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Organisers of the Design Shanghai trade fair and the Festival of Design architecture conference have cancelled their March 2020 events as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts travel and business in China.

Design Shanghai, the biggest contemporary design show in China, said it was moving the fair to May “to ensure the welfare and safety of visitors to our show”.

Shanghai architect Neri&Hu has scrapped plans for its Festival of Design conference after “carefully evaluating the situation and potential risks.” The event will return in March 2021.

The two high-profile events are among an increasing number of industry events affected by the virus, which has so far claimed 213 lives in China.

Shows in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou affected

Shenzhen International Furniture Fair, which was due to take place from 18 to 21 March, announced it has postponed its dates to June.

The Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province and Guangzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau announced the suspension of all large trade events “to ensure health and safety of all participants”.

The 45^th China International Furniture Fair, which was due to take place in Guangzhou from 18 to 21 March, is among events affected.

Meanwhile, dealers have been calling for the Art Basel Hong Kong show to postpone its upcoming edition, due to take place in Hong Kong from 19 to 21 March. The fair has yet to announce a decision.

Design Shanghai postponed for “safety of visitors”

Design Shanghai was scheduled to take place from 12 to 15 March at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre.

It will now take place in the same location from 26 to 29 May, assuming that the virus has been contained by then.

“After careful consideration and advice, we have made the difficult decision to postpone Design Shanghai to ensure the welfare and safety of visitors to our show, our exhibitors and our team,” said Design Shanghai director Zhuo Tan.

“We are grateful to have confirmed new dates in the same venue with the same layout so as not to compromise the quality and success of the fair,” she continued.

“We appreciate the show of support that we have received from the design community and our partners during this time.”

The organisers of Design Shanghai made the decision in consultation with the Chinese government and local authorities, as well as the fair partners, venue and local team. Exhibitors were notified on 30 January.

Launched in 2014 by Media 10, Design Shanghai has become one of the region’s most highly acclaimed shows for the design market. The fair was sold to Clarion Events in June 2019.

Festival of Design cancelled due to “potential risks”

Neri&Hu told Dezeen they had decided “with great disappointment” to cancel the 2020 edition of Festival of Design.

The third edition of the annual conference, which invites architects from around the world to deliver lectures, was due to be held in Shanghai at the same time as Design Shanghai.

“It is with great disappointment that we have to inform all related parties on this unexpected decision, but it seems to be the best course of action at this time, setting the health and safety of our guests and attendees as our top priority,” said Neri&Hu’s Rossana Hu and Lyndon Neri.

“We shall resume the Festival of Design in Spring 2021, but for now, we pray for those whose health is affected by the virus outbreak and hope that the design community will be effective in offering our own contribution to the on-going relief efforts,” they added.

Coronavirus a global emergency

The first case of flu-like coronavirus infection was detected in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, on 31 December. Efforts to contain the virus have failed, with almost 10,000 cases reported in China so far and infections reported around the world.

The World Health Organization yesterday declared the outbreak a global emergency.

The Chinese government has been rapidly building a 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan in a bid to contain and treat patients suspected of contracting the coronavirus.

The 25,000-square-metre Huoshenshan facility in Wuhan is expected to be in operation by 3 February, while a second 1,600-bed hospital called Leishenshan is set to be ready by 5 February.

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Our exploration of and partnerships with several local Japanese craftspeople

An exquisite window into Japan‘s heritage, Kyoto‘s gardens, shrines and temples draw in millions of visitors each year. For our CH Japan travel experience (as well as our CH Omakase gift box), Kyoto played an important role for a different reason: its GO ON collective. Young makers, representing the next generation in their family’s traditional craft, bound together to form GO ON. This collective aims to showcase traditional craft businesses in and near Kyoto and how they are evolving to both honor tradition and to create new opportunities. Together they represent a force for Japanese craft and are sharing it with a global audience.

With this intention, they acknowledge that for local craft to survive anywhere it must find new markets everywhere. Not only did we bring our CH Japan guests to explore the following producers, we also developed limited edition products with many of them—to further their goal of international awareness.

Kanaami Tsugi

Toru Tsuji is a second-generation wire net weaver who works with his father, Master Kenichi Tsuji. Their company, Kanaami Tsugi, produces tofu servers, tea strainers and other kitchen utensils. Different techniques—like kiku-dashi and kikko-ami—yield exquisite natural patterns, the former resembling chrysanthemum and the latter a tortoise shell. We asked Toru Tsuji to produce one of his iconic tea utensils in a first-ever collaboration with another GO ON member, Nakagawa Mokkouegi (who honed its beautiful wooden handle) in a blending of historic talents.

Asahiyaki

For more than 400 years, the family-run ceramics company Asahiyaki has produced cups, plates and bowls from clay that they’ve cured between 50 to 100 years. Matsubayashi Housai, the family’s 17th-generation potter, currently leads their production—building homewares from clay his grandfather collected from a nearby mountain. To visit was an exercise in beauty, patience and perfection. They only produce 2,000 or so pieces per year. With them, we developed a set that contains four of the company’s classic cups and a matcha bowl in exclusive, experimental colorways.

