Public Conferences ,Events

Transform 2025 – Conference on AI, ARt, Design and Society

September, 24th 2025

News

Welcome Internationals 2025

Project

Reducing glass waste at major events – sustainable concepts for Cologne

Thesis

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

News

Johannes Mechler wins the DSW poster competition

Project

un-doing memory – Cologne

Thesis

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

News

KISD professor Birgit Mager honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award by ISSIP

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Henrike Leonie Mißfeldt – Blizz Harp

Project

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

Thesis

B.A. thesis “aaaarchive” by Robert Halbach

Public Events

M.A. Integrated Design Application period starts now!

Project

Designing Data X Cultures

Thesis

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

News

Release of the 3rd issue of the Abroad magazine

Project

Bitter Chocolate: Making Postcolonial Perspectives Tangible

Thesis

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

News

Bessie Normand präsentiert ihre Masterarbeit auf der Iteration

Project

Circular Services – KISD project to promote urban cleanliness in Cologne

Thesis

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

Public Presentations

Final winter semester’s Presentations

Project

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

Thesis

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

News

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

Public Events

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

Project

Dainų šventė – Summer School in Vilnius

Thesis

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

News

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

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Elodie Boyer

Project

Spatial Strategies

Thesis

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

News

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

Thesis

BA Thesis “Visual Empowerment”

Public Events

Correlations – Forum for AI in Art&Design

Project

Surface Change – Weaving by Lotta Hagedorn

News

Special Issue 1: Hidden Layers – Conference Proceedings & Recordings

Public Conferences

Research Symposium – Diversifying Perspectives: Dimensions of Postcolonial Memory

Project

Urban Intensities: In-Formal Strategies for Postautomobile Spaces

News

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

Public Cologne Design award ,Events ,Exhibitions

CologneDesign Prize 2024 – Award Ceremony And Exhibition

Project

Future x Cities x Food

Public Talks

KISDtalk Special “Synthetic Realities”

Project

Eurofabrique 2.0: What About Us, Europe?

News

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

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Eva Papaspyrou

Project

Exploring Urban Food Cultures / Food Homing For Circularity

News

Kölner Klopfer 2024 – mit neuem Look!

Project

Infrastructures on Hold

News

Kölner Klopfer Award is back!

Public Events ,Ringvorlesung

Lecture Series “Data Literacy: Ethics and Data Culture”

Project

Open Universities – Open Stages

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

News

Publication of Conference-Paper for a new Workshop-Format by Jakob Kilian and Prof. Rahel Flechtner

Public Conferences ,Events Forschungstelle Echtzeitstadt

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

News

KISDproject “Hot Air Generator” at Mozfest in Amsterdam

Public Events ,Talks

Better Future Talk in Stuttgart with Prof. Paolo Tumminelli

Public Presentations

Friday Presentations on July 5th

Public Events ,Exhibition

Exhibition “Energy Hero Of Everyday Life” in Cologne

Public Events ,Exhibition ,parcours

KISDparcours 2024 – Save the Date!

Public Talks

KISDtalk by Julia Schaeper

Public Events ,Presentations

Friday Presenations on June 21 – programme

Public Conferences

Research Day 2023: »Memory Artefacts«

Public Conferences ,Events

Motion Experience Lab at Hidden Layers