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Shadows of Illiberalism - Resisting the Radical Right

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 CityLAB Sommerkonferenz 2025

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NERD 7th Heaven – New Experimental Research in Design

beyond tellerrand

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Games Ground

Von der steuerlichen Erstanmeldung, den verschiedenen Steuerarten, der Kleinunternehmer*innenregelung bis zur Krankenversicherungspflicht für Selbstständige: In diesem Seminar vermitteln wir dir das 1x1 der Selbstständigkeit.

Kultur Kreativ Berlin: Kreativ & selbstständig – Basiswissen Selbstständigkeit

Talk & Play is a free event that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet in a friendly, relaxed and safe environment.

Talk & Play #51

Wahlkämpfe sind Zeiten der Polarisierung. Im besten Fall werden dabei unterschiedliche Zukunftsbilder deutlich – im kritischen Fall werden lediglich kurzatmige Statements und offensichtlich unerfüllbare Wahlversprechen ausgetauscht. Im aktuellen Wahlkampf spielen Visionen und Zukunftsfragen nur eine untergeordnete Rolle. Notwendige langfristige Veränderungen werden ausgespart, verdrängt oder sogar negiert.

Futures Lounge #43: Zirkuläres Bauen – Mit Kreislaufwirtschaft in die Zukunft

Join Nikki Anderson, founder of User Research Strategist and author of Impact: A Practical Guide to Strategic User Research, as she shares actionable insights on becoming a strategic leader in user research. This event, hosted by LTUX Berlin, is open to women and non-binary individuals in the UX community.

LTUX Berlin #42: Translating UXR Work Into Language That Gets You Hired

Join for an exciting collaboration between Service Design Drinks Berlin and UXCamp Europe! This special edition marks the kickoff of the UXCamp, Europe’s largest unconference for UX professionals.

SDD Berlin X UXCamp Europe

This edition of LOOPS gathers three perspectives on how emerging technologies, particularly AI, robotics, and synthetic interfaces, are reshaping human interaction, pedagogical contexts, and our imagination of life with machines.

LOOPS: Andreas Muxel, Judith Dörrenbächer, Alessandro Mac-Nelly

Exploration, discovery, argument, showcase. We invite you to join us for the showcasing of works of thirteen Master candidates at Sound Studies and Sonic Arts.

SoundS Master Exhibit

Beim kommenden Netzwerk-Treffen für Kommunen stellen wir inspirierende Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Projekte vor, die mit innovativen Ansätzen soziale Nachhaltigkeit fördern und zu einer zukunftsfähigen kommunalen Entwicklung beitragen.

C2C Spotlight: Soziale Aspekte

Come draw with the WANDERING DRAWING CIRCLE, a drawing meetup for Berlin-based illustrators, wannabe illustrators, friends of wannabe illustrators & co.! The event is open to everyone who wants to share a nice moment while drawing.

Wandering Drawing Circle Nr.9

Oskar Schlemmer leitete ab 1920 die Bildhauerklasse am Bauhaus. Er wollte das Bild eines neuen Menschen kreieren. Wir nehmen uns seine „Figurinen“ zum Vorbild und kreieren reduzierte, klare Figuren unter Verwendung von geometrischen Formen. Die Kugel wird zum Kopf, Zylinder zu Armen, Kegel zu Beinen. Wir animieren die erzeugten Figuren mit Hilfe der Stop-Motion-App und lassen sie tanzen.

bauhaus_werkstatt: Lasst die Puppen tanzen!

This is a beginner friendly workshop where participants will learn about this great open source graphical programming language by already building little audio and video programs (patches) from day 1.

Graphics, Sensors, Audio and Interaction Workshop with Puredata

With the Neue Nationalgalerie, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created an architectural icon for the city of Berlin. What makes the building a typical Mies structure? This guided tour takes a closer look at the special features and characteristics of the museum.

Mies van der Rohe: Less is more

This unique initiative invites participants to create imaginative worlds and contribute to a collaborative animated short film, with opportunities to win empowering tools, software and gain industry recognition.

POV Blender Community Challenge “Worlds Next Door”

Erweitere deine Innovations- und Organisationsentwicklung-Skills durch Systemic Design, um unerwünschte Nebeneffekte und lokale Optimierungsprobleme zu vermeiden.

