Agenda

Design Nation a unique and highly efficient 2-day event which brings you the latest trends and innovations that can be implemented in contract & project design.
 
A broad range of design professionals can discover product innovations presented by leading brands while picking up some inspiration at our Trend Stage. A series of authorities in their specific field will share their vision on interior design & future trends. Consult our features page to find out what is going on!
 
All this will be brought to you in the most stunning, unique and inspiring scenography you have ever seen. Design Nation is all set for networking 2.0!

Join us for an inspiring evening filled with insights for creative designers, product designers, and developers. Over the past few years, our product design meetups have brought together exceptional designers who share their most valuable tips and experiences. It's the perfect opportunity to learn from the best and take your design career to the next level.

For Wonder Festival and the second edition of Kortrijk Art Weekend, ELDERS Collectief presents the work of French artist Jean-Baptiste Janisset. 

From Thursday 17 October to 03 November 2024, you can permanently visit the solo exhibition ‘Those Who Navigate by the Stars ’on the Grote Markt in Kortrijk. 

Welcome on Thursday 17 October at 19h for the artist's lecture in the old council cellar of the historic town hall, followed by an opening. 

In deze What’s Hot gaat Voka West-Vlaanderen in op de trends op vlak van circulair ondernemen en ontdek je de circulaire projecten van de ontwerpers van morgen. Meer weten over hoe je als bedrijf circulair kan ondernemen en wat de voordelen ervan zijn? Of ben je zelf thuis in circulair ondernemen en wil je die kennis graag delen? Kom dan je netwerk en business uitbreiden tijdens deze What’s Hot in Circulair Ondernemen bij BUDAFabriek in Kortrijk.

Deelname aan dit event is exclusief voor Voka-leden.

Wonder Club is the collective of design companies in Kortrijk UNESCO Design Region, powered by Designregio Kortrijk. In the framework of WONDER Creativity Festival in Kortrijk (17.10 - 03.11) and the professional design fair Design Nation (17 & 18.10) in Kortrijk Xpo, they organise a brunchevent for professionals and interested parties in the interior and construction sector around circularity in (interior) architecture. The brunchevent will take place on Friday morning 18 October at the Budafabriek, Kortrijk.

Headliner Jens Heitland, former Global Head of Innovation at IKEA Centres, will focus on the concrete implementation of circular design, based on his experience with ‘The Sustainable IKEA Store’. Providing inspiration and practical tools, he will help you meet the challenges of circular design.

Valentine Jiang and Camilla Schousboe of Normann Copenhagen presents their new collection ‘Mat’. Years of research preceded the launch of their seating made from hemp and seaweed. With their new bio-based collection, they challenge conventional thinking in the furniture sector.

Architect and repurposer Pieter Verfaillie of architecture and consultancy firm Erfgoed en Visie and Herbé gives an insight into the great potential of used locations and materials. As a re-appropriator, he starts from his DNA as an architect, but goes beyond design with his team. The aim is to maximise the lifespan of their buildings and their materials.

8:30 Welcome and networking brunch
9:30 Talks
10:50 Networking and opportunity to visit WONDER Creativity Festival and Design Nation

Mechanical engineering in Flanders scores strongly in terms of added value, employment and exports. Unfortunately, the sector also has one of the highest material footprints within the Flemish manufacturing industry. Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) business models, in which the manufacturer retains ownership of its product, could provide a solution here. But the switch from producer to service provider has a far-reaching impact on very diverse aspects: from product design, over customer relations and employee deployment, to the legal and financial framework.

On the initiative of the partner consortium Voka West-Vlaanderen, Sirris and Designregio Kortrijk, three machine builders joined the living lab project Circular Machine Building two years ago. The aim of the project: to investigate together with experts whether and how this business model is feasible for them. Two years later, they share their insights, learnings and stumbling blocks.

What to expect.
This session goes beyond just informing you about the business model. We will hear directly from a machine builder and an expert how they went about prototyping and implementing the business model and what the state of play is today.

