China: design a “national priority.”
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- lowimpakt
China has declared design a “national priority.”
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/…
so not only do China produce everything, the thousands of design graduates they are creating every year will also design everything.
end times
- kingsteven0
Good article... you should read it.
- popfodders0
Flawed process.
They copy products and make them, they don't design them. No one wants to buy their shit original designs, regardless of what their delusional human right violating government thinks.
LOL!
- omg0
must learn to speak Chinese soon...
- ukit0
The solution is to move to China...learn to speak Chinese...and become Chinese
- lowimpakt0
I've been following the development for a few years and I think there will be interesting changes within the next decade.
There has been a rapid explosion in design education and investment.
I don't have recent stats but this article from 2005 shows the sudden and rapid rise
"China has some 400 schools offering design classes that together graduate some 10,000 industrial designers annually, up from just 1,500 or so five years ago. "Design schools are popping up like bamboo shoots," marvels Yan Yang, chairman of Tsinghua's industrial design department.
Design is even seeping ever deeper into Chinese society. Beijing has introduced into the national curriculum a new course called Technology and Design in which students learn about the history of design and what constitutes good design. "Traditionally, Chinese people are very good at design," says He Renke, dean of Hunan University's design school, who helped develop the curriculum. "Now we need a renaissance.""
- i'm not saying it's a bad thing, just different...lowimpakt
- johnny_wobble0
- met this guy after a show at the Cavern. Sweetest guy you'll ever meet.formula
- fresnobob0
I don't know, I think I'm gonna try and call bullshit on what that dude is saying. Not that I don't think the masses of people and manufacturing are going to be important in the future, but what that dudes is saying about the freshness and originality of Chinese design is total nonsense. Whats really going on is that China finally discovered modernism and are desperately trying to catch up to the rest of the world, who have been using such ideas for over 100 years now.
- just look at all the creative names they have come up with for Chinese restaurants... Happy Chinese Design Palace
PlantedMedia
- just look at all the creative names they have come up with for Chinese restaurants... Happy Chinese Design Palace
- utopian0
Now if they would only stopping spamming QBN...
with their cheap shit, made by their child slave labor workforce!
- detritus0
More is more, so it's all good.
The same pifflingly-considered criticisms about copying western tech and culture seen in this thread were levelled at Japan 30 years ago and you'd have to be fairly ignorant or deluded to accuse them of exhibiting a lack of creativity and originality.
There's plenty of capacity for design development in the world and I welcome China's increasing input and output—if the art world is anything to go by, they have a lot to offer.
- lowimpakt0
@freshnob - good point but just consider how fast China leapfrogged the West in other areas in technology (and most importantly the cultural adoption of tech), infrastructure, general economic growth etc.
e.g. they developed their economies in decades to the level that took us centuries
I'm also not seeing this from a US/Europe perspective. The new economies are leaving us behind.
- DrBombay0
FoxxConn is replacing suicidal workers with robots.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/bu…Bootleg Ikea stores
http://www.reuters.com/article/2…
- utopian0
More fake Apple Stores found in China...
http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=75&a…
- popfodders0
yeah and also MADE like shit
- ur faceDrBombay
- what are you some communist lover now fucktard?popfodders
- YEAH!DrBombay
- fresnobob0
@lowimpakt - Yeah, they did develop industry rather quickly, but thats because it was already invented by the rest of the world, they just had to pick up on it! Compare the risse of China to the rise of the US. The US was formed and almost immediately became an economic and cultural power. China, on the other hand has had plenty of time to develop, but instead chose to wallow in things like totalitarian political systems which totally fucked them and now they are struggling to catch up.
Like, for example, I noticed on the Beijing Design Week website there is a lecture series about how intellectual property rights and copyrights need to be strictly enforced and its not good to share ideas. Uh, woah dude! That is like totally opposite the rest of the creative thinking in the world today. China has so much infringement of that sort going on that they seemingly have to hate sharing ideas before they can again begin to love sharing ideas. Thats a big barrier, to flip ideologies that many times.
Anyways, I think China needs to first have a society that permits and encourages the free exchange of ideas before they will be able to become the cultural powerhouse being implied. They may have the money, but their ideas are not going to be spread unless they are freely permitted to spread.
- dobre0
Didn't everything we got now originate from China if not Rome, Greek, Gulf & India? Design has always been major in Chinese life & existence. And with this whole 'national priority' being implemented sure China will be the leader again. If that means we will be getting top quality 20$ replacement for Macbook & Hermes birkin then we should all be speaking Mandarin :)
- lowimpakt0
yea, IP is a big issue.
In design we are seeing the growth of open source and open design http://opendesignnow.org/ but in other areas of tech (inc. pharma etc) IP is still a massive issue and driver of competition.
The free flow of ideas is the biggest challenge. As detritus says, they are excelling in contemporary art but some of their artists are getting jailed for political dialogue.
This is an emerging issue but it makes me think about how European / US design can remain special.
- GeorgesII0
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