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Designers in Residence Kortrijk video's

Every year, Designregion Kortrijk invites recently graduated designers from various creative disciplines to the Designers in Residence Kortrijkprogram. Every year, a book is made with their achievements, but there is also a video report each time that puts the creative achievements in the spotlight.
We proudly present all videos of the past years.

DIRK - 2016

In 2016, Guillaume Morillon (FR), Katharina Kraus (DE) and Catherine Oldershaw (USA) worked on a unique participatory recycling process that involves the local community in making objects. Watch the video report of their "experimental participatory recycling WORKSHOP".



THE LIQUID STATE – 2017

The Liquid State explores social and physical boundaries to bring new perspectives into our environment that generate participatory experiences. A residency project by designers Maria Pita Guerreiro, Sahil Thappa and Déborah Janssens. The three designers created "The Liquid Book", in which they recorded their journey.

THE FUTURE OF SPACE – 2018

A multidisciplinary team of designers created a spatial system that breathes new life into an abandoned industrial building in Belgium. Designers Jasna Dimitrovska, Jaenam Lim and Kazumasa Takada designed a temporary space for citizens of the Kortrijk region in an empty industrial building that was once used as a flax warehouse.

KEEP IT TINY – 2019

Designers in Residence Kortrijk 2019 Oleksandra Gerasymchuk, Yun Pei Hsiung & Lucie Dubois stay During their residency they worked on the theme of Future of Domesticity, more specifically on small houses and tiny houses. They developed an open source educational board game that challenges players to think about the future of housing through a creative building process.