On December 10, 2021, iSMART Design Awards was grandly launched in Guangzhou, China – 2021 Guangzhou Design Week Family Banquet, hoping to select smart space works and designers who are good at smart space design from the perspective of both design professionals and consumers. The iSMART Design Awards will promote the popularization of smart home market and the iterative upgrading of technology, and also enable smart home for design, provide global designers with a vision of future habitat, and explore the new direction of the development of future smart home scenes.
At the global launch ceremony, we invited the convener of the 2022 iSMART Design Awards Jury in the life category: Panda Media founder and well-known media person Shen Chen to attend the launch ceremony, as well as Leo He CEO of Guangzhou Design Week; Shi Weigang, President of Morgan Smart Home; and Morgan Smart Home national distributors, the heads of 180+ domestic city branches of GIA Guangzhou Design Week International Alliance, designers and design experts from all over the country, etc. to gather together to celebrate the iSMART Design Awards and open a new era of intelligent home design together!
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Based on the present, looking to the future: the present and future need more designers who master intelligence!
Mr. Leo He, CEO of Guangzhou Design Week, said in the global launch banquet: “Thanks to the world’s leading advantage in artificial intelligence, China’s smart home industry has also seen a leap forward, which is changing people’s lifestyles at an accelerated pace and starting to make us re-examine ‘humanization ‘ and ‘lifestyle’. Combining intelligent technology and design can effectively improve the environment and enhance the quality of life, which is also the trend of future life. The perfect integration of human and ecological nature, human and technology in the future, is the necessary road to embrace the future, master the future. The present and future need more designers who master intelligence! “
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Three jury conveners: select excellent intelligent space works with different perspectives!
Intelligent space is a single perspective from the design perspective, intelligent more focused on the experience of the scene, so the 2022 iSMART Design Awards juries consist of three categories of design, aesthetics, life category. The organizer and conveners of the jury invited chairmen of design organizations, design leaders, artists, media people, celebrities, cultural figures, fashionistas, opinion leaders and leading figures in the smart home industry from many countries around the world to serve as jury members and participate in the annual judging process to select good works from multiple perspectives and in a more three-dimensional manner.
Mr. Shen Chen, the convener of the life category, Mr. Steve Leung, the convener of the design category, and Mr. Ben Wu, the convener of the aesthetics category, was also invited to the dinner party to bring sincere blessings to the launch ceremony through online video.
At the dinner, Mr. Shen Chen expressed his views on “intelligence” and the launch of the 2022 iSMART Design Awards and his blessing for the award launch. He said: “It is important to look good. The product looks good is the first choice of the customer, and good use is the second choice. Designers not only design good-looking products, but also improve the aesthetics of the party, discover the different aesthetic needs of contemporary young consumers and the previous generation of consumers, produce corresponding works, and meet the needs of young people more. Good-looking, good to use, good to sell these three directions are also intelligent to explore and achieve. We hope that in the future, intelligence will become the bottom of all home. It is the underlying logic, and smart design that looks and works good will make our lives better.”
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Design+Intelligence: help the development of intelligent design with a vision of future habitat
It is our eternal pursuit to have a more convenient, intelligent and comfortable living life. The rapid development of technology has accelerated the smart home to change people’s lifestyle, and our imagination of life has become more concrete and fuller. It is in this industry and social background that Guangzhou Design Week, adhering to the value of “design for people’s livelihood”, hopes to conduct an international selection of smart space design with international authoritative design and brand media organizations by virtue of its 16 years of profound design resources, and explore the new direction of future smart home development. ISMART Design Awards was born.
At the same time 2022 「iSMART Design Awards」 is very fortunate to have the support of a partner who also pursues intelligent and convenient human living: the world’s leading smart home manufacturer – Morgan Intelligence, from the research and development of cutting-edge technology to focus on the development of future intelligent direction, Mr. Shi Weigang, President of Morgan Intelligent Home, said ” Intelligence has a significant impact in the industry, and even in the world, including food, housing and transportation. There are many dimensions to talk about intelligence, possibly from the use, possibly from the design, the interconnection of everything. For designers, intelligence used in design can bring multiple feelings to the design work, no longer a cold composition without experience. The award was launched to tap more designers who will use intelligence, but also to allow designers to discover more intelligent design that is conducive to improving the quality of life and the feeling of life”.
Morgan Intelligence is the world’s leading smart home manufacturer. The company has developed more than 1,200 intelligent products that can realize local and remote visual control with its self-developed bus control technology, wireless control technology and cloud computing as the core. At present, the company has more than 300 patents, among which intelligent AI touch screen, intelligent panel, intelligent remote control, intelligent host, etc. are leading in the industry. Morgan has realized that the smart home products can memorize the user’s habits through “Morgan AI intelligent algorithm MIA technology”, and truly achieve the “Morgan smart home system” with AI capability.
Here, we also had a grand awarding ceremony for 「Morgan Smart Home」as the strategic partner of 2022 iSMART Design Awards. Guangzhou Design Week will work together with Morgan to explore the excellent smart enthusiasts and designers, and let the design empower the smart home!
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iSMART Design Awards: dazzle launch and set off the intelligent craze!
At the Guangzhou Design Week Family Banquet, the heads of 180+ domestic city branches of GIA Guangzhou Design Week International Alliance, designers and design experts from all over the country gathered together to witness the official launch of 2022 iSMART Design Awards under the common attention of “family members” in this lively and extraordinary night. It will jointly create and promote the market popularity of smart home and the iterative upgrade of technology, and also let smart home empower design, provide global designers with a vision of future habitat, and explore the new direction of the development of future smart home scenes.
Here, the 2022 iSMART Design Awards will be open to architects/interior designers with outstanding performance and professional achievements in the field of interior design worldwide. The juries of the three categories will select outstanding smart space works from the perspective of professional design, user experience and unique aesthetic vision, and jointly explore the future of smart home scenes new direction of development!
