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Ole Bouman appointed as Director of Shekou Design Museum
Ole Bouman appointed as Director of Shekou Design Museum
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| January 14, 2015
Ole Bouman has been appointed Director of the Shekou Design Museum in Shenzhen, a project being developed in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to become a major design hub for China.
Bouman is to take up his new role from early January 2015. Bouman is a cultural historian, editor and critic, and cross-disciplinary curator who was formerly the Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (2007-2013), and the Creative Director of the 5th Shenzhen Architecture and Urbanism Biennale in 2013/14. Ole Bouman said: “In the last 35 years, the world has witnessed China achieve a better life for hundreds of millions of people. Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta region have played a big role in this history, whereas Shekou can be considered its cradle. It is really exciting to work on the next stage of this development by fostering a new quality agenda in design culture and industry, presented to a large audience, in one of the most pioneering cities of the world.”