“FOUR HANDS” KICK OFF AND EXHIBITION

MILANO – EXPO2015 VANKE PAVILION E SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CULTURE
CHINESE MINISTRY OF CULTURE
A PROJECT WITH CITIES AND PROVINCES OF BEIJING/ SHAANXI/HUNAN
OCTOBER 2015

“Four Hands” exhibition, the Chinese handcraft art revival through Italian design, was presented in the occasion of EXPO and did its opening event in the Milanese gallery, SPAZIO OTTO. This exhibition was showing dierent products of four societies, among the most representative Chinese ones considered as “valid examples of traditional Chinese handcraft”. This event starts from the idea of the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Public Outreach Bureau which nominated Beijing Design Week as “National Base for International Cultural Trade” and invited the Sino European Innovation Institute and Vanke Pavilion – EXPO to promote the Chinese culture in Italy through the exposition of products and artworks from different Chinese areas (Fengxiang, Tongchuan e Yijun, Yanchuan, Xiangxi).

“Four Hands” is part of a major initiative born in 2015 in China, promoted by Chinese Ministry of Culture and by the National Base for International Cultural Trade, called “China Design Round Up“, presented for the first time in Italy.

“CIAO – BRIDGE, THE COMMON BORDER OF CREATION” DESIGN AND INSTALLATION CURATORSHIP AND THE LAUNCH EVENT

Milano – Malpensa – Italy
Air China
A project with main cities and provinces of Beijing / Harbin / Inner Mongolia / Shanghai / Fujian / Jiangxi / Hunan / Guizhou / Sichuan / Yunnan…
September 2015

Ciao&Bridge, project promoted by Air China, the only company flying the Chinese national flag, celebrates the arrival of the 50th Airbus A330, event that transforms Air China in the most important operator in the world with the larger number of Airbus A330. Supported by Beijing Design Week, Beijing Tianzhu FreeTrade Zone and Slow Food China, the “CIAO – Bridge, the common border of creation” is a special project born to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sino-Euro’s formal diplomatic relations.

It was curated by DONTSTOP Architettura and It was exposed in Milan Malpensa Airport and later exposed in the Slow Food pavilion of Expo 2015 in Milan. The project included three artists’ works: by Katherine Xiao, Ludovica Anzaldi, Patrizia Piga and beautiful drawings made by children of Venus kindergarten.

CHINA ACADEMY OF ART EXHIBITION “DESIGN · EAST”

Milano – SEI Institute – Italy
China academy of art
June 2015

Design has prospective and retrospective features. So, in China, we think and criticize the cutting-edge design issues under the premise of respecting the traditional culture. China’s traditional culture and crafts are an important source and spirit of Chinese design; we need to start from the perspective of modern design and look for a new research system for traditional handcrafts in modern living contexts.

Modern activation of traditional crafts retains and restores a variety of information that Chinese traditional culture carries in a certain extent. At the same time, it also creates a new tangible and intangible form that would be accepted by the new cultural and economic mode in different contexts of culture and era. Nowadays it would help to enrich and reshape new forms of society constantly on the dimensions of the design.

世贸集团全球招商说明会

中欧创新中心 – 米兰 – 意大利
世贸集团
2015年7月

2015年7月14、15日，在米兰世博会中国企业联合馆，世茂集团将举办“相聚世茂·相遇中国”企业招商活动暨福州鼓岭文化展览会。当天，意大利……等共……家协会、机构与品牌商家将相遇璀璨的海上丝绸之路起点、相遇中国文化的杰出代表闽文化，相遇中国领先的房地产与生活方式服务集团世茂集团。

世茂集团是来自中国的领先的专注于房地产多元开发与运营、生活方式服务的企业集团。业务布局全中国，拥有两家分别上市于香港证交所、中国A股的大型上市企业，国际化合作伙伴遍布全球。世茂的发展与壮大深深吸纳了闽文化、中华商业文明、全球文化的滋养。因此，世茂来到米兰亮相世博会，将鼓岭文化艺术带到米兰世博舞台，并借助世博舞台向全球商业界发出合作的邀请。

SLOW FOOD GREAT CHINA OFFICIAL KICK OFF IN ITALY

Milano – Slow Food Pavilion EXPO2015 – Italy
Slow Food China
A project with cities and provinces of Beijing / Inner Mongolia / Hunan / Guizhou / Yunnan
July 2015

Slow Food arrives in China in 2015 with an international event about food: the Beijing Slow Food Festival. Organized by Beijing City / Shunyi District in collaboration with China’s Ministry of Agriculture, hosted by Beijing Design Week & Beijing Airport Free trade Zone and sponsored by Beijing ShunXin Food Group & AirChina. The Festival hosted more than 50.000 visitors. Thanks to this project it was possible to create the first cultural centre for exchanges between Italy and China in Beijing, in this occasion the first 100 Chinese products of “Arca del gusto” were presented as well as the “Wine Bank” and the “Tea Bank” and, in particular, 20 of the international products presided over by Slow food were shown in the city of Beijing.

