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Newsletter 05 2024
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what it is"
© Caroline Dethier

This sentence by Albert Camus, which welcomes you at the entrance to our Superpower Design exhibition, takes on its full meaning in today's search for a perfect being with superpowers.

While the exhibition presents new technologies for enhancing performance, the medicinal virtues of plants can also shed light on many mysteries.
That's what you'll discover when you board our Art Shuttle to Notre-Dame à la Rose Hospital.

In May, perform as you please!

Superpower Design

24 March 2024 – 25 August 2024
© Francesca Lanzavecchia and Hunn Wai - Metamorfosi Vegetali @Davide Farabegoli
Ever faster, stronger, more beautiful, more intelligent, the cult of individual performance has taken hold in a technological society where the body seems increasingly to be seen as an improvable tool. As a species, humans have always adapted to their environment, but the demands on their ...
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Art shuttle
Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose

25 May 2024
As part of our ‘Superpower Design’ exhibition, the CID invites you to discover the Hôpital Notre Dame à la Rose (Lessines), a former hospital ...
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Workshop
Frankenstein or the scientific dream

16 June 2024
"I had worked hard for nearly two years, with the sole aim of instilling life into an inanimate body. For this thing, which I had desired to the point ...
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Site du Grand-Hornu
Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu — Belgique

Ouvert du mardi au dimanche
de 10h00 à 18h00.

The npo CID - centre for innovation and design at Grand-Hornu is subsidised by the Province of Hainaut.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation – Visual Arts Sector.