Köln International School of Design: KISD

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Thesis

Schreib.Freude – A typographical Experience For Pupils

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News

Garments Digital receives NRW start-up grant

Events

KISDconferences
July, 18th 2022
Ganztägig

Hidden Layers: AI & Design Summer School

KISDconferences
June, 30th 2022
Ganztägig

Open Universities – Open Stages

KISDconferences
June, 29th 2022
Ganztägig

Open Universities – Open Stages

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Apply at KISD

News

KISDparcours – Come and join us!

Public Conferences

Hidden Layers: AI & Design Summer School

Project

»Chile Despertó« – Spaces of Protest

Thesis

Moments in Space: Post-traumatic Spaces in Places of Conflict (M.A.) Sally Loutfy

News

Poster competition Studentenwerk: KISD student wins 3rd prize

Public Presentations

This summer semester’s final Presentations – Update

Project

Networked Travel Images

Thesis

PRO:PER – Productivity Perspectives (B.A.) by Luna Smolka

News

Animation in X-Reality. Summer School in Vilnius

Public Events ,parcours

KISDparcours 2022

Project

Private Spaces

Thesis

Synthesizing Meaning – Designing a production pipeline for the artistic appropriation of generative Machine Learning to mediate speculative concepts (M.A.) Lisa-Marleen Mantel & Laura Wagner

News

Important dates for the MA Integrated Design Research

Public Exhibition

Infrastructures on Hold

Project

KISDedition Release 2022

Thesis

Screen Spaces (B.A.) Juliane Ahn

News

How studying at KISD changed my perspective on design

Public Workshop

Open Universities – Open Stages

Project

Animation in X-Reality – Summer School in Vilnius

The Visualization of Culture — A Middle Eastern Exploration of Identity and Representation

Thesis

The Visualization of Culture – A Middle Eastern Exploration of Identity and Representation (M.A.) Katie Murdoch

News

KISD graduates present their project at the Centre Pompidou

Public Workshop

Open Universities – How do we want to learn?

Project

Borrowed Limbs – An experimental short film

Installation with projection and interactive platform

Thesis

Between Ideologies and Freedom (M.A.) Patricia Vidal

News

Application BA »Integrated Design«: »DESIGN: GRENZE | BOUNDARY«

Public Exhibition

»Chile Despertó« – Spaces of protest

Project

DEBUG – VR Experience Against Racism | re:publica 22

Music non-isolated: The impact of filter bubble on users in music streaming

Thesis

Music non-isolated: The impact of filter bubble on users in music streaming (M.A.) Yushi Chen

News

New Study Opportunities for Ukranian Design Students

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Jennifer Schubert, Seçil Uğur Yavuz, Kris Krois

Project

»Büro für dokumentarische Angelegenheiten« during the exhibition »Akademie [Arbeitstitel]«

Neither here, nor there. A meditation on death

Thesis

Neither here, nor there. A meditation on death (M.A.)Tanja Müller

News

Two new books published by KISDedition

Public Events

What about us, Europe? – The Potato Lab in Ebertplatz

Project

The Unfolding Space Glove: Application-Oriented Basic Research on an Assistive Device for the Visually Impaired

Thesis

City On Demand: How On-Demand Service Providers Are Changing Urban Space (M.A.) Juliane Ahn

News

Cologne Design Price 2021: Awardees

Public Presentations

KISDfriday Presentations on 10th June

Project

Taking public participation a step further: MeinungsMobil for the city of Cologne

emis

Thesis

»try e.m.i.s. now« – An immersive live performance and virtual reality theater experience (M.A.) Carolin Schabbing

News

Professorship for Design, Industries & Technologies

Public Presentations

KISDfriday Presentations on 3rd June

Project

“Shut up and Listen” – The Intermediate by Maayan Reiter is screening at Museum Ludwig

Thesis

“She cares, do you?” – Female Healthcare Professionals During The Pandemics (B.A.) Estelle Corban

News

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Max Kuwertz

Project

re–action | KISD-Exhibition in Berlin on Radicalization

Thesis

Algorithmic Turn – Invisible Images Of Algorithmic Surveillance (B.A.) by Sten Rüdrich

News

„Cologne Thumper“ to Slanted Publishers

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Franz Blach: Designing for Solutions, Systems & Societies

Project

2D adventure in cooperation with the CGL

Thesis

Scalar Crevices: Reorientation at the Planetary Scale (B.A.) by Tonda Budszus

News

50 Years TH Köln – 30 Years KISD

Public Talks

Max Pietro Hoffmann: “How to start a design studio”

Project

Methods Lab: The Digital in the Analogue

Thesis

The Unfolding Space Glove: A Wearable Spatio-Visual to Haptic Sensory Substitution Device for Blind People (M.A.) Jakob Kilian

News

Paolo Tumminelli on how to keep the Automobile relevant

Public Presentations

KISD friday presentations

Project

SIP-Project: Art direction and set design for a short movie

Thesis

Epidemic Geographies: From Infographics to Cartography (B.A.) by Finn Steffens

News

KISD mourns the death of Michael Erlhoff

Public Events

KISDedition Release Party

Project

Sensemaking Abandonment

News

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

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Zsófia Szonja Illés

Project

Making Home

News

New Research Training Group “connecting – excluding”

Public Events ,Exhibitions

“Shut up and Listen” – The Intermediate by Maayan Reiter is screening at Museum Ludwig

Project

Integrated Interactions Lab

KISD-Absolvent Leon Schniewind (zw. von links) arbeitet mit einem internationalen Team am neuen Erscheinungsbild der documenta fiftteen 2022.

