reflektor - Festival of Communication is a three-day specialist event organised by the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences. It will take place for the second time from 8^th to 10^th April 2025 on the university campus (Philipp-Müller-Straße 14, Haus 7, 23966 Wismar). Specialist lectures, workshops and panel discussions will examine the topic of ‘inclusion and exclusion’ with a focus on design-related issues and place it at the centre of the festival programme with theoretical and practical components. The festival is organised by a team of students and lecturers from the Communication Design and Media degree programme on an interdisciplinary basis.

One of the highlights of the festival on the first day will be the keynote speech by inclusion activist Raúl Aguayo-Krauthausen. The topic of ‘Civil Society - Challenges of Inclusion and Diversity’ will be discussed on the panel on the evening of the second day of the festival. Opportunities for informal networking at evening celebrations or alumni events are also planned. The aim is to deal with the issues of inclusion and exclusion in order, for example, to be able to better align design and communication accordingly or to be able to deal with this topic in a more socially sensitive manner.

The following contributions were originally planned to be held in person, but for organisational reasons, they will be streamed online in House 7a, Foyer

• Raúl Krauthausen, Inclusion: It's the encounter that counts
  Tuesday, 08.04.2025, 10:00 a.m.
• Caroline Günther, Aging Society
  Wednesday, 09.04.2025, 2:00 p.m.

• Florian Adler, Inclusive design: barrier-free and attractive
  Thursday, 10.04.2025, 9:30 a.m.

  Status: 1^st April 2025, changes possible
  
  Media release, 23^th January 2025 (German version) »