Leading is a design attitude, but also a design belief!
For more than ten years, Guangzhou Design Week has never stopped the dialogue between Chinese design and the world’s leading design thinking.
From December 9 to 12, 2021, Guangzhou Design Week, together with the leading Chinese and foreign design institutions, organizations and media in the GIA Guangzhou Design Week International Alliance and the world’s leading system custom home brand RARA, jointly launched an international design exchange program to dialogue with the world’s design leaders -IDD International Design Dialogue. The International Design Dialogue was officially launched at Guangzhou Design Week 2021 in the presence of 280,000+ people. Through the dialogue with the world’s leading design masters, we hoped to explore the world’s leading design ideas, promote China’s leadership with the world’s leadership, and influence the world’s design with China’s leadership.
2022 International Design Dialogue successfully held three series of events at Guangzhou Design Week 2021: 「2021 IDF International Design Forum & IDD International Design Dialogue Kick-off Ceremony」, 「Master X” RARA Night & Guangzhou Design Week Opening Party」, and 「IDD International Design Dialogue – Master Dialogue」, trying to ignite the last time of 2021 with the power of the first voice and the thoughts of the masters.
# 01 IDF International Design Forum & IDD International Design Dialogue Kick-off Ceremony
On December 10th, 2021, International Design Dialogue was launched in Guangzhou, China at the 2021 IDF International Design Forum & IDD International Design Dialogue Kick-off Ceremony.
Master Mind-2022 IDD International Design Dialogue
The kick-off ceremony invited representatives of the world’s leading design masters: Da Vinci in Tokyo |Masayuki Kurokawa, JADE+QA | Martin Jochman, KPF Architecture | Fausto Nunes, Gensler Architects | Georges Hung, artist/architect/ designer | Wang Kaifang, founder of CUN DESIGN | Cui Shu and others will bring their global design experiments and leading design ideas from various dimensions such as super tall buildings, digital architecture, hotel design, global office, young office, and oriental aesthetics.
Thanks to the keynote speakers: Masayuki Kurokawa, Martin Jochman, Fausto Nunes (first row from left to right) and Wang Kaifang, Georges Hung, and Cui Shu (second row from left to right)
At the same time, Guangzhou Design Week CEO Leo He, RARA System Custom Home Founder Wang Yang, as well as domestic and foreign design masters, RARA national distributors, the heads of GIA Guangzhou Design Week International Alliance 180+ cities in China, and designers from all over the country were invited to the launch ceremony to witness the launch of 2022 IDD International Design Dialogue and to appreciate the thoughts of international design masters!
Committed to promoting dialogue between Chinese design and world-leading design thinking
At the kick-off ceremony of IDD International Design Dialogue, Mr. Leo He, CEO of Guangzhou Design Week, described to us his imagination of international leading design: “What is leading? Leading is a design attitude, but also a design belief.” Since the beginning of 2007, Guangzhou Design Week has embarked on the road of searching for “leading”, dedicated to promoting the exchange between the world’s leading and China’s leading, bringing the world’s leading design ideas to China and spreading China’s leading design ideas to the world.
For more than ten years, Guangzhou Design Week has been a dialogue between Chinese design and the world’s leading design thinking, and the 2022 IDD International Design Dialogue was born. 2022 IDD International Design Dialogue will build its annual operation system with three major content sections: Masters, New Sound, and Masterpieces. Through dialoguing with world leaders to capture leading design thinking discover new sounds and pursue the leading. Select 100 sets of masterpieces of China’s leading design, which will promote the dialogue and development between the world’s leading design and Chinese design.
Follow the leading – Become the leading – Enjoy the leading
Following the leading and embracing the experiment are the direction that every designer seeks.
As the chief leading partner of 2022 IDD International Design Dialogue, Mr. Wang Yang, the founder of RARA System Custom Home, brought his unique insights on the world leading system custom home in the IDD International Design Dialogue launch ceremony. As the leader of domestic system custom home, RARA has been insisting on serving the majority of designer friends with the leading systematic product thinking, insisting on selecting the leading brands in different fields and making them achieve perfect integration through RARA’s unique process system. RARA better interprets the value of the products through design aesthetics, conveys the sense of good life, and brings the world’s leading system custom home to the good life.
# 02 RARA’S Night: ” Master X” RARA’S Night & Guangzhou Design Week Opening Party
On December 9, 2021, Guangzhou Design Week and RARA, the world’s leading system custom home furnishing brand, co-hosted an innovative design honor party in the new generation pan-entertainment party space and the stage for dialogue with the world – Tiande Space Cosmic Arena. – “Master X” RARA’S Night & Guangzhou Design Week Opening Party. The unique 1,500 square meters of space in Guangzhou, surrounded by concert-grade sound and 1,000 sets of light adjustment matrix like a mechanical arm, is like a big stage deep in the universe, accompanied by cheerful Mexican folk music, the energy of “XIAN X” exploring the future is gradually released!
Mr. Leo He, CEO of Guangzhou Design Week, took the stage and told us that for the past 16 years, Guangzhou Design Week has never stopped the exchange between Chinese design and the world’s leading design ideas. In the past 16 years, Guangzhou Design Week has been based on China, but looking at the world, continuously exploring and exchanging the leading design culture in China and abroad, gathering the world’s leading design ideas to enlighten the renewal and development of the design industry in China and the world, as well as linking excellent foreign design resources, allowing Chinese designers to go abroad to expand their horizons, understand the international design aesthetics and trends, enhance the interaction and communication with foreign countries, and improve the Chinese design. These have always been our mission.
