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北京：下一个设计城市

欧宁

正如十八世纪的经济繁荣催生了著名的明式家具设计一样，在2008年已跃升为世界第二经济体的中国正在引颈以待一场盛大的设计革命的爆发。中国政府致力于拉动内需、进一步培植国内市场、以求进一步摆脱对廉价劳动力和出口的依赖的经济政策对设计产业将形成强有力的刺激，与此同时，城市化的推进、建筑空间的激增、中产阶级的成长以及频繁的国际交流也会为设计创新提供澎湃的推动力。下一个影响世界的设计城市将在北京和上海两个超大城市之间展开竞争。显然，作为中国政治文化中心的北京比商业大都会上海更具竞争优势：上海虽然商业化程度较高，但由于过于热衷西化而导致价值标准偏于单一，而北京则在融入全球化的同时仍然葆有极为强大的传统力量，价值标准更为多元；北京是中央政府所在地，是中国国家主权的象征城市，比起曾经的殖民城市上海而言，它在经历奥运会所带来的世界先进设计理念和技术的洗礼后，仍有较多本土文化的坚守。设计创新只会发生于多种价值并存冲突的文化土壤，而不会出现在独尊一种流行标准的城市。所以，一种揉合本土和全球风格的新设计将可能诞生于北京，并改写世界设计的历史。

Beijing: The Next Design City

Ou Ning

Just like the economic prosperity of China called forth the birth of the now famous Ming Dynasty furniture in the 18th century, China, after rising to the world’s second largest economy in 2008, is awaiting the explosion of a spectacular new round of design revolution. China’s Central Government is striving to boost domestic demand and to nurture a better domestic market, so that the nation’s current economic policy—which relies on export and low-cost labour—will have less impact on China’s design industry.

Meanwhile, design and innovation receive more energetic impulse than before, thanks to the advancing of the urbanisation process, the drastic increase of architecture space, a growing middle class, and the growing international communication. In China, the stage of competition for the next Design City, one with international influence, is set for the two mega cities: Shanghai and Beijing. Apparently, as China’s center of politics and culture, Beijing has more advantages than Shanghai; despite being China’s most-commercialised metropolis, Shanghai suffers from the homogeneity of value due to its over-anxiousness to become more internationalised. Beijing, on the other hand, keeps its extremely strong force of traditions and multiple value standards in the process of globalisation. The city of Beijing hosts the country’s Central Government and represents China’s sovereignty. Compared to the once-colonised Shanghai, it still has much conviction of preserving local culture after the ‘right of passage’ brought forth by the advanced design and technologies of the 2008 Olympics.

Innovation and design will only happen in a culture where multiple values and conflicts coexist, not a city in which a certain design fad prevails and trumps everything else. Therefore, I’m expecting a new kind of design combining local and global styles be born in Beijing, and, consequently, rewrite the history of design.