Century Space ¡¤ Dwelling Art
Charming Shanghai ¡¤ Poetic Residence

I. Brief Introduction

With the theme ¡°century space, dwelling art¡° and ¡°charming Shanghai, poetic residence¡°, Shanghai (Anteing New Town) Interior Design Exhibition will be grandly held in Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center from Oct.1 to 5 in 2003.

Today, either ¡°dwelling¡° or ¡°housing¡° has become the key word to understand the new developing course of Chinese cities. This is drawing worldwide attentions, dramatically reflected in Shanghai. The ways to really improve people¡®s living condition and the quality of the housing environment have become a hot topic in the professionals as well as the focus of humanities concern in the new century. Built in Shanghai in the 21st century, Anting New Town is not only the first one following the concept ¡°one city and nine towns¡°, but also the pioneering experimental unit to realize new urbanism. A great number of new town plans offered by top-level designers home and abroad, especially from German, are collected in Anting New Town. With a belief of ¡°pursuing excellence¡°, the town has made the blueprint of striving for building the ideal home which will lead the way in the world, and highlights the theme of culture and artistic character. And the conception ¡°Shanghai (Anting New Town) Interior Design Exhibition¡° is conceived and takes shape under this background.

The exhibition is jointly held by Shanghai international Automobile City Co. (Anting New Town) and Fine Arts College of Shanghai University. This is the first time we try to connect practice with academic study of interior design concerning living space and business space. On one side, on the base of promising time that Anting new town¡®s  developments in the new century supplies, it provide a practical flat for interior designers at home and abroad, encourage different participants to bring their talents and potentials into full play, and offer beneficial references to relevant fields of Anting new town. On the other side, in the ever-changing design fields, the exhibition will upgrade the designers at home and abroad to the front of interior design, push the participants fully display their design arts concept through their on-spot displaying. At the same time it will explore the latest interior design concept to construct an academic flat and provide a free, exploring and creative arts environment on the purpose of obtaining the newest achievements.

A city without concept is just like a body without spirit. The perfect city pattern also needs the same perfect and opening artistic spirit. Art, which builds a modern and prosperous Shanghai with its magic power, can also originally and ¡°fantastically¡° construct an Anting New Town that will make us pleasantly surprised and look at it with new eyes.

¡°Shanghai (Anting New Town) Interior Design Exhibition¡° will be an important activity in which the designers will extend the expectation and imagination from their point of views. Also the exhibition will cooperate with artists to further develop and perfect their ideas so as to make the Anting New Town become a new pride in the urban development of Shanghai, and to blend the human spirit, artistic atmosphere, and naturalism into the modern life of this town¡£The exchange and conflict among different design ideas will help the exhibition held in a novel and unique way. Anting New Town will become an ideal spiritual homeland for its doers.

II .Organizing committee
Sponsor: Shanghai international Automobile City Co. (Anting New Town)/ Fine Arts           College of Shanghai University
Co-sponsor:  Time+Architecture magazine / ID+C magazine
Media-sponsor: DesignOnLine(www.dolcn.com)
Undertaker: Shanghai Ya¡®ou Culture and Arts Development Co.
Organizing committee: (30 directors, vice directors, and committees in all)
Arts committee: (30 directors, vice directors and committees in all)
Evaluation committee: Zhang Yonghe (China)   Ai Weiwei (China)   Wang Shu (China) 
Yan Xunqi (Hongkong of China)   Aldo Cibic (Italy£©
Tony Garrett (America)   Rudolf Schricker (Germany)  one from Japan
Eeva Lithovius£¨Finland£©
Office:
Director:      Li Xiaofeng
Vice director:  Yang Yao   Zhou Yong
Members:     Zhou Wei   Bao Fang    Zhang Lida     Shi Jue    Liu Xiaofeng
Wang Ying    Yu Yajing    Zhu Wanfang

Exhibition Directors:
Chief director:  Li Xiaofeng
Director:       Ding Yi   Yang Yao   Xiang Jun  Peng Nu  Zhu Chun  Jiang Chongwu
              Shen Yu   Lu Yuxing

III. Exhibition Date and Venue
Date: Oct.1 to 5, 2003
Venue: 3rd floor, Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center
(Add.: 68 Cao Bao Rd., Shanghai)
Areas: 3000 s.q.m ; near to Xu Jia Hui commercial zone and 500 meters to Cao Bao Rd. Metro Station; this grand exhibition will be held simultaneously with ¡®2003 Shanghai Real Estate Fair¡® and ¡®2003 Shanghai Decor Art Fair¡®.