In 2022, Guangzhou Design Week will continue to promote the exchange and exploration of leading design in China and abroad, and create an international design exchange program for dialogue with the world’s design leaders – IDD International Design Dialogue, with “MASTER MIND” as the main theme of thought exploration. The IDD International Design Dialogue aims to explore the world’s leading design ideas through dialogue with the world’s leading design masters.
The dinner also invited a group of world leading designers – Zhou You, Xie Ke, Yuan Xin, Wu Bin, Wang Kaifang, Lai Yanan, Dai Kun, Cui Shu, as well as Peleg Lewi and Carlos Cabrales, the representatives of Israel and Mexico, the guest countries of Guangzhou Design Week 2020 and 2021. Mr. Leo He, CEO of Guangzhou Design Week, and Mr. Wang Yang, founder of RARA System Custom Home Furnishing, tied the scarf symbolizing the alliance between the world’s leading designers and agreed to run together for the IDD International Design Dialogue, to promote China’s leadership with the world’s leadership, and to influence the world’s design with China’s leadership.
The design leaders who came to witness the launch of IDD International Design Dialogue 2022 and expressed their pioneering views on world leading design to us.
Mr. Cui Shu: “We have to learn from the leading design and strive to be the leading design, Go China Design! “
Mr. Dai Kun: “Every day just do drawing, good or bad is someone else’s business. “
Ms. Lai Yanan: “I’d like to use a quote from a magazine to illustrate my point: I hope I never grow up, but I hope I never stop growing and pursuing excellence. “
Mr. Wang Kaifang: “World leading design should lead to a new world of common good, co-creation and co-design. “
Mr. Wu Bin: “Good design is on the way. Chinese design is on the way, and on the way to Guangzhou. “
Mr. Yuan Xin: “Design is a kind of aesthetics in the current consumer society, and aesthetics represents taste. It’s time for us to lead consumption with taste, which is the most important thing that design should think about at the moment. I personally think it would be faster to translate design into consumption value directly. “
Mr. Xie Ke: “Sincerely do the design., Be the same outside and inside. Keep thinking. “
Mr. Zhou You: “I hope to do my small part to bring Chinese design to the world. “
Thanks to Zhou You, Xie Ke, Yuan Xin, Wu Bin, Wang Kaifang, Lai Yanan, Dai Kun, Cui Shu (in order from left to right); and to Peleg Lewi and Carlos Cabrales, representatives of the consulates of Israel and Mexico, our guests of honor for Guangzhou Design Week 2020 and 2021.
Mr. Wang Yang, the founder of RARA Systematic Custom Home Furnishing, IDD International Design Dialogue – Chief Leading Partner, expressed to us the brand tenet of “committed to building the world’s leading systematic custom home furnishing”, and told us that RARA has been insisting on cooperating with the world’s leading supply chain, exporting products instead of raw materials, enjoying leadership and respecting design. RARA hopes to export high-standard and detail-oriented products for designers with the leading systematic customization thinking and RARA’s unique process system logic. RARA interprets the value of products with design aesthetics and conveys the perception of aesthetic life.
In the presence of a group of leading international designers and representatives of the Mexican and Israeli consulates, the system custom home brand RARA became the chief leading partner of the 2022 IDD International Design Dialogue, contributing to the 2022 IDD International Design Dialogue with the brand concept of being committed to creating the world’s leading system custom home.
#03 IDD International Design Dialogue – Master Dialogue
The first 「IDD International Design Dialogue – Master Dialogue」 was held on December 11 at 10am in the RARA Hall on the 2nd floor of the Guangzhou Poly World Trade Center Expo+.
The interview invited two design masters, Mr. Carlos Gomez, AIA International Director at Large and CRG Architects, Founder & Principal, and Mr. Rui Leao, internationally renowned architect and president of CIALP (the International Council of Portuguese Speaking Architects ), to deliver their thoughts from international design masters. The event was also attended by six other design representatives: Peng Yu, Liang Dong, Wen Gang, Lin Guandi, Lin Yang and Chen Lei. They represented Chinese designers in dialogue with international design masters, elaborating leading views with contemporary Chinese design characteristics and influencing the world with Chinese leadership.
The two master and the dialogue figures discussed current hot topics such as “the development of China’s current architectural industry”, “the exchange and integration of Chinese design and world design”, and “the long-term coexistence of man-made environment and nature”. When discussing the topic of “communication and integration between Chinese design and global design”, Mr. Carlos Gomez said, “Both Chinese and Western countries should work together to promote the communication and integration between Chinese design and global design. From the Chinese perspective, China should export its traditional ideas, culture and language to the world; from the Western perspective, the West should accept the ideas and culture of different countries into the Western system.” Mr. Rui Leao said, “Nowadays it is a good time to exchange between China and the West, and many colleagues are interested in Chinese architecture and design. I suggest that China can establish more diverse communication with the world in culture, design and other fields.”
At the end of the interview, two of the world’s leading design masters, Mr. Carlos Gomez and Mr. Rui Leao， together with Mr. Pan, Director of operations of RARA, presented the 2022 IDD Annual Dialogue Figures Certificate to the participants of the interview, in recognition of their leading design perspectives in China and showing the world the new strength of China’s leading design.
2022 IDD International Design Dialogue will continue to promote the dialogue and development between the world’s leading design and China’s design, and continue to follow the leading edge, pursue the leading edge and catch up with the leading edge through three major content sections: Dialogue with masters, Discover new voices and Select masterpieces. At the same time, IDD International Design Dialogue will continue to attract more partners, to gather the greatest strength to promote the world’s leading design thinking and practice, and to do our part to promote the development of the world’s design industry.
2022 IDD International Design Dialogue，looking forward to your joining us!