The Sino European Innovation Institute, with a group work, made possible the development of the project themes, during a visit of the Chinese delegation in Pollenzo, Slow Food venue, and a meeting in Torino with the president of Piemonte Region. Mr. Sergio Chiamparino did a presentation for the initiative’s kick off in Italy in the context of EXPO – Milan, inside the Slow Food pavilion he presented a system of projects and proposals during the lecture of “Slow Food Beijing Festival”.

天猫设计猫米兰建站发布会

中欧创新中心 – 米兰 – 意大利
天猫平台
2015年4月

4月15日下午在米兰中欧创新中心，2015天猫设计猫米兰建站发布会成功举行。发布会宣布自2015年4月15日起，天猫设计猫米兰站正式落户中欧创新中心。天猫设计猫是2014年北京国际设计周联合天猫平台共同发布的创新项目，至今已有包括意大利鬼才设计师Stefano Giovannoni等200多位全球项级设计师相继入驻。作为品质天猫及全球化战略落地的重要合作伙伴，设计猫肩负着将全球优秀设计品带入中国并入驻天猫设计猫的重任。米兰8空间是天猫－设计猫继首尔、柏林、迪拜之后在海外的第四个站点，也是最重要的一个站点。

业内人士分析，天猫经过长期对设计品电商模式经验摸索，通过与北京国际设计周设计猫的持续战略合作，将帮助设计猫实现从设计创意到产品开发、生产、销售全链路打通，通过消费者与设计师互动再反哺新的设计创意，为全球设计师提供广阔的舞台，为“设计消费”行业打造商业闭环。

SHOPOFSHOPS ‘TUSCANY-ITALIAN FEELING’ PRESENTATION

Milano – Italy
ShopofShops
A project with main cities and provinces of Beijing / Shanghai / Inner Mongolia / Sichuan / Hunan / Guizhou / Nanjing / Yunnan / Haikou…
November 2016

To address the need, within the framework of the 31st edition of the Salone Franchising Milano, ShopofShops, the operating company in the field of Retail and Franchising between Europe and Asia will present Italy, the pilot project “TUSCANY – ITALIAN FEELING”, desired and thought by Bamboo Capital Ltd, Hong Kong fund Investment and Sunshine100, Real Estate company among the most important of China.

“TUSCANY – ITALIAN FEELING” is an operation from China to Italy, which embodies fundamental values today for investors and for Chinese consumers, drawing inspiration from the unique Italian skills in the world of interpret life. The goal is to select the best of Italian and European business models and insert them inside the complex residential and / or commercial developed in China by Sunshine100.

TERRA MADRE SALONE DEL GUSTO 2016

TORINO – ITALY
SLOW FOOD GREAT CHINA
A PROJECT WITH CITIES OF BEIJING / INNER MONGOLIA / HUNAN / GUIZHOU / YUNNAN
OCTOBER 2016

Slow Food Great China Association “Ark of Taste” project started in July 2015, food producers from all 34 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, growers, farmers recommended to us having a sense of geographical indications and endangered varieties of food.

Terra Madre Salone del Gusto is the most important international event dedicated to food and gastronomy: the MARKET hosts exhibitors from five continents, including the SLOW FOOD PRESIDIA, numerous EVENTS dedicated to the wealth and diversity of global cuisine, FOOD TRUCKS, STREET FOOD, and ARTISANAL BEER, CINEMA SCREENINGS, the prestigious ENOTECA, CONFERENCES examining issues around food production, the FORUMS of Terra Madre’s FOOD COMMUNITIES and more. Together, we’re learning more about how our food is made, preserving biodiversity and securing a better food future for everyone.

BEIJING DESIGN WEEK 2016

BEIJING – CHINA
BEIJING DESIGN WEEK
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY CITY OF BEIJING
SEPTEMBER 2016

Create global creativity gathering and build a platform for design negotiation. As the opening event of 2016 Beijing Design Week, Design Night was held at the south square of the China Millennium Monument on 25th September. It consists of activities as Road of Design, Nameplate Inlay Ceremony for Design Award 2015, the Design Awarding Ceremony of 2016 Design Awards, 2016 Beijing Fashion Week Chinese Traditional Clothing Show, On-site Discussion and Exchanges and visits. It aims to attract global attention, and build a platform for famous designers, design institutions to gather, exchange, communicate.