IV. Exhibition contents and forms
This grand exhibition selects an arena with modern-equipped space, displaying in a brand new way to present a thoroughly fresh one in the best time and environment.

1. Exhibition theme:
This exhibition aims at displaying the new human space and artistic charm existed in modern dwelling. It gives new definition to naturalism, zoology and environment protection, high-tech content, post-modern aesthetic perception, thorough-new characteristics, emotion space, and multi-culture. What¡®s more, this is the first time we try to connect practice with academic study of interior design concerning living space and business space.

2. Exhibition contents
1) ¡°Flying space--new century living environment produced by designers¡° (about 50 pieces/sets for show and competition)
2) ¡°Beyond definition--modern arts and dwelling¡° (specially invited participants, about 20 to 25 artists¡® work pieces, only for show)
3) School works of Bauhaus University in Germany (about 30 pieces, only for show)

3. Exhibition forms
Drawing part:
1) Concept drawing and CI explanation (including specified flats)
2) Floor layout
3) Ceiling layout (including lighting)
4) Cubic drawing
5) Section
6) Perspective
7) Furniture design (special designed for assigned flat) perspective and 3D view design
8) Finishing mat.
9) All above mentioned can be finished by hand-drawing ¡¢CAD¡¢ print¡¢multimedia presentation with the integral design instruction .£¨Item1¡¢6¡¢9 are compulsory options and you should choose at least two items from others £©

Objects part:
1) Partial flats (space structure / elevation / materials combination / partial function space)
2) Model¡¢space structure¡¢elevation¡¢materials combination¡¢partial function space
3) Furniture
4) Textiles
5) Lighting series
6) High-tech intellectual series
7)  Multi-media simulating 3V presentation
8)  Whole suit of interior design presentation (3-5 suits)
9) Optical¡¢listening¡¢smelling¡¢ feeling series presentation (One or more items mentioned above for your free option.)

Modern arts part: shelf art, installation, new media

V. Application ways and requirements
1. Deadline: Aug. 31, 2003
2. Application details (see following)
3. Requirements:
1) If you are willing to participate, you should contact the organization committee, and then get detailed information concerning participation demands, enrollment and prize jury qualification. After confirmed, you shall forward the ideas, conceptual drawings and explanations in 7 to 10 days. (Please contact the committee for any question.)

2) Participants can send their Participation Letter of Intent to the organization committee by post or E-mail. After confirmation, you will get the Agreement of Participation. It will be put into effect after your confirmation. 

3) The committee provides each participant with basic information of three copies (including one for commercial space and two for living space) for free choices as well as design. During this process participants should hand in two parts of works: first, feasible or partly feasible designing drawing (including project budget chart); second, the extending design ideas presented from concept and CI explanation. (Your subject matter can refer to partial contents of IV-3 ¡°exhibition forms¡°)

4) Before Aug. 10, the chosen 25-30 works will be put into practice. And participant will confirm the feasible possibility of drawing£¬the possible step and relevant costs after communicating with the exhibition directors. Failed ones can only participate in the exhibition under the committee¡®s permission.

5) Time for arranging the exhibit in the exhibition hall: two days from Sep.29 to 30.

¢ö.  Evaluation and awards
1. Awards: 2 top winners (prize: RMB100, 000 each); 3 winners for the first prize (RMB60, 000 each); 5 winners for the second prize (RMB20, 000 each); 10 winners for the third prize (RMB 10,000 each); 30 winners for excellent art works (RMB 3,000 each). Participants who get any award will be rewarded with the awards certification and souvenirs.
2. Evaluation: Awards in this exhibition are to be discussed and determined prior to the exhibition by an international panel of specialists.

