If you are around Montreal this weekend…it’s your chance to see what Montreal’s designers have to offer…

Once again, Montréal designers and architects open their doors to the public. May 1 and 2, 2010, from noon to 5 p.m.

Go visit the website, it’s pretty cool how you can easily create your own ‘show’ http://www.portesouvertesdesignmontreal.com/about/

Design and designers—in the fields of architecture as well as interior, industrial, graphic or fashion design—are a dynamic force in Montréal’s cultural and economic life. In June 2006, Montréal was named a UNESCO City of Design, and became part of the Creative Cities Network of the Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity, instituted by UNESCO in 2004. Today, both in terms of the city’s assets and its development potential in architecture and design, Montrealers are called upon to understand this designation awarded by UNESCO and make it their own.

Making the title Montréal, UNESCO City of Design vital and tangible to citizens means continuing the work of distribution, popularization and awareness-raising about design and architecture that the city administration has successfully undertaken since 1998 with the Commerce Design Montréal competition.

The concept of the Design Montréal Open House, as a very public, accessible event similar to the city’s museum days and culture days, or the Commerce Design Montréal tours, is to get Montrealers to [re]discover design and designers, and in so doing, make the UNESCO designation their own and take pride in it, while increasing their interest in the people whose designs shape their daily lives.

By the way, this is the kind of information that you can easily have on your blog…doesn’t always have to be about YOU Mr. Architect ;-)