The Shanghai Ecodesign Fair returns this year with a convergence of art improvisations that touch on the theme “transport”. Transport to and from the fair; transport to distant places; transport of goods and transport of people; transport within our bodies; transport of seeds, nutrients, water, waste; transport through day, a lifespan, and generations. What are the big questions we should be asking about transport? Where should we be looking for inspiration? Visit this weekend and enter the conversation. Pathways of Fortune Artist: Ameet Gill Materials: Organic matter and plaster, ceramic fortune cookies, tasty baked fortune cookies Step-by-step crossings through the spraying jets of water of the Kerry Center fountain. Stepstones created from compressed humus and organic matter indicate pathways along which our fortunes may be found. 
Flying Skies Artist: Studio Éleméntaires Materials: Bamboo, kite paper, steel fame and mechanical parts, arduino and anemometer. Twelve handmade kites imprinted with images of the sky above Shanghai on different days, accompanied by a giant flipbook that captures the passage of time as the kites travel across the sky. The flipbook is calibrated to current windspeed by wireless link to a nearby anemometer. 巧夺天工的迁徙 
Artful Migrants Artist: George Kaye Cooperating Artists: Han Aiying 韩爱颖, Lu Qing 卢清 Consulting Partners: Zhang Qihua 张琦华, Xi Xiaoyi 席小艾 Coordinator: Fireflies Culture 萤火虫文化 Materials: Plants and plant products, specimen pins Through several field trips to Shanghai neighborhoods and parks in the months of April and May plant specimens (fallen to the ground) are collected, pressed and dried for arrangement by the public during the fair. Final artworks to be displayed at Chenshan Botanical Garden. 
Eco Guides Coordinators: Chloe Luo, Heather Kaye Consulting Artist: Gao Yike Cooperating Partners: GangHao, Charyou, Huodongxing, YK Pao School BEES The Ecodesign Fair Eco Guides is a corps of outstanding guides who have a dynamic flair for facilitating others’ discovery. This year more than fifty guides of all ages are dispersed throughout the event interacting with visitors, beginning with the greeting “how did you get here?” 
