As part of the First Beijing International Design Triennial Norwegian designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen is exhibiting her work at the National Museum of China. Wilhelmsen founded her Bergen-Berlin based Design Studio in 2010. She has a degree in industrial design and works on creating new concepts for products, furniture and installations – both for the professional and the private marked. Her aim is to make functional and sustainable design with personality and humour; products that challenge the meeting between man and his surroundings and that offer a new kind of interaction with them.
This year alone she has already exhibited her work at design exhibitions in Vienna, Milan, Stockholm and Oslo, and in the last couple of years she has been presenting her work to audiences in Berlin, Copenhagen and Istanbul. She has received several prizes for her work, among others the Time to Design talent award (2010) and special mention in Germany’s Design Report Award (2011).
Tsinghua University is organising the triennial, which this year is held alongside the Beijing Design Week. This year’s theme is ‘REN: Good Design’ (仁：设计的善意) and the triennial is curated by the Swiss architects Holzer Kobler Architects. The events will include exhibitions, a design award and a design forum. The exhibition takes place at the National Museum of China in central Beijing.