-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Parfect [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 21 May 2008 10:04
To: Stockman, Dr Norman
Subject: Creative China conference (V&A, 6-7 June) - concessionary rate now available

Dear Dr Stockman,

I would be very grateful if you could distribute the message below via the 
BACS mailing list.

Many thanks,
Ralph Parfect

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Dr Ralph Parfect
Centre for Cultural, Media and Creative Industries Research (CMCI)
King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/cci



A special concessionary rate is now available for the conference Creative
China: Visual Culture, Architecture and Design, at the Victoria and Albert 
Museum
(V&A), London, 6-7 June 2008.

Creative China is a two-day international conference relating to the V&A's
current China Design Now exhibition, which explores recent developments in 
Chinese
visual culture, design and urbanism. The conference features over 
twenty-five speakers
from China, Europe and the UK, including:

Bao Mingxin, Fashion, Art & Design Department, Donghua University, Shanghai
Stefan Landsberger, Sinological Institute, University of Leiden
Ou Ning, Designer, Filmmaker and Curator
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery
Zhang Hongxing, Co-Curator, China Design Now
Neville Mars, Dynamic City Foundation, Beijing
Xiaolu Guo, Writer and Filmmaker
Sir Michael Bichard, Chairman, Design Council
Freeman Lau, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Hong Kong Design Centre
Chris Berry, Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths College,
University of London
Gao Shiming, Director, Centre of Visual Culture Research, China Academy of
Art, Curator of the 2008 Guangzhou Triennial
Charles Knevitt, Director, RIBA Trust
Jiang Jun, Editor-in-Chief, Urban China Magazine, Shanghai

Presentations and panel discussions will explore contemporary Chinese fine
art, photography and film as well as graphic design, fashion, product
design, architecture and urban planning. Speakers will address themes
highlighted in China Design Now, including changing Chinese cultural
identities and emerging new practices in art and design.

Thanks to generous sponsorship, concessionary places at the conference are 
now
available at £30 (or £15 per day) simply via emailing [log in to unmask] and 
providing
contact details (email address and phone number). The price includes 
attendance at
the conference, lunch, light refreshments and free admission to the China 
Design Now
exhibition at the V&A.

For the full conference programme please see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/03/05/05/CreativeChinaConferenceProgrammefinal.doc

For abstracts of the speakers' presentations:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/03/05/05/CreativeChinapresentationabstractsfinal.doc

For short biographies of speakers:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/03/05/05/CreativeChinaSpeakerBiographiesfinal.doc

For a conference flyer:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/content/1/c6/03/05/05/cccpostacrdFinal.pdf

The conference takes place at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road,
London SW7 2RL. Tube South Kensington. Buses C1, 14, 414 and 74. See
http://www.vam.ac.uk/ for further details.

Creative China is co-organised by King's College London and the V&A, and is
sponsored by Creative Connexions (www.creativeconnexions.com), with
additional support from the British Academy, the King's College London
Annual Fund, and the School of Humanities at King's.

For all further information, please call 020 7848 1067, or email 
[log in to unmask]

Ralph Parfect

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Dr Ralph Parfect
Centre Manager, Centre for Cultural, Media and Creative Industries Research
(CMCI)
Programme Manager, MA Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)
Room 7C, Chesham Building, Strand Campus, King's College London, London WC2R
2LS
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1067
www.kcl.ac.uk/cci
www.kcl.ac.uk/cci/conferences.html




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