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The 2023 World Design City Conference

The 2023 World Design City Conference hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Government will kick off at the Huangpu Riverside in Shanghai from September 26 to October 2. With the theme of “Design Beyond Creativity”, the conference focuses on future urban construction and development, and discusses global topics such as industry symbiosis, data-driven, inclusiveness and equality, health and well-being, and net-zero emissions.

One of the three major summits of this event, “Design Empowers Cross-border Innovation” Future Design Summit is jointly organized by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Archplus Group, undertaken by School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and East China Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd., and will be held on the afternoon of September 26 at WDCC 2023 Hall C. 

Ruan Xing, Dean and Guangqi Chair Professor of School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, serves as the academic curator and convener of the summit. Academicians and top experts at home and abroad will be invited to focus on five major topics: future energy, future health, future materials, future intelligence and future space, involving multi-disciplinary integration and collision, and to use design as an engine of future human habitat.

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Three highlights

1. Forward-looking design and industrial revolution: In-depth analysis of the latest frontiers of design in the five major industries of energy, health, materials, intelligence and space, opening up new horizons for future industrial development.

2. Multidisciplinary integration and industrial innovation: Summit topics range from Shanghai's current sustainable development and resilient city construction, to the green energy transformation under the goal of carbon neutrality, to future material innovation, future cities and disappearing robots... with design as the core, the five major fields will start together, cross-integrate and explore future industrial upgrading and innovation prospects.

3. Ten top academicians and guru at home and abroad to discuss future innovation: The event bring together ten top academicians and experts from the fields of energy, health, materials, intelligence and space around the world to share thoughts and insights and discuss how design empowers technology and industry to achieve cross-border innovation and jointly shape the future.

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Moderator 

​​Zeng Xiaoqin

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Remarks

​​Gu Weihua

Chairman of the Board, Archplus Group Co., Ltd.

Zhang Ansheng

Vice President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Keynotes

Huang Zhen

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Central Committee for the Advancement of Democracy, and former Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Anders Lindquist

Internationally renowned control theory expert, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

​J. Alexander Schmidt

Academician of the German Academy of Sciences, founding partner of SBA GmbH, chief expert in urban renewal and ancient building protection.

Yang Guangzhong

Academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Founder of the Hamline Surgical Robot Research Center at Imperial College, founder of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical Robot Research Institute, and chief scientist of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical Robot Research Institute.

Jiang Huancheng

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, national engineering survey and design master, and senior chief engineer of Archplus Group. Engineering structure expert, mainly engaged in engineering building structure design research.

Michael Edward Meadows

President of the International Geographical Union (IGU), academician of the European Academy of Sciences, foreign member of the Royal South African Academy of Sciences and Chinese Geographical Society.

Akira Wada

Professor Emeritus of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, is recognized to be Japan’s leading expert in structural engineering with a specific focus on seismic structural design and resilient cities.

Michele Bonino

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Dean of the Department of Architecture and Design, Director of the China Center, Politecnico di Torino; Visiting professor at Tsinghua University (2013-2014) and Visiting Scholar at MIT (2016).

Li Jie

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chief Scientist of the National Key Laboratory of Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention and Reduction, Distinguished Professor of Tongji University, Director of the Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief, and Chairman of the International Society for Structural Safety and Reliability.

Moderator & Summary

​National engineering survey and design master, consultant and senior chief engineer of Archplus Group East China Architectural Design and Research Institute Co. , Ltd.

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Moderator for Summit Dialogue 1

​Ruan Xing  Photography by Pang Xiaowei

Dean and Guangqi Chair Professor of Architecture at School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 

​Moderator for Summit Dialogue 2

​Michele Bonino​​

Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Dean of the Department of Architecture and Design,  Politecnico di Torino.

Summary

​Niu Bin

General Manager, East China Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd.

Program

Summary and closing

Please scan the QR code for registration of the event

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"Future Industries" Themed Exhibition Presented by Shanghai Jiao Tong University

​Design is the power to change the world, the key to shaping the future, and bringing a better life to people. Shanghai Jiao Tong University integrated the high-quality resources of design disciplines across the school, reorganized and created the “Innovative Design” discipline group, covering three first-level disciplines of architecture, design and landscape architecture, and has been included in the university’s "Double First-Class" key construction discipline groups.

Over the past 30 years, the design disciplines at Shanghai Jiao Tong have pursued a harmonious communion of humanities, arts, science and technology for educating elite talents in the built environment, art and design fields. The programs have been distinguished by attributes of social conscience, leadership, cosmopolitanism and truth-seeking spirit. Their achievements in education, research, practice, social service and international reach have earned worldwide recognition.

This exhibition focuses on “Future Industries”, in the form of a deep immersive visual effects, through the series of events such as the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – China Pavilion and the FourC Challenge 24-hour Global Design Challenge to focus on the in-depth thinking of future energy, future health, future materials, future intelligence and future space based on the Shanghai Jiao Tong character, as well as the university’s mission to promote design innovation and serving the social development. It also injects innovative power into Shanghai's construction of a world-class design city and provides new inspiration, ideas, methods and opportunities for the future development of the design industry.

Date: September 26th - October 2nd

Venue: 2023 World Design Capital Conference Industry Hall

(China Shipbuilding Museum Exhibition Hall, No. 18 Longhua East Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai)

​Free registration link for the public：

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