What Cognitio does

cognitio Kommunikation & Planung GmbH is a privately held German experience-design firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in Niedenstein, Hesse. The company designs and delivers experience-based learning environments (Erlebniswelten) by combining modern media, innovative design, and sustainable materials. Its offering is organized into five integrated service lines: Grafikdesign (corporate and information design), Ausstellungen (exhibition and information-center design), Erlebnisorte (educational trails and experience installations, including GPS-enabled mobile apps), Digitale Medien (web, native iOS/Android apps, film and animation), and Freiraumplanung (open space planning for sports facilities, playgrounds, squares, and schoolyards, including landscape, climate adaptation, and nature-conservation expertise). Cognitio serves museums, educational and public institutions, and municipalities throughout Germany, with an emphasis on accessibility, sustainability, and multi-sensory engagement.

Name

Cognitio

Legal name

cognitio Kommunikation & Planung GmbH

Website

https://cognitio.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cognitio Kommunikation & Planung GmbH is a German experience-design firm founded in 1998 that creates learning environments—exhibitions, educational trails, digital media, and open space planning—for museums, schools, municipalities, and nature-conservation organizations throughout Germany.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Experience Design Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Landscape Architectural Services (541320), Graphic Design Services (54143), Graphic Design Services (541430), Other Specialized Design Services (54149)

SIC

Services-Mailing, Reproduction, Commercial Art & Photography (7330)

akta.pro primary industry

Exhibition, Retail & Experiential Design (BPAHAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Environmental & Experiential Brand Design (Retail/Exhibit/Signage) (MPAAAEAG), Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC), Wayfinding, Signage & Environmental Graphic Design (BPAHAKAN)

Keywords

• Exhibition design services
• Experience design agency
• Open space planning
• Digital media production
• Graphic design services

Headquarters

HQ city

Niedenstein

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Exhibitions: Design and creation of exhibitions, information and encounter centers with innovative, individual solutions featuring high appeal that inform and evoke emotions. Trade fair presentations developed with customers for effective appearances.
2. Professional Services - Experience Locations: Conception, planning and realization of individual learning, teaching or experience paths as number or panel paths, as well as diverse experience facilities.
3. Professional Services - Open Space Planning: Creative and sustainable solutions for designing open spaces including sports facilities, playgrounds, squares and schoolyards. Services include urban planning perspectives, village renewal, regional development, landscape planning, climate adaptation and nature conservation.
4. Product Sales - Publications: Sale of publications including Jahrbuch Naturschutz in Hessen (Nature Conservation Yearbook) and Naturschutzgebiete in Hessen (Nature Conservation Areas) through their online shop.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cognitio designs and creates experience-based learning environments (Erlebniswelten) by combining modern media, innovative design, and sustainable materials. The firm delivers five integrated service lines: graphic design, exhibition design, experience locations (educational and adventure trails), digital media (web, iOS/Android apps, film and animation), and open space planning. It also sells nature conservation publications through its own online shop.

Product overview

Cognitio Kommunikation & Planung GmbH is a German experience design company offering five integrated service lines: Grafikdesign (Graphic Design), Ausstellungen (Exhibitions), Erlebnisorte (Experience Locations), Digitale Medien (Digital Media), and Freiraumplanung (Open Space Planning). The company combines modern media, innovative design, and sustainable materials to create impactful experiences. Services range from corporate design and exhibition creation to digital media production (web, iOS/Android apps, film/animation) and outdoor space planning. Additionally, the company operates a separate e-commerce shop (shop.cognitio.info) for selling nature conservation publications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Ausstellungen (Exhibitions)

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Insglück: Berlin-based brand experience studio producing exhibitions, events and spatial installations for public-sector and corporate clients, closely comparable to Cognitio's exhibition and experience-location work.
• Milla & Partner: Stuttgart-based experience design firm specialising in exhibitions, museums and themed environments — directly comparable to Cognitio's Ausstellungen and Erlebnisorte offerings.
• Atelier Brückner: Stuttgart-based studio designing exhibitions, museums and brand experiences with a similar interdisciplinary mix of physical and digital media, serving comparable German cultural and corporate clients.
• Triad Berlin: Berlin-based experience design agency delivering spatial communication, exhibitions and digital media for corporate and cultural clients across Germany, with a similar multi-disciplinary delivery model.
• bbz landschaftsarchitekten: German landscape architecture practice offering open-space, park and playground planning for municipalities — a direct peer for Cognitio's Freiraumplanung service line.
• Plajer & Franz Studio: Berlin-based spatial design studio covering exhibitions, museums and scenography for cultural and public clients in Germany, with a comparable focus on communicative spatial design.
• facts and fiction: Cologne-based agency covering brand experience, exhibitions and digital storytelling for institutions and corporate brands, overlapping Cognitio's exhibitions and digital media work in the German market.
• jangled nerves: German-headquartered exhibition and experience design firm working with cultural institutions and public-sector clients, delivering spatial communication projects comparable to Cognitio's exhibition and experience-location services.

Broad incumbents

• Liganova: Stuttgart-rooted, larger-scale agency operating across brand experience, retail design and exhibition, serving global enterprise clients — a broader incumbent in the same experiential-design category.

Regional players

• Hager Partner Landscape Architecture: Swiss-German landscape architecture firm comparable in scale and method to Cognitio's Freiraumplanung practice but primarily serving a different (DACH) geography — relevant for open-space planning capabilities rather than direct German-market competition.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cognitio_de
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cognitio-kommunikation-planung

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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