TAKING A STANCE - 8 CRITICAL ATTITUDESIN CHINESE AND DUTCH ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN (SHANGHAI) (group)

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EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS

"Taking a Stance- 8 Critical attitudes in Chinese and Dutch architecture and design". It is a joint exhibit by the Today Art Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), and the Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture Programme (DDFA).

This exhibition compiles cutting-edge work of eight different Dutch and Chinese front line designers in architecture, plan design, fashion, and product design since 1990.

In these selected fields, even though there are differences in visual style, format, use of words, history, production cycle and context, one will not be surprised to find commonalities, among the designers, in the way they execute concepts to the modes of working. They systematically explore the boundaries of issues of their concern and strive for innovation.

Thereby the chosen designers position themselves in multiple fields of tension, including those between mass production and traditional craft techniques, between work on commission and the pursuit of a personal agenda, between tradition and innovation, market demands versus the needs of users, large-scale planning and the human scale, and the effects of globalization versus the call for distinctive identity.