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 soft opening will take place on Saturday, 24 January 2026, starting at 10 a.m.

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.