The International Design Forum (IDF) 2019 Annual Conference was grandly opened on December 5 at Langham Place Hotel, Nanfeng, Guangzhou. The 2019 Annual Conference of the International Design Forum (IDF), as a major design education project launched by Guangzhou Design Week Institute - the "Super Class" international perspective section, unites domestic and foreign industry and design experts to discuss international design trends , to create the flagship forum of “Guangzhou Design Week”. The conference is hosted by Guangzhou Design Week, in cooperation with IDF strategic partner Datang Hesheng Ceramics. Design Era serves as a growth resource platform for designers, and Shidao serves as a special online new media. It has obtained strategic cooperation media such as Phoenix Home Furnishing, INTERNI Design Times, and JianE Interior Design. The joint assistance of the Internet and modern decoration. With the theme of "Design Drives Change", the conference will discuss contemporary design trends with every architect and designer, interpret the popular culture and aesthetic orientation brought about by material and technological innovation, and witness global design changes!
▲Zeng Zhijian, chairman and general manager of Datang Hesheng Ceramics, delivered a speech at the conference
▲The IDF Organizing Committee expressed its sincere gratitude to the strategic partners of the International Design Forum 2019 Annual Conference for their contributions to IDF and awarded them plaques
Zeng Zhijian, chairman and general manager of Datang Hesheng Ceramics, Lin Weirong, general manager of the marketing center, Fu Junxiong, general manager of the brand market center, and Chen Wanhan, deputy general manager of the marketing center, were invited to attend the conference. Chairman Zeng Zhijian delivered a speech at the conference and said: First, Datang Hesheng's ceramic tile products are interesting, the space is cultural, and the brand is spiritual. It has created the first modern Chinese cultural IP in the ceramic tile industry in the name of "Modern Chinese Culture Advocate" The brand imprint of "Nuwa Mending the Sky", its well-known and moving story evokes people's beautiful yearning and pursuit of "modern Chinese culture"; it is full of brand cultural connotation of "using foreign things for China, ancient times for today, combination of Chinese and Western, integration and innovation" , which also makes the beautiful life elements such as "humanities, art, classics, and health" shine in the living space. Secondly, Datang Hesheng Ceramics has always been paying attention to the development of Chinese design, with the mission of "speaking for Chinese design". Since 2013, Datang Hesheng Ceramics has been a strategic partner of the IDF International Design Forum Annual Conference for seven consecutive years, and has joined hands with Guangzhou Design Week We have held hundreds of designer tour promotion activities around the world, and held industry-classic design study tour promotion activities around the world, allowing designers to communicate and improve their thinking and vision with masters., sublimate the value of design to a higher level! Datang Hesheng Ceramics hopes to cooperate strategically with Guangzhou Design Week and IDF Conference Organizing Committee, and looks forward to allowing more designer friends to display modern Chinese culture in the vast art space and speak out for Chinese design!
In the golden age of rapid global development, design is everywhere and is one of the important factors driving the world's diverse cultures and economies. Design can have intentional or unintentional impacts on human behavior and the built environment. Good design is transformative and integrates social networks, digital technologies and physical spaces to meet changing needs and address global challenges. Thereby improving the human condition, driving social and industrial upgrading, creating an ideal world, reshaping human life and urban environment, and allowing people to better enjoy life and work. The IDF annual conference gathered eight important guests, including Dutanghai, a national treasure-level architectural designer from Israel who is known as an "ecological architect", and SPARK, a well-known British architectural design agency that leads a number of international old building/landmark renovation projects. Stephen Pingboli, the founder and director of Bang Architectural, Xie Tian, an associate professor at the China Academy of Art who is a real player in art, Liu Kecheng, a contemporary architect who is "best at dealing with history", and Hassell, an internationally renowned hotel design expert from Hong Kong, director/well-known interior designer Designer Xu Mincong, as well as cross-border designer digital interactive art planner Jiang Youbai from Taiwan, life art creator/practitioner Liu Ge, cross-border all-round "new young" designer Zheng Zheng and other domestic and foreign architectural interior designers Discuss contemporary design trends with art industry leaders, witness global design thinking and transformational design understanding, gain visual insight into the value of projects and experience the charm of emotion and culture.
Keynote Speaker
Morning session
1] Dotang Hai, an Israeli national treasure-level architectural designer known as an “ecological architect”
Professor Totang Kai, an international architect, educator and poet, graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA, with bachelor's and master's degrees. He is an Israeli national treasure-level architectural designer. Professor Totanghai has led "the new trend of the development of new construction technology and new architectural language in Israel over the past seventeen years." Totōkai believes that art is a law of survival in nature. Design is everywhere, inspired by nature. For example, natural leaf veins can provide great wisdom for urban planning and transportation network design. This is why I say that the teachings are natural, and that there is infinite artistic charm and artistic beauty in nature.
