BEIJING DESIGN WEEK: ISTANTANEE DASHILAR DESIGN COMMUNITY, BAITASI REMADE, INDIGO DESIGNED TO DELIGHT‏

A seguito dell’apertura della Beijing Design Week, che si tiene a Pechino dal 23 settembre al 7 ottobre, ecco una prima selezione di immagini dei progetti e installazioni presentate a Dashilar, Baitasi e Indigo.
 

BEIJING DESIGN WEEK | 23 SETEEMBRE - 7 OTTOBRE 2015

Dal 23 settembre al 7 ottobre torna lo straordinario appuntamento con la Beijing Design Week che pone l’accento sulla creatività, l’innovazione, il savoir-faire del design targato Cina.

Numerosissime mostre, installazioni, esposizioni, eventi aperti al pubblico, piattaforme commerciali , tutto questo ed altro ancora è la Beijing Design Week, osservatorio unico di scoperte, dialoghi, scambi, sfide in ambito della produzione,  professionisti cinesi , talenti emergenti e non.

Ospitato da Beijing Municipal Government, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, per raccontare e promuovere la cultura del design in ambito Cina. 7 aree tematiche - Opening Ceremony, Design HOP, Guest City, Design Awards/Design Market/Design Talent, Smart City - BJDW presenta innumerevoli mostre e installazioni di stampo internazionale, eventi pubblici, piattaforme di scambio e si afferma come la più importante, innovativa, stimolante manifestazione di design della Repubblica Popolare Cinese.   

BEIJING DESIGN WEEK | 23 SETEEMBRE - 7 OTTOBRE 2015 | GUEST CITY DUBAI‏

Launched with a pilot effort in 2009, Beijing Design Week (BJDW) is co-hosted by the, to nurture a culture of design in a Chinese context. With seven key sections  BJDW features hundreds of international exhibitions, public events and trading platforms as the leading design event in the PRC. While offering an expansive overview of China's transforming design landscape, it serves as a laboratory for innovative perspectives that, from industry to academia, inspire and shape contemporary design discourse and practice.

International actions started in 2011 with the City of Milan, resulting in BJDW yearly presence at its globally-attended Salone, and continue to date with an ever expanding city-and-country network of partners including Holland, Seoul, Tokyo, Dubai, Copenhagen, Australia, and most recently Venice launched with the 2014 Architecture Biennale. An official collateral event to the international showcase, the exhibition Across Chinese Cities-Beijing hosted in the Tese of the Arsenale and curated by BJDW’s Creative Director Beatrice Leanza and architect Michele Brunello, was an investigation into the Chinese capital's spatial transformations with an explorative focus on its historical district
Dashilar. BJDW will renew its presence in Venice over the next two years and the 2016 Architecture Biennale, strengthening its role as an active content producer and promoter of China’s evolving intellectual and cultural landscape.

Beijing Design Week Organizing Committee and Dubai Design Week jointly announce Dubai’s presence at BJDW as its Guest City for the upcoming 2015 edition, to be held from September 23 until October 7 in the Chinese capital. Beijing Design Week will then feature as a guest international design week at the inaugural Dubai Design Week in October, an annual citywide event placing Dubai on the map as an emerging design capital of the world.

London, Milan, Amsterdam and Barcelona have each taken up this stage in the past four years with a diverse array of offerings inclusive of exhibitions and discursive events informing educational programs and cultural activities, economic forums and commercial platforms catered to generate long-lasting scenarios of cooperation between cities.

BJDW Creative Director Beatrice Leanzacomments ‘’The appointment of Dubai as the 2015 Guest City resonates across a wider set of actions BJDW has undertaken to strengthen productive relations within the Asia region and encourage dialogue among its vibrant and diverse design cultures.’’
In recognition of Dubai’s ambition to build upon its existing positioning as a global hub and transform itself into a world capital of culture and design, Beijing celebrates the city’s growing reputation as a meeting point in the Middle East for the international art and design communities, further reinforced by the launch of the first Dubai Design Week in late October 2015.

BEATRICE LEANZA

An independent curator and critic based in Beijing since 2002, she earned an MA in Asian studies from CA’Foscari University (Venice) specializing in the history of Asian art with a dissertation thesis on contemporary art in China. She has acted as managing director and curator of CAAW (China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing), the historical alternative art space founded by artist Ai Weiwei in the end of the 1990s, from 2002 until late 2005. Whereafter she founded the creative studio and research practice BAO Atelier, a unique China-based think-tank fostering encounters across the visual arts, design and architecture, active across Europe and Asia, while serving as co-founding director of the experimental festival Borderline Moving Images (Beijing, 2006/07). She has curated, contributed to and organized a variety of exhibitions and cultural projects in both China and Europe, among which events during the Venice Art Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Milan Design Week, Beijing Design Week and participated as invited curator to research initiatives in Paris (YCI – FIAC & Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, 2006), Gwangju, Korea (The Global Institute, 7th Gwangju Biennal, 2008) and Tokyo (Tokyo Wonder Site, 2009), among others. Her projects and critical writing have appeared in international publications such as Artforum, Domus, Disegno magazine, Frieze, Abitare, Flash Art Intl’, Wallpaper, Kaleidoscope Asia, Art Asia Pacific, Surface Asia, Guardian.co.uk, Art In America, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, etc., as well as in the Italian press (24 Magazine/Il Sole 24 ore, Abitare, Il Corriere della Sera, L’Espresso, among others); she is regularly contributing to art catalogues and publications about art and design from the East Asian region. She was a curator of 'Across Chinese Cities: Beijing', an official collateral event of the 2014 International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.