News

Paolo Tumminelli on how to keep the Automobile relevant

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Un/Making Matters, Practices and Imaginaries

June, 23rd 2021

News

KISD mourns the death of Michael Erlhoff

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Dina Benbrahim

July, 14th 2021

Project

KISD @ Photoszene Exhibition May 2021

News

»resilient and agile« as Topic for the BA-Application Process

Public Events ,Talks

How to quit your day job to turn it into your dream job (and other clickbaity life hacks)

Project

Speed

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Design Activism and Democracy ”

Project

Project Series “Vehicle Concepts“

Public Talks

Archive Afterlife

Project

The Golf Ball Car: An Aerodynamic Analysis in the Context of a Self-Initiated Project

Public Talks

Designing for Liberation

Project

Mono Cut

News

Kölner Design Preis 2020 to KISD Graduate Pia-Marie Stute

Public Events ,Presentations

Final Presentations

Project

Laser Sintering of Metal

News

Cumulus Association Launches Online Platform CumulusConnects.org

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Theories and Practice of Design

Project

TOYU – A Self-Initiated Project by KISD Students Being Among the Finalists of Toyota Design Competition 2018

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Teaching Sustainability”

Project

Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies: KISD at Simultan Festival Timișoara

News

ökoRAUSCH Design & Sustainability Festival

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “KISDgoes Asia”

Project

RoboLAB: An Inclusive Art Space for Cologne.

News

M.A. Integrated Design

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Theories and Practice of Design

Project

Knowing [by] Designing

News

»Difference« as Topic for the BA-Application Process

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “How Many Female Type Designers Do You Know?“


Project

Online-Colloquium »Design promoviert«

News

Embedding Data Competence into Teaching: Data Literacy Initiative of TH Köln Receives Financial Support of German Stifterverband

Public Conferences ,Events

KISDconference 2021: ATTENDING [TO] FUTURES

November, 18th 2021

Project

Assemble | Disassemble

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “KISDgoes Europe”

Project

Gleisland – Straßenland | PASSAGEN 2020

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Laborious Intelligence“

Project

“Shelter of Love“ – A Spatial Narrative of the Christmas Story

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: KISD the Animals

Project

Zukunftslabor (FutureLab)

News

KISD mourns the loss of Heinz Bähr

Public

Friday Presentation! Freitagspräsentation!

Project

Lucitopia Rural Design Challenge

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “MEDes night“

Project

The Invisible City

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: Social Fermentation: Grassroots Movements as Starter Cultures for Transition

Project

»Real-Time City« – A New Research Center at TH Köln

News

KISD student Valentin Schlitt wins 33rd edition of Nationwide Poster Competition of German Student Union

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Robots, Science, and Artistic Revolutionary Practices”

Project

Beyond the Senses

News

Establishing a Global Design Conversation about “Emerging Formats”

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “KISDgoes Latin America”

Project

How to Ask the Right Questions

Public Events ,Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Color, Space, and Society”

Project

Design for Additive Manufacturing

Public Events ,Exhibitions

Online KISDparcours

Project

This is Design – Envisioning Methods and Processes

News

Screen Spaces

Public Events ,Exhibitions ,parcours

Online in July, On-Site in November: KISDparcours 2020

Project

Hyper Machines – Kinetic Independency

Public

Meet+Greet MA Integrated Design

Project

Designing Meaningful Textures

News

Dr. Lasse Scherffig Will Be KISD-Professor for “Interaction Design”

Public Events ,Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Searching for New Ways of Creative Expression”

Project

Voodoo Resistor Club –KISD at Meta Marathon 2019

News

M.A. »Integrated Design«: Application Period from August 1st – October 1st

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Street Haunting”

Project

IoT at the Zoo

Public Events ,Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Experimenting with Obsolescence “

Project

Waldweg – Museum’s Night 2018

News

KISDsummit: “Design Education: Global Issues in Regional Contexts. Focus Israel“

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Designing Alternative Futures with Migrant Communities in West-Africa

Project

100 years of womens suffrage

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Returning to the Dynamics of Air”

Project

Future of Work

News

“soft/hard” as Topic for the BA-Application Process

Public Events

Online-Colloquium »Design promoviert«

Project

Open Press Project

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “YOUR CHOICE: Analogue Opportunist or Progressive Optimist? – An Invitation to Participate in System Change”

Project

Motion Experience Lab #02: Visual Music – Loops in Space / KISD SS 2017

News

KISD Project as Starting Point: German Design Award Gold 2018 for radius Wheelchair