2] "The architect best at dealing with history" Liu Kecheng
He is recognized by the industry as "the architect best at dealing with history" Liu Kecheng. How can people face the "old" and how can they welcome the "new"? The relationship between the new and the old is a topic he constantly explores in urban architectural design. What Liu Kecheng shared today was his work that won the first prize in the Yin Ruins Museum competition. He pointed out that the value of Yin Ruins is reflected in: the first archaeological exploration, the beginning of historical trust, and the holy land of civilization. "In today's archaeological and historical museum, we must emphasize the science of archaeological and cultural relic protection and pay attention to the participation of the audience."
3] Stephen Pimbley, founder and director of SPARK Construction
As a scholar who actively studies urban renewal and waterfront space, he is good at introducing the latest scientific and technological elements into his works to explore the synergistic trend of scientific and technological progress and social development. Whether it is the Clarke Quay revitalization project in Singapore, the "Starlight Orchid" project that combines traditional continuation with future design, or the "Shanghai Kiss" with a three-dimensional perspective, he led the design and completion. Through multiple project presentations, Stephen Pimbery emphasized that designers are not doing simple conversions, they are doing changes. The difference between transformation and change is that change goes beyond what people imagine.
4] Zheng Zheng, founder and design director of Leaping Creative vertical design
He graduated from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, with a bachelor's degree with honors in product design. He also won the gold medal in the product design category of the Chartered Institute of Designers (CSD) UK Undergraduate Design Competition. Mr. Zheng Zheng shared the practice of the team in recent years, from cutting-edge research on brand design to space to installation, and a series of whole project processes, bringing endless inspiration to the audience.
Afternoon show
5] Liu Ge, an artist with philosophical thinking
Mr. Liu Ge, one of China's top ten brand designers and a philosophical artist, shared his experience on artistic creation and learning philosophy with the audience. He believes that art is a unique agility that is innate to human beings and is a unique language that expresses emotions about the universe, nature and human beings. Along with it comes the emergence of inspiration, the formation of spiritual thoughts, and the opening of creation. Philosophy is about thinking about coming and going. Inquiring into the ultimate, conducting spiritual researchReflection, using logic to reflect on your own thoughts, this is philosophy.
6] Xu Mincong, director of HASSELL and rotating chairman of the International Ecological Environmental Design Association (IEED)
Mr. Xu Mincong has more than 25 years of interior design experience and has been with HASSELL for more than fifteen years. During this period, he led the project team to successfully design a large number of projects. Xu Mincong mentioned that sustainable design includes ecological design and green design. He believes that sustainable design not only includes the use of environmentally friendly materials, but also requires a sustainable culture. In addition, every designer needs constant innovation, not necessarily in space design. There can be many plane arrangements in the space, and creativity must be able to flexibly use local characteristics to have sustainable vitality.
7] Xie Tian, associate professor at the China Academy of Art, president of the Guoyi Urban Design and Art Institute of the China Academy of Art, and president of the Zhejiang Yasha Design Institute
In the field of professional research, Mr. Xie Tian is involved in architectural space and industrial design, large-scale public art design, urban visual aesthetics research, multimedia art, etc. Teacher Xie Tian believes that design is between art and technology, and artistic creative thinking is the most important for designers. Artistic thinking refers to some behaviors of artists in their creative activities. For example, there are imagination and ideals, inspiration and directness, reason and emotion, consciousness and unconsciousness, which constitute the artist's artistic creative thinking.
8] Artist, founder of "Chengguo Design" and famous cross-border designer Jiang Youbai
As AI gradually advances, will the design industry be replaced? However, imagination will never be replaced. Artist, founder of "Chengguo Design", famous cross-border designer, and famous digital interactive art content planner Jiang Youbai gave a speech full of content. Jiang Youbai believes that we need to integrate Chinese philosophy with Western philosophy. Chinese philosophy talks about imagination, while the West talks about facts. Facts about budget, skills. The expression of space is also imagination. How to combine these two is the main reason why the design will not be eliminated in the future.
"Voice for Chinese Design" Elite Awards
As a strategic partner of the 2019 International Design Forum (IDF), Datang Hesheng Ceramics has deepened cooperation with the IDF organizer Guangzhou Design Week, reviewed the results, and launched the IDF "Voice for Chinese Design" elite award ceremony. IDF "Voice for Chinese Design" elite selection, as one of the annual inventory projects of the International Design Forum (IDF), aims to discover China's new generation of design elitesTo promote the growth of new Chinese design stars and speak out for Chinese design.
▲IDF “Voice for Chinese Design” award-winning elite figures (1)
▲IDF "Voice for Chinese Design" award-winning elite figures (2)
▲IDF “Voice for Chinese Design” award-winning elite figures (3)
▲IDF “Voice for Chinese Design” award-winning elite figures (4)
▲A group photo of some guests of the International Design Forum (IDF) 2019 Annual Conference
▲International Design Forum (IDF) 2019 Annual Conference Site
Designer style display
A brief overview of Datang Hesheng ceramic tile brand
