Exhibitions
We are the next generation
The best student projects from the creative Flemish design education
DesignX50
A selection of the most innovative products and cases from companies from the region Kortrijk-Ieper-Roeselare-Tielt.
A decade of graduates
In 2015, the 10th class of Industrial Product Design (Howest) graduated. An overview of graduation projects and 10 year alumni.
No Randomness
Curator Oscar Lhermitte searches for the secret behind the design of everyday products. Realised by Cité du Design for the International Design Biennial of Saint Etienne 2015.
Kortrijk Creates
Of course we are a region of Makers and Doers. But do the inhabitants of Kortrijk experience this and is it clear for those who are visiting Kortrijk?
Program W/O 15
Wednesday 28 october
09:00 - 72h Challenge
72h Challenge Howest & Leiedal
13:00 - Combine your visit
Combine WO15 with a visit to Prototyping 2015 (1pm-9pm)
18:30 - Grand opening
6.30pm Grand Opening with launch DesignX50 n°5, Oscar Lhermitte about his exhibition No Randomness and Werner Degraeve from Autodesk on 'The future of making things'.
20u15 Network reception
At 8.30pm Archipel offers a lecture by Portuguese architect Manuel Aires Mateus.
Thursday 29 october
09:00 - 72h Challenge
72h Challenge Howest & Leiedal
10:00 - Combine your visit
Combine WO15 with a visit to Prototyping 2015 (10am-6pm)
18:00 - Buda Libre WO15
From 6pm
Network event with lectures, presentations, talks and performances! Subscribe to www.budalibre.be
Friday 30 october
09:00 - 72h Challenge
72h Water Challenge by Howest & Leiedal with 90 students
18:00 - Students Night Out
Launch of the book 'X, encounters with young designers' from Howest and OVAM Ecodesign award for students ceremony
Saturday 31 october
10:00 - Biking & DIY
With children activities, products from innovative start-ups, pimp-your-bike and upcycling workshops
Thanks to Stal13, Fietskeuken Kortrijk, The Opportunity Factory, Itisi, Coureur du Monde and Howest.
22:00 - Closing party
WO15 invites Søndag - Closing event Week van het Ontwerpen 2015
Music by Søndag
Kusiner / DJ Lomme / Nixon
open at 10pm, Budafabriek Kortrijk
free event, but limited capacity