News

documenta 2022: KISD-Graduate Leon Schniewind Member of the Development Team for the New Visual Design

Public Events ,Exhibitions

Exibition “De-Coding Sophie. NOW!”

Project

Identity of the TH Köln

News

“Sir Misha Black Memorial Medal” to Prof. Birgit Mager

Public Talks

“The Quality of Designs is the Quality of the World” with Kai Gehrmann

Project

Beyond the Senses

News

Kölner Design Preis 2020 to KISD Graduate Pia-Marie Stute

Public Events ,Presentations

KISD SIP und MIP Presentations

Project

Inclusive Refugee Housing

Public Events ,Exhibitions ,Internal

What About Us, Europe?

Project

Research Center »Echtzeitstadt | Real-Time City«

News

Cumulus Association Launches Online Platform CumulusConnects.org

Public Events

KISD Friday Presentations

Project

Robotic Operations – Human and Machine in the Surgical Network

News

Green Concept Award to KISD Graduate Katharina Querbach

Public Lectures

KISDlecture with Prof. Nina Juric

Project

Open Universities – City of Participative Visions

Public Cologne Design award

Cologne Design Price: Award Ceremony on January 2022

Project

The Invisible City

Public Events

MEDes night

Project

Screen Spaces

Public Events ,Presentations

Friday Presentations

Project

With Eyes Wide Shut: Designing Virtual Realities

Public Events

Ring Ring: “Shape Shifting Liveness” (online AV performance show)

Project

Making AI Tangible And Comprehensible: Connecting Technology And Society Through Design – KITeGG

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Jens Heinen

Project

Assemble – Disassemble

Public Exhibitions

Chile Unfolded

Project

Gleisland – Straßenland

Public Talks

»Design for the Arse«

Project

Communication of the Information Center for Life Sciences (ZB MED)

Public Talks

What is the significance of New German Design today? An early look at digitalization.

Project

Online Communication of Cologne’s Municipal Civic Centers

Public Cologne Thumper ,Exhibitions

And the Winner Is…

Project

Public Participation in the City of Cologne

Public Events ,Exhibitions

Politics of the Machines: Rogue Research. Critical approaches to artificial intelligence by KISD students

Project

Research Focus »Digital Technologies and Social Services« (DITES)

Public Events

MEET+GREET M.A. Integrated Design

Project

Inclusive Development of Methods and Technologies for Supporting Everyday Activities of Young People with Special Needs (INTIA)

Public Exhibitions

RoboLAB Odonien 2021: KISD students present prototypes for an accessible Odonien

Project

Heart Signs

Public Events ,Presentations

Final Presentations

Project

RoboLAB Odonien: Prototyping Accessibility and Inclusion

emis

Public Events ,Exhibitions

»try e.m.i.s. now« – An immersive live performance and virtual reality theater experience

Project

Blind Spots – Urban Network Spaces in Photography

Public Events ,Presentations

Presentation Series »KISDgoes«

Project

Methods Lab: Design as a Practice of Correspondence

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Art Driven Research and Design

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MethodsLab II – Design as a Practice of Correspondence

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Dina Benbrahim

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KISD @ Photoszene Exhibition May 2021

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Un/Making Matters, Practices and Imaginaries

Project

Speed

Public Events ,Talks

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

Project

Project Series “Vehicle Concepts“

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Design Activism and Democracy ”

Project

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

Public Talks

Archive Afterlife

Project

Mono Cut

Public Talks

Designing for Liberation

Project

Laser Sintering of Metal

Public Events ,Presentations

Final Presentations

Project

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

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Theories and Practice of Design

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Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies: KISD at Simultan Festival Timișoara

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Teaching Sustainability”

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “KISDgoes Asia”

Public Talks

KISDtalk: Theories and Practice of Design

Public Talks

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

Public Conferences ,Events

KISDconference 2021: ATTENDING [TO] FUTURES

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “KISDgoes Europe”

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Laborious Intelligence“

Public Talks

KISDtalk with Thomas Hawranke: KISD the Animals

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Friday Presentation! Freitagspräsentation!

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “MEDes night“

Public Talks

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

Public Talks

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

Public Talks

Online KISDtalk: “KISDgoes Latin America”

Public Events ,Talks

Online KISDtalk: “Color, Space, and Society”

Public Events ,Exhibitions

Online KISDparcours