The Cheongju International Craft Competition, which started in 1999, seeks to explore the value of more than crafts that can encompass various genres of life based on the artist’s new interpretation and challenging spirit that leads to a new discourse on future crafts. An international craft competition that discovers experimental and creative craft works and artists from all over the world, and the Cheongju International Craft Competition, which displays award-winning works, works with craft works of various genres including metal, ceramics, wood, textile, and glass.

As part of the Co-creating Hong Kong design exhibition organised by Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) and funded by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in San Francisco, Julie & Jesse is showing their latest installation of 24 porcelain vases called ‘The Jingtao Cichang Project’.

Featuring 14 unique projects by Hong Kong’s leading and emerging creative talent, “Co-creating Hong Kong” illustrates how design can foster innovation and bring new perspectives on technology, sustainability, and community.

The exhibition experience starts with interactive technology-oriented projects, leading into sustainability and community’s works. All of the works are supplemented with captions and behind-the-scene materials supplied by participating designers to offer a multi-layered experience.

Co-creation refers to the design process, and their collaborative synergies in carving out Hong Kong’s unique character. It also reinforces Hong Kong’s continual creative collaboration with a dynamic range of cities and countries.

Through an array of design projects and its behind-the-scene stories, design is illustrated as a co-creative methodology to create experiences for forging new dialogues across disciplines, craft and technology, history and the future and diverse communities.

This exhibition is co-hosted by the Hong Kong Design Centre with the support of AIGA San Francisco – the professional association for design.

The 25th International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics in Vallauris marks the golden anniversary of the wedding between the City and the International Biennials of Ceramics, the first of which was held in Summer 1968 under the aegis of Pablo Picasso and André Malraux.
Creative and innovative, today the Biennial showcases the emergence of new ways of working with a clear focus on current technologies.
The Biennial is intended to be a major event bringing together professionals and visitors from all backgrounds, who are invited to discover, play, test, invent and do. Going back to the earth is also a means of shaping our future. What better way to embody the metamorphoses of our age and the sensitive palpitations of our lives than through contemporary ceramics?
The 2019 Biennial is about combining art and skill, tradition and innovation, research and performance; a trail of exhibitions where visitors from all backgrounds are invited to rub shoulders at this wide-ranging event the watchwords of which are sharing and generosity.