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Exhibition presents a panoramic view of Chinese design
    2020-01-21  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Cao Zhen

caozhen0806@126.com

“VALUES of Design: China in the Making,” an exhibition exploring the growing field of Chinese design and attempting to understand how changing and evolving values are helping to shape what we design, produce and consume, opened at the V&A Gallery at the Sea World Culture and Arts Center on Saturday.

The exhibition, curated by Shenzhen’s Design Society in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in Britain, showcases 138 Chinese works displayed in six sections: “Patterns of Design,” “Problem Solving,” “Shaping Materials,” “Identity and Consumption,” “Enhancing Communication,” and “Negotiating Cost.” Within these sections, the exhibition tackles diverse themes including traditional crafts revitalization, creative materials, branding, packaging, poverty alleviation, environmental protection, rural construction and urban planning, among others.

Highlighted items include a model of Jishou Art Museum that also functions as a bridge, a Timmy Yip’s conceptual outfit, a reclining chair made from used Mobike parts, a FIYTA Spacemaster Z070 watch for use by astronauts in exceptional environments, Studio Swine’s home décor made from human hair, and much more ranging from daily objects to grand projects.

Jishou Art Museum designed by Yung Ho Chang/Atelier FCJZ last year is inspired by traditional covered bridges (bridges with architectural structures built on top) in Hunan and is a new type of art museum integrating a gallery within a bridge.

Award-winning designer Yip uses 23 mobile phones and luminous stripes in his outfit “Mobile Phone” to evoke reflection on consumerism, environmental changes and the future. Studio Swine’s home décor collection is made using human hair and natural resin, exploring the creative potential of this material from a widely available and renewable resource. And a reclining chair designed by YUUE studio is made from used Mobike parts; a few new components are included in its construction, though. It is a new solution to the problem of the piles of discarded shared bicycles in China.

The amazing “Tulou Collective Housing” designed by URBANUS in 2007 and built in Nanhai of Guangdong addresses the challenges of urban land shortages and increasing housing prices. It combines the living culture of the traditional Hakka housing complex, the “tulou,” with modern, affordable apartment design, providing not only residential rooms but also communal space for leisure use.

The “Values of Design: China in the Making” exhibition is a follow-up to “Values of Design,” a 2017 exhibition in Shenzhen produced by the V&A in collaboration with Design Society. “Values of Design” featured over 250 objects from around the world from year 900 to the present, drawing from the V&A’s extensive collection in London. “Values of Design: China in the Making” has shifted the lens to focus on China.

“The new exhibition helps us to be a true design museum, with a seminal exhibition on what design is and can be, educating people, posing questions, challenging concepts and inspiring public events,” said Ole Bouman, founding director of Design Society.

“Through their work, the designers for the new exhibition reflect social sensitivities, drive important changes, and bring creativity and hope to the forefront,” said Zhao Rong, deputy director of Design Society and one of the curators of the exhibition.

The new exhibition continues using the layout of the 2017 exhibition, which was curated by Brendan Cormier, senior design curator of the V&A. He is also the advising curator of the new exhibition. “It’s been exciting to revisit the ideas explored in the original ‘Values of Design’ exhibition and shift the focus across to China, delving deeper into the wide-ranging work and innovation taking place,” said Cormier.

Design Society’s founder, China Merchants Shekou, and its founding partner, the V&A, started collaboration six years ago, aiming to use the universal language of design and creativity to activate design as a social catalyst. Since 2014, the V&A has sent experts to Shenzhen to provide professional advice and training.

As Tim Reeve, deputy director and COO of the V&A, put it, this new model for a U.K. museum to engage in international cultural collaboration is “less about exporting content, but more about co-creation and new perspectives and context.”

On Saturday in Shenzhen, Reeve also announced that as a further continuation of the partnership, the V&A’s critically acclaimed exhibition “Fashioned From Nature” will open in Shenzhen in March.

“The exhibition traces the complex relationship between fashion and the natural world with nearly 300 garments, accessories and objects spanning 1600 to the present and will be complemented by a new section, curated by Design Society, that spotlights pioneering contemporary Chinese art and design,” he said.

Dates: Until Dec. 20

Hours: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. (Mon.-Fri.), 10 a.m.-9 p.m. (Sat.-Sun.)

Tickets: 34-68 yuan

Venue: V&A Gallery, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Nanshan District (南山区海上世界文化艺术中心V&A展馆)

Metro: Line 2 to Sea World Station (海上世界站), Exit A

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