Brussels Design September
Categories: Design
Date: 06/09/2018 to 30/09/2018
Time: All Day
Links: iCal - Google Calendar
More than 100 Design Events
Over the years, Brussels Design September has become the annual flagship event for design enthusiasts. For one month, the city hosts an array of over 100 unmissable cultural and commercial events offering a meeting platform between the public and a great number of Belgian and international designers.
Brussels Design September will feature exhibitions, conferences, open houses, an Arts & Crafts tour, Commerce Design Brussels and Brussels Design Market. A multitude of dialogues between designers, architects and design lovers as well as the chance to discover urban trails between the many pop-up stores, shops, workshops, galleries and cultural spaces.
This year’s edition will be marked by the latest trends in Belgian and international design and will be highlighted by the multi-disciplinary spirit of different influences, movements, crafts and professions of current day design.
Highlights
This year, Brussels Design September introduces a couple of new events.
Exhibitions by renown designers in iconic places in the city like KANAL/Centre Pompidou, the Horta House, BOZAR or MAD Brussels reinforce the cultural offer of this edition 2018.
For the first time, Design September will take place in the public space of the city centre.
In collaboration with BOZAR Open Air, the landscape designer Bas Smets and the collective POOL IS COOL have been invited to rethink the urban layout of the rue Baron Horta, next to the Centre For Fine Arts.
Brussels Design Market will highlight the image of Brussels, a city of vintage: a vintage route in the city, an exhibition by Georges Pelletier at Tour & Taxis will mark in other words the 25th edition of the Brussels Design Market, which is the biggest vintage market in Europe.
An Eco Design route will highlight the innovation of our designers in research, and innovation for more sustainable solutions. In collaboration with hub.brussels we will also put the Eco Design in value in Brussels retail.
The Arts&Crafts itinerary brings a focus this year on Textile Design. Workshops and textile designers will be highlighted. A collective exhibition will be presented at the BIP located rue Royale.
Finally, the news of Belgian design will be proposed with Alain Berteau, who with Objekten will present his solutions for office furniture, Xavier Lust to name a few.
