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  • Title
    Projects, collaborations and conversations in design (lecture)
    Date
    25 May 2022, 5pm (Shanghai)
    Location
    Zhumu Meeting link: https://lnkd.in/g5bTrZJW
    Meeting ID: 638 415 684
    Description

    Expressive Murano glasswork vases, lamps, chairs, coffee services, rugs, handbags, sunglasses: the list of works of Nichetto Studio shows us, without doubt, the multidisciplinary that design can – and maybe should – have. Luca Nichetto will talk about the history of the Studio, from the only one in Venice to the very new one in Stockholm, underlining the importance of collaboration between designer, supplier, maker and user and stressing the aim – or one of the aims – of design of offer anyone, anywhere, a moment of levity.

  • Title
    Alvar Aalto Design Seminar 2022
    Date
    24-25 May 2022
    Location
    Jyväskylä Workers’ Club (Alvar Aalto, 1924-25)/ Online
    Description

    The 9th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar – BIOSYMBIOSIS 24.-25.5.2022 is, exceptionally this time, an admission-free hybrid seminar open to everyone. If the pandemic situation allows, the event and its accompanying programmes will also be held in front of a live audience at the Jyväskylä Workers’ Club (Alvar Aalto, 1924-25).

    The two-day, hybrid format BIOSYMBIOSIS design seminar brings to the discussion top Finnish and international names in bio-based design, some of them presenting their work for the very first time in Finland. The language of the seminar is English.

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  • Title
    Ceramics: Neverending Artworks
    Date
    24 May 2022, 9.30am - 9pm
    Location
    Flagship Store Iris Ceramica Group, Old Street (61 - 67) London,
    Description

    The exhibition “Ceramics: Neverending Artworks,” is on display until June 3rd in the flagship Store of Iris Ceramica Group London, and is part of the Clerkenwell Design Week. For the occasion, the street artist Camilla Falsini will be the protagonist of a live painting performance curated by YOURBAN2030, with a personal and contemporary interpretation of the style that characterized the “Memphis” movement.

  • Title
    Interior showcase from UMAGE, Spring Copenhagen, Innermost, Wehlers, EOQ and Pilke
    Date
    24-27 May 2022
    Location
    Islington Square, 116 Upper Street, London, N1 1AB
  • Title
    SHU – Interior Architecture & Design exhibition
    Date
    19-27 May 2022
    Location
    Hertha Ayrton STEM Centre, Central Campus, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield S1 1WB
  • Title
    Socially Engaged Design (Lecture)
    Date
    18 May 2022, 5:00PM Shanghai time
    Location
    Zhumu meeting link: https://lnkd.in/e3BzShUa
    Meeting ID: 629 758 176
    Description

    Originally from Germany, Namuun Zimmermann is a Suzhou-based design practitioner, researcher and design educator, after having lived and worked in Vienna (AT) and London (UK) for several years. Zimmermann has a BA in Industrial Design from the University of Applied Sciences in Graz (AT) and a MA Design Products from the Royal College of Art in London (UK). She has been working as a lecturer at the Design Department at Goldsmiths University in London for several years and has extensive experience in organising and running creative workshops, projects and commissions with diverse audiences for clients and renowned institutions like the V&A Museum, Serpentine Galleries, Barbican and Tate Modern. She has been the Lead Designer at TNA design studio, London, where she led the design team and ran projects in the fields of interior design, packaging and product design. In 2018, she co-founded the award-winning design company Studio Sain with her partner Martijn Rigters. Since 2020, Zimmermann joined the Industrial Design Department of XJLTU in Suzhou. She has been appointed as the departmental Research director where she leads the Industrial Design research units in Interaction Design and Social Innovation Design.

    Namuun has a multidisciplinary background in design, originally trained as an Industrial Designer and a master’s degree from the Design Products Department at the Royal College of Art in London. Her practice-based research and professional experiences bridge critical design, social-engaged and participatory design, product design and new materials advancing communities and users. Through her professional experience, her teaching approach has been concentrated towards a future-oriented and critical design ethos, focusing on providing students tools that adapt to the ever-changing environment of the design profession.

  • Title
    Transactional Urbanism
    Date
    11 May 2022, 5.00 PM Beijing Time
    Location
    Online Zhumu Meeting ID 626 583 5304
    Description

    Transactional Urbanism is a protraction of the flat, spiky, decentralised city, expressing the significance and influence of ubiquitous transactional exchanges on the form of the city, It presents the techno-social spatial domains that engender the city – an urban realm that is remote, dispersed yet kinetic and all-pervading.

    The lecture will examine the impact of decentralised technologies on the built environment and the consequent emergent techno-spatial architectural and urban conditions catalysed by disruptive distributed systems. Through discussing an emergent body of work, it will present the propositional forces that demonstrably shape the city; focusing on technology – its implementation and imprint – with an aim to establish a relation in the domain of architectural comprehension.

  • Title
    A LABOUR OF LOVE: new design, materials & textiles
    Date
    11 May 2022, 5:00 PM (Shanghai)
    Location
    Zhumu Meeting link: https://lnkd.in/gTRyHt3s
    Meeting ID: 636 403 309
    Description

    Philip Fimmano is a trend analyst, design curator and writer, contributing to Trend Union’s forecasting tools. He is also the co-founder of the World Hope Forum, a mentor of Polimoda’s forecasting and textile masters, and a board member for the International Folk Art Market and all of Gap Inc.’s brands.

    Philip is at the forefront of these new makers in contemporary design. Their challenge is to seek the future of responsible production, circular thinking, ethical practice and organic aesthetics, and to shape materials and processes. Ultimately, their conscious philosophies will change our world and guide us towards a better tomorrow.

  • Title
    New Ways of Production – Lecture
    Date
    04 May 2022, 5pm (Shanghai, GMT +8)
    Location
    Zhumu Meeting ID: 623 438 578
    Description

    The lecture will revolve around Martijn’s achievements as a designer, and how sources of inspiration can trigger design opportunities

    Martijn Rigters, Director of the MDes in XJTLU Industrial Design is a Dutch designer, practice-based researcher and design educator based in Suzhou, China.
    A graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, Rigters has been working within his professional practice for over 10 years and has collaborated with numerous international institutions companies, galleries and communities.

  • Title
    Everyday and Everywhere: Everyday Urbanism in the US and China
    Date
    04 May 2022, 12-2pm
    Location
    Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/gnDP6ni5
    (Passcode: MCrawf_22)
    Description

    Margaret Crawford, University of California at Berkeley will be delivering a lecture on everyday urbanism. Everyday urbanism is an approach to understanding urban, suburban, and rural spaces. It celebrates and builds on the ordinary life and reality that exist everywhere. It doesn’t envision an ideal urban environment but it explores ways to improve what already exists in incremental ways. Unlike much urban planning and urban design, everyday urbanism focuses on understanding the social uses of space. It introduces the idea of eliminating the distance between experts and ordinary users and forces designers and planners to contemplate a ‘shift of power’ and address social life from a direct and ordinary perspective.