03/02/2019 Design Society on the Eve of Lunar New Year 2019
Dear visitor, partner, participant and supporter： We are about to enter a Chinese New Year. It’s such a pleasure to extend to you our sincerest…
Read more30/12/2013The Berlage: Masterclass with Ole Bouman
The weeklong master class led by Ole Bouman, took place from Friday, April 19 to Friday, April 29, and explored the rehabilitation, redevelopment, and ultimately reprogramming of the former Guangdong Float Glass Factory in the Shekou area of Shenzhen.
Participants will attempt to answer the following questions: How to identify quality in derelict architecture? How can value be created through design? How to regenerate value out of industrial heritage? How to reassess industrial and building project development? How to make it attractive to visitors and users? How to draft new business cases for old plants?
Using comparative historical and theoretical research as points of departure, participants will explore how to translate this knowledge into strategic scenarios for redevelopment of the factory into initial sketches for creative scenarios. At the same time, participants will also rethink the role of a cultural initiative like the UABB*Shenzhen to be an experimental vehicle for social change.
video by Abdul Hakim Abdullah
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04/09/2018 Design Society Listed as One of the World’s Greatest Places by TIME
In August 2018, TIME magazine, well known for its yearly “person of the year”, published a first annual list of the World’s Greatest Places, on which…
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31/12/2017 Design Society, about the delivery of a new creative platform
When my work as Founding Director of Design Society began, the conditions were great: SOE China Merchants’ pioneering engagement with a new industry, design, had…
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28/11/2017 Design Society about to Have Its Grand Opening on December 2, 2017
After years of careful planning, The Sea World Art Center, run by Design Society and listed as one of the ten most exciting new destinations…
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09/01/2015 Founding Shekou Design Museum
China Merchants Group (CMG) has appointed Ole Bouman as Director of the Shekou Design Museum in Shenzhen, a project being developed in collaboration with the…
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14/07/2014 RE-CREATION at Venice Biennale
Re-Creation has been created as an integral part of the Shenzhen B-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), in collaboration with its Creative Director Ole Bouman, who…
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14/07/2014 UABB documentary
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05/06/2014 RE–CREATION. THE RESILIENCE OF ARCHITECTURE
RE–CREATION. THE RESILIENCE OF ARCHITECTURE Finnish pavilion, curated by Juulia Kauste and Ole Bouman 14TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 7 JUNE…
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19/05/2014 Newsletter May 2014
Co-curating the Finnish Pavilion for the Venice Biennale Ole Bouman has been appointed co-curator of the Finnish pavilion for the Venice Biennale, due…
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06/03/2014 2013UABB+Closing+Documentary
Here’s the video for the UABB closing ceremony. video source: UABB
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28/02/2014 TOWARDS A VALUE FACTORY IN TEN STEPS
VALUE FACTORY FEBRUARY 2014 What began as a venue of the 5th Shenzhen Biennale, has already become a true Value Factory for the…
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24/02/2014 艺术展有什么用？深港双城/双年展告诉你 What the art exhibition will bring to the city? UABB tells you…
Where is Shekou? Maybe until now, there are still a lot of people never heard this place before. Here’s a report telling you the story…
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