London Guest City Programme of Beijing Design Week

1. Emotional spaces and engaging objects

Ab Rogers of Ab Rogers Design will present some of the key themes in the studio's work: the importance of colour and movement in design and its ability to affect and shape human interaction.

Ab will discuss a selection of projects including the Comme des Garcons store in Paris, the Rainbow House in London, the Learning Zone for Tate Modern and recent exhibition 'A day in the life of Ernesto Bones' for the Stanley Picker Gallery.

Time: 16:00 - 17:30, Tuesday 27 September 2011

Venue: UCCA La Suite, Beijing

Speaker: Ab Rogers

2. Paul Cocksedge’s Talk on Design

Paul Cocksedge is invited to design the London Guest City gift installation for Beijing Design Week. Born in London, Paul escaped to take Industrial Design at Sheffield Hallam University. He returned to London for his MA in Product Design at the Royal College of Art, under Ron Arad. Paul now lectures in turn and has exhibited around the world, successfully establishing himself as one of Britain's leading young designers. He is the face of the Studio and in charge of its creative direction. He is a member of the 100% Design Advisory Panel.

Time: 18.30 - 20.30, Wednesday 28 September 2011

Venue: Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum auditorium, Beijing

3. Curating Design

Ghislaine Wood, curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum and Catherine McDermott Professor of Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston University present discuss approaches to curating design. Ghislaine Wood is a curator specialising in 20th century art and design in the Research Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is currently co-curating the forthcoming major exhibition British Design 1948-2012 and has produced several international exhibitions including Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design (2007), Art Deco 1910-1939 (2003) and Art Nouveau 1890-1914 (2000).

Catherine McDermott is Professor at Kingston University and over the past decade has developed the university’s MA in Curating Contemporary Design. Catherine has led collaborative contemporary curating projects with UK and Chinese curators, museums and universities for nearly a decade, including an annual scholarship to an emerging Chinese curator.

Time: 14:00 - 15:30, Thursday 29 September 2011

Venue: UCCA Auditorium, Beijing

Speaker: Ghislaine Wood & Catherine McDermott

4. Neville Brody’s Talk on Design

Smart Talk is a series of master classes, lectures and workshops, developed to give an insight into UK culture, education and creativity, with particular focus on how, via educational experience, inspiration and innovation we can encourage creative thinking and active participation. Internationally renowned designer, typographer, art director and brand strategist, Neville Brody, will participate in the British Council’s ‘Smart Talk’ series. Neville will share his knowledge of design and typography and talk about his work at his company Research Studios and his extensive career in the creative industry.

Time: 19:30 - 21:00, Thursday 29 September 2011

Venue: CAFA Art Museum Auditorium, Beijing

5. Tom Dixon: Design and How Not To Do It

Tom Dixon rose to prominence in the mid 1980s as 'the talented untrained designer with a line in welded salvage furniture' and his iconic designs include the S chair and the much celebrated Jack light.

One of the world’s most respected designers, Tom Dixon launches new collections annually which are sold in over 60 countries around the world. Come and hear Tom’s talk about design and crucially how not to do it.

Time: 16:00 - 17:30, Friday 30 September 2011

Venue: UCCA Auditorium, Beijing

Speaker: Tom Dixon

6. Domestic Super Objects

Come and experiment with your everyday domestic objects to reveal their creative potential in this workshop with experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun.

Juxtapose the epic with banal details and the extreme with the domestic to create a Domestic Super object….! PS: Please bring some everyday objects that can be destroyed or hacked.

Time: 14:00, Saturday 1 October 2011

Venue: No. 8, Dawailangying, Dashilar, Beijing

7. Tea and Yellowcake

You are invited to a nuclear tea party hosted by designer Zoe Papadopoulou. Tea will be served with homemade yellowcake and design.

Measure your irradiated food with a Geiger counter, explore the safety concerns of nuclear power and create designs using energy surplus.

Time: 15:00, Sunday 2 October 2011

Venue: No. 8, Dawailangying, Dashilar, Beijing

8. Composed Wild

More than ever, technology now allows us to control and engineer the natural world around us. This workshop will use design to create thought provoking new realities in order to confuse, confront and question the possible (and impossible) roles of biotechnologies in our everyday lives.

Time: Monday 3 October - Tuesday 4 October 2011

Venue: Tsinghua Arts Science Media Lab, Tsinghua University, Beiing

Exhibitions

1. What Design Can Do

What Design Can Do is a series of six massive posters specially commissioned for Beijing Design Week 2011 from the award winning UK design practice Johnson Banks. The posters showcase the power of design through Chinese and British collaborative practice. Placed within the dramatic context of District 751, the posters are displayed on six 20 metre tall structures, located in Tower Square. In this iconic setting the posters suggest to the visitor not only the importance of design but also the importance of shared ways of working together. The poster themes include New from Old, Shared Design Histories, Collaborative Practice and the continuing impact of the Power of Making. Two final themes focus on the complexities of Design Process and The Next Generation we hope will create our shared design future.

The posters were created to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the MA Curating Contemporary Design course at Kingston University and the Design Museum London. For nearly a decade the course has specialized in developing partnership projects between UK and Chinese curators, museums and universities. Each year it offers a scholarship to a talented Chinese curator, in 2011 the scholar is a graduate of Beijing’s China Academy of Fine Art (CAFA). Co-curated by Professor Catherine McDermott and Tingting Xu, a Beijing curator and graduate of MA Curating Contemporary Design.

Time: 25 September - 3 October 2011

Venue: 751 D-Park, No. 4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Beijing

2. A Day in the Life of Ernesto Bones

A conceptual show about narrative and the telling of stories and inspired by a game of exquisite corpses. It is based around the mysterious Stanley Picker House and its fictional inhabitant - Ernesto Bones.

The house is very beautiful and filled with very beautiful things. 24 multi-disciplinary contributors were each asked write an hour of Ernesto's day - inspired by pictures of carefully selected objects from the house - and together their words have told the story of his only day of life. We then translated this narrative into objects and installations which become moments in the gallery space.

Date: 24 September - 3 October 2011

Venue: No. 8, Dawailangying, Dashilar, Beijing

3. Tom Dixon Flash Factory and installation at Crossover in Sanlitun Village

A project – originally launched in Milan in 2010 and which has since toured to various places. In Flash Factory, a limited number of exclusive products will be made and sold on site. The Etch range is a digitally manufactured collection that includes a light and candle-holder in brass and stainless steel.

Visitors can assemble their own product on the stand, or purchase a full assembled version or flat-packed version to complete at home. Flash Factory demonstrates Future Industry and the new found power of the designer, able to service world markets with the latest products in greatly reduced time scales.

Time: 25 September - 3 October 2011

Venue: Crossover, No. 8, North Sanlitun Road, Beijing

4. Cheers 2011 The Catalyst

Time: 10:00 – 18:00, Monday to Friday (weekends 12:00 – 18:00), 25 September – 10 October 2011

Private view: 18:00 – 21:00, Sunday 25 September 2011

Venue: 751 D-Park Plaza, Beijing

（来源：英国使馆文化教育处，编辑 Helen）