Critical Pairings: First Look at Design Society

Design Society is the first museum-minded institution in China to dedicate its exhibition program to design. It’s also the result of the first ever collaboration between a major British cultural institution with a Chinese body—the state-owned conglomerate China Merchants Shekou Holdings. Three years into a five-year agreement between the two, Design Society opened its doors in Shekou on December 1. While the collaboration and circumstances sounded promising, it was mostly downhill from there. 

• China
• United Kingdom