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Impulse Festival 2025 - Website
Responsive Website.
Programming.
CMS.
About the project
For the 2025 Impulse Theater Festival, I developed the website using Kirby CMS. The platform supports a dynamic calendar and news system, reflecting the festival’s multi-city, multi-weekend format and its focus on reflection, exchange, and contemporary performance.
Client:
NRW KULTURsekretariat
Brand Design:
Frankz Thöricht & Anna Busdiecker
Bureau:
Squareclouds Design
Year:
2025
Impulse Festival 2025, Intro Animation
Programme and Calendar pages
Website overview
Screen design
"Ich nehm dir alles weg" event page
Calendar page
Press area page
Scrolled down event page, Languages and Accessibility areas
Project Scope
The 2025 Impulse Festival website was developed using Kirby CMS and supports a dense, evolving program spread across three weekends in Mülheim, Cologne, and Düsseldorf. A central requirement was editorial flexibility to match the festival’s ambition: showcasing political, personal, and aesthetic positions from over 500 considered productions.
A key feature is the filterable calendar and program pages, which allow users to browse events by date. Equally important is the news and updates module, where the team publishes program changes, background texts, and discursive content. Both tools were custom-developed and integrated into a clear, modular backend that is easy to use.
The visual design—provided externally—was implemented responsively, with attention to micro-interactions and accessibility. The content was managed by the Impulse team themselves, and I supported the process by building custom plugins, fallback logic, and structured editing workflows.
The result is a technically solid, future-ready platform that reflects the festival’s mission: to bring people together through performance, discourse, and celebration—even in challenging times. The digital infrastructure now helps translate the festival’s themes—like cultural transformation, social critique, and utopian imagination—into an online experience.
My Tasks
- Project Management (Website part)
- Web design consulting
- Technical strategy for a 3-year period
- Frontend development (PHP, JS, CSS3) with accessibility focus according to EAA/BFG and BITV guidelines
- Backend development with PHP
- Plugin implementation
- Video and on-site tutorials and training
- Web mastering