I want to introduce a Chinese artist named Wei Shen whose works reflect the changes of Chinese society including social values, thinking of young people with the change of economy in China. Wei Shen’s innovative has demonstrated in his works…
Beijing Global Design Studio
The Beijing Global Design Studio: FutureAging is a collaborative laboratory which explores the issues of health and wellbeing of growing aging populations. FutureAging is a collaboration between the University of Technology, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, Sydney and the Tsinghua University, Industrial Design Department and Healthcare Design Innovation Lab in the Academy of Art and Design, Beijing.
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Ai Wei Wei. Ideologically Inconvenient Artist.
Ai Wei Wei. Considered “a harsh critic of the government” (Page 2011). Famous portrait of Ai Wei Wei. Author Unknown. Accessed here. It has not been uncommon to happen to China’s most well-known cultural figures and creatives. Supposedly evoking the…
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Post D: Honouring and challenging Chinese culture
Zhang Huan (born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai, whose provocative performance art and sculpture seeks to both honour and reject elements of his national history. He created “angst-ridden performance pieces that brimmed with pain and a meditative masochism,” (Sebag-Montefiore,…
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ShoKay
China has developed a large consumer culture and with this has arose an experienced and knowledgeable consumer base who are seeking speciality brands developed from creative locals. The fashion label ShoKay created by Marie So is one such brand which…
Tagged with: china, Chinese, consumerism, culture, design, Ethical, Fashion, Shokay, Sustainable
Posted in D: Chinese Contemporary Culture, Uncategorized
Posted in D: Chinese Contemporary Culture, Uncategorized
Animal Regulations by Liu Di
In order to investigate “the friction between then natural world and urban residents in China” (Widewalls, n.d.), Liu Di uses digital photography and manipulation to portray his series, ‘Animal Regulations.’ By exhibiting caricature-like wild animals on an urban landscape we…
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A game changer in mobile messaging: Ma Huateng’s WeChat
Congruent to China’s rapid growth in mobile Internet, the country has undergone a radical change in the way social interaction is experienced. The pursuit for cutting-edge phone applications has shifted the nation away from embracing foreign technologies, and towards the…
Tagged with: china, design, Entrepreneur, Innovation, ma huateng, mobile messaging, social media, technology, wechat
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Posted in D: Chinese Contemporary Culture, Uncategorized
The New ‘Shanzhai’ Phenomenon
While China is well-established as the manufacturing hub of the world, the countries recent efforts to pivot towards a serviced based economy are particularly fascinating. As the number of educated working class in China increased around the turn of the…
Posted in D: Chinese Contemporary Culture
Design inside a vacuum
Solutions cannot be designed inside a vacuum, so to explore the issues of health and wellbeing of the growing aging populations, designers need to work with local communities using a human-centered design approach. Co-designing for the future requires in-depth…
Post D: Chinese Contemporary Culture.
Post D: Chinese Contemporary Culture. At risk of doing the same research done by many other people on Ai Wei Wei as I looked to research the work of Technode’s research in the sharing economy in China. The…
Baidu: Connecting China to the World
Due to restrictions in terms of internet browsing in the communist country of China, many mainstream websites have been blocked including some of the most widely used applications worldwide such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. These restrictions left a large…
Tagged with: Baidu, Chinese, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Search Engine
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Posted in D: Chinese Contemporary Culture
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