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The annual event returns to Hong Kong from 3 to 8 December, 2018, and will explore the theme "Think, Collaborate, Create".
These ideas will infuse more than 20 events that fall under the umbrella of Business of Design Week, including the keystone BODW Summit, which boasts luminaries from the design and architecture industries as speakers.
For the first time in 2018, Business of Design Week will also present a public programme called BODW City Programme, with the goal of strengthening Hong Kong's creative community and fostering collaborations between designers and businesses. Israeli designer and architect Ron Arad is a speaker at Business of Design Week. Photo is by Michael Castellana"BODW represents a core component of Hong Kong Design Centre's public mission to promote a good design culture and cultivate design thinking for all," said Edmund Lee, executive director of the Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), which organises the festival.
"We are thrilled to see this event grow from strength to strength since its inception in 2002 to become one of the most important events on the global design calendar."
US architectural academic Martha Thorne, who is executive director of the Pritzker Prize, is one of ...