The people behind the city's newest - and coolest - festival

Next weekend sees an event around Cork city which marries architecture and food, writes Joe McNamee.

Next weekend, six quirky little ‘pavilions’ with an added ‘edible’ component will pop up overnight around the Cork city, the most visual aspects of Design POP (May 17-19), a new festival of design which the organisers hope will go on to become an annual fixture in the city’s creative calendar.

The pavilions and accompanying installations are the fruits of collaborations between six designers and six local food and beverage producers, endeavouring to create bespoke constructions that reflect and support the ethos of each of the food brands and, in choosing to site the constructions in public spaces, draw in the engagement of a local populace certain to be charmed by these temporary little spaces, which become a de facto food trail around the Leeside over the course of the weekend, offering stimulus for both belly and brain.