CHIANG MAI DESIGN WEEK (CMDW) HAD BEEN HELD FOR EIGHT CONSECUTIVE YEARS NOW. THIS YEAR’S CMDW ARE AROUND THEMED ‘LOCAL RISE-ACTION’ WHICH ASKS HOW A MAJOR CONCEPT SUCH AS ‘SUSTAINABILITY’ MAY BE ADAPTED TO FIT A CITY SUCH AS CHIANG MAI
A GROUNDBREAKING HOTEL WITH THE TAGLINE “ANYTHING BUT STANDARD” THAT DEVIATES ITSELF FROM THE NORM OF MOST HOTEL CHAINS, BY WHICH INTEGRATING ART, MUSIC, FASHION, AND DESIGN TO CREATE A SPACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN FEEL LIKE THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN WAYS
STAY TUNED FOR ARCHITECT EXPO 2023 OR ARCHITECT’23, WHICH IS HELD UNDER THE THEME ‘TUM THAD: TIME OF TOGETHERNESS’ THAT REPRESENTS THE COMING TOGETHER OF ARCHITECTS FROM ALL FIELDS, AS WELL AS OTHER CREATIVES AND DESIGNERS IN THE MOST QUINTESSENTIALLY THAI CHARACTERISTICS: THE FOOD CULTURE
WITH ART4D’S INVITATION, VICHAYA MUKDAMANEE, DEAN OF SILPAKORN UNIVERSITY’S FACULTY OF PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND PRINTMAKING, SPEAKS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF BANGKOK ART AND CULTURE CENTRE (BACC), ABOUT THE BACC UPCOMING GOAL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE NEW GENERATION, FUTURE OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN THAILAND, AND THE ROLE OF ART SPACE AS A PUBLIC AREAS OF MANY IDEOLOGIES.
CENTRAL CHIANGRAI CELEBRATES THE NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH A CHRISTMAS TREE MADE FROM LOCALLY SOURCED MATERIALS AND ADORNED WITH CHRISTMAS BALL THAT INCORPORATES THE DESIGNS FROM SIX INDIGENOUS TRIBES IN CHIANGRAI TO REPRESENT THE MODEST TRIBAL WAY OF LIFE AND THEIR DEEP RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE
A SEQUEL TEA SHOP OF KAOMAI ESTATE 1955 WHERE PAVA ARCHITECTS UTILIZE THE ‘RECONSTRUCTION’ DESIGN PROCESS TO BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL VIBE OF 70-YEAR-OLD TOBACCO-CURING BARNS
A DESIGN LAB WITH THE INTENTION TO TRANSFORM ABANDONED RECYCLED AND ECO-FRIENDLY MATERIALS INTO HOME DECORATION AND FURNITURE, ILLUSTRATING THE ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF DESIGN THAT ARE BOTH FRIENDLY TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND CATER TO DESIGN LOVERS
A SMALL HOUSE BY YANGNA STUDIO IS BUILT OUT OF RECYCLED BUILDING MATERIALS AND SITUATED WITHIN AN EXISTING SWINE HOUSE ON THE PROPERTY WITH THE INTENTION NOT TO FURTHER EXPLOIT NATURE
HAUNTED SOLO EXHIBITION BY TAWAN WATTUYA UTILIZES DRAMATIC IMAGERY SYMBOLIZING ‘HEAVEN’, THE UTOPIC LAND WITH THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO ELIMINATE DISSIDENTS, AND ‘HELL’, THE REALM FULL OF EVIL WHO NEED TO BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM SOCIETY. THE EXHIBITION DEPICTS THE PROPAGANDA METHOD CARRIED OUT BY THE STATE FROM THE COLD WAR TO NOW
DESIGNED BY TRIMODE STUDIO, A CANNABIS SHOP AND LIFESTYLE PRODUCT SHOP IN A CLOUD-LIKE ATMOSPHERE UTILISES THE EFFECT OF MIRROR, LIGHT AND CURVED WALL TO DEPICT PSYCHOACTIVE EFFECTS OF CANNABIS IN THE FORM OF PHYSICAL SPACE
