Open – Design Week Frankfurt RheinMain
WDC-Hub – Next Generation Space
June 2026
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The Next Generation Space is dedicated to issues of design education, cultural production, and sustainable consumption, demonstrating how young designers are working on solutions for key challenges of the future.
Furthermore, the WDC Hub brings together emerging talent and initiatives, including the Hessen Design Competition, the International Gender Design Network, the Circular Design Award, and the exchange program 'Form Follows Friendship'.
©Ben KuhlmannJune 2026
05
Fr
14
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Ausstellung Nachwuchspreis Circular Design
The Kunstgewerbeverein Frankfurt am Main e.V. is the organiser of the Circular Design Young Talent Award 2025/26. The competition is being run in partnership with FES, Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH, and the Start-ups Working Group of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©Ben KuhlmannJune 2026
05
Fr
07
Su
Ausstellung Hessen Design Competition
Hessen Design e.V.
At the Design Hub of Museum Angewandte Kunst, the winners of the Hessen Design Competition 2025 present their interdisciplinary projects as part of an exhibition curated by Hessen Design e. V.. In addition, on 06 June an open discussion format invites conversations on design and attitude, design and method, design and impact, as well as design and education.
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
©Ben KuhlmannJune 2026
06
Sa
10:00 – 17:00
Ausstellung Hessen Design Competition
Agora Hessen Design Competition
Hessen Design e.V., World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026
At the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Hessen Design e.V. presents the exhibition and agora “WDC Open Next”, featuring works by the winners of the Hessen Design Competition 2025. The projects address social, technological, and ecological issues.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©iGDN10:00 – 18:00
09
Tu
Jun
11
Th
Jun
International Gender Design Network e.V.
Falling in Love with all Genders – Ausstellung
international Gender Design Network (iGDN e. V.)
The International Gender Design Network invites you to a three-day event focused on gender and design. The event, titled “Falling in Love with all Genders,” combines an exhibition, workshops, lectures, and discussions to highlight the diversity and social relevance of gender in design today.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©iGDNJune 2026
09
Tu
11:00 – 13:30
International Gender Design Network e.V.
Designing Care Futures: Wie gestalten wir gendersensible Gesundheitsprodukte?
International Gender Design Network & GenDiMedNet
How can we design health products that take into account different bodies, data, and life experiences? This workshop combines gender design with gender-sensitive medicine. Participants will develop future scenarios and initial criteria for more equitable health products.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©iGDNJune 2026
09
Tu
14:00 – 16:30
International Gender Design Network e.V.
Design for Fair Futures: Wie setzen wir uns die richtigen Ziele?
International Gender Design Network
How do broad concerns become effective goals? This workshop combines strategic thinking with questions of justice. After a brief introduction, participants will develop their own draft goals, realistic intermediate steps, and concrete next steps for their advocacy efforts.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©International Gender Design NetworkJune 2026
10
We
12:00 – 18:00
WDC-Campus: Dialogwerkstätten
Dialogwerkstatt: Falling in Love with all Genders
international Gender Design Network
The International Gender Design Network invites you to a three-day event focused on gender and design. The event, titled “Falling in Love with all Genders,” combines an exhibition, workshops, lectures, and discussions to highlight the diversity and social relevance of gender in design today.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©IF Design FoundationJune 2026
11
Th
10:00 – 11:30
How we learn best: Learning Sciences x Design – Workshop
iF Design Foundation
In 2026, Volume 4 of the iF Design Foundation’s “Designing Design Education” series, “Learning Sciences,” will be published. A workshop translates international learning research into practical tools for design education, teaching, learning and professional practice.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©International Gender Design NetworkJune 2026
11
Th
14:00 – 16:30
International Gender Design Network e.V.
How to Gender Design
International Gender Design Network e.V.
The workshop combines theoretical foundations with practical strategies and is aimed at anyone who not only wants to understand gender-sensitive design but also wants to actively incorporate it into their design practice.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©Lena EverdingJune 2026
13
Sa
28
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Exhibition Form Follows Friendship
German Design Council, diplomatisches Netzwerk des Königreichs der Niederlande
Collaboration becomes the starting point: young designers from Germany and the Netherlands develop new forms of working together.
Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
©Form Follows FriendshipJune 2026
13
Sa
16:00 – 18:00
Exhibition Form Follows Friendship
Form Follows Friendship – Ausstellungseröffnung
German Design Council gemeinsam mit dem diplomatischen Netzwerk des Königreichs der Niederlande und dem Creative Industries Fund NL
The exhibition Form Follows Friendship shows how design emerges when collaboration itself becomes the guiding principle. For the exhibition, six young designers from Germany and the Netherlands worked in three binational teams.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©Kunstgewerbeverein FrankfurtJune 2026
13
Sa
18:00 – 21:00
Der Nachwuchspreis Circular Design
Preisverleihung Nachwuchspreis Circular Design
The Kunstgewerbeverein Frankfurt am Main e.V. is the organiser of the Circular Design Young Talent Award 2025/26.
The Kunstgewerbeverein Frankfurt am Main e.V., in partnership with Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH (FES), the Start-ups Working Group of the Polytechnische Gesellschaft e.V., and as part of the Frankfurt Next Generation initiative, is announcing the Circular Design Emerging Talent Award 2025/2026.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
©Motion Creation DesignJune 2026
14
Su
14:30 – 18:00
Motion Creation Design
Motion Creation Design ist eine Kooperation des Hessischen Staatsballetts mit dem Studiengang „Expanded Media“ der Hochschule Darmstadt unter Prof. Thorsten Greiner und dem Künstlerkollektiv Motion Sound Creation.
Es findet im Rahmen der World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 statt.
“Motion Creation Design” is an interactive experience that merges dance, AI, and participatory art to open up new spaces for dialogue on design, society, and democracy: a collaboration between the Hessian State Ballet and the “Expanded Media” program at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
September 2026
WDC-Hub – Next Generation Space
Transforming Spaces: From the Inside Out
Rose Kaufhold
You feel stuck? Don’t know where to turn for inspiration and sthg genuinely new? Rose Kaufhold teaches you transformation from the inside out: let her guide you from perception change to application on form.
WDC-Hub im Museum Angewandte Kunst
