February 2025

1/16–2/25/2025
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards | Public Choice
Vote for the UX Design Awards Audience Award - choose your favorite among the nominees of the UX Design Awards - Spring 2025!

Details

Users worldwide are invited to vote for their favorites among all nominated projects. Voting for the “UX Design Award | Public Choice” is open until 25 February on the UX Design Awards website. 



The winner of the Public Choice Award will be announced on 5 March.

1/20–4/14/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award | Call for entries 2025
From 20 January to 14 April, companies, designers and students throughout Europe can apply for the German Ecodesign Award 2025.

Details

We are looking for imaginative ideas and projects that are outstandingly designed and forward-looking. In addition to market-ready products and services, this also includes conceptual and student work. Design innovations are just as much in demand as technical and social innovations. There are no limits to creativity!

Wednesday, 2/19/2025
5.00 pm–6.00 pm
IDZ Event

OYSTA: Managing Medication and Care for Children with ADHD
In this Deep Dive, Agnieszka Billewicz, Design Director at Star and Joshua D Carney, Chief Digital Officer At OnDosis AB, will walk us through the award-winning project „OYSTA service for children with ADHD.”

Details

Learn more and register here.

2/20–3/23/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award: Exhibition at Esche Museum
Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture 2025, together with numerous cities and municipalities in the surrounding area. Among them is Limbach-Oberfrohna, the location of the Esche Museum and the first stop of the roadshow ‘Thinking ahead’ 2025.

Details

The exhibition can be seen at the Esche Museum from 20 February to 23 March. At the opening on 20 February at 6 pm, there will be keynote speeches by the exhibiting projects, providing an in-depth insight into the exhibition.

Place
Esche Museum
Sachsenstraße 3
09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna


Date
20 February to 23 March

Vernissage
20 February at 6 pm

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday: 1 to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm

March 2025

1/20–4/14/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award | Call for entries 2025
From 20 January to 14 April, companies, designers and students throughout Europe can apply for the German Ecodesign Award 2025.

Details

We are looking for imaginative ideas and projects that are outstandingly designed and forward-looking. In addition to market-ready products and services, this also includes conceptual and student work. Design innovations are just as much in demand as technical and social innovations. There are no limits to creativity!

2/20–3/23/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award: Exhibition at Esche Museum
Chemnitz is the European Capital of Culture 2025, together with numerous cities and municipalities in the surrounding area. Among them is Limbach-Oberfrohna, the location of the Esche Museum and the first stop of the roadshow ‘Thinking ahead’ 2025.

Details

The exhibition can be seen at the Esche Museum from 20 February to 23 March. At the opening on 20 February at 6 pm, there will be keynote speeches by the exhibiting projects, providing an in-depth insight into the exhibition.

Place
Esche Museum
Sachsenstraße 3
09212 Limbach-Oberfrohna


Date
20 February to 23 March

Vernissage
20 February at 6 pm

Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday: 1 to 5 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 11 am to 5 pm

3/1–5/15/2025
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards Call for Entries
The Autumn 2025 Awards call for participation is open for submissions until 15 May 2025. Companies, agencies, professionals, and young designers worldwide are invited to enter their best work in three competition categories: “Product” and “Concept” for the professional sector and “New Talent” for up-and coming designers.

Details

All details and competition dates and deadlines are available on the awards website.

Wednesday, 3/5/2025
5.00 pm–6.00 pm
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards Winner Announcement
Discover the best in user experience selected by the UX Design Awards’ international jury! We proudly present the winners of the Spring 2025 competition season, the people behind the jury decisions and all awarded projects. Out of a pool of 440 participants representing 38 countries, the #UXDA25-jury selected 162 nominees to compete in this global competition, celebrating excellence in user experience.

Details

Learn more [https://ux-design-awards.com/events-media/winner-announcement-spring-2025 here].

