The 2023 IAI Creative Design Festival was held in Xiamen, a beautiful garden city in Fujian province in southeast China, from June 22 to 25. The scene ofJimei Xinglin Bay was as beautiful as Cannes Festival, within a atmosphere of carnival. Activities of IAI Creative Festivals were so wonderful that just like blooming phoenix flowers spread in Jimei to decorated this creative and vital district, such as Belarusian artist Dasha's creative photography open class, Dasha art exhibition to IAI Metaverse Design Exhibition, IAI Design Forum, IAI Awards Ceremony, and the APDF Master Public Welfare Lecture Hall, etc. A series of art creation and sharing activities that shined with inspiration and creativity formed a colorful landscape in this city fulled of beauty and imagination.
As one of the top events in the design industry, IAI has always attracted much attention. In particular, the IAI Creative Design Festival held this year after the epidemic, which has attracted more attention from the industry and the media. On June 24th, the IAI Creative Design Festival reached its climax. The opening ceremony, IAI Design Forum, and awards dinner were three core activities, which attracted guests from all over the world. Authoritative figures, winners, judges, university professors, experts, and corporate elites from the design industry at home and abroad attended the IAI Design Forum to share creative ideas and discuss the future of design filed.
Many a big name and celebrity participated in the IAI feast at IAI Awards Ceremony held that night, and witnessed the birth of major awards such as the 14th and 15th IAI Architecture Awards, IAI Interior Awards, and IAI Intelligent Manufacturing Awards, etc, including Oskar Ho, Chairman of Asia Pacific Designers Federation (hereafter referred to APDF), initiator of IAI Design Award; Kees Spanjers, Co-Chairman of APDF, Chairman of IAI Interior Award Jury, past president of European Council of Interior Architects (ECIA); Li Chunyin, chairman of the APDF board of directors, chairman of the IAI Intelligent Manufacturing Award Jury, and successive chairman of the World Design Organization (WDO); Chen Guangxiong, vice chairman of APDF; Zhu Xiaodi, IAI Design Award jury member; Lu Rongzhi, IAI Design Award jury member and curator, art critic and director; Abel, IAI Design Award jury member; Dalia Callico, IAI Design Award Jury Member, Artistic Director of the Palazzo Regio Museum of Milan; Wu Yi, IAI Design Award Jury Member, Associate Professor and Master Tutor at the China Academy of Art. What’s more, a number of honored guests also attended the award ceremony, including Hao Ninghui, PhD Tutor and Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Qinjian, School of Creative Innovation of Xiamen University, Chen Zhihong, Dean of the School of Architecture of Huaqiao University and doctoral supervisor , Lin Jinqiang, Deputy Secretary of the School of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University, Li Zhengang, Dean of the Tianjin Institute of Contemporary Art , and representatives from domestic and foreign design schools, such as San Raffaele School of Fashion and Design in Italy and the Academy of Fine Arts of Hexi University, as well as Dasha, a specially invited artist from Belarus.
The establishment ceremony of APDF Art and Technology Research Center was also held at the award ceremony. At the same time, APDF also signed cooperation agreements with more than a dozen Chinese and foreign design schools and enterprises to carry out industry-university-research cooperation and promote the collaborative innovation and development of education and industry. Subsequently, hundreds of designers from different countries and regions gathered at the IAI event site in Jimei to experience the wonderful carnival atmosphere of the IAI Creative Design Festival and witness the announcement of the 14th and 15th IAI Architecture Awards, IAI Interior Awards, IAI The major awards of the Intelligent Manufacturing Award jointly celebrate the highlight moments of all IAI Design Award winners. This year's IAI Creative Design Festival has a lot of highlights, wonderful stories, dizzying, full of creativity, and fully demonstrates the influence of the APDF and the IAI Design Award platform.
Zhuang Rongliang, Vice Mayor of Xiamen, Hu Xubin, Secretary of Jimei District Committee, Ni Jie, District Mayor, and Li Yunli, a second level inspector of Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, all attended the award ceremony and presented the IAI Award winners with celebrities. Ni Jie, the mayor of Jimei District, stated in his speech that Jimei is currently striving to be the core area of design filed in southeast China. The IAI Creative Design Festival was held in Jimei, which have opened a new chapter in the exchange and integration of Xiamen, Jimei, and global design culture. This is not only a great joy for the design industry, but also a great blessing for cultural exchange between Chinese and foreign design. IAI will create more high-level design cultural feasts in the future.
