9–11 June 2026 | Open Design Week on the WDC Campus  during World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026

From 9 to 11 June 2026, the International Gender Design Network, iGDN, was hosted by Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt as part of Open Design Week within the programme of World Design Capital's WDC Campus.

Under the title "Falling in Love with all Genders", iGDN presented a three-day programme on gender and design with an exhibition, workshops and a public "Dialogwerkstatt" with lectures, panel talks and exchange.

The program span a wide range of topics, from an introduction to gender design through education, the history of graphic design, digital systems, and AI, to gender-sensitive medicine, political activism, and the question of how gender can be taught in design.

With contributions from Prof. Dr. Uta Brandes, Dr. Julia Pierzina, Prof. Dr. Petra Eisele, Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele, Claudia Herling, Prof. Dr. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, Catharina Dörr, and Prof. Dr. Griselda Flesler, as well as a panel of experts from design, medicine, branding, activism, and research, the event creates a space for exchange, networking, and new perspectives.

An exhibition of selected and awarded projects from the iphiGenia Gender Design Award showed how designers, researchers and initiatives address gender, diversity, visibility and participation through design. It offered concrete examples of gender-sensitive design practice across communication, products, digital applications, education, research and activism.

The programme asked: Who is considered in design processes? Who remains unseen? Which assumptions and biases shape images, objects, interfaces and systems? And how can design contribute to more inclusive and socially responsible futures?