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NERD 7th Heaven – New Experimental Research in Design

beyond tellerrand

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Games Ground

This year's gorgeous winners of the "100 best posters" competition will be on show at #Kulturforum. Join us for the opening or for one of the events coming up. As always, entrance to the exhibition is free.

100 Beste Plakate 24 Exhibition

Krita + ComfyUI ist eine seltene Kombination von KI-Tools, die speziell für Designer:innen gedacht ist. Mit gewohnten Werkzeugen wie Ebenen, Pinseln und Masken, arbeitest du schneller – unterstützt durch KI, aber immer in voller Kontrolle. Du kannst dein Werk jederzeit bis ins letzte Detail überarbeiten. In Verbindung mit weiteren Tools kannst du deine Entwürfe auch schnell in 3D-Modelle oder Videos umwandeln, um sie weiterzuentwickeln oder zur Marktkommunikation einzusetzen.

VDID Horizonte: Fortbildung zu AI Tools für Designer:innen

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

Prepare with Berlin Design e.V. for XR Creator Con with a casual hangout featuring an immersive AI-generated video and live sound installation by Younes Mohammadi and DJ RED FEM, alongside captivating VR demos exploring sound, storytelling, and speculative design. Join us at Studio1111 for an evening of inspiration, connection, and immersive technology, and a bar open all night.

Digital Dimensions – Exploring immersive Worlds

Organised by The NODE Institute and supported by Derivative, B-Dome, and PlusPlusOne, the NODE SESSIONS return for their second edition—this time, we welcome three new voices pushing the boundaries of real-time media art, generative systems, and immersive storytelling. And – we got Robots!

NODE SESSION II

Join for the celebration of the animation project of Illustration Ladies Berlin & Panimation Berlin at Ministry of Animation ❤️ They will screen the final results and hangout!

Illustration Ladies Berlin & Panimation Berlin: Walk Berlin! Project Premiere

Repair, upcycle or swap clothes - until late in the evening. All over Berlin on 25 April! Discover how versatile and creative textile rescue can be: Look forward to repair workshops, clothes swaps, upcycling stations and exciting talks about the future of our clothes.

Die Lange Nacht der #Textilretter

A bi-monthly online series where senior leadership in Product Management shares exclusive insights, actionable strategies, and real-world experiences. Held on Wednesdays, each session dives into a new theme, helping PMs at all levels. Don’t miss out on this chance to learn, engage, and elevate your PM journey from anywhere!

Leadership Unplugged

Das Ziel ist, euch in der Gruppe einen Einblick zu geben, welche Arten von Marken es gibt, was ihr dafür investieren solltet (Zeit, Ideen, Geld), was ihr persönlich getrost lassen könnt, ohne etwas zu verpassen.

Personal Branding

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

This hands-on workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore eco-friendly techniques and push the boundaries of textile design, materials research and biodesign.

berlin textile coop.: Textile Printing with Microalgae with Juni Neyenhuys

Das Animation Rendezvous Berlin bringt jeweils drei Komponenten zusammen, die für eine gelungene und nachhaltige Veranstaltung sorgen: ein spannender und ungewöhnlicher Ort, zwei Hosts aus verschiedenen Branchen und ein Thema, das die Gäste jeweils verbindet. Am Abend des 26. Juni verabreden wir uns erneut und untersuchen Verbindungen und Schnittstellen zwischen Illustration und Animation.

Animation Rendezvous Berlin #5: Animation meets Illustration - Der Anfang ist das Bild

Ihr lernt anhand von Erfahrungsberichten aus konkreten Projekten und Hands-on-Demos, worauf es wirklich ankommt: Wo liegen Chancen und Herausforderungen beim Einsatz von Augmented oder Virtual Reality? Wie können Institutionen und Künstler:innen zusammenarbeiten, um neue Vermittlungsräume zu erschließen? Ziel ist es, euch zu befähigen, immersive Technologien selbst einzuschätzen und fundierte Entscheidungen für eure Arbeit zu treffen.

Tool-Café: XR zum Ausprobieren

ALREADY POSSIBLE is a forum focused on the current state of things and the impossible, exploring how we can shape and change them. ⟢⟢⟢

ALREADY POSSIBLE by Soiree XD & masumi

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

Whatever creative endeavour you've been putting off- get it done here in a supportive group that holds you accountable!

Get It Done Friday - Creative Co-working

Whether you’re a designer, researcher, or simply curious about future materials, this session offers a unique opportunity to engage with bioplastics in a practical way.

berlin textile coop.: Bioplastics with Juni Neyenhuys

VJ Open Lab is, you guessed it, an open platform. We want to give space to all, especially those who have never performed before at VJ Open Lab. We support impro performances and foster new collaborations between visual artists and musicians.