SINO is the CO-Organizer of Envision Beijing International Design Week 2016 and SINO CEO Mr. Michele Brunello did a speech on the Envision meeting.

CIAO-BRIDGING EAST AND WEST CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY BY
KATHERINE XIAO KEJIA

VENEZIA – ITALY
KATHERINE XIAO KEJIA
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY CITIES OF BEIJING / CHENGDU
SEPTEMBER 2016

The solo exhibition of the calligraphy curated by Sino European Innovation Institute and by the sponsorship of the Ming Culture Communication Co., LTD. The exhibition includes 13 pieces of Katherine Xiao Kejia’s classic works. At the 15th Venice Biennale, was also exhibited at Ca’ Tron University in Venice, meaning the Chinese and Western art and culture of the exchange and cooperation. The mayor of Venice came to the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.

The calligrapher Katherine Xiao Kejia in the late 70s at the beginning of the early 80s was named the country’s talented young calligrapher, her grandfather is a famous poet and calligraphy master Xiao Lao. At the age of 13, her works have been selected into large-scale exhibitions held in China and Japan. After graduating from university in 1985, Xiao Kejia has lived and worked in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Washington DC, Taipei, Shanghai, 17Singapore and Beijing.

CHINESE HANDCRAFT DESIGN & INNOVATION

MILANO – SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
FIL – LISBON – PORTUGAL
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY CITIES OF BEIJING / SHANGHAI / HANGZHOU
JUNE 2016

Lisbon International Crafts Fair (FIA LISBOA) was held in Lisbon at June 25, 2016.
The “China craft Innovation and Design” exhibition was shown for the first time under the guidance of Chinese Ministry of Culture and Public Outreach Bureau. The International Fair Of Handcraft is held every year in Lisbon since 1988, it is the largest crafts and multi-cultural thematic trade shown in the Iberian Peninsula.

The fair attracts forty to fifty countries worldwide, thousands of craftsmen and designers, more than one hundred thousand visitors and tourists. 25 craft innovative brands and agencies were selected, on a national scale, including gold, tapestry, weaving, Dyeing Sapporo, lacquer, Wooden, Leather and silver work. More than 20 categories of traditional arts and crafts were invited to share old objects and pictures to compare them with innovative products and attract the attention of global designers and buyers.

WORKSHOP – GREEN DESIGN FOUNDATION

ROMA – CASALI DEL PINO – ITALY
A PROJECT WITH CITIES AND PROVINCES OF SHENYANG / BEIJING / SHANGHAI / HANGZHOU / XIAMEN / TAIWAN
BEIJING DESIGN WEEK
JUNE 2016

The Sino European Innovation Institute curated the organization of the first workshop about the World Design Bank Project & case study, Green Design Foundation, held on the 19th of June in Ilaria Fendi’s estate, “I Casali del Pino”. Many important guests took part in the workshop, such as Miss Yan AoShuang, Director of Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission and Mr. Chen Dongliang, Director of UNESCO ICCSD.

In this occasion, the Sino European Innovation Institute was also nominated Italian Branch of UNESCO ICCSD (International Creativity Center for Sustainable Development) and, in particular, the Honourable Member Marina Berlinghieri received this title as president of the Milanese Institute.

LECTURE IN ITALY BY KENYA HARA

VENEZIA – ITALY
A PROJECT WITH CITIES OF BEIJING / SHANGHAI / NANJING / CHENGDU / SHENZHEN
KENYA HARA
JUNE 2016

Italian presentation of the House Vision project, articulated between House Vision Tokyo, China House Vision and Across Chinese Cities – China House Vision, Collateral Event of the 15th International Architectural Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

House Vision is a Pan-Asian platform (China, Japan and many new places such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia ecc.) of multidisciplinary research and development, initiated and co-curated by the Japanese Designers Kenya Hara e Sadao Tsuchiya, since 2013. HV is a feasibility study in the field of the home living, carried out by professional teams, by architectural designers and by leading companies, in different fields, who worked together to realize new visions of “the house an the forms of dwelling” able to answer to the existing urban complexity and to all the transformations connected to new lifestyles and new necessities.

