The 18th Kölner Design Preis was presented on 21 November 2024. The Kölner Design Preis, which is endowed with a total of 38,000 euros, honours graduates from five Cologne universities every year. Second place went to Serin Gatzweiler, who completed her Bachelor's degree at KISD in 2024.
‘Pain in the system’ reveals the systematic problem that cis women and trans and non-binary people still receive less attention in medical research. Because biological and, above all, social differences rarely play a differentiating role in research, important data is missing and is either not collected at all or rarely includes gender as an analytical variable.
Three large-format leaflets, structured according to the course of a disease (01 pathogen, 02 symptoms and 03 therapy), use a typographic design approach to draw attention to the need for gender-sensitive medicine in today’s healthcare system. The well-known aspect of the ‘not-easy-to-fold-up-again’ of common package inserts is actively used and invites the reader to make them large as a poster – to make the pain in the system visible. In addition, a glossary and a perspectivised lexicon offer a linguistically reflected orientation on the topic in a different materiality.
