The new round of the original design competition “Design for Sitting” calls for submissions. After the brewing dormantly, it’s powerfully planned. Presided over by Prof. Jiang Li, from CAFA, the levy of the “6th Design for Sitting Competition” performs across the planet, on schedule. The theme of the contest is “Sitting and the Senior Citizen”. “Senior citizen” means the person who is older than us, and our lives, livelihood, and growth are inextricably linked with them…Participants are allowed to perform the ideas of “sitting” and desk design, inspired by the coexistence with the elderly, around their living environment or their growth.

The competition upholds the tradition, promotion of the original, forward-looking and artistic design, and the concept of experimental design runs through the appraisal process of the competition.

Preliminary deadline is on July 15, 2013, and the results of the preliminary round will be announced on July 25 through to August 1, notification of the production stage is with a telephone call and e-mail, the specific requirements and rules of production will arrive at the designers together with the notification of the rematch, please stay tuned to the official website: www.d9design.com.

Together with “‘Sixty Chairs’ Invited Exhibition of Internationally Renowned Designers”, and “Chinese Good Design – Celebrity Recommended Exhibition of Chairs”, the real works of the selection of the rematch will feature in Beijing at the end of December 2013, meanwhile, domestic and foreign designers will come together for an academic exchange with the participants. It will be an international visual feast of the highest specification, organized for the supporters and followers.

Organizing Committee of “Design for Sitting”, April 24, 2013

Translated by Chen Peihua and edited by Sue/CAFA ART INFO