ACROSS CHINESE CITIES – CHINA HOUSE VISION

COLLATERAL EVENT OF OF THE 15TH BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE

VENEZIA – ITALY
BEIJING DESIGN WEEK
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY CITIES OF BEIJING / CHENGDU
MAY 2016

Across Chinese Cities – China House Vision, Collateral Event of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is part of an international program organized and promoted by Beijing Design Week (BJDW) and extension of the House Vision project. The Exhibition addresses the wider cultural and historical implications affecting the context and the role of architecture practice in the modern-day China, as increasingly impacted by environmental factors, shape-shifting demographics and generational segmentation.

The exhibition presents the contextual phenomena – economic, urban, social – which have affected the research trajectories, the reasons and the collaboration conditions behind 14 architectural firms and selected industries, by rethinking the “dwelling” conditions beyond the strict boundaries of its “private” dimension.

YIWU – MILANO

TRANSFORMATION OF INDUSTRY AND DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

MILANO – SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
MILAN HUAXIA GROUP
GOVERNMENT YIWU
A PROJECT WITH CITY OF YIWU
JUNE 2016

In the occasion of one of the events dedicated to the presentation of Chinese cities in Milan, created by the Sino European Innovation Institute, we hosted the government delegation of Yiwu City, considered an important pole of the “Made in China” production.

The Chinese delegation, interested in showing its context in Italy and willing to establish a new continuative relation with the city of Milan, signed an agreement with the president of Milano Huaxia Group, Zhou Xiaoyan, to ensure a mutual commitment in future business and cultural projects related to the world of fashion. In this occasion the SEI Institute presented its on-going projects and all the activities that will be offered, during 2016, to students, professionals and companies interested in interacting with a Sino-European collaborative platform.

KIDS DESIGN WEEK

MILANO – SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
BEIJING DESIGN WEEK
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY CITY OF BEIJING
APRIL 2016

Milano Design Week closed over with the event “Love, being with you”, Italian kick off the Kids Design Week China. KDW China is the result of a collaboration between the Sino European Innovation Institute, World Design Weeks Network, Beijing Design Week, 751 International Design Festival, Smile Angel Foundation, The NONNO and Politecnico di Milano.

“Love, being with you” presented the first Design Week of China exclusively dedicated to children, where the scheduling of many activities aims at creating a strong cultural and educational link between children and the world of Design. The presentation of Kids Design Week China ran in parallel with a laboratory of art and philosophy for children and with a fund raising for the Smile Angel Foundation, charity Institution based in Beijing that helps Chinese children with cleft lip.

WORLD DESIGN WEEKS MILAN SUMMIT

MILANO – TRIENNALE – ITALY
WORLD DESIGN WEEK
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY CITIES AND PROVINCES OF BEIJING / SHANGHAI / HANGZHOU / XIAMEN / SHENYANG / TAIWAN
APRIL 2016

On the 14th of April, hosted by the XXI Triennale di Milano and organized together with the Sino European Innovation Institute, the 2016 WDW (World Design Weeks network) global summit launched the first platform for exchanges and collaborations between the major design weeks all over the world; a new network able to connect them all and to transform them from isolated events to a big system on a global scale.

World Design Weeks (WDW) is an independent organization that aims at being an international network among professional events supporting and facilitating the establishment of cooperative frameworks across cities and global regions. The Global Summit is one of the major activities of the network which hosts all the representative of more than 50 events around the world with the aim of discussing and redening the goals and the activities of the network and its members.

XIAMEN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN WEEK

MILANO – SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
XIAMEN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN WEEK
A PROJECT PROMOTED BY THE CITY OF XIAMEN
APRIL 2016

Xiamen International Design Week (XIDW) is one of the most important Design Weeks in the Asian-Pacic region connected to an international prize dedicated to design and innovation, such as the Red Dot Design Award. The 16th of April, designers, design agencies and representatives from design institutions and media, were invited to discuss about the Chinese design industry and the trend of consumption upgrade of the contemporary Chinese market.

During the event, hosted by the Sino European Innovation Institute, was presented the new exclusive collection signed “China Good Design Award”; nine objects designed with a special focus on the reconstruction of a lifestyle and on the idea of “smart design”.

EVENTO RADURA AND B TO B MEETINGS BETWEEN EASYHOME GOHO AND ITALIAN DESIGN

MILANO – SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
EASYHOME GOHO
A PROJECT WITH MAIN CITIES OF HARBIN / BEIJING / INNER MONGOLIA / SHANGHAI / FUJIAN / JIANGXI / HUNAN / GUANGDONG / GUIZHOU / SICHUAN / YUNNAN
APRIL 2016

After the kick off of the Italian Design Center designed by Stefano Boeri Architects China, held in Radura (installation in the “Cortile Farmacia” – Università Statale di Milano) during Milano Design Week, Easyhome GOHO, a society with more than 400 of brands with the 60% of the current sales
“made in Italy” and with a turnover of 123 millions of euro, wanted to extend and to implement the relationships with the field of Italian Design and food.