IAI Creative Design Festival Opening Ceremony
Group photo of guests at the opening ceremony of IAI Creative Design Festival
IAI Prize-giving Evening
The modern dance performance with the theme of "wind, water, fire and earth", the four major elements of nature, added an extraordinary brilliance to the IAI award night
Ni Jie, head of Jimei District People's Government of Xiamen, Oskar Ho, APDF funder president,IAI founder, Kees Spaniers, APDF co-chairs, delivering a speech respectively
Zhuang Rongliang, Vice Mayor of Xiamen City, and Kees Spanjers, a core member of the IAI jury, jointly announcing the IAI Most Creative Award and presented it to the winners
Hu Xubin, Secretary of Xiamen Jimei District Committee of the CPC, and He Changcheng, Chairman of IAI Design Award, jointly awarding the IAI Hall of Fame winners
IAI Jurors Able and Zhu Xiaodi jointly presenting the award to IAI award winners
Promote industry-university-research cooperation and empower the innovative development of design education
The IAI Design Award Ceremony also held the founding ceremony of the APDF Art and Technology Research Center. As a forward-looking and leading design organization, the APDF actively advocates technology-empowered design innovation and development, actively participates in the construction of various design academic platforms, and promotes industry development. The establishment of the center will promote art and innovation research projects focusing on technology such as Metaverse design, AI design and GPT. In addition, APDF has also cooperated with the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Institute of Contemporary Art, School of Fashion and Design of San Raffaele University in Rome, Italy, School of Architecture of Huaqiao University, School of Art and Design of Jimei University, Xiamen College of Arts and Crafts of Fuzhou University, Belarusian Dasha Art Center, Taiwan Green Energy Industry Alliance and other universities and institutions have signed contracts to jointly seek industry-university-research cooperation, empower the innovative development of design education, promote the transformation of "Made in China" to "Created in China", and help Xiamen's economic innovation and sustainable development . This year's IAI Creative Design Festival is a wonderful design carnival, with big names gathered, full of passion,creativity and glory. IAI looks forward to working hand in hand with all creatives to create new brilliance in the future, and looking forward to meeting you at the next design culture feast!
Establishment Ceremony of the APDF Art and Technology Research Center
On June 21, the specially invited artists of IAI Creative Design Festival, Dasha, a female artists from Belarus, giving "Dasha Creative Photography Open Class" in Huaqiao University as the prelude to the design festival.
On June 22nd, artist Dasha held the first creative photography and painting exhibition in China to Xiamen audiences, as the official opening of the IAI Creative Design Festival.
Su Ke, Deputy District Head of Jimei District Government of Xiamen, took a group photo with Chinese and foreign guests at the opening ceremony of Dasha Art Exhibition
On June 23, IAI Metaverse Design Exhibition and IAI offline experience exhibition of works opened. IAI Design Exhibition was first presented to the public in a scientific and technological innovation way, providing a new exhibition mode for IAI.
Offline Experience Exhibition of IAI Works
IAI Metaverse Design Exhibition
Guests experience IAI Metaverse Design Exhibition through VR glasses
IAI Design Forum where creative ideas exchanged to map the future of design
On June 24, the IAI Design Forum was held in the multi-functional hall of the Howard Johnson by Wyndham Jimei Lake Plaza, Xiamen. Many a big name and celebrity took the stage to share who were from the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, South Korea, Belarus, Germany, Chile, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. This forum focused on eight topics including metaverse design, digital intelligence design, architectural design, interior design, regenerative design, fashion design, brand design, and product design, where the opportunities and challenges of design field in the future were be analyzed from different views and based on different values, as well as the profound impact of the development of AI, GPT, Metaverse and other technologies on current life and society, which aroused echos among the audience. This is a pinnacle forum where creative minds were exchanged to map the future of design, providing forward-looking thoughts on the future of design.
IAI Design Forum - Architecture and Interior Space Sub Forum
IAI Design Forum - Art and Technology Sub Forum
IAI Design Forum Guest Interaction Session
Group photo of guests at the IAI Design Forum
APDF master open class enters colleges and universities to help education innovation
On June 25, the IAI Creative Design Festival once again organized APDF masters to visit Huaqiao University, and held a lecture hall in the form of a public lecture for the first time. Five Chinese and foreign design masters shared their design insights and forward-looking thinking from different professional dimensions and perspectives, providing teachers and students on the spot with It provided guidance on future design directions and career development, which once again aroused strong resonance among teachers and students. The masters’ wonderful speeches won rounds of applause from teachers and students.
A group photo of the APDF Master Open Class lecturers and Huaqiao University's students and teachers