MINDPARK 2018, a parallel event of the 2018 Shenzhen Design Week, concluded in the city Monday, the Shenzhen Evening News reported yesterday.
Held from April 20 to 23, the event was sponsored by Shenzhen Design Week and co-organized by TOPYS and C Future City.
The conference, themed “Future City,” invited 18 creative designers from Switzerland, Japan and the United Kingdom, along with other countries and regions, to deliver keynote speeches. The topics included Creative City, Cultural Consumption Destination, Driven by Design, Aesthetic Education, Entertainment Innovation and Digital Art.
Zhou Gongxin, former curator of the Taipei Palace Museum, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, founders of design agency KDa, and Mike Mcgee, co-founder of creative visual agency Framestore, attended the conference.
On the first day of the event, Han Wangxi, director of the office of the organizing committee of Shenzhen Design Week, shared design experiences and ideas with three international designers, envisioning the possibilities of creativity in future.
“More and more challenges and opportunities emerge in the process of China’s urbanization. Taking in the best creative ideas from the world has become a necessary link and is bound to bring unlimited commercial opportunities,” said an industry insider at the conference.
In addition to the talks, activities such as a master class and a park exhibition were held to bring creative people, designers and administrators together to explore the keys to the future of urban construction.