For whom?
This info session / workshop is aimed at machine builders, but other manufacturing companies interested in the circular Product as a Service business model are also welcome (CEOs, innovation managers, sustainability managers,...).

Speakers
Sam Mulkay is managing director and founder of 3D Tools. The machines 3D Tools designs and builds in-house are mainly for the chemical industry. Under the brand name Gravifill, 3D Tools produces filling machines for the paint industry, among others. As part of the project, 3D Tools investigated the possibilities of marketing these filling machines on a rental basis. 

For this, 3D Tools was closely advised by Brian Legein. Brian guides companies in prototyping and developing complex services and processes. In his book ‘Put on your lean glasses’, he demonstrates with principles, tips, templates and tools how processes can be accelerated, simplified and improved.

This info session is organised as part of the Circular Machine Building project.

Design Nation is the brand new and highly efficient b2b event where you can discover the latest trends and design innovations.

This two-day event is tailor-made for design professionals active in the contract & project market. 

Get inspired by numerous lectures on the trend stage where trend watchers and other experts share their vision on design and the future with you. 

Discover all this in the most unique and inspiring scenography.

Design Nation, the new hotspot for design!

‘There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.’ (Marshall McLuhan)

Leiedal, FoodAct - W13, Imog, Mirom, Designregio Kortrijk, Howest and UGent are pleased to invite you to the event ‘Towards a Circular Region’ on Friday 18 October 2024 during the WONDER Creativity Festival.

Why participate?
This event brings together progressive thinkers, doers and decision-makers to exchange ideas, discover new opportunities and lay the foundations for progressive collaborations. You will get a lot of inspiration from various speakers and references from private and public partners.

Join the regional network of Collective Circular!
We believe that circularity can only succeed if we work together. Therefore, we invite you to join the regional network of Collective Circular, a group of passionate experts, policy makers, entrepreneurs and designers who want to make impact together through innovation, creativity and collaboration. WONDER Creativity Festival provides the perfect framework to expand this group with expertise, knowledge and vigour.

For whom.
Entrepreneurs, policymakers, designers and anyone who wants to help build a circular future.

Practical
Date: Friday 18 October 2024 from 15.30 to 17 hours
Location: Budafabriek Kortrijk
Participation is free upon registration

Coming soon!

Live podcast session by Thomas Vanhuysee and Kjelle Vergauwe in collaboration with die Keure printing

Wondering how to combine the techniques of 3D printing and weaving? In this master class, we seek out where disciplines intersect. Guided by Amandine David, we will dive into digital crafts and throw weaving together with 3D printing. Based on weaving structures, you will design your own 3D models, which you will process with weaving techniques and flexible materials. 

Designer Amandine David, winner of the Henry van de Velde Young Talent Award only last year, will show you in this workshop series how the up and down movements of a loom and the ones and zeros of computer language are actually very similar. This immediately creates opportunities to merge tradition and contemporary technology into crazy, versatile and original weaving creations.

In collaboration with BUDA::lab and VAKlab.

What to expect.
Amandine starts the workshop with an introduction to her work and the insertion of ‘digital crafts’. You will then experiment with weaving through previously 3D printed pieces. Based on the observation of these first examples, you will devise your own project. Under the guidance of volunteers from the BUDA::lab, you will make a 3D model of your piece. You do not need any prior knowledge of 3D drawing programmes for this. 
Between the two workshop days, the designed 3D pieces are further printed in the BUDA::lab.  

During the second day, you will weave the pieces you designed. You will incorporate threads, yarns and other flexible materials. This is how you will create unique weaving creations, on the border of craft and technology.  

At this book presentation, Femke Vanbelle (Bruges) and Flore Deman (Waregem) introduce their latest picture book 'Kamertje ikke'. Discover the story and the illustration process. Afterwards, you can get creative in a workshop inspired by 'Kamertje ikke'. 

