Hasta La Ideas

The 2012 edition of Interieur—the European Design Biennale taking place in Kortrijk, Belgium, October 20–28—is bound to become one of the top global design destinations this year.

Curator and Interieur President Lowie Vermeersch (former head of design at Pininfarina and now CEO of the Turin-based GranStudio), set out to reconnect with Interieur’s avant-garde roots through a selection of 300 carefully picked international exhibitors and an extensive cultural program, ‘Future Primitives’ installations, custom-designed bars and a pop-up ‘bistro.’

Crucial this year is the expansion beyond the Xpo fairgrounds, into the city center and particularly the Buda Island.

Together these expanded locations will establish a new DesignCity with a continuum of lanes, diagonals, piazzas and unexpected places where installations, actions and encounters unfold.

Seven specially commissioned Future Primitives project rooms by Nendo (JP), Troika (UK), Makkink & Bey (NL), David Bowen (US), Ross Lovegrove (UK), Greg Lynn (US) and Muller Van Severen (BE), will offer different investigations into our future living environment.

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