GeoCity Smart City is the feature exhibition for Beijing Design Week 2012. Curated by CMoDA (China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts), the exhibition augments and maps information design and application cases for smart cities initiatives around the world, and to use it as input for Smart Beijing case development.

The exhibition makes a new manifesto on Smart City development: It should be led by Big Design (Information Design) powered by Big Data (with social intelligence mined) which better serves Big City, leading to an ultimate lift in social well-being.

GeoCity Smart City is the point of departure to provide a holistic way to view and understand complex urban issues via data visualization and information design. It studies urban mobility via mapping population, transportation, telecommunication, environment and social data to facilitate interdisciplinary research and communication for city operators and urban planners, leading to collaborative innovation in city development and service improvement.

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GeoPulse Beijing, the pilot demo for Smart Beijing case development, will be the main project debut at the exhibition. The GeoCity model was developed by Ars Electronica FutureLab (Austria). GeoPulse Beijing is the model's first Asian application after Linz and Berlin and is a collaboration of Ars Electronica Solutions, CMoDA CoINNO Lab and Design Beijing Lab at the Information Art and Design Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Overall there will be 82 works from 50 international design studios and university labs from 14 countries including leading urban information design innovators Ars Electronica FutureLab (AT), Information Art and Design Department of Tsinghua University, MIT SENSEable City Lab (US), faberNovel (FR), College of Fine Art / University of New South Wales (AU), Orange Labs Beijing, CAFA Media Lab, Institute of New Media Research of CUC, Autonavi, Codoon, Brainpage, Dirk van der Kooij (NL), LxU (CN), Jordan Kanter (US), CYJO (US).

The exhibition includes a digital design education strand with 15 international and local universities / labs exchanging digital design projects on smart living. There are Beijing New Media Joint Lab in collaboration with School of New Media Art and Design of Beihang University, Institute of New Media Research of CUC，CEMC-Center for Electronic Music of China, Mobile Life and New Media Lab of Beijing University of Post &Telecommunication, College of Art & Design of Beijing University of Technology, School of Art & Design of Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, The Department of Art Dissemination of Beijing Dance Academy, Department of New Media Arts of The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. The international schools include the University of New South Wales Australia, Design Academy Eindhoven, MIT.

In addition, one day symposium on Sep. 28 will be dedicated to smart city driven by information design and big data. Another forum on Media Facade Design, organized by EUNIC Cluster China, will be on Sep. 30.

A special screening program of Ars Electronica (AT) Animation Festival with 120 latest digital animation short films will be premiered at CMoDA Art Cinema during the same period.

Lenovo IDC is the strategic partner of this exhibition. The exhibition is supported by The Climate Group, Embassy of Austria, Embassy of France, Dutch Design Fashion Architecture.

Special Events

Sep.28 evening: Exhibition opening (by invitation)

Sep.28, 14:00-17:00 : Symposium “Smart City – Big Design x Big Data” (by invitation)

Sep.30, 10:00-14:00 : Forum “Trends in Visual Media Facade Design in Europe and China/Asia” (by invitation)

Oct.10 – 13: University / Lab day

INFO

Opening: Sep 29 – Oct 14, 2012(closed on Oct 8) 10:00－17:00 Last entry 16:00

CMoDA (China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts) ＋ World Art Museum

China Millennium Monument, Fu Xing Road, Haidian District, Beijing

Tel: 86 10 5980 2315

More information please visit http://www.beijingdesignweek.org/cn/