Kohler Exquisite x Design Shanghai Design Forum Schedule

A joint welcome from the Design Shanghai Forum Programme Director and esteemed colleague on the ground, editor in chief of IDEAT magazine.

Super-influential Italian designer explains his design for regenerative community living.

VIDEO: 'Sustainability is no longer enough'. Passionate and eloquent herald of the birth of the Ecological Age and the death of the Industrial Age inspires design hope for humanity.

Major figure of contemporary Chinese visual culture explores commonality and communication between Eastern and Western philosophies of beauty.

PANEL: A New Chinese Aesthetic of Sustainability

14:00-14:05
Welcome to Audi - Simone Chen

14:05-14:10
Opening Speech and Greeting - Henrik Wenders

14:10-14:40
How Audi Lives Sustainable Design - Yunzhou Wu & Yu (Scott) Zhao

14:40-15:00
Q&A

15:00-15:45
LEO LI

15:45-16:30
ZIYU ZHUANG

16:30-17:15
CAN ZHANG

17:15-17:45
PANEL Moderator: Simone Chen Panelists: Leo Li, Ziyu Zhuang, Can Zhang

Major star in Shanghai's design firmament and long time friend of Design Shanghai has his own unique take on Regenerative Design.

VIDEO: Multi-skilled, multi-talented, multi-disciplinary designer, architect, artist, craftsman whose iconic '1000 Tree's building‘ opens now in Shanghai.

Founder of Vermilion Zhou Design Group elaborates on the relationship between art, design and beauty.

Not 100 but three: the international partners of a practice that focuses entirely on the public realm.

VIDEO: The work of Jiani Zeng & Honghao Deng, working in San Francisco, is guaranteed to make you gasp. Does 3D printing really look like this?

13:30-14:00
Welcome Speech

14:00-14:40
MVW: MING XU & VIRGINIE MORIETTE: Flexibility of Design

14:45-15:25
KRIS LIN: Regeneration-The Renewal and Reconstruction of The City

15:30-16:15
BO LI: Integrate Art and Technology into Space, See The Future with The Future!

16:20-17:00
JIJUN MAO: A Sense of Life

AD China session: Co-founder of Dutch / Chinese practice Monoarchi, committed to public space and the urban realm.

Elaine's work at the Fabrick Lab is a harmonious blend of regenerative design, emotive resonance and functional precision.

WGSN Trend Director Maggie Men on Future Sustainable Lifestyle &Interior Design Trends.

VIDEO: Co-founder of English design 'editeur' Established & Sons revives his roots in fine art.

Radical Dutch thinker and urbanist has been practising in Shanghai for many years.

VIDEO: 'The Architecture of Poetry'. Breathtakingly beautiful work inspired by nature and driven by love of humanity.

"jianze", a new Chinese design brand managed by designer Chen Min, is a model of many cross-border and cross-field co-creation cases. The Dutch design combination Raw Color brings a highly saturated visual impact to the "jianze" brand VI. Fashion editor Chow’s creative images for advertising are like multi-faceted collages that create a blueprint for multiple stories under the Z generation. And more importantly, in this era right now, users are also creators. This is the best "label" for Gen Z!

Unforgettable immersive installations, smart products, design that carries emotional weight.

YANG DESIGN's strategic director and resident trend analyst brings unique insight into the Chinese market.

Li Wengqiang's reputation for playful iconoclasm is well served by the new Ya! Space in Hangzhou.

Alex Mok (Chinese-Swedish) and Briar Hickling (New Zealand) investigate rituals of inhabitation and how design transforms the mundane into performative acts.

VIDEO: Truly one of the giants of Dutch, European and international design, Hutten subverts the territory between design and art - and has designed the biggest Regenerative project yet built.

Committed to Design for Happiness, 'Creative Deign Empowers Life' is the motto for UK / China hybrid practice HATCH, whose Regenerative projects are presented here.

14:15-14:30
WELCOME BY RIBA - AZLINA BULMER

14:30-15:15
INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE RCL100 PROGRAMME - UMI LYU