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Communication for a sustainable future.

What is Chinese visual culture?

advertising, architecture, art, books, cinema/film, calligraphy, ceramics, comics, installation, painting, papercut, performance, sculpture, television, traditional landscape/bird & flower painting, urban design, video, woodcut, and more from the neolithic to the present.

Students, scholars, enthusiasts, collectors, dealers, curators, critics, artists, and everyone with any interest - whether beginner or old hand - are all welcome to join. We encourage constructive discussion, exchange of ideas, and posting of events related to Chinese visual culture.

You can also find Chinese Visual Culture on Facebook, updated regularly, MySpace and Flickr.

scroll through the pages for some updated interesting stuff

insightful reading!

Blogs about: Sustainable Societies

A resource for Australin graphic designers about sustainable practice - but hey the web's a global thing isn't it :)

Online lessons in Chinese

Development resources for the Omnium Open open source project

This project is built using Omnium Software

You will be required to cite and reference your research and images that you use in any of your online projects. You must use the APA Style of citation.

This is the official website of the APA Style - here you can find up to date information about referencing electronic material such as web sites and other electronic texts.

Blog on China

Learn Chinese with MP3 Lessons

Live Work is a pioneer in Service Design and is mentioned in Andy Polaine's audio podcast LECTURE 4

More information on Service Design as discussed by Andy Polaine in LECTURE 4

The leading social networking site and event platform for creative communities in China.

A usesful resource for graphcs and sustainability.

A blog that may be useful...

"中外对话"是世界上致力于环境问题的第一个完全双语网站。当今中国正在飞速发展，它随之而面临的环境挑战也日益严峻。根据官方估计，中国在环境问题上所付出的代价相当于其ＧＤＰ的１０％；同时，污染、沙漠化和气候变化等环境问题所造成的影响，已被中国国内外的人们所广泛认知。气候变化、物种消亡、污染、水资源匮乏以及环境破坏等问题并不仅仅局限在某一国之内，而是全世界所有居民都要面临的挑战。现在中国的崛起正在给他们带来一个新的紧迫任务。应对上述这些挑战需要全世界达成共识，并且共同努力。而我们的这个"中外对话"网站的目标正是促进这种共识的达成，而达成共识的手段就是直接对话和追寻解决我们所共同面对的环境危机的途径。

China is growing fast and, as it grows, it is faced with urgent environmental challenges. Environmental costs may account for 10 per cent of China's GDP and the effects of pollution, desertification and climate change are already beginning to be felt within China and outside her borders. Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are not problems confined to one country: they are challenges that concern all the world's citizens, but the rise of China gives them a new urgency. Tackling these challenges will require a common effort and common understanding. Here at chinadialogue we aim to promote that common understanding. By establishing the world's first fully bilingual website devoted to the environment we aim to promote direct dialogue and the search for solutions to our shared environmental challenges.

Translation is always an act of interpretation but this is useful.

just read it

Innovation Lab is an international knowledge centre for new technology.

Conscious design.

Massive Change is a great site to get you thinking about sustainable design. this particular archived article is of particular relevance to China. It's a good starting point...

New Stories New Design is an excellent website by Cibic Partners. Their work is interesting because they are establishing new perpspectives on issues that confront societies across the planet on a daily basis.

The Cibic Partners.website...

We visit art galleries, listen to conferences, cover art and design events, take a lot of pictures, interview creative people, and we document these findings in order to share them with you.

We cannot not change the world. Isn’t that odd?
We are used to believing the opposite, that we cannot change the world, being the humble individuals we are. However, we either reinforce or change the way things are around us with every little thing we do. We establish and change the social world we live in every day. We call that social design.

A great resource about sustainability

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