9/23 desks still available

 

3 desks (one office) in Xindanwei /Grasslands and 6 desk in Yongjia50 are  available now for short-term rentals. For more information, please refer to Time Service.

#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.

- invisible: The invisible involves itself in many fields: design, photography, app/interactive program development and electronic publishing. It is a crossover new media service agency that can provide clients with special and creative solutions. The EI is equipped with large professional photo studio, event areas (approximately 100m2) suitable for creative activities and flexible working and conference spaces. The total area is above 300 m2.

- 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.

- 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:

- Dutch Film Week 
To mark 40 years diplomatic relations between China and the Netherlands, Dutch Week is being organised. Dutch Week is organised by the Dutch business community in Shanghai and the Dutch Consulate General in Shanghai. During Dutch Week a number of activities are being organised to show Dutch Excellence to the Chinese community. More about Dutch Week 2012.

Dutch Film Week is a part of the Dutch Week 2012. Dutch Consulate General in Shanghai and Xindanwei will host the film festival. We will present you a Dutch movie every night for the week. The opening party will take place at 6:30pm on April 23. Peter Potman, the Consul-General will also be here to talk about the film and culture. Event Features

- Twittamentary Screening
Twittamentary is a creative commons, experimental documentary made by and about Twitter users. The documentary will be played in Xindanwei on 28th of April. Soik Soik, the film maker, will also be here to talk about his experience and thoughts about the documentary. More information about Twittamentary.

2).Xindanwei forthcoming events:

- Mr. Pablo Ventura : Choreographic Machine
During this lecture, Mr. Pablo Ventura will share his “Choreographic Machine” method of choreographing. He will present his method using examples of videos of his dance media productions. In addition, he will talk about his most recent work with audio-visual interaction designers.

Time: 7:30pm, 17th May, 2012
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd.
Cost: 40RMB (including fresh coffee and tea)
Language: English

- Chihmin Chiu: Solo Photography Exhibition – Hey Dude!
Guess who they are? The funny street youth, the old fashioned boy, or, any identity you can imagine. It’s an interesting thing to see the changes of these anonymous boys through Chihmin’s camera lens. The opening party will take place at 8pm on 18th May. Free to join the opening party and also we will provide free drinks.

Chihmin Chiu, a Shanghainese photographer. He is a sensitive person, who is a fashion lover, a fever guy of shooting by film.

- MyPeople Project
The project suggests a new approach to develop a network between artists from Europe and Asia, allowing an intercultural dialogue. The process will result in exhibitions taking place in London, Amsterdam and Shanghai. The project intends to create a more organic discussion and an opportunity for the exchange of views and perceptions between artists, as well as an online and offline artist/audience dialogue. More about the project.

On the 30th of May, Xindanwei will invite four artists from this project to make an “open dialogue” at Yongjia 50. For more detail, please refer to events.

- GeekPark Shanghai
Geekpark is a renowned monthly event among the IT community in China. It was started in 2010 for Chinese IT innovators to explore and share about the IT products and trendy technology. The event features technical talks by CEOs, Product Directors, and Product Managers in the industry. On 9th of June, Geekpark will debut in Shanghai. For more detail, please refer to events.

- Wu Youjian: Being Gay through a Mother’s Eyes
On 5th of June, the speaker Wu Youjian will share her stories in Xindanwei. She will start with her own family story in order to explain how she came to understand and accept her gay son, how she came to make appearances in the media in support of her son, and later of the LGBT community at large. She will tell the story of her son: Blessed with family support, he has passed through stages of his love life as well as his career. Activities of both PFLAG China and her studio will also be illustrated with examples. By sharing real cases encountered in years of work, Wu will express her view on subjects such as same-sex love, coming out, marriage of convenience, and wives of gay men.

Born in 1947 in Guangdong, Wu Youjian is a retired editor, a mother who has been the first in China to openly support her gay son and has laterbecome an advocate for the LGBT community at large.For more detail, please refer to events.

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

#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.

More about THNK experience please refer to Liu Yan’s blog.

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) Property Services:
To provide better property service, Help Desk is now established for users to nail down all the maintenance issues. We promise: arrive on the spot within 30 minutes for emergency maintenance; finish minor maintenance within 3 hours and big maintenance with in 3 days; all maintenances not included in contract will be charged according to the price list. Hope you enjoy your working hours in Xindanwei.