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ANNOUNCING A NEW BIENNALE The Interieur Biennale for creative interior design in Kortrijk (Belgium) enjoys a global reputation as one of the leading design events. The event organizers, Interieur Foundation, have announced a new Biennale, the first edition of which is planned for 2003. TRANSIT I/De/A is the launch event for this new Biennale. The original Interieur Biennale focuses on the latest developments in the furniture and interior design sector. The new biennale event will be concerned with design and product development in general. As a taster before the 2003 Biennale, The Design Assembly was held in October 18th this year. Prominent designers from all over the world, such as Fernando and Humberto Campana, Matali Crasset, Konstantin Grcic, Ross Lovegrove, Maarten Van Severen a.o. debated about what is perhaps the most urgent question for the design discipline today: how should designers today position themselves in a world which is increasingly being turned into one enormous design object. After the Assembly, during the evening of October 18th, the opening ceremonies of the Design Route took place. Two major events underpin the Design Route. On the one hand, two exhibitions, from San Francisco and Barcelona, come to the Fondation pour l’Architecture: ‘Tiborocity’, and the Martí Guixé retrospective. On the other hand the rue Antoine Dansaert / Antoine Dansaertstraat neighbourhood in the heart of Brussels will be transformed into a ‘design neighbourhood’ for a whole month. All the big names, the galleries, the shops and even cafés will take part in the Design Route. The exhibition ‘Things to Come’ taking place in various locations, will be the main feature. THE EXHIBITIONS LA FONDATION POUR L'ARCHITECTURE Tiborocity, Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman 1979-1999, organised by the Vitra Design Museum, with the assistance of M&Co, and based on the concept developed and implemented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. La Fondation pour l'Architecture, Kluisstraat 55 rue de l'Ermitage, Martí Guixé La Fondation pour l'Architecture, Kluisstraat 55 rue de l'Ermitage, VIZO GALLERY The Henry van de Velde Prizes Vizo Gallery, Kanselarijstraat 19 rue de la Chancellerie, THE DANSAERT NEIGHBOURHOOD Things to Come B-space.be, 22 Nouveau Marché aux Grains, The Looking Glass, rue Antoine Dansaertstraat 72, Design Parade Centre Dansaertcentrum, Aalststraat 7-11, The DesignDoctors rue Antoine Dansaertstraat 190, Argentaurum Gallery rue Antoine Dansaertstraat, Double-take-table. A project by Richard & Danny Venlet. Archétype Gallery, Kanal 11, avenue Barthélémylaan 11, Origins and originality: 30 designers from Brussels Kanal 11, avenue Barthélémylaan 11, In Transit. Ad!dict Creative Lab, Kanal 20, avenue Barthélémylaan 20, Work! Goed Werk Gallery / Verzameld Werk Gallery / Siegfried & Hermine De Buck Gallery Schootstraat 1 rue du PÍne, Belgian AccentsTM In various shopwindows in the Dansaert neighbourhood. Several designers will realise their own presentations in shopwindows in the Dansaert neighbourhood. MEETING POINT Installation by Quinze & Milan and Dark Centre Dansaertcentrum, Aalststraat 7-11 rue d'Alost, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- back to the newsstand
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