Can design represent a chance for real change for those who live with and benefit of it? Definitely yes. And RECIPROCITY design liège is definitely proving it.

Design as an innovation and social cohesion vector is the great challenge of an ongoing laboratory whose next edition will take place in Liege from October 1st until the November 1st 2015. Through exhibitions, screenings and meetings, design sets itself as a contagious form of creativity that rethinks the importance of the individual role confronted to the creative capacity of a community that implements solutions to collective services and is able to make a social product competitive, up to creating a kind of parallel economy. That is, in this new microsystem, the crucial role played by the designer.

Among its new scores, RECIPROCITY design liège gets a new website and launches a blog completely dedicated to the event’s news and facts. We’ll bring you backstage, present you the makers, the actors, we’ll bring you in-depth articles, interviews, photos, videos, …

In addition, a call for projects, Design for food – THE TASTE OF CHANGE, running until March 31, invites students and professional designers from around the world to submit projects about “design for food.” Submitted to an international jury, the best creations will be rewarded with cash prizes and a great exhibition!

As a showcase of excellence, an exploration platform of design’s role in today’s society, the Liège event, focusing on the link between design and city / society, brings together a large number of local, cross-border (Euregio Meuse Rhin) and international actors to generate a broad public, professional and media debate about the role of design today. Artistic Director, Giovanna Massoni, played a decisive role in reorienting the already existing territorial creative energy to a systemic project that showcases organizations, networks, talents and programmes. In short, far from being a typical design event, RECIPROCITY design liège sets free forces to create a system that develops more and more on the principles of continuity and sustainability over the long term.

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