Talks

Presentations

2026

2 July (forthcoming)
Simon Meienberg, Sandra Kurfürst, Sevi Bayraktar, and Wan Issa: “Moving Memories: Embodied Acts of Collective Remembering through Dance and Theater”
Symposium: KISDconference: Participatory Memory Collective Imagination – Connecting Institutions and Communities
Venue: Köln International School of Design

2025

17 December
“On Publishing in Design Research”
Guest Speaker in the panel discussion at the release party of the 2nd Volume “Working Titles” of rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research.
With: Matthias Grund (rrrreflect-Autor), Dustin Jessen (Designer/Forscher), Gabriel S Moses (Publisher of Working Titles), Lena Renz (rrrreflect-Autorin), Pia-Marie Stute (rrrreflect-Autorin), Moritz Tontsch (rrrreflect-Autor), Conrad Weise (rrrreflect-Autor) and Dzennifer Zachlod (rrrreflect-Autorin).

14 March
Simon Meienberg: “Mapping Urban Displacement: Co-creating Counter-Cartographies as a Design Ethnographic Approach to Trace the Impact of the Train Express Régional in Dakar”
Conference: STS Hub Conference Diffracting the Critical
Panel: Tools in and for Design Ethnography – Stories from the Field
Venue: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

2024

12 July
Simon Meienberg: “Tracing Urban Claims & Shifting Mobilities in Dakar”
Format: Atelier d’idées
Venue: Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität zu Köln

2023

26 May
Simon Meienberg: “Colliding Circulations by Kaddu Yaraax”
Venue: “connecting – excluding: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks”, Köln

2022

26 June
Simon Meienberg, and Lasse Scherffig: “Matters of Knowing
(Un-)translatables in Design Research?”
Conference: Design Research Society Conference 2022
Venue: Bilbao

14 June
Simon Meienberg, and Agnes Stillger: “Spurenlesen. Mobile Weltverfassungen und Ökologien in Senegal”
Venue: “connecting – excluding: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks”, Köln

2021

25 March (online)
Simon Meienberg, and Dustin Jessen: “Designing beyond the Common Good.
An Evolutionary Process between Speculation and Reality”
Panel: Speculating, acting and deliberating about the Common Good
Conference: Symposium Design as Common Good – Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values. Swiss Design Network (SDN)

2020

04 June (online)
Simon Meienberg: “Designing Possible Futures with Migrant Communities
in West Africa”
Colloquium: design:promoviert

06 May
Simon Meienberg: “Alternative Zukünfte entwerfen”
Conference: KISDtalks
Venue: KISD – Köln International School of Design der TH Köln

2019

24 October
Simon Meienberg: “Redesigning Migration Information Centers
in The Gambia”
Conference: Service Design Fringe Festival “Design in Times of Uncertainty”
Venue: Barbican Centre, London

Artist Talks

2024

7 June
Simulteanous Translation from French to English:
Mbaye Diop: “Drawing: From the Numerical to the Material, From the Material to the Numerical”
Conference: “Intervening Drawing”
Venue: KISD – Köln International School of Design der TH Köln

2023

15–19 May
Theatre Workshop & Talk with Kaddu Yaraax
Venue: KISD – Köln International School of Design der TH Köln

Workshops

2024

21-23 May (forthcoming)
Simon Meienberg, and Ben Drusinsky: “Local LLMs for Design Research: Considerations for Ethical & Environmental Use of AI ”
Conference: “By Design and by Disaster Conference”
Venue: Free University of Bozen–Bolzano, BASIS Vinschgau-Venosta, South Tyrol, Italy