I met with the architect Wang Hui today to talk about UNIT. (Big up Wang Hui… He’s a nice and helpful guy.)

Overall, he was positive, but said it’ll be hard to find a large audience for it, and we should consider this in planning out exactly how/where we want to distribute it. This makes sense to me, but there seems a disturbing frequency with which people here try to convince me of the inability of ‘common’ Chinese people to understand/appreciate things. At a certain point I wonder if underestimation starts to become its own form of (self)censorship…

He also said “design” is a hot topic at the moment. Everyone is talking about it, but the understanding is very limited. Clients say things to him like, “You’re a designer: take something that costs 10 RMB and make it look like it costs 100 RMB.”

And, because of this combination of interest and ignorance, this is a good moment to introduce something that addresses design with intelligence and intention, so that China isn’t stuck with this limited notion of design.

He also mentioned he’s designing a car for Porsche, so that’s maybe a hot scoop or some kind.

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