Shenzhen remodels as design hub with new V&A museum

SHENZHEN, China: Known to the world as a city of knock-offs, Shenzhen (which began as a village polished to copy Hong Kong) is seeking to reinvent itself as a creative hub for China’s new economic vision with the opening of a huge design museum in partnership with Britain’s V&A [Editor’s note: Victoria and Albert] .

From robotics for children to mobiles for the elderly, the V&A’s exhibit at the “2015 Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture” gives a taster of the designs thought up in the southern Chinese city that will go on display at the Shekou Design Museum when it officially opens in 2017.