Frankfurt and the RheinMain region will be World Design Capital 2026!

In the video conference, the WDO Managing Director, Bertrand Derome, thanked the jury for the convincing and comprehensive application and congratulated Frankfurt RheinMain on winning the title of World Design Capital 2026. The jury particularly praised the application's claim developed by Prof. Matthias Wagner K, which will have a great impact not only regionally, but above all worldwide. The jury was also enthusiastic about the successful and impressive preparatory work that had taken place in the course of the application in the form of numerous events, many contributors and a tour of the entire Rhine-Main region.

The jury was also particularly impressed by the cooperation between culture, design, business and society, which conveyed a great sense of community in the Frankfurt RhineMain Region and stood behind the application with drive. Bertrand Derome was already in July 2023 together with Eunjoo Maing from the WDO for a three-day visit to the Frankfurt RhineMain Region and was able to convince himself in numerous discussions.

For more than two years, the team of the project company, led by Prof. Matthias Wagner K, Director of the Museum Angewandte Kunst, has been working on the application on behalf of the City of Frankfurt am Main and the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and has been pushing it forward intensively. The period was used to start a joint movement with various cooperation partners and participatory formats as well as actors, initiatives and supporters.

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