Everything you need to know about your WONDER visit

The free track takes you along 30 locations with 55 exhibitions & installations around design, innovation, technology and art. This year, we are working with 5 tracks, taking you along highlights around a specific theme or target group: product, circular, digital, art and kids, powered by Filou & Friends.

There is also an extensive event programme with talks, activities and workshops.

WONDER aims to broaden the view of everyone, students, families, professionals, young and old. Everyone is welcome!

WONDER is an initiative of Designregion Kortrijk and with participants from all over Belgium: companies, schools, creatives, galleries, organisations, citizens, etc.

WONDER is open from 17 October to 3 November, from Thursday to Sunday each time. During the week open from 9am to 6pm, on weekends and autumn holidays from 10am to 6pm. So Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday closed.

You start your visit at the Buda Factory Kortrijk, where the welcome and registration will take place. You will receive the city map there and can start the walk from there.

School? WONDER is the ideal (half)day trip for classes. You can register your visit now and receive a preparatory document in advance. In addition, there are still some free places for free workshops.

A group? You can also register a group visit now. If you are interested in a guided tour, click below.

At WONDER you need to be there to discover new design talent, this can include the expo WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION and WIP.DIP.IPO in the Budafabriek, PICK MY FLOWER in the Koetshuis or 17 ( VITAL ) BOUNDARIES in Texture.

At the Budafabriek, Broelkaai 6, Broeltoren Noord and Patria, companies enter into dialogue with designers, producing surprising installations, pavilions and digital experiences.

You will discover what is happening in terms of circularity in product design at the CYCLES OF DESIGN expo in the Paardenstallen. Deltalight also shows its sustainable innovations around aluminium battle in Broeltoren Zuid. In Surplace Studio you will discover more about life extension for chairs via industrial 3D printing and in Texture and De Beste Kamer the possibilities of hemp will be explored.

Quite a few Flemish and Kortrijk galleries participate with very diverse exhibits and work: REDKETTLE Gallery presents in the unique Chapel of the Pauline Sisters and PLUS-ONE Gallery brings an AR experience to the Verlaagde Leieboorden. Buda Gallery, Hilde Vandaele Gallery, Kunst in Huis, 4n20, Radical HeArts, Rhizome, Galerie Art & Design Productions and Art Church Rochus are not only participating in WONDER, but the weekend of 26 and 27.10 also in Kortrijk Art Weekend.

Interested in graphic design? Then head to Atelier Nooitgedacht for Zegg Expo and Buda Kitchen, where print company Die Keure is moving its prepress department and organising numerous talks.

DURF2030, De Stroate, Quindo, Bolwerk and LZSB are joining forces to colour the city outside the lines, as part of Kortrijk 2030. They will take the empty hotel at Dam71 and transform it into a real youth hub. At many other locations too, children are challenged to be creative.

On the Grote Markt and along the Fabriekskaai, projection mapping spectacles are set up every evening.

With the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Belgium, we invite Audrey Large for an installation around various digital manufacturing processes such as 3D printing in the Broeltoren Noord.

Wood also takes a leading role: in the KIOSK, Vaklab Bokrijk presents the three finalists of the BKRK award theme wood and in Buda Kitchen a new and innovative wood project for secondary schools, WOOD SKILLS, is presented.

WONDER is organised by Designregio Kortrijk and Stad Kortrijk, with the support of main partners Nationale Loterij, Aluvision and Deltalight, and partners Fedustria, Compagnie Het Zoute, Zorggroep H.Hart, and Designregio Kortrijk partners Howest, Intercommunale Leiedal, Kortrijk Xpo, Universiteit Gent Campus Kortrijk and Voka West-Vlaanderen.