2014 manifests the fourth edition of Beijing Design Week (BJDW), which over the past three years, has sought to shape a critical arena and empower design in the cultural, economic and social contexts of contemporary China. It has become an active mediator in establishing cooperative framesworks among private and public stakeholders both locally and internationally, investing in the enquiring capacity of design to assess common goals and localized solutions for the future of urban China.
With year-long operations in and out of China, BJDW has come to define new scopes for its weeklong programming and its institutional role in sustaining long-term initiatives, as well as enforcing contextualized perspectives produced at the crossroads of formal and grassroots strategies of engagement.
Beijing design week 2014 introduces a number of new initiatives across the city, making its presence even more known in the Chinese capital. The annual design hop program takes visitors from the historic quarters of Dashilar, to contemporary creative clusters such as the 789 art district and 751 D.park and Caochangdi art village; with the Taikooli Sanlitun zone in Beijing’s commercial city centre, being added to the programming of events.
A new addition to the 2014 edition of BJDW are ‘Plug-in Stations’ — a special design project meant to streamline and support participation throughout the design hop series of events and exhibitions. ‘Plug-in Stations’ are special modular units that respond to specific program functions and themes related to BJDW’s design hop areas . The units are found in-and-outdoors, across dashilar’s alleys and hidden courtyards, around caochangdi’s red brick compound and sanlitun’s taokooli south. The unique character and eco-system of each of these areas will be pointed out in plug-in stations, responding to each zone’s requirements and inspirations. BJDW plug-in stations are designed by: sans practice (in dashilar), a-4studios (in caochangdi) and convey society (in sanlitun).
To be held at Beijing from September 26 to October 3, 2014, this year’s Beijing Design Week consists of seven main sections, namely the Opening Ceremony, Design Awards, Design Market, Smart City, Design Talent, Guest City and Design Hop.
1. Opening Ceremony More Information
Time: 9.26 18:30-22:00
Venue: The China Millennium Monument.
How to participate: Enter with invitations
2. Smart City 2014 More Information
1) Launch of Smart City Innovation Centre
Time: 9.26-9.30 10:00-17:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts (CMoDA)
How to participate: Committee certificate, invitation letter required
2) Design Capital (Beijing) Forum-Mayors Forum
Time: 9.27 9:30-12:30
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theater
How to participate: Committee certificate, invitation letter required
3) Planning and Design Forum
Time: 9.27 14:00-17:30
Venue: China Millennium Monument Kino 3
How to participate: Committee certificate, invitation letter required
4) Industry Forum
Time：9.28 9:30-12:00
Venue：China Millennium Monument Kino 3
How to participate: Committee certificate, invitation letter required
5) Smart City High-level Salon
Time: 9.28 14:00-16:00
Venue：China Millennium Monument Kino 3
How to participate: Committee certificate, invitation letter required
6) Smart City Project Matchmaking
Time: 9.28 16:30-18:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument VIP Room 2
How to participate: Committee certificate, invitation letter required
7) Smart City Planning and Design Exhibition Series More Information
Art Intervention: Shuiwan 1979 Art Community Concept Design Exhibition
Time: 9.26-10.3
Venue: China Millennium Monument Contemporary Art Museum
How to participate: Free
Art Intervention: 2014 Annual Theme Conference of Arts Community Union
Time: 9.27 14:00-17:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theatre
How to participate: Free
The Construction of History - Contemporary Chinese Architecture Exhibition
Time: 9.26-10.3
Venue：1F, China Millennium Monument
How to participate: Free
Beyond Architecture Exhibition
Time: 9.26-10.3
Venue: 1F, China Millennium Monument
How to participate: Free
Art on Chairs
Time：9.26-10.6
Venue：2F, China Millennium Monument
How to participate: Free
The Changing Skyline: 1895-2014 A Century of Chinese Urban Design
Time：9.26-10.6
Venue：2F, China Millennium Monument World
How to participate: Free
3.Design Market
1) Design More More Information
Design More Tmall Flagship Store
Offline Theme Park
Time: 9.30
Venue: Firework Square, Beijing Chaoyang Park
Ranking List of Chinese Design
Time for release: 9.30 20:20
Venue for release: Design More ceremony at the theme park of Design More
2) Design Copyright Service More Information
Exhibition for Design Copyright Trading and Business Negotiation
Time: 9.26 evening
Venue: South Square of China Millennium Monument
3) Jewelry Design Fair
Jewelry Design Fair Forum, Blue Paper on International Jewelry Brand Culture Release, Popular Trend Conference
Time: 9.29 9:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theatre
Cultural Jewelry Appreciation Event
Time: 9.25-9.29
Venue: TBC
Chinese Jewelry Design Award
Time: 9.29 Morning
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theatre
4) 2014 Exhibition Design + More Information
Time: 9.27-10.27
Venue: F1, Beijing Gehua Tower
Time for Opening Ceremony Forum: 9.27 15:00
Venue for Opening Ceremony Forum: F1, Beijing Gehua Tower
5) China Design Challenge More Information More Information
2014 Annual Meeting of China Design Challenge
Time: 9.28 14:00-17:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theatre
Special Exhibition for China Design Challenge
Time: 9.26-9.29 9:00-17:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theatre
4. Design Talent
1) Online service platform for designers
Time: Start from 9.25
2) Cross-Strait New Design Competition Huacan Award
3) Design Talent Communication and Recommendation Forum
Time: 9.26 14:00-16:00
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theater
4) Beijing Designers’ Salon
Time: 9.27
Contact: +86 10 8418 6533
Wechat Contact: sdt123
5. Guest City More Information
1) Barcelona’s Pavilion at 79 Tank
Time for Opening Ceremony: 9.27
Time: 9.28-10.3
Venue: 79 Tank, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Rd, Chaoyang District
2) Barcelona at Dashilar Alley
Allioli
Time: 9.25-10.3
Venue: Dashilar
Casa de Barcelona
Time: 9.23-10.3
Venue: 21# Sanjing Hutong, Dashilar
Meet the Twin, post-digital design in Barcelona and Beijing
Time: 9.25-10.3
Venue: 1F, Quanye Chang, Dashilar
3) The Magic Horse
Time: 9.21-10.3
Venue: China Millennium Monument, etc
6.Design Hop
1) Design Capital (Beijing) Forum More Information
Time: 9.27 9:00-12:30
Venue: China Millennium Monument Theater
How to participate: Invitation letter required
2) Design Hop activities
Time: 9.26-10.3
Venue: Throughout Beijing
How to participate: Most of the activities do not require tickets or reservation
Dashilar Alley 9.25-10.3 10:00-18:00 More Information Dashilar Schedule
751 Int'l Design Festival 9.26-10.3 10:00-18:00 More Information 751 Schedule
Taikoo Li Crossing More Information BJDW Films Festival More Information 9.25-9.30 10:00-22:00 Film Fesitval Schedule
CCD-The Community 9.27-10.1 10:00-18:00 More Information CCD Schedule
For more Information of Design Hop, please click here. Through Beijing Schedule
The Schedule only presents information updated to the published date. In the event of any difference between the schedule’s content and actual situation at the activities, the latter should prevail.
Courtesy of the Beijing Design Week, for further information please visit www.bjdw.org.
For further preview of the exhibition, please visit http://www.designboom.com/design/bjdw-beijing-design-week-2014-09-23-2014/.
