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The Doctor of Design (DDes) is a brand-new, leading professional doctoral programme in Asia. This programme is designed to cater to the needs of influential industrial leaders, educators, and researchers who are seeking a professional doctorate in design. It offers training in practice-based research skills and developing interdisciplinary intellectual capability.

The “Tradition in the Future - GAFA Cultural Innovation Design” exhibition will present a series of innovative designs and cultural projects from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. The exhibition will showcase approximately 42 sets of innovative and inspiring graphic design, product design, animation and IP design, interactive design and digital media design projects. It will offer a glimpse into the fresh perspectives of young designers in the Greater Bay Area and how they seamlessly integrate traditional cultural elements into the realm of cultural and creative design. The exhibition marks the inaugural close-knit collaboration between the two leading design institutes in the Greater Bay Area following their memorandum of cooperation, which will further deepen and facilitate exchanges of new generations of designers across the regions.

In collaboration with Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MOCAUP) and the renowned architect Ma Yansong's Architecture firm, the MAD Architects, the “Ma Yansong: Landscapes in Motion” exhibition aims to comprehensively explore Ma Yansong's most representative urban architectural projects over the past two decades. This exhibition not only reveals Ma's thought-provoking concepts and imaginative vision but also provides a glimpse into the future of urban civilization, showcasing a harmonious coexistence between urban landscapes, history, and the natural environment.

"ITALY: A New Collective Landscape" is an overview of one hundred young Italian designers under-35 from which the overall image emerges as a plural and feasible model of society, where the notion of commoning draws on a myriad of new negotiations. Virtuous ways of thinking, being and producing, committed to giving back more than they take. Considering ourselves as part of the web of life, in which human and non-human, geological, biological and technological agents are interconnected, can design culture approach the notion of radical interdependence as a new field of action? Can design practice come up with concrete proposals to become a tool for social, ecological and political transition, producing workable visions aimed at designing kinder relationships? The configuration of the exhibition highlights congruences with respect to three design virtues – systemic, relational and regenerative – knowing that this landscape could be reconfigured in a myriad of new readings and associations.