Public Events

Finissage “The Shelter of Love“

Project

Countdown to the Future

Public Talks

KISDtalk: “On Expression, Control and Affordance in Musical Instrument Design“

Project

Floating Venice

News

KISDannual 2016/17 online

Public Lectures

KISDlecture: Schrödinger’s Black Box

Project

Heterotopias: Fourth Workshop of the Global Design Initiative

News

“KISDconnect“: Students and Companies Come Together

Public Conferences ,Events

KISDconference 2020 »The Invisible City«

Project

Smart Digital Services

Public Events ,Talks

Reflection on How to Design for Multi-Sensory Experiences

Project

Fanzine

News

Fellow of Musashino Art University

Public Talks

KISDtalk: “All about MEDes”

Project

“Grün Säen”

Public Events

Vernissage of the Exhibition “text & form”

Project

Stein gehabt! – Und was dann? A project with Carglass®

News

“Kölner Design Preis”: First and Third Place for KISD Graduates

Public Events ,Lectures

Which Way Is It Going? (Cars on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) – Lecture by Prof. Paolo Tumminelli

Project

Paper Costumes

News

Application Period for Master “Integrated Design”: August 1 – October 1

Public Lectures

Service Design and Choreography, by Prof. Birgit Mager

Project

Reconnecting Things

News

KISDparcours 2016

Public Events ,Talks

»Service can be fun!«

Project

The Motion Experience Lab

News

Electric Screwdrivers’ Race 2016: KISD Ranks Third Place

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Museumsnacht Köln

Museums’ Night Cologne 2019: KISD with Exhibition “Utopia 2020″

Project

The Hacking Orchestra The Unexplored Pitch in the Misapplication of Ordinary Things

News

KISD graduates receive “Design Plus Award“

Public Events

“The Walk“

Project

Arrival City. Designing the Urban Commons

News

KISD – Köln International School of Design hosts “Global Design Initiative“

Public Events ,Exhibitions

Exhibition: Print is not dead/The post-digital condition at Künstlerhaus Dortmund

Project

This is Design – Envisioning Methods and Processes

News

Nina Juric New Professor for the KISD-discipline “Image and Motion“

Public Cologne Design award ,Events ,Exhibitions

Kölner Design Preis 2019 Award Ceremony

Project

Cooperation Project with BVIB – French Chablis Wine Association

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,parcours

KISDparcours 2019

Project

Designing Smart Healthcare

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

“The Next Textile“ and “Criminalizing Design“

Project

Fresh Air at KISD

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019

“Emerging Formats” Designing Global Collaborations to Build Institutional Strategies

Project

Exploring “Innovation From Tradition“

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Eating, Speculating and Growing New Ways of Living and Designing

Project

Communicating Democracy in Design and Politics: KISD Project “Vienna“ Cooperates with Austrian Parliament

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

The Digital Tipping Point Is Now

Project

3D-Printing-Design Award: KISD Project “sonogrid“ Among Top 5

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Beautiful Anarchy: The Work of Johan Thorn Prikker

Project

Absent Horse

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Design for Social Impact.

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Trial and error – Reflections on how to run a design practise (without preparation)

Project

Future Financial Services

Project

Photosynthesis

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

How Tools Influence the Way We Work

Project

Deutscher Kamerapreis (German Camera Award)

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Modes of Inquiry

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Affirming Potential. Design and Cohabitation

Project

Our Own Place in the Sun

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Staging HAPTICA

Project

Bionic – Flying

Public Events

Start of Application Period for the BA »Integrated Design«

Project

Electric Screwdrivers’ Race 2016


Public Events Annual 2019 ,Exhibitions

Making Home. Zuhause in der Fremde gestalten

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Exhibitions

The Invisible City

Project

Topologies of Transformation, Berlin and Hanoi

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Let’s Talk about … Design

Project

Fragrance

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

3D CG – Overcoming the Indirectness of Media and Interface

Project

Glass-Objects and the Interference of Colours

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Social Design Circle

Project

Let’s play

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Securing the Internet of Things: Autonomous Cars and Hardware Trojans

Project

When it gets dark it starts

Public Events ,Events Annual 2019 ,Exhibitions

Beyond the Senses

Project

School garden was yesterday

Public Lectures

Behavioral Change through Design – Lecture by Prof. Birgit Mager

Project

The discovery of typography

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Global Alphabet – Creating a Cultural Bridge through Type Design

Project

Material as actor

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Kurzfilmprojekt »90«

Public Cologne Thumper ,Events Annual 2019 ,Exhibitions

“Kölner Klopfer“ to Builders Club

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Public Design – Why Engagement Matters

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

OpenStructures Thinking inside the Box

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Designing Future Mobility Service Experiences

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Exploring Spaces through the Eyes of Urban Design

Public Events Annual 2019 ,Museumsnacht Köln

Museum’s Night 2018: KISD with Exhibition “WaldWeg“


Public Events Annual 2019 ,Talks

Emotional Basecoat – Designing Color for Automotives

Public Exhibitions ,parcours

KISDparcours 2018

Public Events ,Exhibitions

Joint Project with RMIT: Pop-Up Store Opening in Cologne’s Belgian Quarter

Public Conferences

Summit Design Education: Global Issues in Regional Context Focus Israel

Public Events ,Lectures

Prof. Birgit Mager: The New Magicians

Public Talks

Designing for Life Enriching Experiences

Public Talks

Laboratory of Narrative Materials

Public Talks

Getting the Creeps – The Adventure of Managing Design Projects

Public Talks

Airline Branding – a Personal Story

Public Talks

Diversity in Practice and Theory. A Speech about Contrasts.

