In 2024, Textimoov!, the sixth edition of Futurotextiles, was back at the Tripostal with 6,000 m2 of exhibition space. New era, new inventions, habits have changed but engineers and creators are still pioneers and inventing the world of tomorrow.
Intended for a wide audience, the completely new exhibition showcased the most recent discoveries and trends in textiles from around the world, focusing on France, the Hauts-de-France Region, the European Metropolis of Lille and our Belgian neighbors. A true crossroads between the most recent scientific technological innovations and artistic creation in all its forms.
This new edition of Futurotextiles was connected with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Sport, as an actor and source of innovation, linked the artistic and scientific worlds to business.
Sport and innovation are closely linked. The first offers a wide field of expression to the second to optimize the performance of the professional or amateur athlete and provide them with ever more comfort. From ancestral know-how to new high-tech practices, the exploratory field is immense.
In a few decades, the Earth will have a priori 11 billion inhabitants. How will our grandchildren live there? Real and virtual will mix. Environmental issues will completely punctuate daily life and the Moon and the planet Mars will have already welcomed a few colonies.
A trademark of Futurotextiles, the exhibition brought together industrial prototypes and new materials with artistic creations taking up references from the world of sport and urban cultures. The business world and the artistic world staged new discoveries and the very latest trends in textiles.
lille3000 designed an exhibition with a futuristic scenography. Le Tripostal was divided into three levels.
On the ground floor, an open space in perpetual movement, accessible free of charge, plunged visitors into a streetwear, urban universe. A Pop!Corner showcased the emergence of the region’s fashion schools.
On the first floor, activewear took centre stage, with a focus on performance sports. Upcycling, recycling, technical textiles, the latest composite sports accessories and the most unlikely outfits dreamed up by visionary fashion designers were all on show.
On the second floor, the atmosphere changes. Travelling to the future, they were transported to the Moon and Mars, where habitat and clothing, modes of communication and transport were intertwined, with the omnipresence of textiles.
Curator: Caroline David for lille3000
Futurotextiles is a series of exhibitions designed by lille3000 that have been touring the world since 2006 in multiple forms that demonstrate the richness of new textiles. In 2015, Textifood, a Futurotextiles module based on micro-organisms from the agri-food sector developing textile materials, was presented at the Universal Exhibition in Milan. Then, lille3000 designed Textidream / Futurotextiles 5 which was presented in the fall of 2021 on the esplanade of the France Pavilion during the Universal Exhibition in Dubai 2020.
