Time
7-8:30 p.m., March 7
Tickets
Design talk by Renny Ramakers| March 7
Venue
Metro
Line 2, Sea World Station (海上世界站), Exit A
Design talk by Renny Ramakers| March 7
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Renny Ramakers
Renny Ramakers, co-founder and creative director of Amsterdam-based design company Droog, will give a talk titled “Rethink Everything: From Screw to City” on her ideas about how design could help us capture new opportunities to change the world.
Educated as an art historian at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Ramakers initiates projects, curates exhibitions and gives lectures worldwide. Her aim is to deliver cutting-edge content and unexpected perspectives in an interdisciplinary and down-to-earth way.
In 1993, Ramakers and Gijs Bakker started Droog to oppose the high fashion and form-based world of design. In contrast, Droog proposed a highly conceptual approach, one captured by the Dutch word “Droog,” meaning “dry.”
Rag Chair, Pop-up Store, Milan, 2008, © droog
As a critic, Ramakers has contributed to international magazines, books and catalogs, and has authored several books. Her latest book is “Here, There, Everywhere” (2014) which speculates about how people in daily situations worldwide can inspire new directions for design.
Ramakers is a judging panelist on various boards and has advised on governmental advisory boards among others as a member of the Dutch Council of Culture (1995-2001). She was also a member and chairman of the board of THNK, an Amsterdam school for creative leadership (2012-2014). In 2012 Newsweek named her one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World.”
In 2014, Ramakers initiated Design+Desires. Dedicated to exploring how the dreams, passion and needs of city dwellers can shape cities of the 21st century, the program envisions user-centered urban planning on a human scale. Through a range of design projects, educational projects, academic research, exhibitions, citizen surveys, debates and expert meetings, the program aims to tackle existing problems in the city and create new opportunities, both in theory and practice, with the ultimate goal of creating an alternative model for urban planning.
Pop-Up Store, Brussels, 2007, © droog
大名鼎鼎的芮妮·雷马克斯离开大名鼎鼎的楚格设计（Droog Design）单飞后露面深圳，分享设计如何帮助我们在充满矛盾和对立的世界把握新机遇。
关于芮妮 · 雷马克斯
芮妮 · 雷马克斯是阿姆斯特丹楚格设计公司的联合创始人及创意总监，在世界范围内发起项目、策划展览及举办讲座。雷马克斯学习艺术史出身，一直致力于通过拓展设计思维的边界创造历史。她希望借助跨学科的应用实践创造前沿的内容与独特的视角。
1993年，设计师海斯 · 贝克（Gijs Bakker）和艺术史学家芮妮 · 雷马克斯（Renny Ramakers）在阿姆斯特丹成立了楚格设计。荷文droog是干燥的意思，代表着简约不乏味、一目了然的设计，企图用单刀直入的方式传递概念，凭借与当时矫揉造作的主流趋势大相径庭的应用类设计理念，楚格设计在同年的米兰国际家具展上初绽头角，以颠覆性的概念震惊了设计行业，并一举成为荷兰设计界颇具分量的代表和标志。
后来，他们延续了这一设计理念并持续关注设计对社会和用户的影响。至今为止，楚格设计已经网罗了世界各国超过150位设计师，研发的系列产品超过200件：最具代表的作品包括牛奶瓶灯、85颗灯泡吊灯、抽屉五斗柜、废布椅、衣架灯和树干长凳等。
Time: 7-8:30 p.m., March 7
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Venue: Learning Space, 2/F, Design Society|Sea World Culture and Arts Center, 1187 Wanghai Road, Shekou, Nanshan District (南山区蛇口望海路1187号设计互联|海上世界文化艺术中心二楼公共教育中心)
Metro: Line 2, Sea World Station (海上世界站), Exit A