WONDER Creativity Festival
From Oct 17 to Nov 3, 2024, WONDER in downtown Kortrijk pushes the limits of your imagination.
Young creative force and established values from all walks of life and disciplines - from design, innovation, technology to art - will pitch their visions of a better future.
WONDER takes you along a free trail of special places in Kortrijk UNESCO City of Design, with stunning exhibitions, installations and events.
WONDER 2023
The beating heart of WONDER was at the Budafabriek, where work and projects by designers from all over Belgium were presented via multiple exhibitions. The city centre of Kortrijk was the setting for the rest of the festival. At 28 locations, Belgian public and private partners there presented free exhibitions, lectures, workshops or events that celebrated imagination and creativity through a range of disciplines in the broadest sense.
As a counterweight to daily doom scenarios, WONDER brought a positive, approachable story with youthful optimism as its driving force. Together with designers, artists, entrepreneurs and students, the festival aimed to be an impactful platform for innovative, sustainable, digital and social ideas, projects and products. WONDER encouraged reflection and open-mindedness, and enthused visitors to shape the future boldly and colourfully together.
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.
