Design Shenzhen: an architectural focus at the Design Forum | News | Architonic
Design Shenzhen’s inaugural Design Forum pulls together 40 leading designers, architects and tastemakers to explore the topic of regenerative design. A wide-ranging series of talks and conversations will tackle the theme of ‘Design for Wellbeing: Humanity, Sustainability and Technology,’ in an effort to redesign the fundamentals of design itself. It will also make clear how much Shenzhen itself is becoming a key site for advanced and experimental but human-centric and sustainable architecture.
As co-curator of 2019’s Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Carlo Ratti knows the city well. The Italian architect, technologist and director of MIT’s Senseable City Lab returns for Design Shenzhen and will talk about his plans to bring a ‘…