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More on BJDW 2016

Photo highlights from Beijing Design Week 2016.

Images provided by the organisers.

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The other day at #BJDW // #aesthetics 💛❤️ #beijingdesignweek #北京国际设计周 (at Beijing, China)

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BJDW 2016 Guest City: Seoul

BJDW has invited Seoul as its Guest City this year. The programme at 751 D-Park will see the participation of around 118 designers, studios and companies, all intending to explore the concept of “smart” - whether it's the smart city, smart design, or smart life. The Korea-China Design Flea Market will also take place on 1-2 October 2016.

Further details outlined in the poster above, and/or visit the dedicated Guest City: Seoul website.

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Baitasi Remade

“First launched [during] the 2015 edition of Beijing Design Week...Baitasi Remade is a program of urban renewal tasked to integrate communal engagement, [and] architectural and infrastructural upgrading. Once again a partner program of BJDW, the 2016 BTS Remade project unveils long-term operations under the creative direction of Beatrice Leanza, positioning itself as a living incubator for a networked community of design professionals and entrepreneurs. The program offers insight into post-event activities fostering dialogue between [different] communities...from economic and institutional actors to creative players in the fields of design at large, and local residents”. Visit the project website.

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More on BJDW 2016

It’s only a few days until Beijing Design Week 2016 opens! We pick some highlights from the Design HOP programme.

Dashilar and 751 D-Park are back once again; the former featuring the flagship Dashilar Pilots initiative entailing “responsive design solutions for its complex built environment”. Dashilar will also introduce a recently reclaimed zone dubbed Beijing Fang, where eight thematic pavilions and a project called Open Blocks will be unveiled for the first time. Meanwhile, 751 D-Park will host the 2016 Guest City Program: Seoul with an expansive series of exhibitions and interventions, and Daan Roosegarde will unveil his Smog Tower.

Baitasi Remade, a highlight of last year’s event, will also return. Part of the programme includes courtyard renovations by architects Zhang Ke, Xu Tiantian and Gong Dong, as well as the final review of the International Design Competition (launched earlier this year with World Architecture Magazine), which entails the remaking of twelve courtyards in the area.

Studio-X will also have a presence in the form of a pop-up, asking questions such as: how can we effectively mobilise traceable data technologies to expand the horizons of bottom-up social development? And how can data actually be leveraged in practice to foster greater social and economic inclusivity and new systems of transparency? Overall, the work presented at Baitasi Remade will rethink “how design can enter productive dialogue with the social and infrastructural givens of this historical urban enclave”.

New projects include the first edition of the Beijing Media Art Biennale, co-organised by CAFA, the China Millennium Monument, and the B3 Moving Image Biennale (Berlin) under the theme “Ethics of Technology”; the Taikooli Light Festival, a series of interactive installations to be found around the Sanlitun area; and a Chaoyang District-wide set of exhibitions and events. Additionally, UCCA will organise a unique series of talks and debates alongside the exhibition "Accommodating Reforms: International Hotels and Architecture in China, 1978-1990”, and China House Vision will hold a book launch.

Beijing Design Week 2016 will run from 23 September until 7 October. See the official website for further details.

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Wig making is messy business! #bjd #bjdw #wigmaking #viscose

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Heute mal der beirat digitale wirtschaft in personell recht kleiner runde....dafür aber im reichstag #bjdw #profski #berlin #architecture #archtectureporn (hier: Reichstag building)