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#1.  Xindanwei Property

Xindanwei grows, so do our members. That’s why we have developed a plan to apply our people-powered approach among various of imaginative and extraordinary spaces and buildings around the city, in order to accommodate the growth of our members, allow more community participation and increase the the intensification of social and financial values for our community members.

Event Spaces:

- TK Terrace: Located in the Taikang Rd. area, it is a retail conversion of restored factories strung together. The event venue is around 150 sqm, capable for events of up to 80 people, well equipped with projector and provides F&B service.

- Haworth Organic Workspace: Located conveniently next to Jing’an temple, it is a collaboration project with Haworth Asia Pacific. The 960 sqm Organic Workspace is ideal for high-end events for up to 80 people, well equipped with projector, video screens, curated electronic content, coffee and tea and provides F&B service.

Office spaces:

- Xindanwei /Grasslands: Xindanwei/Grasslands is located in a historic lane house on Shaoxing Road near South Shaanxi Road. Xindanwei/Grasslands showcases the concept of “Eco-workspace”, which encourages waste separation, minimized use of utilities, thingking before printing, recycling what we can and refuse what we don’t really need.  The entire space will only use 100% natural and toxin free products.

- Yongkang Li work space: Located at Yongkang Rd/Jiashan Rd. Located in the center of the former French Concession, the property is quietly surrounded by lane house residential areas, yet close to the groovy Yongkang Rd.

- Central POD: Located in Jing An Temple CBD, it is a contemporary creative office and commercial space. Fifty-two office spaces ranging from 27 to 138 sqm spread on 3 levels are available now. Designed specifically for creative businesses and professionals, Central POD focuses on an urban loft-like design transformed from old industrial property build in 130 to 1970.

- Wan Space: a newly renovated creative office block on Wanhangdu Road. Airy and smartly sized room (35-77 sqm) in a 4-floor red brick building. The small roof-top garden is a real bonus. Value for money.

- Red villa @ Wan Space: a 3-floor villa-style building on Wanhangdu Road. The ground floor space (250 sqm) and upper floors (300 sqm) can be rented together or separately. The building has a simple interior with nice wooden stairs. Its ground floor garden is spacious and suitable for chill out and hosting event. Ideal for medium size creative company.

For inquiry, please email us xindanwei@gmail.com or call us on 021 3428 0783.

#2. Community Post

If you have anything interesting to share with Xindanwei community, please post it on xindanwei.com or email us Xindanwei@gmail.com

1). Xindanwei Past Events:

- My Perspectives on Fashion Brand Strategy and Product Management
Fashion management consultant guru Martine Leherpeur shared her 40 years experience and some useful tips in Fashion Brand and product management for fashion professionals, startups and designers. For the video of the speech, please go to there.

- Startup Sauna
The Startup Sauna Shanghai Warmup was successfully concluded. The USD1,000 prize was awarded to iJudgefights.com. And the winner team is going to Finland for a six-week acceleration program. More photo and video here.

- China’s First Annual Party for the Creative Community
This is the annual party for the freelancers and creative community. The winner of the second lucky draw got access to a hot-desk in Xindanwei for three months.
Photos.

- MOJO Wang : Solo Illustration Exhibition – Future Lovers
Shanghai-based illustrator Mojo has been drawing for many years. He has produced a considerable archive of work, all of which pulls inspiration from books, magazines, films, and music. This is MOJO Wang’s 3rd solo illustration exhibition. If you want to learn more about MOJO, The March Featured People of Xindanwei will tell.

2).Xindanwei forthcoming events:

- Fundraising Event: MOZI Human Powered aircraft going for Icarus Cup
From 13th to 22nd of July, exactly one week before the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games, the Royal Aeronautical Society Human Powered Aircraft Group will hold the Icarus Cup at Lasham Airfield in Hampshire, England. Mr Mao Yiqing and his team Shanghai OXAI, once invited by the Japan Human Powered Aircraft Association to particpate in a top international human powered aircraft competition held in Japan where they won a prize, has also been invited to take part in the Icarus Cup this year with their aircraft ‘Mozi’, the first human powered aircraft in China.

The 2012 Icarus Cup event will be broadcast live on western media including BBC and CNN with an expected audience of over 100 million. Mr Mao Yiqing would like to use this opportunity to showcase the crativity and manufacturing prowess of Chinese enteprises. Sponsorship can take the following forms: 1) Naming rights to the team and aircraft, 2) The design of the aircraft skin can be tailor-made to the requirments of the sponsor, 3) Product placement in the apparels of team members 4) Blind ad may be inserted by team members in interviews with media and other soft settings.

Time:
14:00-17:00, 11th March, 2012

Venue:
Xindanwei – CentralPOD
No. 8, Lane 433 YuYuan Road
Jing’an District, Shanghai, China

For enquiries please email: xindanwei@gmail.com.

