About this Event
The Color Table – The Innovation Lab for Colour and Material
Colour shapes how we feel. It tells the story of how we want to live.
“The Color Table” is an expert workshop for design professionals, developed by Zelt Berlin × HAUSMICHEL. Here, design expertise meets free artistic impulses: curated trend and CMF insights, cross-industry exchange, artistic perspectives and hands-on work with real materials.
Starting from signals in art, culture and design, we ask
- Which colours, materials and finishes will become relevant over the next three to five years
- Which emotions and stories do they convey
- How do colour and materiality create social relevance?
Schedule
09:00 Welcome and introduction
09:45 Trend and CMF input
11:00 Connecting cross-industry signals
13:30 Colour as an artistic practice – with the artist duo 44flavours
14:30 Future lab: a CMF story of colour, material and emotion
15:30 Presentation and exchange
16:00 End
Coffee break 10:45–11:00 · Lunch break 12:30–13:30
What you will take away
– New colour and material signals
– A method for translating insights into CMF directions
– A shared colour and material board
– Ideas and contacts from other industries
– Digital documentation
Who it's for
Experienced design professionals who work with colour and material and are looking for fresh impulses: from CMF, product and industrial design, architecture, material and colour development, and innovation teams. We deliberately keep the group small.
The venue
We work in a light-filled space, surrounded by art, with room to think. Galerie Zelt, Aufbau Haus at Moritzplatz, Prinzenstraße 85 C, Berlin, close to Modulor, in the heart of Kreuzberg, where art and design meet. Wheelchair access via 85 D.
The team
Sandra Rendgen (Zelt Berlin) is an art historian, editor and author, including titles with TASCHEN. Susan Michel (Studio HAUSMICHEL) is a product designer and CMF & innovation expert with international design experience, including at Opel and Ford.
Good to know
Workshop language: German and English – we adapt to the group. Water and snacks are included. Lunch is not provided, but there are plenty of options around Moritzplatz during the lunch break. Invoice with VAT shown. Cancellation: up to 14 days before the workshop (until 4 November 2026) you get 50% of the fee back; after that the full fee applies. You can send someone in your place at any time at no extra cost.
Questions? [email protected] · More at hausmichel.berlin/en/thecolortable-en
Event venue & nearby stays
Galerie Zelt, Prinzenstraße 85 C, Berlin, Germany
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