WONDER Creativity Festival
From Oct 17 to Nov 3, 2024, WONDER in downtown Kortrijk pushed the limits of your imagination.
Young creative force and established values from all walks of life and disciplines - from design, innovation, technology to art - pitched their visions of a better future.
WONDER took you along a free trail of special places in Kortrijk UNESCO City of Design, with stunning exhibitions, installations and events.
In 2025, WONDER will take place from 16 October to 2 November. The open call for participation will be launched in March 2025.
Interested in becoming a WONDER partner?
WONDER 2024
WONDER Creativity Festival took over 16,000 visitors on a discovery trail through Kortrijk UNESCO City of Design over the past 3 weeks, past 55 exhibitions and installations on design, art, technology and innovation.
In this way, creative talent from all over Belgium and beyond - from young talent to established names - paid tribute to creativity and innovative ideas. In doing so, they inspired the visitors and invited them to shape the future with guts and creativity.
And that clearly struck a chord with the general public. Every year, the festival has seen impressive growth. At the Budafabriek (main venue and the start of the trail of 30 locations), WONDER was able to welcome over 16,000 visitors over the 12 opening days this year. So the total number of visitors across all 30 venues will also be a lot higher. In 2023, the number of visitors at the Buda Factory was 11,000 and in 2022, 5,000.
In 2025, WONDER will take place from 16 October to 2 November. The open call for participation will be launched in March 2025. Interested in becoming a WONDER partner?
WONDER 2023
Met WONDER Creativity Festival brachten Designregio Kortrijk, stad Kortrijk en partners van 19 oktober tot 5 november 2023 een ode aan de creativiteit en innovatieve ideeën van jong talent. We konden 11.000 bezoekers ontvangen!
WONDER daagde de grenzen van onze verbeelding uit, en blikte vol vertrouwen vooruit naar de toekomst. Daarom gaf het stadsfestival een forum aan inventieve geesten die opmerkelijke oplossingen bedenken voor de maatschappelijke uitdagingen waar we vandaag en in de toekomst voor staan.
Op 28 locaties presenteerden Belgische publieke en private partners er gratis expo’s, lezingen, workshops of evenementen die verbeelding en creativiteit via een scala aan disciplines in de meest brede zin vierden.
WONDER 2022
The future is now. A new generation is ready to sink its teeth into tomorrow's societal challenges in its own atypical and rebellious way.
Not shying away from experimentation, they enthusiastically embrace the latest digital technologies without renouncing their classics. They go phygital...
In these challenging times, WONDER helps expand your outlook with products and concepts that will make our future.
At eight Kortrijk city locations between 20 October and 6 November 2022, WONDER allowed visitors to be surprised, dare to look differently at what is and be amazed by what is to come ...
Interested? Contact Lisa!
Lisa Declercq
Lisa is responsible for the offline and online visibility and communication of Designregio Kortrijk. She is always looking for the next big thing in young design talent and builds up the creative community of the organisation.