Einführung in Systemic Design für Innovatoren und Organisationsentwickler

If you are interested in Motion Design, 2D or 3D Animation, CGI, Illustration or any related field, feel free to join us. Grab a beer in a relaxed atmosphere, have a nice chat about key frames or discuss your next project!

Design and Animation (2D/3D) Meetup Berlin

Was uns oft blockiert, ist nicht der Abgabetermin, sondern das Innenleben: Selbstzweifel, Feedbackrunden, Entscheidungsmüdigkeit nach zehn Konzeptversionen, das Gefühl, sich ständig beweisen zu müssen. In diesem Modul bekommst du psychologisch fundierte Impulse und praxistaugliche Tools, um dich innerlich zu sortieren, deine kreative Richtung zu stärken und dich nicht länger von Perfektionismus oder Vergleichsstress ausbremsen zu lassen.

Ignite Deep Dive x Leona Petereit: Modul 1 – Selbstsicher & klar – Innere Stärke für Kreative

Whether you’re a student, self-employed, employed, or somewhere in between: we invite you to join us for an open conversation about design work and union organizing.

OFFENER STAMMTISCH der Designgewerkschaft

In this workshop you will learn how to pitch your project in a concise and clear way and gain confidence with presenting.

Kreativ Kultur Berlin: Deep Dive – How to master your project pitch

In diesem praxisnahen zweitägigen Workshop entwickeln wir gemeinsam mit der Künstlerin Dagmar Schürrer erste Prototypen räumlicher Mixed-Reality-Anwendungen (MR) mithilfe der Game Engine Unity. Dank der neuesten Generation von Extended-Reality-Headsets lassen sich hybride Räume erschaffen, in denen digitale und analoge Sphären nahezu nahtlos verschmelzen.

Data’s Hidden Drain: Revealing Underwater Supply Networks through Mixed Reality

Selling or buying services across borders brings special invoicing, VAT and income tax challenges. This online seminar offers insights into international taxation and invoicing for both EU and non-EU transactions. 

Kultur Kreativ Berlin: #03 Get started! Basics of international taxation

Explore the artistic potential of crochet in our engaging workshop, where loops and knots come together to form unexpected shapes. You’ll learn to crochet on a mesh structure, combining weaving and knotting techniques to create intricate and playful designs.

3D crochet workshop: explore and create sculptural designs

The symposium »Material Morphogenesis« explores the intersection of digital fabrication and biomaterials in shaping new approaches to architectural design. It focuses on form-finding and form-giving processes enabled by computational tools, robotic techniques, and sustainable material innovation. The symposium highlights their potential to generate expressive, resource-efficient architectural elements by foregrounding biomaterials as both design drivers and construction resources.

Material Morphogenesis: Biomaterials and Digital Processes in Architecture and Design

#play14 is an international event celebrating the belief that play is the ultimate way to learn and connect. Over two and a half days, participants from diverse backgrounds gather to share serious games, creative learning designs, and engaging activities, all while enjoying plenty of laughs. Everyone is welcome to join and contribute!

#play14 Berlin 2025

From typography to visual storytelling, this exhibition highlights the diversity and innovation of French graphic design.

AGI France, Beyond Latitude

Let's experiment with colours! Using a variety of exercises from the book “Interaction of Color” by Josef Albers we take a look at our perceptions and correlation of colours. We work with color-aid paper and an app. The results will be merged in a final composition.

Bauhaus-Werkstatt: Farbexperimente

Buchstabenmuseum is celebrating 20 years  – and you're invited!

20. Jahre Buchstabenmuseum

Wenn es um das Bauhaus geht, kommt man an den Ideen, die hier für ein neues und gesundes Wohnen erdacht und erprobt wurden, nicht vorbei. Als Gegenmodell zu den dunklen und unhygienischen Mietskasernenstädten sind in Berlin in den 1920er-Jahren für ihre Zeit wegweisende Wohnsiedlungen entstanden. 

bauhaus_tour: Ringsiedlung Siemensstadt

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.

