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Asia’s second Design Miami/Podium x Shanghai concluded successfully

After nearly two years, Design Miami/ Podium x Shanghai made its return. The Made in House Production was open from March 8-12, with its exclusive…

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Digital Innovation will save us!

Seoul Design Foundation hosted Seoul Light show which is an annual event that features media façade shows at Dongdaemun Design Plaza last December. It turned…

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Visit to Bilbao, UNESCO Creative City of Design

Bilbao, a city with a lot of potential, an eye for beauty, enthusiastic inhabitants with a great will to cooperate and a lot of ‘rebellious’…

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Visit to Covilhã, UNESCO Creative City of Design

Covilhã, UNESCO Creative City of Design. Do you know this city? In my network, people looked at me questioningly when I told them that that…

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Review // Subnetwork Meeting KAUNAS 2022

Subnetwork Meeting in  K A U N A S  2022: The programme of this subnetwork meeting explore the themes of DESIGNING HAPPY CITY and our…

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Cape Skills and Employment Accelerator

The Cape Skills and Employment Accelerator is a project focused on creating employment opportunities for youth and women in the clothing and textile industry in…

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Design Innovation Seed Fund

The Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) funds designers, inventors, entrepreneurs and product developers with pre-revenue innovative technologies and tech-enabled ideas and products. These individuals/ businesses…

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Beyond 2050: Reimagining Design Education in Singapore

The report marks the completion of the first two-year term of the Design Education Advisory Committee (DEAC). The DEAC was launched by the DesignSingapore Council…

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Designing A Loveable Singapore

Designing a Loveable Singapore: What and Why? What is the Loveable Singapore Project about? And why are we doing this?   The Loveable Singapore Project…

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Agency for the Future: Design and the Quest for a Better World

“The title of this year’s symposium points to a dual meaning. On one hand, it highlights Singapore’s unique approach, based on modelling, prototyping, testing, and…

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The Cité du design welcomes UNESCO’s Creative Cities

Faced with challenges of ecological and energy transitions, this forum highlighted the creativity of cities such as Montreal (Canada), Seoul (South Korea), Muharraq (Bahrain), Fortaleza…

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Breads of the Creative Cities – Third Edition

Breads of the Creative Cities is an ongoing project of ITKI Foundation and its partner Tucson, UNESCO City of Gastronomy. We are extending the definition…

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Regional delegation tastes the design city of Saint-Etienne

Regional delegation tastes the design city of Saint-Etienne Last week, a large city delegation visited the design biennale of colleague UNESCO Creative City of Design…

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Shanghai Announced Blueprint of City of Design

Shanghai World-class “City of Design” Development Promotion Conference was held at the Friendship Hall on February 17, with a city design industry blueprint released. Shanghai aims…

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Free Online Performances to Enrich Resident Life During Lockdown

Shanghai Grand Theater’s online brand Zero Stop will present programs for free to enrich residents’ life as Shanghai endures a phased lockdown.The programs include ballet,…

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Former Power Station Becomes Stylish AI Art Center

A station once supplying steam to over 30 nearby factories on Shanghai’s outskirts has been converted into a leading digital art center to focus on…

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New Couture Week to Make Shanghai Leading Fashion Hub

Shanghai’s annual new couture week was launched at the Bund on Nov 12nd. The 10th Shanghai New Couture Week (SNCW) began at the Bund Finance…

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Design Miami/ Podium x Shanghai Opens

Design Miami/ announced the first edition of Design Miami/ Podium in Shanghai on November 4-14, 2021. Presented in partnership with Made in House and co-hosted…

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“City Badge of Han River” series of manhole covers are designed to tell a good story of Wuhan

“City badge of Han River” series manhole covers are co-designed by Wuhan Water Group with teachers and students from Wuhan University, and produced by Hanshui…

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Colors for Ukraine: Kaunas Printers and Designers Raising Funds to Help Neighbours

It was the evening of February 24, 2022, the same day Russia started invading Ukraine. The editors of Kaunas-based culture magazine noticed their friends, founders…

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49 new cities join UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) released the results of the 2021 Call for Applications. Subsequent to the evaluation process, the Director General of UNESCO…

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