“Taking a Stance-8 critical attitudes in Chinese and Dutch architecture and design”. It is a joint exhibit by the Today Art Museum, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), and Dutch Design, Fashion and Architecture Association (DDFA). This exhibition compiles cutting-edge work of eight different Dutch and Chinese front line designers in architecture, plan design, fashion, and product design since 1990.

In these selected fields, even though there are differences in visual style, format, use of words, history, production cycle and context, one will not be surprised to find commonalities, among the designers, in the way they execute concepts to the modes of working. They systematically explore the boundaries of issues of their concern and strive for innovation.

This exhibit also reveals what designers are facing today. Constantly making decisions between big-scale production and traditional handicraft, external assignment and self-production, tradition and innovation, market demands and user demands, big-scale and small scale planning, and globalization and individuals, these designers are constantly under this kind of pressure.