Makers' Show & Tell #20

Gute Gestaltung braucht Luft zum Denken aber auch Klarheit im Kontakt mit anderen. Ob Auftraggeberinnen, Projektpartnerinnen oder Teams: In diesem Modul geht es darum, wie du deine Arbeitsweise souverän erklärst, deine Grenzen klar machst und professionell bleibst, auch wenn’s im Projektverlauf emotional oder unübersichtlich wird.

Ignite Deep Dive x Leona Petereit: Modul 2 – Gesund arbeiten – Klar kommunizieren & wirksam bleiben

How does AI change the product design process, the focus and opportunities of our discipline, and most importantly what does it look like in practice? Two design leaders share their zero-fluff perspective including a breakdown of concrete workflows & tools from research to prototyping and validation to dev handover.

PUSH UX Berlin: AI Design in Practice

The sixth and final Lab Talk in the series explores the connection between water, building and economy.

AEDES Lab Talk: WATER: CURSE OR BLESSING!? – #6 Water and Economy

Wie finde ich das passende Förderprogramm? Was gehört in einen Förderantrag? In diesem Seminar wird anhand einer Auswahl an Förderprogrammen die Bandbreite von Fördermöglichkeiten umrissen und auf spezifische Förderlogiken und -perspektiven eingegangen.

Kultur Kreativ Berlin: Basics: Orientierung in der Förderlandschaft

Taking place at Fraunhofer HHI, this night brings together founders, researchers, and industry experts from two powerful communities. Whether you’re building in deep tech, exploring wireless communication technologies, or just looking to plug into Berlin’s ecosystem, this is where conversations start and ideas take off.

Deep Tech Night meets xG-Afterwork

This free brunch event brings together Berliners working to create a more resilient and adaptable urban environment and culture.

Brunch for Change #10

No agenda, no sponsors, just chats, networking and fun.

UIUX Designers Berlin: Afterwork drinks

Susann Massute (*1989 in Brandenburg) is a freelance designer based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice combines illustration, typography, photography, and writing, often blurring the lines between conceptual design and visual storytelling.

CreativeMornings/Berlin: Crossroads – Susann Massute

Europe's leading XR Hackathon – Designed for creators by creators, XRCC is the place to compete, collaborate, and connect. Bringing Europe’s best XR Talents together to create and learn.

XR Creator Con

The 6th XR ART & NETWORKING, a joint event by AURORA XR School and HTW Berlin's Immersive Technologies Hub, focuses on playful knowledge practices. Explore innovative XR projects at the intersection of art, development, game design, and journalism. Expect short talks, expert discussions, and networking.

XR Art & Networking 2025

ininin is a hands-on event format where experts share and facilitate specific methods or processes related to prototyping, design thinking, user research, UX strategy, and product development.

ininin (input interactive insight) – User Interviews

The Berlin Print Festival with exciting partners from the fields of riso, letterpress, digital printing, offset printing, bookbinding and finishing around Berlin and Brandenburg. Organised by Slanted, Melville Design and Metapaper. With live riso printing, bookbinding, embossing and networking.

Berlin Print Festival 2025

Join the DDC Women's Table Berlin at the Neue Nationalgalerie for an exclusive guided tour of the "Lygia Clark. Retrospective" exhibition, followed by an open discussion, drinks, snacks, and networking.

DDC Women’s Table: Neuen Nationalgalerie

Around 1940, Bauhaus artist Anni Albers and her student Alexander Reed created necklaces made from everyday metallic materials and objects. Reduced and yet amazingly noble, these pieces of jewelry appear. We want to elicit shimmering elegance from these seemingly worthless materials.

Bauhaus-Werkstatt: Schmuck aus der Eisenwarenabteilung

Explore how bodies are represented and perform within technological media, from painting to digital art. This course combines hands-on art creation with critical discussions on visibility, embodiment, and surveillance history.

mediated bodies touchdesigner intensive edition

Möchten Sie Ihre Website einfach nutzbar und barrierearm gestalten? Dann nutzen Sie den kostenfreien Sprechtag „Websiteanalyse“ von der IHK Regensburg. Unser Zentrum Fokus Mensch ist ebenfalls vertreten und gibt Impulse zur Menschzentrierten Digitalisierung.

