- INTERZONE
- e15 Design und Distributions GmbH
- MAINFILM GmbH
- Democracy on a Shirt
- Future Thinking in 2 Stunden: Klarer sehen, besser entscheiden
- Creative Technology Incubator & Studio Wagner: Design
- Urban Now Lab / DDC
Focus Day Offenbach
- Büro Schramm für Gestaltung – Design mit klarer Haltung
- Kastner Frankfurt
- madhat GmbH
- Sanja Zivo Design Studio
- HDW Design GmbH
- IHK Offenbach am Main
- Heyne Kunst Fabrik gGmbH
- AD&VISION Agentur für Kommunikation GmbH
- NINONE
- AdditiveCeramics
- radraum e.V.
- formwandler interactive
- Open Doors im Circle Cube
Focus Day Darmstadt
- CREATUR
- KrænkVisuell
- Literaturhaus Darmstadt / Kunst Archiv Darmstadt
- HUB31 Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Verwaltungs-GmbH
- whythefriday, Kramm&Strigl, studio cg
- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
- Riese & Müller
- SCHUMACHER Brand + Interaction Design
- fp.formgebung
- Luise-Büchner-Bibliothek (Literaturhaus)
- prosa Architektur + Stadtplanung BDA
- Atelier Löwentor
- social.form
- A Step Ahead / Einen Schritt voraus
- Webseite Event: meso-test
- Das INTeF – Designgeschichte(n) in Gegenständen
- Digitalagentur amce studios GmbH
Focus Day Wiesbaden
- cicero
- 3DELUXE
- Kraft & Adel
- Eibes Identity Matters
- whywedo.
- hesh.
- VANDERLICHT
- Lekkerwerken
- Scholz & Volkmer
- fotostudio 9
- Fuenfwerken
- MotelOne
- Kick-off zum Fokustag Wiesbaden & Design Walk
- freyhauer
- Studio für nachhaltiges Design
- BOMBER
- innen_architekten BALS+WIRTH
- Bürogemeinschaft raumgesichte
- Autostrada Studios
Open Partners Spaces
Next Generation Space, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
- International Gender Design Network e. V.
- Ausstellung Form Follows Friendship
- Ausstellung Hessen Design Competition
- Motion Creation
- Dialogwerkstatt: Falling in Love with all Genders
- Designing Care Futures: Wie gestalten wir gendersensible Gesundheitsprodukte?
- Falling in Love with all Genders
- Design for Fair Futures: Wie setzen wir uns die richtigen Ziele?
- How to Gender Design
- Ausstellungseröffnung von Form Follows Friendship
- STONE - PAPER - AI
- How we learn best: Learning Sciences x Design – Workshop
- Preisverleihung Nachwuchspreis Circular Design
- Agora Hessen Design Competition
- Ausstellung Nachwuchspreis Circular Design
- Transforming Spaces: From the Inside Out
Creative Value Space, Neue Kaiser Frankfurt
- 9. Kreativwirtschaftstag
- Konferenzprogramm "Design Value"
- AUSGEZEICHNET - Design Value Made in Hessen
- Fotoausstellung Rankin
Worldwide Creative Space , Massif E
- Forward Festival
- Massif Creatif: Hermann Vaske‘s Creative Experience
- Frankfurt Europa
- Open Minds - Opening Party
- Wholetrain - Filmvorstellung und Austausch
- Fokus-Finish
- Brand Eins Talk: Echt jetzt. Ein Abend für das Analoge.
- FfmJAZZFilm
- Dream a little Cream - Wie der Rock'n'Roll nach Frankfurt kam
- Weltpremiere mit Filmgespräch: What Are People For: Design Philosophy by Patrick Whitney
- Abend-Vorstellung: What Are People For: Design Philosophy by Patrick Whitney
- Matinee-Vorstellung mit Filmgespräch: What Are People For: Design Philosophy by Patrick Whitney
- "What Are People For: Design Philosophy by Patrick Whitney" World Premiere of a new film by Gary Hustwit
Innovative Industries Space, Designhaus Darmstadt
- Revoltech GmbH in collaboration with Hessen Design e.V.
