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This session will explore how circular design can act as a powerful driver of upstream innovation, transforming value chains and building resilient, future-ready industries. It draws on the Ellen MacA ...
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Drawing inspiration from nature, reshaping experiences through design, and carrying value through cultural tourism—the interweaving of these three elements constitutes a new context for this conferenc ...
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Zaha Hadid Architects has always been inspired by Nature and the evolution of the dynamic relationships that shape the world we live in today. The practice rejoices in promoting Zaha's original commit ...
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Studio Qi’s work is generated predominantly in response to the natural world, landcape and wildlife. Studio principal Shanshan Qi explores and explains two projects: the Lone M Hotel, and the Stray Bi ...
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What is 'coral-like growth'? In our practice, says Slow Coral principal Jinglei Xu, it represents an organic, incremental, and sustainable design strategy. He systematically outlines the practice’s ev ...
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‘We explore how contemporary architecture engages with the relationship between nature and the artificial within the context of the Chinese conception of shan–shui (mountains and waters),’ says Meng F ...
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The lecture will share over a dozen projects built by Wiki World around the globe in the past decade. It will discuss how thousands of families and children have been guided to reconnect with nature a ...
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Our first four distinguished speakers engage with how to put circular design ideas into practice, how - or if - they apply them in their own work, and how much Chinese design specifically is changing ...
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Sun Tower is an oceanfront public cultural facility in Yantai Yeda Development Zone, featuring outdoor theater, digital exhibition spaces, library, café and bar. Atop the summit is a unique semi-outdo ...
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This cluster of three pavilions incorporates lighthearted and playful inflatables intended to evoke clouds. Set among the rice fields of Dun'ao Village in Zhejiang Province, the Down in the Clouds pav ...
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The design of Lanyu Emei Mountain Resort Hotel is rooted in the tranquil philosophy of architecture, transforming a group of abandoned buildings into a dwelling hidden in the mountains and forests—all ...
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A big moment for Design Shanghai – Louise Yeung, distinguished partner at Foster and Partners, judged to be the world’s most sucessful architectural practice – explores and explains the studio’s appro ...
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A true friend to Design Shanghai’s mission to explore the design connections between east and west, Wu Bin has brought his persuasive blend of traditional visual craft and what he calls ‘Modern Orient ...
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BUZZ’s Manor Mirage occupies the site of an abandoned concrete bridge. The bridge’s piers remain deeply embedded in the earth, their rigid geometry interrupting the visual flow between the field and t ...
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Conceived in collaboration with artists Meilin Gao and Gang Xu, the Moon Pavilion project transforms an abandoned greenhouse, drawing from an ancient Chinese verse describing a poet, smiling and intox ...
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Artist and designer Ian Douglas-Jones explains the essence of ‘TRACERIES’, the group show he has co-ordinated for our satellite event ‘Design in the City’, exploring the interplay between light, matte ...
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How do we manage value, longevity and permanence in design while the world, climate and social conditions are changing so fast? What does 'designing the future' mean?
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Snøhetta will explore how their designs fundamentally orchestrate human experience through spatial relationships. Moving beyond form and function, Snøhetta frames architecture as the art of in, out, u ...
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1. Passive design is a precise response to the local climate. Songjing organizes natural ventilation by leveraging its natural relationship with the mountainous terrain, while the Thai cliffside villa ...
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Inspired by Newton's apple tree, this passage elaborates on the inspiration source and ongoing reflections behind the design of DL Atelier.First trick: "Natural Symbols" – to create a certain ritual. ...
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This presentation argues for a paradigm shift in workplace design: moving from a "production machine" to a "nurturing system". In their continuous development and transformation, modern offices have o ...
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The architects advocate integrating clear value concepts into holistic design thinking to deepen insights into the natural and cultural environments of a project. Dongxing Xijian's ‘No. 69 Zhongshan V ...
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Amid the global atmosphere of uncertainty, anxiety and technological unease, we assemble a panel of distinguished practitioners who all, in their own way, contribute to optimism and a sense of wellbei ...
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Pujiang Viewing Platform, a timber event pavilion and viewing structure embedded into the hills east of Pujiang, southwest of Chengdu, was designed and recently completed by MVRDV. It is conceived as ...
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Marcel Wanders in conversation with Aidan Walker Famously original, innovative, provocative, always thinking one step ahead and irreverently humorous, Marcel Wanders is one of the giants of contempora ...
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Michael Pawlyn has been at the forefront of nature-inspired and nature-driven design since his work with Nicholas Grimshaw on the famous Eden Project in the UK more than 20 years ago. Since then his p ...
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1. Conceptual Reconstruction: Moving beyond indicator-driven ‘green building’, we view the building as a ‘sensory device’ for refining and reconstructing natural laws, shifting from ‘technological eco ...
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