EVENTS
Decorex Joburg 2015
August 6-10
Gallagher Convention Centre,
Johanneesburg, South Africa
www.decorex.co.za
i-Dwell
August 10-13
Hotel Lombok Raya, Lombok,
Indonesia
http://i-dwell.net/
Themed the ‘Home of Great Ideas’, Africa’s
largest and premier annual décor and design
event, Decorex Joburg 2015 promises to bring
visitors more décor inspiration than ever
before.
Human civilisations are growing at
an unprecedented rate that shapes
multiple changes of human living
conditions, including how we dwell
and how our dwellings have evolved.
This conference seeks to gather and
redefine global new perspectives on
dwelling form through exploration on
these changes. The conference intends
to call for an alternative exploration and
discourse based on a transformation on
our livelihood to complement current
dwelling form discourse, which is largely
emphasizing on the improvement of
existing physical dwelling provisions.
Such alternative viewpoint is necessary as
meaningful and significant improvement
on living conditions cannot be achieved
without understanding the complex and
contemporary ways of dwelling in both
Indonesian and global context.
This year, the show’s exhibition halls have
been given a complete makeover, with a
fresh new design ensuring even easier
navigation and exciting new DIY and
bedroom sections. Plus, more than 700
decorators and designers, furniture suppliers,
kitchen manufacturers, and paint and décor
specialists who will be exhibiting, have been
months in preparation in order to showcase
the very best of local and international home
and interior trends, products and services.
This year sees the introduction of Decorex
SA’s extensive new trade programme, which
includes the Architecture + Interior Design
Africa conference as well as a trade only
preview morning, business match-making
and a trade networking function. The two
trade focused days of the exhibition – August
6 and 7 – will comprise of various activities
in order to promote and facilitate business
and meaningful introductions, interactions
and networking for both exhibitors as well as
delegates and visiting industry professionals.
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The discussion on International Conference
on Dwelling Form 2015 is aimed to be
centered on how the notion of dwelling can
be reconstructed through redefining life
cycles and meaning, how it can be situated
beyond the constant and the tangible, how
its material can be expanded towards the
immaterial in multiple scopes and context.