RoboLAB is a sculpture, workshop and gallery for inclusive and accessible art in Cologne’s famous underground culture location Odonien. Here, a group of KISD students worked with artists from the disability community, prototyping interfaces that incorporate the diversity of human perception and action.

Opening exhibition with contributions by KISD students

On September 6, a new space art space and event series is opening in Cologne: RoboLAB 2020. The first event is the show Circolaris that takes place in the walkable and accessible sculpture of the same name, created by Odo Rumpf in Odonien. This sculpture will provide a lasting space for inclusive, accessible and multi-genre art and culture projects.

After participating in the Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies summer school, a group of KISD students takes part in an exhibition of the summer school’s results at Fabrica de Pensule in Cluj, Romania.

How does design look in times of the gig economy, template culture, scripted layouts, and the standardized interaction and aesthetics of the responsive web? What is the design potential of last year’s tools and devices we already have forgotten? How can we show work and projects while our audience is immersed in their own smartphones? In a collaboration with FH Dortmund, a group of KISD students exhibits work dealing with questions like these under the title “Print is not dead/The post-digital condition.”

KISD is going to BURG Halle to join HURRA HURRA, a festival on rethinking design education. At the festival, we will build a shooting gallery targeting our pains with academia.

Meta Marathon is a 42 hours non-stop digital culture festival at NRW-Forum focusing on robotics. During the festival, KISD is building an exhibition/performance landscape and living lab of robotic rituals: a Voodoo Resistor Club.