Design Society opens its Main Gallery with ‘Minding the Digital’, a large-scale, speculative exhibition to reflect through design on the unprecedented impact of digitalization in China and beyond. This exhibition will explore how design can mediate between technology and core human values.

 

 

We live in an era defined by unprecedented digitalisation, featuring about 60 China-based and international works from leading and emerging creative practices, MINDING THE DIGITAL offers a journey of exploration into how the field of design is responding to this phenomenon.

Through three key sections Digital Encounter, Digital Interactions and Digital Participation, the exhibition demonstrates creative possibilities in embracing the digital future.

 

 

Digital Encounter discusses the interplay between human and machine intelligence in design, questioning whether they will complement or contest in the digital era.

 

 

 

Digital Interactions illustrates the growing intimacy and empathy between us and design objects and interfaces.

 

 

 

 

Digital Participation invites the audience to experience the power of design as an innovative force in the industry and also our communities.

 

 

 

The V&A Gallery at Design Society opens with its inaugural site-specific exhibition, ‘Values of Design’. This exhibition presents a broad exploration of the relationship between notions of value and design.

 

 

Drawn from the V&A’s major collections of fashion, photography, furniture, product and graphic design, theatre and performance, the exhibition features over 250 objects from 900 AD to the present, and originating from 31 different countries, to frame a global debate about how design is valued and how values shape design.

 

 

 

 

Seven themes will provide the framework of the exhibition narrative, each representing broad value statements that have been made in the past about design: Performance, Cost, Problem-solving, Materials, Identity, Communication and Wonder.