Tuesday, 3/11/2025
9.00 am–6.00 pm

Circular Design Summit
The German Design Council's Circular Design Summit brings together leading minds from business, industry and design who share a common vision: economic success in harmony with ecological sustainability.

Details

Learn how Circular Design - design for the circular economy - is driving the transformation of the economy and how you can become part of this development.

When: Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 9:30 am - 6:00 pm
Where: Hospitalhof, Stuttgart
Who: Experts from Google, BMW Group, IKEA, Hansgrohe, TÜV Rheinland Group, BDI-Initiative Circular Economy, Indeed Innovation and many more

Further information can be found here.
Registration/tickets here.

Discount for IDZ members: Ticket category “Member of cooperating associations”
New Year's special from 20 to 31 January: € 394.00
Regular: 689,00 €

Thursday, 3/20/2025
5.00 pm–6.00 pm
IDZ Event

Working Group: Design and AI
The working group “AI & Teams: Future Skills and Building Design Teams” offers members of the IDZ a platform for regular knowledge exchange, professional discussions and networking.

Details

Lead: Filippos Petridis, Design & AI Expert, Siemens

Are you interested? Then write to us: IDZ Members.
Further information: IDZ Member Circles.

April 2025

1/20–4/14/2025
IDZ Event

German Ecodesign Award | Call for entries 2025
From 20 January to 14 April, companies, designers and students throughout Europe can apply for the German Ecodesign Award 2025.

Details

We are looking for imaginative ideas and projects that are outstandingly designed and forward-looking. In addition to market-ready products and services, this also includes conceptual and student work. Design innovations are just as much in demand as technical and social innovations. There are no limits to creativity!

3/1–5/15/2025
IDZ Event

UX Design Awards Call for Entries
The Autumn 2025 Awards call for participation is open for submissions until 15 May 2025. Companies, agencies, professionals, and young designers worldwide are invited to enter their best work in three competition categories: “Product” and “Concept” for the professional sector and “New Talent” for up-and coming designers.

Details

All details and competition dates and deadlines are available on the awards website.

Wednesday, 4/2/2025
5.00 pm–6.00 pm
IDZ Event

Deep Dive with Award Winners "Cosmic Velocity"
In this online Deep Dive Aleks Melnikova and Stephen Tomlinson, co-founders of Cosmic Velocity, will walk us through the Award-winning project „Spruce - Making heat pump installation simple and smart”.

Details

Learn more and register for the event here

Thursday, 4/10/2025
6.30 pm–8.00 pm
IDZ Event

AI in Conversation
Together with our member Archimedes Exhibitions, we invite you to a panel discussion in the AMDX workshop. In the interactive fishbowl format, we will be discussing with our panel guests and the audience.

Details

The aim is to explore how AI may affect not only the way we live together, but also the political, social and creative foundations of our society. What role can AI play in strengthening democratic processes, and where are the risks that could threaten them? How can science, design and culture work together to create AI systems that are inclusive, fair and democratic?

Panelists:
Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Professor of Internet Policy at the FU Berlin, Head of the Research Group “Politics of Digitalization” at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Yasemin Keskintepe, art historian and curator - among other things, she organized the special exhibition “Artificial Intelligence. Machines - Learning - Human Dreams” at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Löwe, Director UX Design at the digital agency Virtual Identity, co-author of the book “Design and Artificial Intelligence”

Keynote speech and moderation:
Prof. Carl Frech, Professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg

Short presentation “Exhibiting AI”:
Jan Hillmann-Regett, Exhibition Designer and Katharina Loderstädt, Creative Director at Archimedes Exhibitions

Thursday, 10 April 2025
18:30 - 20:00


Afterwards: Get-together

Location
Workshop & Studios Archimedes Exhibitions
Saarbrücker Str. 24
10405 Berlin

The event will be held in German.
Admission is free.

4/26–27/2025
Member of IDZ


Details

Because only those who can visually imagine a future will set out to achieve it. Tickets and further information at: see-conference.org/

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