Beijing Design Week and 751D-Park present

Design Powered: 751 International Design Park, the key hub of Beijing Design Week
 

Beijing Design Week and 751 D-Park are pleased to present Design Powered: 751 International Design Park, the main hub of activity during Beijing Design Week.

Located next to Beijing’s 798 Art Zone, 751 D-Park has quickly become known as a center for creative industries, alongside events including China International Fashion Week and the INTRO Beijing Electronic Music Festival. A former gas power plant, it is a sprawling, dramatic complex of chimneys and boiler towers, railroad beds and acres of pipes, now converted for use as a driver for the city’s creative renaissance.

Within this spectacular setting, Design Powered will include over two dozen Beijing Design Week exhibitions and installations, alongside dozens of talks, seminars, workshops and activities covering topics spanning from architecture, furniture, industrial and interior design to graphics, new media and fashion.

Brands will showcase their products, 751-based designers will open their studios to the public and institutions will illustrate the latest ideas and design technologies. There will be a 3-D film on the future of the city, alongside on-site workshops featuring 3-D printing. Exhibitions will feature the marriage of traditional craft and contemporary design; innovative new materials and the latest in Chinese design will also be on view. Meanwhile, lively events such as parkour demonstrations will engage broad audiences, while temporary cafes and design bookstores will offer places to relax.

Design Powered will be centered around the impressive industrial towers and chimneys of 751 D-Park’s TK-square-meter Power Square. Its exhibitions and installations will be concentrated in two main buildings of approximately 3000 square meters each, alongside 4 smaller buildings nearby. Participants will come from countries including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, the United States and Greater China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong.

For the 8 days of Beijing Design Week, from September 26 to October 3, with a media preview day on September 25, Design Powered will provide one of the biggest celebrations of design, in all its forms, that Beijing has ever seen.