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“I hope this offers a glimmer of hope that things are getting better” says Aric Chen

April 13, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Aric Chen Virtual Design Festival video message

Life in Shanghai is slowly getting back to normal, reports curator Aric Chen in this video message recorded for Virtual Design Festival on his first day in the fresh air after 14 days of home quarantine. Chen, the curatorial director of the Design Miami fair, recorded the message from the street on Sunday 12 April

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Send us a video message from lockdown for Virtual Design Festival and we’ll publish the best ones

April 7, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Virtual Design Festival video message from lockdown

As part of Virtual Design Festival, we’re calling on readers everywhere to send us short video clips with their messages to the world. The best ones will be published on Dezeen as part of VDF, which starts on 15 April and runs until 30 June. This will including a special montage of video messages to launch

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Send us a video message from lockdown for Virtual Design Festival and we’ll publish the best ones

April 7, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

As part of Virtual Design Festival, we’re calling on readers everywhere to send us short video clips with their messages to the world. The best ones will be published on Dezeen as part of VDF, which starts on 15 April and runs until 30 June. This will including a special montage of video messages to launch

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Virtual Design Festival partners with Ron Arad, Li Edelkoort, Dutch Design Week, Serpentine Galleries and more on digital cultural programme

April 6, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

The Design Museum, Dutch Design Week, Design Indaba, Ventura Projects and The World Around are among cultural partners who will be contributing to Virtual Design Festival, which launches on 15 April. Creative partners include designer Ron Arad, artist Lucy McRae, musicians Beatie Wolfe and Rosey Chan, and trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, who will be creating

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Architects lead backlash over park closures and “heavy-handed” policing in London’s open spaces

April 6, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Architects lead backlash over London park closures

Architects and critics have hit out at threats to close London’s parks amid the coronavirus pandemic, with one describing it as “collective punishment”. Brockwell Park in south London was sealed off on Saturday while authorities threatened to shut other open spaces, following concerns about overcrowding and irresponsible behaviour. “Ridiculous to shut parks,” said HAT Projects

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Dezeen announces Virtual Design Festival starting 15 April

April 2, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Dezeen announces Virtual Design Festival, the world’s first online design festival, taking place from Wednesday 15 April onwards. With much of the world in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global architecture and design community is, along with many other sectors, facing unprecedented challenges. Virtual Design Festival (www.virtualdesignfestival.com) is a platform that will bring

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Coronavirus reveals “the shortcomings of the traditional supply chain” says Bjarke Ingels

March 30, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

BIG manufactures face shields for hospital workers

Decentralised local manufacturing could replace global supply chains as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to architects who collaborated on an open-source project to make face shields for hospital workers. “Will this crisis reconfigure supply chains? I hope so,” said Eric Höweler of Boston studio Höweler + Yoon, one of many US architecture firms

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American architects mobilise to make coronavirus face shields for hospital workers

March 29, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Architects across America including BIG, KPF and Gensler have teamed up as part of an open-source project to manufacture face shields to protect hospital workers treating coronavirus patients. Firms across the country are using their own 3D printers and laser cutters to make the visors, which are being delivered to hospitals for distribution to front-line

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Salone del Mobile to evaluate situation as Milan, Venice and much of northern Italy sealed off due to coronavirus

March 8, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair postponed due to coronavirus

Bosses of Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair will meet this week to “assess the situation” as Lombardy and several northern Italian regions were locked down due to the coronavirus outbreak. The midweek meeting, which was scheduled before Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte signed the emergency decree last night, will examine the impact the ongoing

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MIPIM property fair postponed until June over coronavirus fears

February 29, 2020 Marcus Fairs 0

The giant MIPIM property fair that was due to take place in Cannes, France from 10 to 13 March has been postponed until 2-5 June due to coronavirus. Organiser Reed MIDEM said it was postponing the event due to “growing concerns related to the coronavirus”. “The well-being of our clients and staff is our priority,”

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