PROMOTING THE EXCELLENCE OF DESIGN, CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION AND COLLABORATING TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD…'
By Rozina Spinnoy During the pandemic, there was much time to reflect on the role of design, culture and creativity and it’s impact on many important topics within our society. Along with other topics and sectors that are relevant in
We have been observing and experiencing during the last year the Black Lives Matter movements around the world. instigated by the horrific death of Mr George Floyd. This horrific incident had an impact across many industries and sectors to hold
The United Nations launched an open competition for creatives to design works that could communicate public health messages in informative ways for coronavirus pandemic. The Global Call Out to Creatives is an open brief that asks Designers to create content that is visual,
The Belgium Design Council (BDC), has the pleasure of partnering with the International Interior Design Exhibition (IIDE), which comes to the heart of Europe in November of this year. With launch taking place in Brussels with a Gala Evening on
A joint initiative between Belgium Design Council (E3 Lab) and BIDs Belgium, started over one and half years ago. A personal story, that is very close to my heart. A story, that is one of the roads, on my professional
Along with our E3 Innovation Lab and our ‘Sister’ non-profit organisation of BIDs Belgium, we also launch the ‘Espace Kalm’ programme. This programme of Espace Kalm, will hold several projects within the aspect of caring in our communities and ‘Designing
The BDC was lucky enough to be at the last Design for Europe, conference in Estonia.We are always interested to learn and put into practice some of the key learnings, into some of our BDC projects. Especially the recent ‘Inclusive
With some of my colleagues and friends attending the Fearless Cities conference this weekend in Barcelona, I was pleased that we received a ‘taster’ earlier this week at the launch of the ALL for Democracy conference in Brussels, with some
Following on from our last update and within the context of ‘Care in our Community’, we are focussing on the role creativity and technology can play in encouraging children to develop their skills and confidence, as well as being inclusive
We first launched this around a year ago on social media, as part of our ‘Designing our Communities’ programme. During this time we also started the BIDs Belgium (Business Improvement Districts) project. This we are happy to say, has become