KOMMUNIKATIVE!

KOMMUNIKATIVE! Design, Education, City, Society – Institute for New Technical Form, 18 October to 7 November 2026

A collaboration between the Department of Design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and the Heinrich Böll Foundation Hesse. Curated by Tobias Katz, Gesa Foken and Christian Driesen.

The understanding of design shaped by industrialisation is characterised by an awareness of opportunities for social participation. Young designers in particular are guided by a civic-minded approach to design and use their design-based capabilities to further develop a democratic society. The exhibition KOMMUNIKATIVE! showcases final-year and course projects from Darmstadt, Würzburg and Düsseldorf – Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences/Department of Design; Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences/Faculty of Design; Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences/Peter Behrens School of Arts Düsseldorf/Department of Architecture – and opens up the exhibition space for workshops, lectures and discussions with the wider community.

Works by: Katharina Wildanger, Christine Bruegel, Simon Kähler, Lena Breidenbach, Lemmi Karnop, Paul Abendschein, Benjamin Fuchs, Johannes Gärtner, Céline Bärz, Ella Haun, Marlene Kuhn, Stephanie Merz, Elias Khater, Lena Beckmann, Kianush Marvymofrad, Emilie Müschen, Jan Wagner, Lukas Wellhausen, Melanie Schablack, Kiki Sandoval Pickert, Meret Recker, Rica Weißenbruch, Donja Zahedi Saysan, Sören Hartmann.

Dates

Sun 18.10., 12:00: Vernissage, talks by Lena Beckmann and Kiki Sandoval Pickert

Wed 21.10., 18:00: Talk by Jan Bonny

Wed 28.10., 18:00: Workshop with Lemmi Karnop
Wed 4 Nov, 6 pm: Talk by Jonas Löschau

Thu 05.11., 18:00: Workshop with Christine Bruegel

Sat 07.11., 15:00: Finissage, talks by Lena Breidenbach and Katharina Wildanger

Initiated and curated by three members of the Department of Design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences: Prof. Tobias Katz (Spatial Design and Exhibition Design), Prof. Dr. Gesa Foken (Didactics and Research in Art and Design) and Prof. Dr. Christian Driesen (Design and Transformation, Theory). Funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Hesse. Hosted by the Institute for New Technical Form (INTeF) in Darmstadt.