Design Drinks & Talks

September 19 under the Parrot Pavilion (Begijnhofpark)

This time we will meet on Thursday, September 19 at 7 p.m. under the Parrot Pavilion in the Begijnhofpark Kortrijk, which will be used as a unique meeting place during the Triennial Kortrijk.

With talks by:

- the Parrot Pavilion creators, artist Nico Dockx & architect Caroline Voet. The pavilion is developed as a participatory concept; a meeting place where artist and audience engage in dialogue.

- Toon Sintobin, founder of Movie FX, a special effects studio from Kortrijk. They provide fog, snow, fire-breathing dragons and gunfire for films, theater and advertising.

- Sibran Sampers of Copper & Light, a unique artistic cooperation working all over Flanders and one of the WONDER Creativity Festival participants.

March 28 at PHENOMENA

For this edition we visited ELDERS, a collective that organizes exhibitions of contemporary art in Kortrijk in special locations. Among other things, they wanted to offer young talents at the beginning of their career a platform.

Their brand new exhibition is called PHENOMENA and ran from 03.03.2024 to 07.04.2024 in a former school building that will soon be repurposed (Boerderijstraat 69A, 8500 Kortrijk).

On stage:

- Mark Venter - Creative Lead & Brand Experience Strategist at Once (lecture in English)
- Joachim Froment - art director at Futurewave (lecture in English)
- Xavier Mary - artist PHENOMENA (lecture in English)

Tour of the exhibition by Elders happened after the lectures.

January 18 at LinkLab Creative Offices

At the beginning of December 2023, Link Lab's Kortrijk team received the prestigious WORKSPACE (small) award at the World Architecture Festival for their own office on the Veemarkt in Kortrijk!

The choice of location for this edition was therefore quickly made.

We once again provided a varied line-up of speakers, all recently nominated for great prizes!

On stage:

-Link Lab itself, with Simon Adriaenssens from Stay Studio
-Kortrijk fashion designer Charbel Abou Zeidan from Octogony, nominated for the Belgian Fashion Awards 2023 in the Emerging Talent category
-Alyssa Lanssiers, alumnus UGent Campus Kortrijk and currently a product design engineering lead at Loop Earplugs, Scale-up of the Year 2023 and winner of the Henry van de Velde Awards 2024 Consumer category.

September 28 at Atelier Nooitgedacht

We looked ahead to WONDER Creativity Festival with some designers there!

Multidisciplinary designer Timon Mattelaer on Belgian Design Pavilion, a curated collective exhibition showing the essence of Belgian design and how it relates to his own design practice.

Social psychologist and designer Bram Boris Van Acker on A hearth full of changes and how the scientific basis for his behavioural change designs can provide an interesting perspective.

Product designer and artist Yani Vandenbranden on Cabaret voltaire anno 23, a collective with different designers from different contexts looking for answers and a broader understanding of her own work.

30 maart 2023

Texture Kortrijk

25 augustus 2022

In de tuin van de DURFbar (Broelkaai 6), met talks door:

ontwerpers Ameline Vandecasteele, Pieter Decabooter (Whojo), Björn Van Egroo (Studio L’atitude) en Bram Vanderbeke kwamen ons inspireren met hun werk.