©Ben KuhlmannMedia Library
The media library offers a collection of interesting publications, our reading list, podcasts, videos, and external press coverage.
Module Festival
We’ve put together a playlist featuring artists you can see live at Module Festival. Simply click through below (using the right arrow) to get a preview!
WDCast
The WDCast ist part of our format for discourse. Read more here:
#anfangen
The first episode focuses on the key programme theme Shaping Living Environments Together.
The WDC Spotlight – #anfangen (getstarted) brings the region’s design potential to life by putting the spotlight, in several video episodes, on individual designers, institutions, and their successful projects within the WDC programme, aligned with the key WDC themes.
Learn more here:
Publications by and on key themes of WDC 2026
WDC programme
Videos & Audios
WDC 2026 in press and media
Galerie Magazine
Janet Echelman Suspends A Sky Full of Hope Sculpture Over Frankfurt
hr2 Kultur
‘A Sky Full of Hope’ – What art in public spaces can achieve
designboom
‘nature becomes the choreographer’: janet echelman on a sky full of hope in frankfurt
Journal Frankfurt
Janet Echelman’s artwork ‘A Sky Full of Hope’ at the Konstablerwache is dividing opinion. That’s a good thing, because art doesn’t have to please everyone! A plea.
F.A.Z. Rhein Main Zeitung
“Art belongs in the most public of all spaces”
F.A.Z. Rhine-Main
Using climbing plants to combat heat islands
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
‘A Sky Full of Hope’ – The impact of sculptures in public spaces
hr2 Kultur
Kraft der Visionen, ja, die braucht es jetzt! Beitrag zum WDC-Campus
dezeen
Frankfurt RheinMain hosts festival of creative events for Open – Design Week
FRAME Magazine
Designing for democracy in Frankfurt RheinMain, home to World Design Capital 2026
Frankfurter Rundschau
WDC Campus: A light drizzle on the hour: Young talents showcase ideas for the future.
Journal Frankfurt
WDC Campus: From moving bars to cool waters
Deutsches Architektenblatt
World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain: Everyone has a say
DAMN Magazine
FRANKFURT RHEINMAIN: Designing Democracy from the Ground Up
hessenschau
New highlights of the World Design Capital: Light on the Main, a workshop in the department store, a dragon in the garden
tagesschau
Artwork for the Konstabler Wache in Frankfurt: A Sky Full of Hope
F.A.Z. Rhein Main Zeitung
Sculpture set to bring the Konstablerwache to life
Frankfurter Rundschau
A huge artwork will soon be suspended above the Konstablerwache
F.A.Z. Rhein Main Zeitung
Frankfurt Airport Terminal 3: When infrastructure becomes identity / Podcast
hessenschau Kultur
What lies behind the mega-project ‘World Design Capital’
F.A.Z. Rhein Main
A laboratory for shaping democracy
hr 2 Kultur
World Design Capital Frankfurt Rhine-Main 2026 – What the region can expect / Podcast
Frankfurter Rundschau
Rhine-Main wants to shape the world as a design capital
MERIAN
Frankfurt - Lichtgestalt am Main / Podcast
ARD Audiothek / hr INFO
World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain - Ein Ausblick auf 2026 / Podcast
MONOPOL
‘We want to make it clear: we are society, we shape our lives.’
STYLEPARK
Wandel gestalten
STYLEPARK
Sonnenstrahlen fürs Stadtbild
Journal Frankfurt
Projekt „Demokratie-Kioske“ startet Anfang 2026
Baunetz
Offenes Zukunftslabor Frankfurt
Archiproducts
Die World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 stellt sich vor
Archiproducts
Die World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 stellt sich vor