- ARTEFAKT DESIGN
- andré stocker design
- OPEN Dialogue bei Hessen Design e.V.
- z.B. Designers
- daniels + erdwiens design innovation development
Shared Resources Space, Danzig am Platz Frankfurt
- Gestaltung als Beziehung
- Schmackofatz on Tiles - A Table for Democracy
- Blind Spot Einfamilienhaus
- Duo Coffee
- Modulare Möbel
- Networking Drink Creativ’Up
- Mit Design die Sharing Society ermöglichen. Wohlstand demokratisieren. Wertschöpfung sichern. Ressourcen bewahren.
- Map/ing Sustainability: Zur Wirkmächtigkeit von Design
- Constructive Alps
- Meet & Greet with UNESCO Creative Cities
- Frankfurt x UNESCO Creative Cities
- Eröffnung Shared Resources Space
- Raw Dialogues
- Farbe des Weines – Die Weinbar am Danzig am Platz
- Aperitivo Schweizerisches Generalkonsulat
- Joy as Method
- Shifting Barcode
- Nachhaltig gestalten — ehrlich betrachtet.
- Mit Design die Sharing Society ermöglichen. Für den Wandel zu einem nachhaltigeren und sozialeren Wirtschaften.
- Mit Design der Kreislaufwirtschaft zum Durchbruch verhelfen. Industrien sichern. Umwelt schützen.
- Mit Design den Konsum demokratisieren. Nutzung neu denken. Wert schöpfen. Ressourcen schonen.
Further Partners in the Circular Construction Space, Circle Cube Offenbach and Future Community Space, WerkRaum Wiesbaden
Open Partners General Programme
- iF DESIGN STUDENT AWARD 2026 Awards Ceremony
- iF DESIGN STUDENT AWARD 2026
- Brand Experience Night
- making frankfurt: OFF THE WALL
- Aktionswochenende Off the Wall
- HfG Offenbach: Seltene Erden
- Werksführung bei Merck
- First serve
- Benedikt Seemann: Fotometrie I – Vermessung einer Stadt
- Mattia Noal: Expanded Painting
- Ressourcengarten
- CAMPUSBAULAB
- Hands-on-Workshopwoche
- keinStil.GmbH
- Horsing Around – zügelt Euch nicht
- Welterbefest Mathildenhöhe
- WE HERE: nitz-porzellan meets Carsten Fock
- Analog trifft AI – Design zwischen Autorenschaft und Algorithmen
- Design with Impact – Studentische Arbeiten
- Räume der Beteiligung – Aneignung
- IU Internationale Hochschule, Studiengang Architektur
- Let's Print Together
- Studio Linné
- Petra Blank: Show-Room – Design gestaltet Lebensraum
- Sachsen trifft Frankfurt: Design-Netzwerke für neue Innovationen
- Design 56 - Creative Spot am Oeder Weg
- Advanced Science Design Operations
- Studio Blau
- INTERZONE: Common Ground
- Nik Geene: Klangfahne / Spectral Tail
- Spanish Design Pavillon
- Reallabor THE NEW FRANKFURT – Aus Leere wird Leben
- Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau: KulturErben
- ELECTRICITY (LINE 069/FRA)
- Forest Design Workshop – Learn from Nature, Design the Future
- BDIA: Salonabend "DETAIL"
- Revalued – Material Afterlife in Fashion
- Die Fotografie und Ihre Zukunft
- Open Air Handwerksmesse
- World Industrial Design Day FRM 2026
- MFA - Material für Alle
- Spanish Design Pavillon - ein Resonanzraum für Kultur, Begegnung und urbane Imagination
- World's first podcast as a book
- andless: Hidden Values
- Gewerbeverein Brückenviertel e.V.
- Rooftop Day Frankfurt 2026
- Präsentation der Pläne zur neuen Kulturmeile Frankfurt
- Diner Meinung
- Vernissage: WORLD'S FIRST PODCAST AS A BOOK
- OFF THE WALL - Reallabor
- h_da – CAMPUSBAULAB
- Brompton × WDC 2026: Design Reveal & Social Ride


































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