Sprechtag Websiteanalyse: Usability und Barrierefreiheit

As the world around us becomes more confusing by the hour, we want to keep close those we hold dear. Do we let uncertainty and politics fracture us, or do we build the kinds of spaces where people can think, feel, and act freely together? On the surface this course is about program and event series design in the context of community building, but at its core, it is more than that. It is about creating conditions for collective courage.

communal futures: designing new programs as radical act of community care

The third and final part of the programme focuses on the diversity of research methods as seen in two concrete case studies: from speculative storytelling in the non-human narrative of a volcano, to how media formats influence our subconscious production of spatial knowledge.

Research Ecologies - Summer Intensive

Makers' Show & Tell #21

Every summer, students from Faculty 5 Design and Culture present their work and projects from the previous academic year at the Wilhelminenhof campus in Oberschöneweide

 Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin: Werkschau 2025

The Berlin University of the Arts invites you to the Rundgang - Open Days. From painting, sculpture, and performance to design sketches, fashion shows, and film screenings to concerts, dance, and sound installations, students will show the results and processes of their artistic work.

Universität der Künste (UdK) – Rundgang / Open Days 2025

The weißensee academy of art berlin will open its studios, workshops and laboratories for the ‘Rundgang - Tage der offenen Tür’ and provide insights into the work and research processes of young artists and designers on around 2,000 square metres of exhibition space.

weißensee – Rundgang / Open Days

Der Rundgang durch das Hansaviertel führt uns in die 50er Jahre und zu den Werken einiger der bekanntesten Architekten der Moderne: Von Walter Gropius über Alvar Aalto aus Finnland zu Oscar Niemeyer aus Brasilien. Die Bibliothek von Werner Düttmann hat eine fahrbare Glasfassade und einen liebenswerten Lesegarten.

Kunst und Architektur im Hansaviertel

In this online seminar, you'll explore the ins and outs of the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK), the „Artists Social Security Fund“, and learn about other insurance options. 


Kultur Kreativ Berlin: #05 Get started! Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) and social insurance basics (Session 1)

Makers' Show & Tell #22

Process Events are made to unite communities and share stories as we take you inside the highs, lows and challenges faced by diverse speakers. Our aim is to help you understand what it takes to navigate creative careers as we explore the world of people including freelancers, founders and teams.

Process Events 003 – Berlin

Die Teilnehmenden betreten eine von der Künstlerin Nadine Kolodziey entwickelte Augmented-Reality (AR)-Oase, in der KI-Systeme und Wasserressourcen in fragiler Balance koexistieren. Jeder kreative Eingriff verändert dieses Gleichgewicht – Innovation trifft auf Verantwortung. Ziel ist es, ein Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, wie technologische Entwicklungen, insbesondere KI, unseren Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen beeinflussen können.

Reflexions – Künstlerische Dialoge zur Beziehung KI und Wasser

Wozu forscht eigentlich das Berliner Exzellenzcluster "Matter of Activity"? Taucht ein in die wunderbare Welt der Designforschung – überraschende, spannende und witzige Fragen laden zum Miträtseln ein. Sucht Mitstreiterinnen, denkt Euch Teamnamen aus und seid dabei!

Exzellentes Pub Quiz: Matters of Activity

Makers' Show & Tell #23

The moderated concert given by the pianist Michal Friedländer and the musicologist Kai Hinrich Müller transports the audience into the musical world associated with the Bauhaus. The concert features music by German and US-American composers who were guests of the Bauhaus including the ultra-modernist George Antheil, Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.

From Bauhaus to Broadway

Emotions and heartache in the land of geometry: Marc Blitzstein’s “Parabola and Circula” is finally being premiered! The probably only Cubist opera in the world was composed in 1929 based on a libretto by George Whitsett and its premiere was to have been given in cooperation with the Bauhaus in Dessau. These plans however never materialised – until the present day!

Bauhaus: “Parabola and Circula” – Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

Strategie ist Magie auf Vorstandsebene. Wait, what? So oder so ähnlich ist wohl das landläufige Klischee der Strategiearbeit. Dabei kann Strategie auch praxisnah, pragmatisch und überall in der Organisation gelebt werden.

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