Journal: World Design Congress 2009, Beijing: Opening ceremony

(Continued from World Design Congress 2009: Day one and National Centre for Performing Arts. Written at the time, last October.) (Waiting for the opening ceremony in the main hall, I chat to Tavs Jorgensen, a smart designer/thinker/teacher/researcher from Autonomatic, at University College Falmouth, UK. He’s researching “3D digital production” i.e. design practice and new forms […]

World Design Congress 2009, Beijing: Day One

As is often the case, I wrote the following notes at the time, just after the event – in this case, the ICOGRADA World Design Congress in Beijing, October 2009 – and have polished a little since, but then neglected to post until now. However, inspired by a recent trip to Shanghai, here are a […]