'Kamertje ikke' is a poetic, colorful story for dreamy souls, energetic children, and everyone in between.

'Will you come play with me?' the boy asks the girl. He shows her the place where he can truly be himself. The blue of the room consists of transparent clouds, dark deep seas, and shimmering dragonflies. The two friends dive into sparkling water, weave branches in the ancient forest, and play hide and seek with a red fox. 'Will you come play with me?' the girl then asks. Her room is bathed in bright colors. Everything wiggles and crawls, tingles and grows - it buzzes with life, like in a bustling, densely populated city. Will you tumble, roll, bounce, and stumble along with them?

Two very different children take each other into their own wonderful world: sometimes gentle as a summer breeze, then wild as a whirlwind.

» About being introverted and extroverted, about enjoying silence and going on adventures, about getting to know yourself and your friends.

Free, but registration is required. 

In collaboration with Uitgeverij De Eenhoorn.

Creativity always tastes good! During WONDER, on 2 evenings you can come and enjoy BLEND, an experiential dinner created by MiE Goffin & Elise Coudré, 2 passionate food designers who merged their expertise into a (h)honest collaboration.

BLEND is a dining experience that goes beyond just tasting good food. Besides culinary surprises, there is also room for social experiments. Future food products are combined with creative and interactive elements. 
Dining together connects us as people. BLEND's strength is that we create an intimate atmosphere with a special openness. This always creates pleasant exchanges between attendees. We make sure the group does not exceed 25 people to ensure the best possible experience. So be there quickly!

Humans are sentient, but so are plants. To learn (and feel) more, Archipel descends on Kortrijk in October. Humans have five senses, so does a plant, as well as at least 15 others. For instance, plants warn each other with scents about hostile herbivores, form huge networks with their roots and communicate with birds, insects and each other about their environment. Not for nothing do leading scientists now put plants on the same evolutionary step as animals.

What can we learn from the networks in forests? How can urban nature achieve the same integration, biodiversity and sustainability? Urban nature (parks, etc.) is above all in the service of people, the urban dweller and her need for relaxation and rest. How can we look beyond the inherently anthropocentric nature of these places and think from nature itself? We let landscape architect Bas Smets do the talking.
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This architecture lecture is a collaboration with Leiedal and Designregion Kortrijk.

Over the past two years, the research groups of Applied Computer Science and Business Management at Hogeschool Howest conducted research into the possibilities of virtual reality, augmented reality, NFTs, Web3, new shopping experiences in virtual shops and online platforms such as Roblox and Decentraland for Flemish SMEs, specifically aimed at the retail sector. Wondering what the metaverse can mean for you as an organisation, or maybe you just want to see what the shopping of the future looks like? You will discover it here!

Creativity always tastes good! During WONDER, on 2 evenings you can come and enjoy BLEND, an experiential dinner created by MiE Goffin & Elise Coudré, 2 passionate food designers who merged their expertise into a (h)honest collaboration.

BLEND is a dining experience that goes beyond just tasting good food. Besides culinary surprises, there is also room for social experiments. Future food products are combined with creative and interactive elements. 
Dining together connects us as people. BLEND's strength is that we create an intimate atmosphere with a special openness. This always creates pleasant exchanges between attendees. We make sure the group does not exceed 25 people to ensure the best possible experience. So be there quickly!

Kortrijk Art represents more than 20 organisations, private and public, that programme and show visual art in Kortrijk. On this website, we agenda all current exhibitions and art events in the city throughout the year. Here you will find all information on what visual arts can be seen and experienced in Kortrijk on the day of your visit. Contact us at info@kortrijkart.be or visit our website www.kortrijkartweekend.be

Kortrijk Art organises the Kortrijk Art Weekend from 26 to 27 October 2024. All participating organisations share the same opening hours. Namely Saturday 26 October 2024 from 10:00 to 18:00 & Sunday 27 October 2024 from 10:00 to 18:00

