12-14 june, KiKS Festival with gd:c - global dis:connect

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- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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12-14 june, KiKS Festival with gd:c

As part of the KiKS – Kinder-Kultur-Sommer München, the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect invites young visitors and families to explore global connections across time from 12–14 June 2026 at the KiKS Festival on Munich’s Theresienhöhe.

KiKS 2026 offers a full week dedicated to children’s culture across the city. After KiKS unterwegs (8–11 June), the KiKS Festival (12–14 June) brings together workshops, participatory activities, research stations, performances, exhibitions and sports programmes at the Alte Messe grounds around the “Schneckenplatz.” Children aged 5 to 15 are invited to explore, experiment, create, and learn through hands-on experiences spanning art, science, sustainability, and participation.

Within the Wissens-Durst programme, global dis:connect presents an interactive station centred on a large globe that allows visitors to discover worldwide connections of the nineteenth century. Participants can trace how people were already linked through trade, communication, and migration, and learn through personal stories how exchange functioned in everyday life.

The installation connects historical perspectives with present-day questions of global interconnectedness, showing that globalization has long been shaped by human encounters, mobility, and knowledge exchange.

Location: KiKS Festival, Theresienhöhe (Alte Messe), Munich
Dates: 12–14 June 2026
For: Children and young people aged 5–15 and their families