WDC Hub

The WDC Hub at the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt is the central point of contact for World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhine-Main 2026. It is not conceived as a finished place, but as a space in the making — an invitation to think about, co-create and discuss design as a social practice in real time. Designed by studio formagora, the WDC Hub offers space for questions, exchange, workshops and encounters.

Two spatially connected areas — the forum and the foyer — form the framework for this. The forum is both a platform and a place to spend time: non-commercial, accessible and flexible. It serves as a meeting point for visitors, project contributors, international guests and the WDC team; a starting point for discovering the programme; and a space for spontaneous exchange, focused work or shared discussion.

The foyer complements this open space. The works presented here are deliberately not conceived as finished exhibitions, but as insights into ongoing processes, questions and open designs. Pop-up exhibitions, interventions by individual projects, temporary installations or individual works enter into dialogue with the space and its audience.

The WDC Hub is open throughout 2026, with free admission and as a non-commercial space for relaxing, reading, working and finding information. In addition, the Hub regularly hosts changing workshops by the Museum Angewandte Kunst related to the current exhibitions Wolle. Seide. Widerstand and AI-Worlding, as well as readings, talks and participatory formats. You can find further details in the WDC calendar and the museum’s calendar.

The WDC Hub was designed by studio formagora from Münster, who work at the intersection of design, craft and art. A distinctive feature of the Hub is its sustainable design: most of the materials come from previous exhibitions at the Museum Angewandte Kunst and have been reused for the new space.

WDC programme partners and interested parties are warmly invited to use the Hub for workshops, readings or events. Please feel free to get in touch directly with the WDC team.

Scenography: studio formagora (Finn Blankenberg, Esra Heuermann, Nele Heise, Nicklas Potter)
Visual identity: Jonas Deuter, Max Pietro Hoffmann
Photography: Ben Kuhlmann
Exhibition construction & Printing of wall graphics: Messegrafik & Messebau Schreiber
Light technology: Stephan Zimmermann Lightsolutions, Tobias Cunz

We would like to thank the Museum Angewandte Kunst for the generous material donation from the exhibition “Yes, We Care” and the “Jazzklub” project.