The exhibition 'from the inside out' connects the immediate environment, the urban context and vast landscapes with the wondrous imagination of humanity. It is becoming increasingly clear how narrative alternatives and innovative thinking and creation processes are being sought. The works of these artists are therefore an expression of this search: where Bram Van Breda depicts impressions in textile matter from reclaimed materials, Michaël de Kok explores the layers of contemporary landscape imagery from his own wonderment. On Saturday 26 October at 16:00, Els Wuyts will engage in a conversation with both artists during Kortrijk Art Weekend. Location: Doornstraat 6.0001, Kortrijk.

Kortrijk Art represents more than 20 organisations, private and public, that programme and show visual art in Kortrijk. On this website, we agenda all current exhibitions and art events in the city throughout the year. Here you will find all information on what visual arts can be seen and experienced in Kortrijk on the day of your visit. Contact us at info@kortrijkart.be or visit our website www.kortrijkartweekend.be

Kortrijk Art organises the Kortrijk Art Weekend from 26 to 27 October 2024. All participating organisations share the same opening hours. Namely Saturday 26 October 2024 from 10:00 to 18:00 & Sunday 27 October 2024 from 10:00 to 18:00

Live podcast session by Thomas Vanhuysee and Kjelle Vergauwe in collaboration with die Keure printing.

At Wonder, creatives put forth their vision for a better future, with inspiring and challenging ideas. But how can you get started with this inspiration yourself?

During this workshop we will explore your very personal wonder, analyze it and eventually apply it to your daily life. On the basis of scientific insights, guided by psychologist Bram Boris Van Acker, we will eventually arrive at a concrete plan of action to change your own life a little bit towards a wonderful future!

Be quick, because we only work with a small group.

Welcome to our workshop at BUDA::lab, where we dive deep into the facilitator role of designers. A "facilitator" is someone who makes something easier. In the context of co-design, we will explore how designers can make the participation of users easier in a co-design process to learn more about their needs. The research suggests that designers' facilitator role in co-design is essential to create a more inclusive design process especially by empowering marginalized or underrepresented groups. Join us at WONDER for an interactive workshop session full of game design, insights, discussions, and hands-on activities.

The workshop will start by playing an existing game (‘The Co-design Facilitator’s Game’) that has been developed in the scope of the doctoral research of a design.nexus researcher from UGent. Then, the participants will modify this game and finally design their own games from scratch to educate designers on their facilitator role in co-design.

Are you a designer/design student/design educator? Are you interested in giving voice especially to marginalized and underrepresented people in co-design? Are you curious about the role of designers as facilitators in a co-design process? Are you also into games, especially designing your own games? Then, this workshop is for you!

The event will be in English and lunch will be provided. If you have any questions please contact Melis Örnekoğlu-Selçuk (melis.ornekogluselcuk@ugent.be).

See you there!

Live podcast session by Thomas Vanhuysee and Kjelle Vergauwe in collaboration with die Keure printing.

At Wonder, creatives put forth their vision for a better future, with inspiring and challenging ideas. But how can you get started with this inspiration yourself?

During this workshop we will explore your very personal wonder, analyze it and eventually apply it to your daily life. On the basis of scientific insights, guided by psychologist Bram Boris Van Acker, we will eventually arrive at a concrete plan of action to change your own life a little bit towards a wonderful future!

Be quick, because we only work with a small group.

Anita Evenepoel (Ternat, 1945) is a Belgian jewellery designer, materials specialist and experimental fashion designer. She is an authority on textile design and experimentation with new materials. 

She designed costumes for national and international dance productions including this one by choreographer Pé Vermeersch.  In Kortrijk, her work was already known through her participation in ‘Futurotextiles’ and the presentation of the Flemish Culture Prize for Design in 2012.   We will talk to her about her fascinating career and also show some video fragments from dance productions by Pé Vermeersch .

registration necessary 
participation 10 euro 
info@salonradical.be