2024-09-16T14:58:27-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/118036299/ole-bouman-appointed-as-director-of-shekou-design-museum Orhan Ayyüce 2015-01-10T20:18:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/iv/ivu8q8x97lduwke9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>China Merchants Group (CMG) has appointed Ole Bouman as Director of the Shekou Design Museum in Shenzhen, a project being developed in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&amp;A) to become a major design hub for China. Bouman will take up his new role from the beginning of January 2015.</p><p>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 fifth Shenzhen Architecture and Urbanism Biennale in 2013/14. Bouman will head up a small founding team in Shenzhen comprising Zhao Rong as Project Manager and Yuan Man and Wu Sichao as Project Assistants.</p><p>Zhang Lin, Vice General Manager of China Merchants Property Development, said: &ldquo;I am delighted to welcome Ole Bouman as the Director of the Shekou Design Museum. He has a strong track record of finding innovative formats to produce, present, explore and discuss design, which we believe will b...</p>