VJ Open Lab

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

BDE, Employed.world & Buena is bringing design hackathon together. 30 designers will spend a full day in founder mode to build & showcase their product ideas. In this hackathon you'll become a founder, focusing not only on design but also tech side (with help from Bolt) and on distribution. So by day's end you'll have an MVP, complete packaging, and distribution plan. We believe designers make great founders and want to encourage local folks to give it a try.

Bolt Designers Hackathon

Our four-hour tufting workshops will give you the opportunity to create a piece of art with your own personal design.

berlin textile coop.: tufting workshop

Join us as transmediale studio opens its doors once again, where visitors are invited to meet transmediale's 2025 residents and learn about their projects. The artists will share their current research traces and prototypes through performative interventions and presentational formats.

transmediale open studio - Resident Presentations

Learn to knit digitally. We offer a focused workshop where you'll learn everything you need to know about knitting with the Kniterate machine using their own software.

berlin textile coop.: kniterate basic workshop

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

This month, join EDGE neuroscience & art e.V. online for an insightful presentation by Geneine Carson, who will share her personal journey of engaging with the scientific community through visual arts, spurred by her daughter's rare genetic diagnosis.

NeuroArt Nexus: Talk and Networking with Visual NeuroArtist Geneine Carson

Unter dem Motto Future Thinking: Quantensprünge mit der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft präsentiert das Quantum Social Lab Best-Practice-Erfahrungen cross-innovativer Unternehmungen an der Schnittstelle zur Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Gemeinsam mit unserem Kooperationspartner diskutieren wir über die Auswirkungen von Quantentechnologien auf Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik und beschäftigen uns damit, wie sich das Innovationsverständnis im Bereich Kreativwirtschaft und Technologie modernisieren und weiterentwickeln lässt. 

Future Thinking: Quantensprünge mit der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft

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

Our July meetup is heading to a summer spot 🌞This time, we're meeting in Kreuzberg; where the pulse of Berlin lies. Join us on July 1st to kick off the month with great coffee and even better conversations. Same easy-going flow and friendly community.

Silicon Allee X Fraunhofer HHI: Monthly Meet Up

VR Business Club: Tipps für XR und AI Anwender und Entwickler zur Sicherung staatlicher Unterstützung

User researchers often find themselves wearing more hats than they expected - but one of the most surprising is that of a therapist. This talk explores the parallels between user research and therapy, highlighting the emotional and interpersonal skills required to navigate the complex human dynamics of product development.

UXPS - UX & Psychology: The user researcher as therapist

You're warmly invited to join us at the first meetup of DesignDesign: a new space to explore critical, alternative, and emergent design practices. For this event, we’re starting with big questions: What shapes imagination? And how can we challenge and expand the practices of imagining itself?

Designing Imagination Practices

In this short seminar, we will give you an overview of what it takes to be or set up your own cultural-artistic-creative business. In addition to introductory inputs, we want to discuss your field of activity, your experiences and your unanswered questions. We will provide an overview of other contact points, advice and further training opportunities at the Creative Service Center and beyond.

1×1 of self-employment

We experiment with shapes. We print patterns on postcards and posters and, if necessary, supplement them with Josef Albers' combination font. We test sizes, colours and compositions and create new combinations for wrapping paper and a modular font.

Bauhaus-Werkstatt: Kreis, Viertelkreis, Quadrat

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

Wie kann Üben als Methode für eine künstlerische Beschäftigung mit der sozialen, baulichen und natürlichen Umwelt genutzt werden? Übungen aus dem Bauhaus-Vorkurs wurden von Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs Art in Context (Universität der Künste Berlin) neu gedacht. Im Workshop werden die Übungen im Stadtraum erprobt.

Bauhaus-Werkstatt Mobil: Workout Aesthetics

Zusammen mit dem Digital Education Lab (DEL) der IHK Berlin laden wir euch herzlich zu unserem VR Business Club ein. Jetzt ist der Moment, internationale Impulse aufzugreifen, Best Practices zu verstehen – und noch mutiger und offensiver das Thema anzugehen.

VR Business Club: Lernen, das unter die Haut geht. Eintauchen, statt Zuhören!

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

UIUX Designers Berlin: Afterwork drinks

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 #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 Creative Code Jam is a monthly gathering of artists, makers, designers, illustrators, coders, musicians, performers, learners and anyone interested in the use of computing skills for artistic expression. The jam is an opportunity to meet likeminded people and get creative together in a relaxed and safe environment.

Creative Code Jam

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

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

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

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