Public Talks

Clash of Realities – Designing Experiments in Code and Technology

Public Talks

Art for the (wannabe) Psychopath: Binary Primitivism

Public Talks

“What Is It Like to Be a Machine?”

Public Events ,KISDconnect

KISDconnect 2018

Public Talks

Video Killer

Public Talks

The Future of Mental Wellbeing Services

Public Talks

Matter Matters

Public Talks

Sooth Me, Wow Me: My Cross-Disciplinary, Multi-Personality Romance with Light

Public Talks

The Art of Aggressive Humanism

Public Talks

The zoOHPraxiscope, a Project in Applied Media Archaeology

Public Talks

Smart Cities – Smart Citizens

Public Exhibitions ,Museumsnacht Köln

Museums’ Night 2017: KISD turns into an “emotion lab

Public Talks

Poetry Is the New Black – The Renaissance of the Tangible

Public Cologne Design award ,Exhibitions

“Cologne Design Prize“- 2017 Award Ceremony

Public Talks

Debunking Naturalness: Wetware Art and Greenness Studies

Public Talks

Projecting as Cultural Gesture

Public Events

Last counseling service in sommer term 2017

Public Events

KISDedition Release Party

Public Events

World Refugee Day 2017: KISD Shows “Where Is Home?”-Exhibition

Public Exhibitions ,parcours

KISDparcours 2017

Public Conferences

33pt Graphic Design Conference at KISD

Public Conferences

Mit weit geschlossenen Augen.
Virtuelle Realitäten entwerfen

Public Events ,KISDconnect

KISDconnect

Public Talks

Oriental and Occidental Positions: Exploring Gendered Spaces in Design

Public Talks

Citizenship, Service Design and Contemporary Society: An Unholy Trinity

Public Talks

Algorithms in Public Space

Public Talks

About Practical Research in Design

Public Talks

The City: Perceptions and Interpretations of Urban Spaces

Public Talks

Civic Design for a Civic City

Public Talks

International Design

Public Talks

Brötchentüte – Design and Culinary Diversity

Public Talks

Art and Type

Public Events

“Service Design and Innovation Conference“ at KISD

Public Cologne Design award

Kölner Design Preis – 2016 Award Ceremony

Public Exhibitions ,Museumsnacht Köln

Museums’ Night 2016: KISD hosting the exhibition “The Dark Side of Design“

Public Talks

A Designerly Way of Mapping and Shaping Urban Experiences

Public Talks

Technology in Performance

Public Talks

Theatre as Architecture Architecture as Theatre

Public Talks

How to Design in a Social Responsible and Gender Sensitive Way?

Public Talks

How Art Seduces

Public Talks

The Future of Work Is Romantic

Public Talks

Speculative Design

Public Talks

The Need for Water Design Principles

Public Talks

A Touch of Code

Public Talks

Artisanal Textiles in Contemporary Contexts

Public Talks

Experimental Joys and Philosophical Toys

Public Talks

The Re-Wilding Provocation

Public Talks

Integrated Humanitarian Design in Action

Public Exhibitions ,parcours

KISDparcours 2016

Public Events

KISDedition Release Party

Public Events

“Meet & Greet“ MA Integrated Design

Public Conferences

33pt I DONT CARE

Public Cologne Thumper ,Exhibitions

“Cologne Thumper” 2016 to Mike Meiré

Public Talks

Branding Customer Experience

Public Talks

Nguyen The Son: The Artificial Landscape of Vietnam

Public Talks

Benny Ding Leong: Embrace Sustainable Future, Forego Tangible Design?

Public Talks

Michael Wolf: Designing Interactive Learning Environments

Public Talks

J. Paul Neeley: A New Kind of Design Understanding Complexity and Computational Irreducibility in Design

Public Talks

Patricia Hepp: What Surrounds Us? Speculating on Our Designed Ambiance

Public Talks

Dr. Alexander Koutamanis: Affordances, Use and Design

Public Conferences

Grow | Degrow. Design zwischen Exzess und Kalkül

Public Talks

Christian Schäfer: Chinese Whispers

Public Talks

Kuai Shen: “Viral Ecologies. The Parasite, the Social Contagion and the Internet”

Public Conferences

Service Design – Redefining the Meaning of Design

Public Conferences

Who Designs the City?

Public Conferences

Design of Operative Images