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Good Old Days and Pollinators Garden Showcase by Bowen Qian Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Event and Happening Design
Bowen Qian recognized for event and happening design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ Good Old Days and Pollinators Garden Showcase by Bowen Qian has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Event and Happening Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The result belongs to the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The Silver A' Design Award Explained
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Good Old Days and Pollinators Garden Showcase
The Good Old Days and Pollinators Garden Showcase reflect the social transformation in China from rural living to urban community life. Inspired by the coexistence of aging residential buildings and nature, the design recreates a pocket garden that simulates an ecological restoration site amid remaining structures after relocation. Through natural planting that attracts pollinators and a multi-sensory, interactive layout, the garden becomes a street-corner retreat, blending ecological value with cultural memory and immersive experience.
About Bowen Qian
Bowen Qian, principal design at Suzhou Jinke Horticultural Co., Ltd. He is committed to enhancing the aesthetics of outdoor spaces through spatial design, home gardening, and home horticultural practices. He is also good at using plant combinations to create spatial landscapes that are conducive to improving local environmental soil and water conservation levels, and personal carbon offsets for each individual. Hoping to bring a better balance between our humanity and nature.
Award Record
Bowen Qian is a winner of 5 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2024 - 2025 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Event and Happening Design Award
The A' Event Design Award is an international event design competition recognizing good event designs by leading event designers and organizers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to event designers, corporate event planners, wedding planners and festival organizers from all countries. Typical entries include trade fairs, award ceremonies, festivals, conferences, exhibitions and concerts. The awarded event designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/event
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/172961
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/172961
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!172961
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/159039
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Good Old Days and Pollinators Garden Showcase
- Function
- Garden Showcase
- Category
- Event and Happening Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Branding & Advertising and Arts
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Bowen Qian
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #172961
Credits
- Image Credits
- Bowen Qian
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Based on the concept of "coexistence of dilapidated old-style residential buildings and nature", the real garden site is simulated as a pocket garden of "remaining residential structures after relocation and an ecological restoration scene. Pollinators are attracted through natural planting, and multi-sensory fusion and interaction are integrated to create a street corner miniature garden with ecological value, cultural narrative and immersive experience.
- Inspiration
- This design is based on modern social changes that multiple generations in China are facing the transformation from rural living habitats to the urbanized living model of living in communities. Many people have witnessed the demolition and replacement of modern and contemporary old-style houses, and new urban functional blocks have been planned on the original site of the relocation. Multiple generations have lost their "physical" homes, and their spiritual homes have gradually faded over time.
- Research
- This form of expression aims to provide a new idea for municipal planners under the direction of urbanization development - while retaining some of the "original relics", some of the "relocation relics" can be integrated into the overall design and planning process in the form of block gardens or pocket gardens. This will not only provide a place for spiritual rest for the original inhabitants (especially the elderly), but also enhance the understanding of the original historical appearance of this area for later generations.
- Realization and Technology
- The three "walls" are the main structures, representing the "soil erosion" of people's inner spiritual home under the direction of urbanization. Bug-hotels and insect-houses are interspersed in the flower beds, providing a habitat for pollinators in the ecological chain, playing a positive role in conserving and maintaining the water and soil on the physical site, and also echoing the conservation of the lost water and soil in people's hearts by these walls.
- Operation and Interaction
- When visitors enter the garden, they can touch the "relics" and feel the passage of time, and through the fragrance of flowers, the touch of plants, and close interaction with pollinators, they can form an immersive experience spanning natural and human history.
- Project Duration and Location
- This project started on 11th April to 13th April as a temporary Pocket Garden in 'China Garden Expo 2025' in Suzhou, China
- Specifications
- Width 8000mm x Depth 5000mm x Height 3500mm
- Keywords
- Pollinator-friendly, Inclusive-design, Pocket-garden
