Top Brainstorm

Top Brainstorm

Theme---"Green Design and Harmonious Ecological"

Time: October 17th 2008

Place: Activity Centre of Shanghai International Creative Industry Week(No. 695 Lingshi Road)

Background:

Now the whole world is facing serious energy crisis and deteriorated ecological environment. And we are facing unprecedented severe challenges. The most famous design masters will be invited to give lectures and have an expecting dialogue from the social development and ecological environment perspective. It will surely be a peak dialogue in the design field. Please don’t miss it!

Guest speakers:

Shrikant Nivasakar

During 2007 to 2009, he holds the president position of the International Interior Architect and Designer IFI, the president of Educational Committee of Indian Interior Design Institute, the member of Verification Committee of Indian Architect Committee and also the president of Interior Design Committee.

Hans Hollen

Austria national-fortune level architecture design master, winner of Pritzker Architecture Prize

Ben Van Berkel

Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987.

In 1988 he and Caroline Bos set up an architectural practice in Amsterdam. The Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau has realized amongst others projects the Karbouw office building, the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam, museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, the Moebius house and the NMR facilities for the University of Utrecht.

In 1998 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established a new firm: UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure.

Claude Berube

Claude Berube is Canadian. He is the president of Ove Design Interiors Inc., a multi-disciplinary design firm. He was the President of the Interiors Designers of Quebec (SDIQ) for three years and of the Interior Designers of Canada (IDC) for another 3 years. He was also the president of the Association of Industrial Designers of Quebec (ADIQ) and is Past-President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI). In 1997 he was elected to the College of Fellows of the International Interior Designer Association (FIIDA) in USA.