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As World Design Capital 2020, Lille Metropole would like to invite you to their event ‘Public policy design: from cities to Europe, and back!’, organised in cooperation with the European Commission JRC and the ERRIN Network. Local, national, and European public servants – whether experts in design and public innovation on the quest to innovate […]
The World Design Street Festival is the kick-off celebration to the WDC Calendar Year. This is an opportunity to engage as many people as possible, including international visitors, to experience design activities in person through concerts, public design workshops, exhibitions, or design studio open houses. Throughout the weekend, World Design Capital Lille Métropole 2020 invites […]
Design is a discipline that can be applied to every type of transport and service to meet present and future environmental and humanitarian challenges. Energy transition, climate change, air quality, new ways of living and consuming, forms of solidarity… Through design, we can give citizens the freedom to get around while ensuring the particular needs of […]
The “Housing” Maison POC will present the region’s strong innovation credentials in the area of housing. This Maison POC will illustrate the range of housing experiments in all their diversity, from private and social housing and student housing to residences for dependent persons and participative and connected housing. In partnership with the WAAO — Lille’s Architecture and […]
Maison POC is as much an animated tour as it is a lively forum for exchange and debate. Visitors conduct an investigation to discover evidence of a collaborative future. In line with the hundred POC from the territory, it will welcome DESIS labs of design schools and universities from all around the world, the design […]
Recipient of three founding values — zero waste, frugality and reuse — this Maison POC wishes above all to be an example of how to make an event space sustainable, accessible and eco-responsible. Located in the former school of the Couvent des Clarisses in Roubaix, the Maison is taking part in the circular rehabilitation and transitional occupation project Saisons […]
The “Care” Maison POC advocates the idea that caring for others is the best way to get the most from the world. Care given to others, both to the younger generations as well as our elders, is an act that is bigger than just the healthcare system. Caring extends to our natural environment and users […]
Expanding the scope of the term “design” to the world as a whole, used as a verb to qualify human action on the environment, is a way of giving ourselves the means to act. The exhibition “Uses of the world” invites us to consider social, environmental, architectural or agricultural alternatives that have been chosen across […]
This exhibition, created by world-renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, explores the way a new generation of designers is experimenting with materials and manufacturing processes. The past decade has seen a turning point in our relationship with materials, from design to manufacturing, with materials gradually reclaiming their central role in the creative process and beginning to […]
The exhibition “Design designer(s)” sets out to depict the landscape, diversity, evolutions and ideas of French design based on designers and their projects. With choices made in collaboration with famous names in contemporary design, this exhibition will present some sixty designers, projects, company processes and key figures and, above all, the ways in which designers […]
Ramy Fischler, designer and founder of RF studio, and Scott Longfellow, director of the studio’s Office of Uses, analyse the role of fiction and futurism in imagining the uses of tomorrow. They explore the subject through an exhibition and a creation laboratory located in the Tripostal. The exhibition uses a designer’s perspective to highlight the […]
Housed in Lille at the Biotope, the new headquarters of La Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), the Maison Action Publique’s activities take place in the spaces of the MEL’s public policies laboratory in an exhibition area and of course online. Today The Maison POC Action Publique is about thirty projects that testify to the vitality […]
A designer’s paradise should be a fun place, full of creativity, friendship and humour. That’s why we’re delighted to present you our own particular paradise, our first design and creativity festival, which will take place in a virtual and express format over three days -the 16th, 17th and 18th of December- and in which nine […]
New open call to receive projects from January 1st to 14th, 2021. In this way, we continue to promote the interdependence of the design sector and citizens with a broad vocation of public service. Thus, a call is opened to receive professional proposals for activities and initiatives with which to imagine, study, project, collaborate, co-create, […]
Designed by MUT Design and curated by Estudio Savage, the exhibition “Valencia Pavilion. The Future is Design” presents five differentiated areas looking at the circular economy, contemporary industry and craftsmanship, design and art, technology, and the transformative economy, to emphasise the success stories that are changing the way we do things. Consolidated companies – many […]
What will Valencia look like in 2050? How will technology impact the built environment? How will people live in public space? This call is open to motivated teams of up to 5 people who are interested in developing powerful images that explore Valencia in 2050 together with Non Architecture. Five locations of Valencia will be […]
This exhibition proposes a route through Valencian design product from 2009 to date, focusing on a careful selection of some 170 pieces that analyse the complexity and the experimental and innovative value of this field of design. The fact that the exhibition is held at the IVAM Alcoi pays a tribute to this city which […]
‘Coronacrisis and culture: Proposals by Valencian creators’ is an exhibition project organised and produced by the Vice-rectorate of Culture and Sport of the University of Valencia, with the cooperation of the Directorate General for Heritage and Culture of the Valencian Government and the Department of Culture of the Local Authority of Valencia and it is […]
The Design Museum has dedicated special attention to emergency designs in the spheres of protective equipment, machinery or graphics linked to communication and information campaigns, projects that will become part of the Museum collection. With more than thirty initiatives, both public and private, the emphasis is on pieces such as the contributions in face masks […]
