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Wonder Festival – Open call 2025
Wonder
WONDER Creativity Festival pays tribute to the creativity and innovative ideas of talent.
The festival challenges the limits of our imagination, looking confidently ahead to the future. Together with designers, artists, entrepreneurs and students, the festival aims to be an impactful platform for innovative, sustainable, digital and social ideas, projects and products. WONDER encourages reflection and open-mindedness, and enthuses visitors to shape the future boldly and colourfully together.
The beating heart of WONDER is on the BUDA island in Kortrijk UNESCO City of Design, with lots of exhibitions and installations by and with creatives from all over Belgium and internationally. The city centre forms the backdrop for the rest of the festival. In the many unique locations, public and private partners annually present exhibitions, lectures, workshops or events that celebrate imagination and creativity through a range of disciplines in the broadest sense.
In 2024, the festival presented 55 creative exhibitions and installations across 30 venues in central Kortrijk. At the main venue, the Buda Factory registered over 16,000 visitors.
WONDER welcomes a very diverse group of visitors of all ages, both individuals, professionals mainly working within design and innovation and a lot of secondary and higher education students.
The beating heart of WONDER is on the BUDA island in Kortrijk UNESCO City of Design, with lots of exhibitions and installations by and with creatives from all over Belgium and internationally. The city centre forms the backdrop for the rest of the festival. In the many unique locations, public and private partners annually present exhibitions, lectures, workshops or events that celebrate imagination and creativity through a range of disciplines in the broadest sense.
In 2024, the festival presented 55 creative exhibitions and installations across 30 venues in central Kortrijk. At the main venue, the Buda Factory registered over 16,000 visitors.
WONDER welcomes a very diverse group of visitors of all ages, both individuals, professionals mainly working within design and innovation and a lot of secondary and higher education students.
WONDER Creativity Festival has its origins in Week of Design, but has been organised under the name WONDER since 2020. The festival is organised by Designregio Kortrijk and made possible by our enthusiastic partners: main partners city of Kortrijk, National Lottery, CAAAP, Omer Vander Ghinste, and partners Fedustria, Textirama, Cohousing Projects and Zorggroep H.Hart.
Practical
WONDER takes place between 16 October and 2 November, from Thursday to Sunday each time.
Opening hours
Week 1:
Thursday 16 October from 9am - 6pm
Friday 17 October from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 18 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 19 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Week 2:
Thursday, October 23 from 9am - 6pm
Friday 24 October from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 25 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 26 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Week 3 (autumn holidays):
Thursday, October 30 from 10am - 6pm
Friday 31 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 1 November from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 2 November from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Opening hours
Week 1:
Thursday 16 October from 9am - 6pm
Friday 17 October from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 18 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 19 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Week 2:
Thursday, October 23 from 9am - 6pm
Friday 24 October from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 25 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 26 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Week 3 (autumn holidays):
Thursday, October 30 from 10am - 6pm
Friday 31 October from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday 1 November from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Sunday 2 November from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.