- “BARCAMP on March 3″
Calling all techies, entrepreneurs, and innovators — get ready for Techyizu’s BARCAMP on March 3.

This March, the Shanghai tech community will unite for BarCamp, the famously dubbed “un-conference” where anyone, from a first year student to a renowned entrepreneur, with a deep passion for technology is given a stage to share their ideas with like-minded techies. BarCamp will take place on March 3rd at the @Haworth venue.

- Pre-launch of SHElovestraveling.com and Kezhayou.com
8 March 2012 awaits the Pre-launch of two exciting online travel brands. The female-oriented travel platform SHElovestraveling.com partners with the hostel booking portal Kezhanyou.com, as they jointly target young local consumers who are increasingly making their travel decisions and buying their travel online.

We look forward to seeing you at Xindanwei-Jugend Space! Please RSVP by Monday, 5 March to Stephanie Feng (shelovestraveling.com@gmail.com), or to Magdalene Kang (magdalene@kezhanyou.com).

- Xinchejian Upcoming Events
There are three events will be presented by Xinchejian in this March. They are related to art and tech, sound synthesizer, as well as video synthesizer.

- Greennovate - The UnHappy Meal or The Dark Side of Fast Food
The key topics of this saloon will be marketing of food, difficult access to real food, and fast food in schools. Chelsea, who comes from American and did a lot of research of food and agriculture, is invited to share the healthy eating habits. RSVP: zyadan.c@gmail.com

- Radio TANK party
The fourth Radio Tank party will take place on 9th of March atLOGO on Sinan Road. If you are interested in design, art, music, and making friends, feel free to join it! RSVP: sohrab@tankmagazine.com

#3. Xindanwei Wall

1) Co-working Manual app:
Xindanwei announced the ‘Co-working Manual’ to disscuss the the necessity and advantages of coworking communities, Xindanwei business model, key points of building the space, experience in business planning, community management and brand management. The purpose of launching this manual is to share experience and models, thus to promote the ‘coworking community’ working model and change the way people work.

“Xindanwei Coworking Manual” is nominated to “Digital Communities” category of the International Prix Ars Electronica 2012.

2) THNK, The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership:
CEO of Xindanwei Liu Yan along with founder of Greennovate Mihela Hladin are going to attend THNK Creative Leadership Program of The Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership in Amsterdam. Stefano Marzano, former Chief Design Officer of Royal Philips Electronics, is the Founding Dean of THNK. And the advisory Board and faculty of THNK is comprised of the top creative leaders which include the Co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford d.school George Kembel, Designer Marcel Wander, Principal Architect & Co-founder of Unstudio Ben Van Berkel, and former Director of Design of Philips Marco Bevolon. Six months into the program, Xindanwei, Greennovate, along with Xindanwei/Grassland will embark on a twelve-month Challenge program called the Accelerator.

If any professional media would like to follow up or make a depth report of THNK, please contact us directly.

3) Revised Price:
Thank you all for your continuing support. In this price-soaring age, we are trying out best to control the cost though, it’s still unlikely to sustain ourselves with the current price offering. So, we have no choice to increase the price of the membership Xindanwei on Yongjia Rd 50 from 1st of March on.

The new prices will be –
RMB20/hour/person for conference room use,
RMB2500/month for monthly membership（three months accrue）
RMB2300/month for yearly membership. (for 6 months and over) monthly payment and deposit for one month

We appreciate your understanding and looking forward to contributing more to the community in the new Dragon Year!

4) Fresh blood in Xindanwei Community:
Ahlzen Karin comes from Sweden and working for the National Board of Health and Welfare as a terminologist. She plans to stay in shanghai for 6 months. Working with concepts and definitions within the healthcare sector for the Swedish Board from Shanghai, she finds Xindanwei just suiting her great.

Shengrong, a TV producer of Vivid Media, and president of Leaven Media. She has produced various TV programmes broadcasted on lots of channels, such as “Boss Town” on Dragon TV, “No free lunch” on CBN, “Call me boss” on Dragon TV, “Talk talk” on ICS and so on. She has served for CCTV,CETV. Now she is focusing on transmedia, and will launch a brand new project with TAOBAO.com(the biggest e-business company in china).

5) Fresh blood in Xindanwei team:
Mizz Zhou spent several years living and studying in the UK. Major in Finance, she worked for the Dowjones company in Shanghai. Young and beautiful, cheerful and passionate, she’s full of personal charm and creativity. In spare time, travelling and music are her favorite things to do. As our new marketing and community manager, her participation has definitely bring Xindanwei more vitalities.

Dodo is a fresh university graduate. The experience of living in France has inspired and encouraged her to dedicate herself to arts and creative industries and being a space coordinator in Xindanwei is a great start for her dream. As a shutterbug and exposition lover, arts and creativities has become an indispensable part of her life.

Jazz double bassist Sebao graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He’s good at making coffee in Synphon. Keen on self-training, he’s always looking for real happiness of life.