The Innovation Festival will have you under the spell of design, creativity and innovation. Everyone – young and old – will find themselves involved in this fascinating world. The challenge is to stimulate creativity and innovation and to attract undeveloped talent.
Kortrijk and the region will be under the spell of design, creativity and innovation during the Innovation Festival, from 8 to 25 October 2010. Everyone – young and old – will find themselves involved in this fascinating world. It will be a “people festival”, with an international appeal. It will make use of the creative ideas of the residents of the Kortrijk region and Flanders, called on them to think up innovative concepts. Around 40 products of the 150 ideas will be realised and produced in the Fab Lab at the Howest Industrial Design Centre. During the Innovation Festival, every visitor will also be able to see the students who develop these ideas to new prototypes at work.
The Innovation Festival (IF) forms part of the European project Pro Inno. The cities participating in the project are as follows: IF Barcelona (October 2009), IF Milan (5-10 October 2010), IF Kortrijk (8-25 October 2010), IF Lisbon (29 November – 10 December 2010), IF Vilnius (2011) and IF Tallinn (2011). City Kortrijk is partner within the project and Designregio Kortrijk is coorganisator.