Hosoo

From their illustrious history to their brand new Kyoto flagship, Hosoo continues to reimagine the use of traditional textiles, while incorporating techniques for the future. Superior quality defines the brand. Founded in 1688, the company became known for traditional Japanese three-dimensional weaving techniques. Today, their partnerships with the likes of Peter Marino Architect and Thom Browne—spearheaded by Masataka Hosoo, the brand director of HOSOO and former MIT Director’s Fellow—represent movements that will keep them relevant for centuries more.

Kaikado

Takahiro Yagi is the third generation to lead his family’s unique business, Kaikado. They are known for their handmade tea canisters, which create a vacuum seal when they gently close—a design they perfected. When holding the required tools and learning of their meticulous production, we understood the precision that goes into such a natural seal. We commissioned Kaikado to create a finish using our original CH Omakase pattern. This marks the first time they were able to precisely match a hand-engraved pattern and then cover it in lacquer, which adopts patina over time and with use.

Kohchosai Kosuga

Established in 1898, Kohchosai Kosuga taps into bamboo’s unending potential and crafts more than 1,000 different items from the material. Many traditional techniques are employed to make the products, but the brand is thoughtful in its adoption of modern methods, as well. All of their pieces are manufactured within their own studios, and they opened their first flagship in Kyoto in 2011, with the intention of bringing the dynamic beauty of bamboo closer to their customers.

Images by Josh Rubin

Modernism Week in Palm Springs, Stockholm Design Week and the Collect crafts fair and Surface Design Show in London are among the architecture and design events taking place this month and listed on Dezeen Events Guide.

Other events taking place in February include Madrid Design Festival, Nomad St Moritz and Object Rotterdam.

Stockholm Design Week

Stockholm Design Week is Dezeen’s first major excursion of the year, as we have several events taking place in the city. Check the Stockholm section of Dezeen Events Guide for details!

The week takes place from 3-9 February in the Swedish capital, with more than 200 events across the city, including the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which is the biggest design fair in Scandinavia.

The Guest of Honour at this year’s fair is Indian-British design duo Doshi Levien, who will present an exhibition explaining their working process in the entrance hall of Stockholmsmässan, where the fair takes place.

The fair’s talks programme will include a lecture by Doshi Levien’s Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien moderated by Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs. It takes place at 2pm in The Design Bar at the fair.

Modernism Week

Modernism Week takes place in Palm Springs, California this month. The 15th year of the festival will include walking, biking and bus tours of many of the mid-century houses in the area, as well as films and lectures.

Talks include an exploration of the female architects involved in designing Palm Springs, and TWA Hotel: Rebirth of a Modern Icon about the restoration of Eero Saarinen’s 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK airport.

Collect craft fair

The Collect: International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design functions more like an art fair, with galleries taking stands to show exhibitions by specific designers and makers.

Collect moves to London’s Somerset House this year, with over a quarter of participating galleries showing for the first time.

Galerie Scene Ouverte from Paris will show furniture and objects in small editions, in the manner of a New York apartment, and three South Korean galleries will show new work.

See more events in London on Dezeen Events Guide.

About Dezeen Events Guide

Dezeen Events Guide is a new guide to the leading architecture and design events taking place around the world each year.

With over 100 events in 30 countries already listed for 2020, including conferences, trade fairs, major exhibitions and design weeks, the guide is updated weekly.

Inclusion in the guide is free for basic listings, with events selected at Dezeen’s discretion. Organisers can get enhanced or premium listings for their events, including images, additional text and links, by paying a modest fee.

In addition, events can ensure inclusion by partnering with Dezeen. For more details on inclusion in Dezeen Events Guide and media partnerships with Dezeen, email eventsguide@dezeen.com.

The illustration, featuring Ragnar Östberg’s 1923 Stockholm City Hall, is by Rima Sabina Aouf.

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Over 10 million adults in the UK alone are affected by arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions making it extremely difficult to even do basic household activities as they get older. Regular home appliances are not always designed keeping in mind the independence of our aging generations and cleaning is a tedious task for those who are in pain with the slightest movement. Vacuuming causes wrist ache, back pain and is heavy to push around – Vivo aims to solve this problem with a concept vacuum cleaner built on the ethos of inclusive design.

Its ergonomic build reduces load and strain on the user. The two handles were specifically put in to reduce the force required when pushing the vacuum – it enables the person to use hands, arms, and even their body weight as they will be standing right behind the machine. It includes two brushes, the forward brush dislodges the dirt and the rear brush sweeps it, effectively reducing the “push-pull” into just one push for cleaning.

The Vivo Vac will automatically charge when put back on the dock. It also solves the issue of taking the debris out – once docked, the dust hole on the dock aligns itself with the dust deposit hole on the vacuum and the dust from the device is sucked into a bag inside the dock. The dust bag container is up high on the device so there is no need for bending and it works for several sessions before needing a replacement. I am truly hoping this concept vacuum cleaner is a real product soon because inclusive design has the power to gift independence.

Designer: Alex Worthington

As the debate rages on about universities’ duty of care to students, CR speaks to education body GuildHE about the scale of the challenge facing art colleges across the country – and why it’s going to take much more than mindfulness sessions and puppy rooms

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