SAMENESS//////////////////// /////////////////////////////////// PAO – JAMES SHEN/////////

JAMES SHEN is a co-founder of people’s architecture office (PAO), located in the heart of Beijing’s historic central ring, whose projects engage in a wide variety of building typologies and are not limited by form or scale, but instead focus

PLACEMAKERS////////////// /////////////////////////////////// BEATRICE LEANZA//////////

Beatrice Leanza is an Italian art writer, independent researcher and co-founder of curatorial, design and editorial office BAO, based in Beijing, where she’s the main director of Beijing Design Week. In the early 2000 she joined the China Art Archives

LANGUAGE MATTER(S)//// /////////////////////////////////// KELLEY CHENG//////////////

Kelley Cheng is a Singaporean designer, with architectural education background, dedicating mostly to publishing and graphics, among various fields. She runs the design consultancy The Press Room and in her free time, she engages in activities that saves the earth

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Alvin Tjitrowirjo is an Indonesian product designer head of the Jakarta based firm Alvin T, one of the first young independent brands in the region, which promotes new encounters between tradition and new forms of design, both in products and

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Joshua Simandjuntak is the founder and director product design studio and brand Karsa in Jakarta. His numerous collaborations with the most important architecture studios in the country highlight the presence of Karsa’s works in the growing world of Indonesian design.