China News Service, Shanghai, November 6 (Reporter Xu Jing) The 9th "Design·Make Life Better" Innovation Design Forum and Ingenious Aesthetic Design Life Joint Exhibition were held in Shanghai on the 6th.
As a supporting activity of the CIIE that has been held for nine consecutive years, this event has keynote speeches, round-table dialogues, brand releases, themed exhibitions, CIIE markets and other sections, bringing together government, design institutions, universities, brands and representatives from the Chinese and foreign design circles to use an immersive scene that is "visible, touchable and purchasable" to promote CIIE global good things and high-quality designs to leave the exhibition hall, enter urban space and integrate into people's lives.
Luo Zhiwei, director of the Shanghai Design City Promotion Center, said at the forum that high-quality life is inseparable from the overall improvement of life quality through design. Since Shanghai was awarded the title of "Design City" in 2010, it has continued to promote the cultivation of original design and industrial services. In the future, the Shanghai Design City Promotion Center will continue to provide bridge services, discover good designs, cultivate good designs, and bring more international designs into Chinese families.
“The CIIE is a large platform for open cooperation and an important bridge for connecting global design wisdom with China’s market demand.” Ding Zuohong, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce Furniture and Decoration Chamber of Commerce, believes that a better life cannot be separated from the empowerment of design. We must continue to promote the integration of global creativity and excellent design with urban business and home life scenes, so that more international brands and well-designed products can approach consumers, so that design can better serve daily life.
In the keynote speech session, Chinese and foreign designers shared their views on the relationship between design and life. Starting from the long-term practice of engineering survey and design, Zhu Xiangming, a national engineering survey and design master, discusses how design can provide professional support for a better life. MIMMO GIROLAMO BARBACCIA, an Italian architect and founder of I-N-E-S Design Office, discusses the relationship between people and space from the perspective of space perception and emotional experience. Italian designer Michele Brunetti, founder of MICREATIVE STUDIO, shared how design can achieve cross-border symbiosis between different cultures and industries. During the roundtable dialogue, the guests discussed how to transform abstract design concepts into executable, implementable, and consumable industrial paths from the perspectives of ecological architecture, curatorial narrative, space design, home retail, and intelligent home appliance manufacturing.
In addition to the forum, a joint exhibition on design and life with the theme of "Aesthetics of Craftsmanship" opened simultaneously. Focusing on the four curatorial clues of culture, intangible cultural heritage, fashion and international, it connects thematic exhibitions, permanent exhibition halls and the CIIE market to create a design and life scene that can be seen, visited and purchased. Among them, the "Ideas from the East" Italian Art Furniture Exhibition features Italian designer Mikao drawing on oriental design language and reinterpreting the form and meaning of Chinese furniture with Italian aesthetics, presenting a dialogue between oriental charm and Mediterranean lines. "No Living Without Bamboo - Qiongzhu Home Furnishing Exhibition" uses Qiongzhu as the main material, inherits the intangible cultural heritage technique of bamboo weaving and bamboo carving, and presents the Eight Immortals table, Taishi chair, tea table, flower stand and other utensils, showing the green lifestyle of "using bamboo instead of sculpture". "One Hundred Thousand Knives - Dongshen Tide" Zhou Dongshen's woodcut art special exhibition focuses on 57 representative works, which use woodcut lines to connect different civilizational themes such as Chinese literature and Greek mythology.