Easyhome GOHO selected the Sino European Innovation Institute for the organization of an entire day of B2B meetings dedicated to Italian companies interested in finding a space in the Chinese market within the Italian Design Center of Beijing.
Easyhome GOHO was looking at our Institute as a guarantee in the exchange and the dialogue with different realities.

WORLD DESIGN WEEKS ASIA IN MILAN

LE CITTÀ DELL’ANNO – BEIJING & TOKYO

Milano – Italy
World Design Weeks

In occasione del Fuorisalone 2018 il World Design Weeks Asia ha invitato le città di Pechino e Tokyo a presentare, dal 17 al 22 aprile presso laTriennale di Milano, l’esposizione tematica “WORLD DESIGN WEEKS ASIA IN MILAN”.

La mostra, co-organizzata dalla Beijing Design Week e dalla Tokyo Design Week, sostenuta dal Sino European Innovation Institute, è divisa in due sezioni: la prima, interamente dedicata a Pechino, presenta il progetto di design “Harmony with Nature”, mentre la seconda, tributo di Tokyo, presenta la grande installazione “World Flowers”.

BEIJING DESIGN WEEK – HARMONY WITH NATURE

Curata dal Professore Xu Ping e dalla Professoressa Lin Cunzhen, docente alla China Central Academy of Fine Arts (già designer delle medaglie e del logo delle Olimpiadi Pechino 2008, nonché ideatrice del logo delle Olimpiadi Invernali Pechino 2022), l’esposizione “Harmony with Nature” si ispira all’antica filosofia cinese del Feng-Shui e all’idea che l’uomo possa costruire “con il territorio” e non “contro” il territorio, rimettendo al centro la simmetria tra uomo e natura.

La mostra ha come punto di partenza le prospettive e le esperienze della Cina contemporanea, ed esplora le possibilità e modalità di applicazione pratica del concept “In Armonia con la Natura” all’interno della vita quotidiana.

In esposizione a Milano quasi cento articoli tra ceramiche, arredamento e gioielleria, realizzati da nove designer: Hang Hai, He Yang, Lin Cunzhen,Liu Xiaokang, Li Yingjun, Peng Wenhui, Teng Fei, Yang Mingjie, Zhong Song.

Lin Cunzhen: “Il significato del tema dell’esposizione è quello di un ritorno alle origini del design per fornire, ad un mondo tormentato da contraddizioni, un nuovo prototipo portatore dell’idea secondo cui “uomo e natura sono in armonia, così come lo sono con dio”.

“Harmony with Nature” significa quindi progettare per l’uomo ma anche per l’ambiente. Non è la ricerca di una configurazione perfetta bensì la ricerca di un tutto armonico fra elementi e ambiente, l’accettazione dei cambiamenti naturali con i quali convivere, misurando l’equilibrio fra tecniche costruttive, materiali indigeni e natura circostante.

Il designer non può prescindere da una soluzione simmetrica tra interno ed esterno: il design torna ad essere un processo naturale primitivo, capace di coniugare qualità della vita e qualità dell’ambiente, di indagare l’uso razionale ed efficace delle risorse culturali così come delle risorse high-tech.

Perché nella dialettica tra ciò che cambia e ciò che rimane immutato, soltanto gli schemi del design cambiano: ciò che rimane immutata è l’eterna ricerca di bellezza e raffinatezza.

Dopo Milano il “Beijing Design Week” approderà a Città del Messico e Buenos Aires.

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MAC MILANO ANIMAL CITY 

EXHIBITION AND PRESENTATION OF TOWNPLANNING WORKSHOP DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF POLITECNICO

MILANO – SEI INSTITUTE – ITALY
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
MARCH 2016

Exhibition of the research developed by the students of the Town Planning Design course of Politecnico di Milano. A Collection of 15 visions for a non-anthropocentric city by the students of Stefano Boeri and Michele Brunello, coordinated by Francesca Benedetto, Caterina Fumagalli, Azzurra Muzzonigro, Saverio Pesapane, Livia Shamir e Giorgio Zangrandi.

The Exhibition opened a public discussion about the different visions and suggestions coming from the students, all connected by the idea of recolonization of the urban environment by the plant and animal species within the city of Milan.