Design City Luxembourg Biennale

DESIGN CITY LUXEMBOURG, A SMALL BIENNIAL THAT SEEMS LIKE A BIG ONE
The growing success of this biennial builds on the already fertile ground of creative young people who spread throughout Europe to study and returning to Luxembourg with a wealth of knowledge, drawing on their experience and expertise. They thus contribute to seeing the city other than solely through the prism of European institutions and banks.

These creatives were able to regroup and get organised to promote not only the "best practices" in their profession, but also thinking and programming in terms of design.

Thus, the association Design Luxembourg, active since 1995 and a member of BEDA (Bureau of European Design Associations) since 2003, supports, informs and advises design professionals. The Design Friends association offers an international programme of lectures, exhibitions and screenings.

With the publication DEE Magazine Design Friends has constituted a real index of all design actors in Luxembourg. DEE Magazine may be found in stores and galleries exhibiting the latest cutting-edge collection editions whose windows mark the cosmopolitan expansion of the city of Luxembourg.

DESIGN IS NOT ART (?)
DESIGN CITY LUXEMBOURG 2016
In collaboration with Mudam and The City of Luxembourg, Design City will present, from 27th April to 22nd May 2016, under the general theme Design is not Art (?), different views of the functions of design, culture and art in our "ultra connected" society and will devise bridges between different creative disciplines.

For the occasion, a site-specific installation will be created in the railway station district, a space chosen for new urban concepts in a zone of the city of Luxembourg undergoing change.

A participatory communication campaign, imagined by the agency Sensity (Guido Wolff and Marcel Befort), will be deployed throughout the city and will question the status of design in the everyday life of citizens.

At Mudam, QUizZ (the second edition of the QUiZ exhibition presented at Gallerie Poirel in Nancy in 2014) is being curated by Alexis Vaillant (CAPC Bordeaux) and designer Robert Stadler, who will design the scenography. The visitor will discover a wide selection of artists and current international designers whose works examine the status of objects. Not forgetting "Cercle Cité" which will exhibit the work of young Luxembourg designers and Luxinnovation, (the national agency for innovation and research) , a partner since 2010, which will contribute with a presentation on innovative materials and workshops.

"DESIGN FOR EUROPE" APPOINTS ITS AMBASSADOR IN LUXEMBOURG
As a result of our collective work on creative industries and particularly thanks to the quality of our active local forces, the European Commission via EDIP (European Design Innovation Platform), popularly known as Design for Europe, chose the initiator of Design City Luxembourg Biennale, Anna Loporcaro (Mudam) as Ambassador.

In this role, Anna Loporcaro will promote the messages and production of Design for Europe in the region, providing a local voice. She will also help to integrate some Luxembourg content into the project - such as innovation case studies through design - to integrate it into the web portal of Design for Europe. The young curator thus joins the Ambassadors of Design for Europe currently appointed in each of the 28 EU Member States.

For further information visit:
http://www.mudam.lu/en/expositions/details/exposition/design-city-luxembourg-1/