We also visited Beijing Design week that was happening at the same time. An event looking very much like European design events, but with interesting contents like the NO+CH festival. Which is a merging of Nordic and Chinese designers and artists doing a one-week workshop together. You can see some of the stuff at Dezeens very nice resumé of it. Here you also find many different parts of the festival, f.ex. the new 751 design district with pavillions from the Netherlands, Germany and China. Very cool place.
I got a hang up in one thing, though, transport vehicles. They are everywhere in Beijing and I find them interesting precisely because they are so common and so manual, and therefore also very sustainable. Transporting goods and humans from one place to another is essential in human civilization, but the ways we have started to do this has had quite harmful concequences. As 10 000 new cars emerges in Beijing only every month, there is pretty clear how big the problem is and will be. And because of this it made me so happy to see people cycling around on their slow and well-used bi- and tri-cycles with their huge loads of either food, goods, people or just their own personal stuff, in many cases their whole life is back there! Suddenly you see a guy with his whole shoerepair workshop at the back of his cycle, and I also saw a guy with his personal library cruising around. Some of the vehicles are motorized, but many are still manual, and it is really an essential part of Chinese culture to get around on these.
So, I will present for you my poster and some of my favourite images. I hope you enjoy!
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Great Stuff
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