Queering Design Workshop

On Saturday, November 22nd, from 14:00–17:00, join Queer Design Club with social design engineer/facilitator Killian Poolmans as we gather to see what design — and the future — might look like through a queer lens. As part of Queer Design club, linking Athens with past and upcoming events and communities in New York and Berlin, we’re hosting Queer(ring) Design: Athens Edition at Hyper Hypo (Voreou 10, 10551 Athens). An afternoon to think, make, and imagine together. Where we use queerness to question what feels “normal,” shift perspectives, and open space for new ways of creating. Come to listen, play, and connect with others shaping futures that feel freer, and learn how to apply a queer lens to your design processes.

Participation is free but limited! Reserve your spot via the eventbrite link.

Queer Design Club (QDC) is a global community of practice stewarded by FLOX Studio—a collective of queer and queer-adjacent designers, artists, organizers, and culture workers who use design as a tool for liberation, care, and post-capitalist imagination. Through events, publications, and mutual support, they are queering design together with designers, artists, and communities around the world.

Queering design means more than diversifying who’s at the table—it’s about changing the table itself. It uses queerness as a lens, politic, and method to question design’s assumptions, resist normative systems, and build alternatives grounded in justice, joy, and interdependence.

QDC welcomes designers of all disciplines, nonprofit workers shaping programs or policies, artists, cultural producers, educators, students, organizers, strategists, and anyone building the future through creative practice. You don’t need to identify as a “designer” to belong.

They are global, hybrid community with local anchor programming in New York City, Chicago, and—soon—Berlin, Barcelona, and now Athens.

Killian Poolmans (he/him) is a social design engineer, facilitator, and the founder of Pinkhammer, where he builds self-sustaining queer communities within organizations by mixing expert workshop facilitation with deep LGBTQ+ inclusion know-how.

For over 7 years, he’s been working with teams to design better systems, braver spaces, and more equitable ways of working. From Berlin to Tbilisi, Melbourne to Seoul, his projects blend cultural insight, systems thinking, and design expertise to create environments where creativity and belonging can actually thrive.

He just landed in Athens and is currently working together with Queer Design Club in building a global queer design community, starting with recurring meet-ups locally in Athens and online with the existing community in New York.
His mission? Redesign the way we innovate so the future we build isn’t just functional — it’s liberating.