In the framework of the 4th edition of the Italian Design Day, promoted around the world by the Italian Ministry for Heritage, Cultural Activities and for Tourism, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Association for Industrial Design, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Beijing are organizing a conference with panel discussion on-line with Aldo Cibic, renowned designer, founder of Cibic workshop and professor of practice at the Tongji University College of Design & Innovation in Shanghai.
The general theme of 2020 Italian Design Day is: “Drawing the Future – Development, Innovation, Sustainability, Beauty”. The conference in Beijing will be opened by an address of the Ambassador of Italy to the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Luca Ferrari. The lecture of the main-speaker of the event, Aldo Cibic, will discuss the subject “Rethingking Happiness”. At the conference will participate, as special guest speaker, Prof. Yang Dongjiang, Vice Dean of the Academy of Arts & Design of the Tsinghua University.
The event, organized with the support of the Chinese edition of the famous design magazine “INTERNI” and the Beijing Yizhong Wenhua Media Co.Ltd., will be live-recorded at the Italian Institute of Culture and broadcasted on-line on Thursday, 3rd December at 19:00.
Rethinking Happiness
Covid will pass, though we know there may be other disruptions, so we will all have to get organized, to be readier to cope.
From my viewpoint, nature and humankind are one and the same thing, and what interests me most is to understand, in design terms, how to work on scenarios that offer a glimpse of how we will live, what habits we should cultivate, what we will need, and who can help us to come to grips with problems, activating all the necessary forms of expertise…
In this logic, I believe the contribution of design is to help to bring harmony to the various parts of these processes, granting them a complete and unified meaning, while restoring an aesthetic and ritual dimension.
Aldo Cibic was born in Schio, Vicenza, Italy in 1955, and quickly developed a self-directed interest in the world of design. In 1981, as a partner in Sottsass Associati, he was a founding member of Memphis, an artists’ collective that was to mark an epoch-making transition in the universe of design and architecture. By vocation and inclination an innovator, one who has never favoured generic labels nor stylistic excesses, Cibic adopted “experimentation as praxis”. In the late 1980s he founded the Studio Cibic and launched “Standard” (1991), his first self- produced collection. At the sametime he became a teacher at the Domus Academy and set up research activitieswith various schools, while developing his ideas around the “design ofservices”. His projects, such as “The Solid Side” (1995) and”New Stories New Design” (2002), fostered a dynamic relationship between people and space and offered a new mode of designing places based on social interactions. He continued in this vein in subsequent years with “Microrealities” (2004) and “Rethinking Happiness” (2010). Both were presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, and both originated contemporary narratives aimed at multiplying opportunities for meetings, exchanges and sharing in community life. In 2015 he curated the Venice Architecture Biennale of the Arts & Craft exhibition at the Venice pavilion.
In1989 he founded the Cibic Workshop, not only a design studio, but a multidisciplinary research centre. Cibic Workshop strongly focuses on alternative sustainable project types aimed at enhancing local areas and defining new cultural, emotional and environmental awareness of public space. Aldo Cibic teaches at Politecnico Milano, the IUAV, Venice, and the Domus Academy; he is professor of practice at the Tongji University College of Design & Innovation in Shanghai.
In 2019 he has been selected as High-End Foreign Expert by the State Administration Experts Affairs of China.
Aldo Cibic has been included in the “100+ best architecture firms 2019” distinguished for cultural innovation by the worldwide known architecture magazine Domus.
YANG DONGJIANG
Professor, Chairman of Academic Committee and Vice Dean of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University；
Vice President of China National Interior Decoration Association (CIDA)
Professor Yang Dongjiang has participated in many internationally renowned academic exhibitions, such as the Fifth Sao Paulo Art Biennial, the First China International Architectural Biennial, the Art & Science International Exhibition etc. He was awarded the Gold Award of the Ninth National Art Exhibition, the Gold Award of the China Interior Design Biennale and other significant professional prizes. He is selected into the “Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University” of the Ministry of Education of China.
As a curator, he has organized 1st Beijing International Design Triennial; Design Shanghai; Milan Design Week “Designing China”; China Pavilion of Gwangju Design Biennale; Dialogue with Leonardo Da Vinci / 4th Art & Science International Exhibition and other important design exhibitions.
As general manager and curator, he has worked on major TV series and documentaries for CCTV (China Central Television) on the topics of design and architecture. The TV series in ten parts “Design for World Expo” shot by closed-circuit cameras has become a key document to represent the Shanghai Project, from design to construction.
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