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Learning at Design Society: The Opening Week

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Shekou

Designer-led Learning at Design Society

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International Initiatives

Design Society, Shekou, Shenzhen.

Design Society, Shekou, Shenzhen.  An introduction by its director, Ole Bouman At this day of writing, we are only 30 days away from the Grand Opening of Design Society in...

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International Initiatives

Design Society opens in December 2017

Only two months to go! The Sea World Culture and Arts Center designed by Fumihiko Maki and operated by Design Society will open to the public in Shekou, Shenzhen, on the...

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International Initiatives

Value Debates: Should Objects Last Forever?

This post is part of a series called ‘Design Value Debates’, which highlight objects from the V&A Collection which will appear in ‘Values of Design’, the inaugural...

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Shekou

Remembering Martin Roth

On August 6th, Martin Roth, Director of the V&A from 2011 to 2016, passed away due to a serious illness. His death has come as a great sadness to the entire team working on...

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International Initiatives

Arduino, Apps and Robots: A Designer-led Learning Project at Design Society in Shenzhen

During March Design Society (DS) and V&A learning teams hosted the first maker in residence in Shenzhen as part of DS pre-opening activities and the British Council’s...

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Shekou

Introducing Ross Atkin – Design Society’s first Maker in Residence

We are delighted to introduce Ross Atkin, the first maker in residence hosted by Design Society (DS). Ross will be working with the DS and V&A learning teams in Shenzhen for...

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Shekou

Design and Maker Education for Shenzhen’s Children and Young People

Shenzhen is a global manufacturing hub, centre of innovation (digital and product design) and UNESCO City of Design. I wanted to explore how children and young people living in...

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International Initiatives

Making Connections: Learning and Audience Research for the V&A Gallery in Shekou

As Learning and Interpretation Manager for the Shekou project I am responsible for researching and developing the learning strategy and programme for the V&A Gallery as well...

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Our projects

UAOD Part 8: Urban Villages / The Workers

In this blog series, we will be posting 8 short stories displayed in Unidentified Acts of Design, exploring contemporary production and manufacturing in Shenzhen and the Pearl...

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Our projects

V&A joins China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) in launching Design Society

Yesterday – 19 March 2016 – marked an important milestone in the pioneering collaboration between the V&A and China Merchants Shekou (CMSK) who jointly announced...

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Design and society

UAOD Part 7: The Pirates and the Makers/ Shanzhai

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International Initiatives

V&A joins China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) in launching Design Society

Saturday 19 March 2016 marked an important milestone in the pioneering collaboration between the V&A and China Merchants Shekou Holdings (CMSK) who jointly announced the...

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International Initiatives

Unidentified Acts of Design at the UABB

On December 5th, 2015 the V&A’s Shekou team presented ‘Unidentified Acts of Design’ at the Shenzhen Urbanism Architecture Bi-City Biennale, curated by Brendan Cormier...

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International Initiatives

From Maker Spaces to Making Culture

As part of the V&A’s ongoing collaboration with China Merchants Group, Luisa E. Mengoni, currently stationed in Shenzhen as Head of the V&A Gallery, reports from the...

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International Initiatives

From Shenzhen: Chaihuo Makerspace and the Shenzhen Maker Faire

As part of the V&A’s ongoing collaboration with China Merchants Group, Luisa E. Mengoni, currently stationed in Shenzhen as Head of the V&A Gallery, reports from the...

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International Initiatives

From Shenzhen: Shanzhai and the Maker movement

As part of the V&A’s ongoing collaboration with China Merchants Group, Luisa E. Mengoni, currently stationed in Shenzhen as Head of the V&A Gallery, reports from the...

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International Initiatives

A Tour of China’s Design Cities: Beijing

For the Shekou Project, Luisa E. Mengoni, Brendan Cormier, Sunny Cheung, and Rong Zhao travelled to five cities in two weeks, to research the current state of design in China...

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International Initiatives

A Tour of China’s Design Cities: Shanghai

For the Shekou project, Luisa Mengoni, Brendan Cormier, Sunny Cheung, and Rong Zhao travelled to five cities in two weeks, to research the current state of design in China –...

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