Experience Design, Experience China

We are excited to present the updated programme for Icograda World Design Congress 2009 Beijing & the 1st Beijing Design Week. From 26-28 October, the two interlinked events will present three intensive days, hosting speakers and delegates from all around the world. Some 100 speakers who demonstrate outstanding practices and profound design thinking will gather at the National Grand Opera and the Central Academy of Fine Arts to share their stories and inspirations about design.

Our speakers include:
Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares, Marc Alt, Andrew Ashton (Studio Pip & Co), Peter Bankov, David Barringer, Ruedi Baur, Bi Xuefeng, Thierry Brunfaut (Base Design), David Carson, Thomas Castro + Jeroen Barendse (LUST), Anne Chick, Brian Collins, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Richard Doubleday, Brian Dougherty, Kiko Farkas, Leslie Gallery-Dilworth, Ric Grefé, Peter Hall, He Jianping, Dan Hill, Huang Yung-Sung, Arata Isozaki, Jiang Hua / Li Degeng (OMD), Tavs Jorgensen, Zuzana Lednická, Apex Lin, Liu Zhizhi, Lou Yongqi, Lü Jingren, Ma Ke, Laurence Madrelle, Victor Margolin, N55, Ron Newman, Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto), Ruri Noguchi, Achyut Palav, David Pidgeon (Design by Pidgeon), Qiu Zhenzhong, Fiona Raby (Dunne & Raby), David Reinfurt, Michael Rock, Eva Rucki (Troika), Joachim Sauter (Art+Com), Helmut Schmid, Sol Sender, Ronald Shakespeare, David Small, Leonardo Sonnoli, Kohei Sugiura, Les Suen, Isao Suzuki, Nille Svensson (Sweden Graphics), Hilton Tennant, Sophie Thomas, Alice Twemlow, Andreas Uebele, Jan van Toorn, Michael Vanderbyl, Femke Volting (Submarine), Wang Xueqing, Patrick Whitney, Xu Bing, Yao Dajuin, Yoon Ho Seob, Garson Yu, Zhu Dake

Entire list of exhibitions include:

1. Design as Creativity
Venue: Special Exhibition Gallery, Beijing World Art Museum
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2. Lifescope: Design Design! Live Life!
Venue: Digital Art Gallery, Beijing World Art Museum
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3. New Energy Automobile Show
Venue: China Millennium Monument North Square
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4. Design as a Second Productive Force
Venue: National Art Museum of China
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5. Memorial Exhibition of Creative Design and Cultural Events of 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics
Venue: Gehua Art Centre
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6. International CG Art Exhibition
Venue: Beijing DRC Galley
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7. Chinese Graphic Design in the 20th Century: A Documentary
Venue: CAFA Art Museum
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8. Beijing Typography 2009
Venue: CAFA Art Museum and NCPA
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9. POST__: Contemporary International Poster Retrospective
Venue: NCPA
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10. Exhibition of Ethnic Costume Design
Venue: Creative Workshop in Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology
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11. 9th Brazilian Graphic Design Biennial
Venue: Building 7, CAFA
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12. AIGA 365: Year in Design
Venue: CAFA Art Museum
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13. Graphex the Best of Visual Communications in Canada
Venue: Gallery of the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
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14. ADAA Show
Venue: CAFA Library
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15. Greengaged Exhibition
Venue: CAFA Basement Gallery
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16. Exhibition of Outstanding Graduation Design Works from CAFA
Venue: CAFA Art Museum
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17. International Design Institution Show (IDIS)
Venue: Building 7, CAFA
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18. Shenzhen Time: Design Competition for UNIVERSIADE 2011 SHENZHEN
Venue: Building 7, CAFA
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Events

1. Into Design: Tour of Beijing Design
Venue: various locations in Beijing
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2. Summit Forum of World Design Development (Beijing)
Venue: China Millennium Monument
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3. Beijing High-End Design Projects and Policies Release
Time: 14:00 - 18:00, 30 Oct
Venue: Beijing International Media Centre
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4. Creative Design: Impressions of China National Centre for the Performing Arts
Venue: NCPA
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5. Designer Lecture series: Life by Design
Time: 9:30 - 11:30, 14:00 - 16:00, 25 Oct
Venue: China Millennium Monument
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6. Carsten Nicolai / Alva Noto Audio Visual Art Performance: Unitxt
Venue: Yugongyishan at Former Duan Qirui Consulate
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7. Beijing Workstation for International Designers
Venue: Gehua Tower
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Greengaged-China sustainable design events

Greengaged are working with partners such as Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy, Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability Network China (DESIS-China) to run sustainable design events. Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the lead organiser of the Icograda World Design Congress, is committed to sustainable design and keen to host Greengaged-China as a session of the congress. In response to the theme of the conference, Greengaged-China aims to engage the wider design industry in getting involved, becoming informed and sharing expertise and opinions. Greengaged-China will also be running as part of the British Council's "China-UK Creative Entrepreneurs" events to explore how creative entrepreneurs can contribute to a sustainable future.
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