Public Events

Exhibition & Final Presentation “The Flood – Mapping Environmental Crises”

January, 27th 2026

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Karla Scherer – Community Kitchens As Platforms For Women’s Agency In Food Systems

February, 4th 2026

News

Open Access Publication Series: “un/learn ai”

Project

What is Growing here? Showreel (KITeGG)

Thesis

B.A. Thesis “I Will Rather Loose My Job to AI Than My Dad” by Dzennifer Zachlod

News

Prof. Birgit Mager Named Honorary Member of the German Design Club

Public Events ,Talks

KISDtalk: Paranoia De-Prompting

Thesis

Kölner Design Preis 2024 – MA Thesis “Memories from Above”

Project

Reducing glass waste at major events – sustainable concepts for Cologne

Thesis

B.A. thesis “aaaarchive” by Robert Halbach

Project

un-doing memory – Cologne

Thesis

BA Thesis “Strom der Zeit – Unsere Energiewende Sehen” by Carlo Hatke

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Dr. Malte Wagenfeld – Microclimate Narratives

Project

“How to show off quantum computing?” – A KISD collaboration with Parsons School of Design and DLR

Thesis

Kölner Design Preis 2024 – MA Thesis “Kühe machen Mühe”

News

Johannes Mechler wins the DSW poster competition

Public Exhibition

Post Photographic Images – International Conference & Exhibition


Project

Designing Data X Cultures

Thesis

Kölner Design Preis 2024 – BA Thesis  „Schmerzen im System“

News

KISD professor Birgit Mager honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award by ISSIP

Project

Bitter Chocolate: Making Postcolonial Perspectives Tangible

Thesis

MA Thesis “Anthropozäne Relikte –
 Remembrance culture in the digital age”

Project

Circular Services – KISD project to promote urban cleanliness in Cologne

Thesis

BA Thesis „What should I say – A multi perspective documentation format“

News

Release of the 3rd issue of the Abroad magazine

Public Events ,Ringvorlesung

Lecture Series 2026: Resisting Crisis – Resilience Strategies in the Cultural Sciences

Project

Reuse, Refurbish, Repair – repair services for Cologne’s zero-waste goals

Thesis

BA Thesis “Orca001: Organic Response to Collisions and Aftershocks” – Development of biking helmet

News

Bessie Normand präsentiert ihre Masterarbeit auf der Iteration

Project

Dainų šventė – Summer School in Vilnius

Thesis

BA Thesis “Visual Empowerment”

Project

Spatial Strategies

News

Service Design Book Relaunch – “How to Public Sector?”

News

Masterthesis “MOMENTOUS — Emerging Images from Archives” by Byron Co

Project

Surface Change – Weaving by Lotta Hagedorn

News

Kölner Design Preis 2024 – BA Thesis „Schmerzen im System“

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Henrike Leonie Mißfeldt – Blizz Harp

News

Special Issue 1: Hidden Layers – Conference Proceedings & Recordings

Public Events

M.A. Integrated Design Application period starts now!

News

Book Launch: ‘un/learn AI – approaching AI in aesthetic practices’

News

How to show off quantum computing? A KISD collaboration with Parsons School of Design and DLR

Public Presentations

Final winter semester’s Presentations

News

Kölner Klopfer 2024 – mit neuem Look!

Public Events

Un/Learn Al: Experimente, Strategien, Infrastruktur
 – Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Lasse Scherffig bei Punkt 7

News

Kölner Klopfer Award is back!

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Elodie Boyer

Public Events

Correlations – Forum for AI in Art&Design

Public Conferences

Research Symposium – Diversifying Perspectives: Dimensions of Postcolonial Memory

Public Cologne Design award ,Events ,Exhibitions

CologneDesign Prize 2024 – Award Ceremony And Exhibition

Public Talks

KISDtalk Special “Synthetic Realities”

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Eva Papaspyrou

Public Events ,Ringvorlesung

Lecture Series “Data Literacy: Ethics and Data Culture”

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Dr. Erik Sandelin

Public Events ,Ringvorlesung

Lecture Series winter semester 2024/25 – Participatory Research

Public Events ,Talks

kaethe:k Talk with Prof. Lasse Scherffig: AI – Opportunities and Barriers for Artists with Disabilities

Public Conferences ,Events Forschungstelle Echtzeitstadt

»Recalls, Reconstructions, Projections« – Book Launch at Kunsthafen Köln