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Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life
www.designfrm.de
Frankfurt RheinMain is applying for the title of World Design Capital 2026 with the theme: Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life. The application builds on the experience of more than 550 years of all-encompassing social transformation in the region, largely brought about through the impact that design and the applied sciences have had on the economic, social and cultural life.
Design for Democracy encompasses a whole range of visions, utopias and corresponding narratives that will initially drive and later steer creative activity. In addition to outstanding interdisciplinary pilot projects, exemplary experimental ventures shall be tested on a small or large-scale as visible blueprints in the public realm. These projects cover all the important areas of coexistence, such as construction, consumption, culture, education, energy, health, housing, industry, mobility, public space, sport and work.
The interactive seminar is designed as an open process. It aims to identify, in a collaborative approach, extraordinary places and spaces in Frankfurt RheinMain that are predestined to become highlights or embassies for Design for Democracy. They should either have a significance in their history or in their present and offer a potential to link and convey the two thematic complexes of "design" and "democracy".
- Lehrende: Hauke Horn
- Lehrende: Anna Scheuermann