3. Awarding: The activity concerning awards announcement will be held in Weimar of Germany and Shanghai of China simultaneously. The venue of the awarding ceremony of the exhibition will be either in Anting New Town or at the opening ceremony. It will be hosted by Anting New Town and Fine Arts College of Shanghai University. Winners will be conferred with awards by specialists, leaders and distinguished guests.

¢÷.  Participation rights and main points
1.The ownership of the drawing papers of the exhibit belongs to the sponsor (Anting New Town).

2. The material stuff of the exhibit offered by the individual can be paid and transferred to others after participants¡® negotiation with the sponsor according to the Agreement of Participation. (See detailed information in the Agreement of Participation)

3. Art works of the first, second, and third prize will be owned free of charge by the sponsor in principle. Art works of no prize can be dealt with according to demands of the participant and the sponsor. (See detailed information in the Agreement of Participation)

4. The intellectual property right of the exhibits will be shared by both the sponsor and the participant. If the sponsor intends to own it exclusively, it can be transferred conditionally after negotiating with the other part according to relevant laws and regulations. (See detailed information in the Agreement of Participation)

¢ø.  Schedule during the exhibition
1. Exhibition
The main part of the exhibition is the exhibition hall. In order to perfectly display excellent art works of the interior designers and modern artists¡® home and abroad, the committee will make a reasonable and creative arrangement of the exhibit with a view to presenting the whole look of vivid and extraordinary art works. We locate the exhibiting sections in light of the principle of exhibiting at a high level and endeavor to keep art works in line with space, so as to fully bring out the creative style of the exhibition as a whole by the harmonious collocation between materials and colors. During the exhibition, we will do promotion with a definite purpose and hand out materials of excellent exhibits to extend social influence.

Anting New Town and Fine Arts College of Shanghai University will host the ceremony; relevant leaders and distinguished guests will be invited in advance and attend the meeting on that day .

2. Seminar
The committee will make use of resources and effects of the exhibition to organize series of lectures and academic communication, so as to keep the quality of lectures at a high level which can reflect the latest trend and contemporary development of design in the world in an attempt to improve the academic standard of the exhibition.

Topics of the those lectures include: Design Culture & Art Comparisons of Interior Design in the East and the West, aiming at enabling people to know well the understanding and the conflict of design in the context of different cultures; International Interior Design Patterns & the Trend and Outlook of International Interior Design, aiming at studying the poly-design concept of human dwelling in the future.

3. Catalogues
The catalogue will be published during the exhibition. The first-grade professional level embodied in sorting out works, photography, interpretation, layout and design of works collection will keep the first-class professional level. The catalogue will leave cherished photographs and captions of the exhibition.

4. Sightseeing
The reception of foreign designers and specialists means important to the organizer. The committee will keep a close contact with designers and specialists, ensuring the reasonable arrangement of their daily schedule in Shanghai as well as transportation and accommodation. In leisure times, designers and artists can pay a visit to Anting New Town and symbolic scene in Shanghai so as to leave a wonderful impression in their mind.

¢ù. Media and supporting plan
1. Professional media: We will make concerted effort in promotion, all-around report and in-depth research and discussion, especially the joint media by which they will assist us in offering corresponding news and track reports at each period of the exhibition.

2. Mass media: Concerning news will be carried out on radio, television, magazine, networks, etc.

3. Public media: Eye-catching advertisements, such as large-scale exhibiting boards, etc. will be set in and outside the exhibition hall.

¢ú. Contact ways
Add:  512 Zhao Hua Road, Chang Ning District, Shanghai, China
Zip:  200050
Te:   (8621) 52396323¡¢52396322
Fax: £¨8621£©52396322
Website: www.antingnewtown.com
            www.decoart.com.cn
E-mail: IADE@antingnewtown.com
Person to connect: Liu Xiaofeng  Zhang Lida