December Diary 01 December 2009
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 | SHENZHEN & HONG KONG BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM / ARCHITECTURE 6 DECEMBER – 23 JANUARY You won’t find A1 boards or flashy pavilions here. This bi-city biennale is more interested in participation – the aim is to turn the whole city into an exhibition venue and get the residents involved. Headed by artist Ou Ning, the cities’ third biennale will follow a theme of “city mobilisation”. BIG architects will be there with a parkour team, and there will be projects by Lot-ek, Work Architecture Company, MAD, Vito Acconci, Sou Fujimoto and Arne Quinze. We also hear that Hans Ulrich Obrist will be doing one of his interview marathons on a train between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Shenzhen, China www.szhkbiennale.org |
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| DESIGN MIAMI 2009 1-5 DECEMBER With the talk of economic “green shoots”, gallery owners might be persuaded to put on their bravest faces and head to the sunshine. Four new galleries join the scene, including Dutch outfit Droog, while Moss returns to the fair after a year away. There’s also a new event dubbed Design On/Site – a series of solo exhibitions of work by designers making an impact. Maarten Baas, this year’s Design Miami designer of the year, will be creating an installation for the show. Design District, Miami www.designmiami.com | DECODE: DIGITAL DESIGN SENSATIONS 8 DECEMBER – 11 APRIL You’ll see digitally growing plants and a mechanical eye that copies your blink in the V&A’s first big digital design exhibition. Curated in collaboration with Onedotzero, the work falls into three sections: Code as a Raw Material, where data is used to create new designs; Interactivity, which involves the visitor; and The Network, which shows work preoccupied with the digital detritus of everyday communications. Victoria & Albert Museum, London www.vam.ac.uk | DESIGN KOREA 2009 2-8 DECEMBER “Sharing the future of design” is the ambiguous theme of this year’s Design Korea. There will be two conferences: “Designomics”, which brings together design and economics, and “Best of Class: Balance of Theory and Practice in Design Management”.What the speakers will actually be talking about in both is green growth. There will also be a product exhibition called Good Design and a few awards handed out to the greenest of these good designs. Incheon Songdo Convensia Premier Ballroom www.designkorea.or.kr |
| DETOUR: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN ALONG 18 TOURIST ROUTES 3-31 DECEMBER Architects’ interventions in Norway’s landscape. Parsons The New School For Design, New York www.parsons.edu | GERT WINGÅRDH 9 DECEMBER – 28 FEBRUARY Retrospective of the renowned Swedish architect. MFA, Finland www.mfa.fi | GUANGZHOU DESIGN WEEK 4-8 DECEMBER Design fair in China’s third largest city. Guangzhou, China www.gzdesignweek.com |
| RIBA PRESIDENT’S MEDALS 2-28 DECEMBER RIBA awards for the best architecture students. RIBA, London presidentsmedals.com | DESIGNED ASIA CONFERENCE 1-2 DECEMBER What are the issues facing design education today? Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre cumulusassociation.org | ISMINI SAMANIDOU: WOVEN TEXTILES 12 DECEMBER, 2.30PM Talk by the Jerwood Contemporary Makers winner. Museum in the Park, Stroud www.craftscouncil.org.uk |
| KONSTANTIN GRCIC AND
ALICE RAWSTHORN 26 NOVEMBER, 7-8PM Industrial designer Grcic talks to the design critic. Victoria & Albert Museum, London www.vam.ac.uk | ANDREW HOLDER 12 DECEMBER, 7PM The principal at Los Angeles Design Group talks. Sci-Arc, Los Angeles www.sciarc.edu | THE MODERN WOMEN’S PROJECT 9 DECEMBER, 6.30PM Discussion about the women of the Bauhaus. MoMa, New York www.moma.org |
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