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VERY THAI: In this regular column, author Philip Cornwel-Smith explores popular culture and topics related to his best-selling books Very Thai and Very Bangkok. This column, he explores the street culture theme of Bangkok Design Week 2025. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The street pop theme of this year\u2019s Bangkok Design Week 2025 (BDW2025) makes me feel both nostalgic and energised. It also brings TCDC full-circle to its founding. Back in 2005, I worked on a research project with Thailand Creative & Design Centre for a year straddling its opening. In the wake of my book, Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture<\/em>, the brief to me (with Chuck Sutyla and Adrian Von Ulrich of the museum consultancy Lord Cultural Resources) was to identify design values in Thai popular culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bangkok Design Week key visual, showing Thai hybrid images with western, Chinese and Indian cultural influences.  Image courtesy CEA\/TCDC\/PBBO<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bangkok Design Week logo and pop culture pins. Image courtesy CEA\/TCDC\/PBBO<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Pioneer designers of Thai street pop<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It was early days in that genre. Some of the findings surfaced in exhibitions over the years, starting with TCC\u2019s opening show, \u2018Isan Retrospective.\u2019 Back then, only a few designers were starting to source Thai street phenomena in styling objects, films, advertising and events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leading that trend has been Saran Yen Panya. He was awarded the 2024 Silpathorn Prize for his experimentation with Thai pop and crafts to make his quirky designs. Recent showcases include his bamboo fan Christmas tree at King Power, rattan tuk-tuk for Dior\u2019s Gold Building and embroidered noodle stools in his own Citizen Tea Canteen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two decades later, everyday culture has overtaken traditional motifs as the leading Thai aesthetic, as seen in countless shops, restaurants and products. Kaleidoscopic street style infuses mall interiors, from Siam Center and King Power to EmSphere and Sarapad Thai in OneBangkok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind the concept of this Design Up+Rising theme<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This vivid pop style saturates the key visual of the BDW2025 theme: \u2018Design Up+Rising.\u2019 Created by Siam Attariya and his agency Pink Blue Black and Orange, the collateral is yellow, green, red and other saturated shades of what I call \u201ctemple fair colours.\u201d Well-received by Bangkok creatives, it\u2019s a dazzling celebration of everyday popular culture, with matching decor, artefacts and spin-off goods to buy from an altar-like stall.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Key Visual designer Siam Attariya with drafts of his team\u2019s design<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Bangkok Design Week key visual in duotone version, showing Thai hybrid images with western, Chinese and Indian cultural influences.  Image courtesy CEA\/TCDC\/PBBO<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The BDW poster comes in three variants, patterned after a window grille, each reflecting Thai pop hybrids with India, North Asia or the West, They\u2019re dotted with dozens of pop motifs from street signs, police mannequins and nang kwak beckoning ladies to inhalers, CCTV, garlands, sacred goose statues and mascots like Moo Deng or Butter Bear. When TCDC started, faith-related designs \u2013 yantra, deity images, offerings \u2013 were deemed highly sensitive to exhibit in secular ways. That squeamishness has evaporated, with much of today\u2019s imagery and souvenirs being commodified objects of belief.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Souvenir stall of the exhibition at TCDC<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After design weeks got ever more sophisticated, this year\u2019s reverts to the unselfconscious work by ordinary folk and their practical solutions. Installations include things like aluminium furniture, products for street food, or tasting sessions for Thai table condiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overarching Creative Economy Agency also has a mission to mission to educate both the public and practitioners. A meta-exhibition in TCDC explains the creation of the key visual, breaking the design process down into steps like the brief, gathering references, and testing varied drafts, with variations of the posters covering one wall. Ingeniously, stacks of crates support amulet trays holding little photo cards of everyday street details that the public overlooks, which you can magnify using loupes like those found in the amulet trade. In a video about the context, they kindly include Very Thai<\/em> as the reference and source book that has accompanied this whole phenomenon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pictures of street objects the size of amulets being viewed through loupes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Statuettes of the trade talisman Nang Kwak, the beckoning lady. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bangkok Design Week strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BDW has been extended to two weeks and had its geographical locations condensed from last year\u2019s impossibly scattered 17 districts in 9 days. Across Bangrak and Yaowarat in the first week, then Phra Nakorn and Banglamphu in the second week, professional designers and sponsors\u2019 pavilions show high-concept products, effete corporate showrooms, and earnest community projects. The three weekends add more interactive programs like talks and workshops (such as pairing rice varietals with foods), plus activities in obscure sites that require exploring.
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Testing the scent of rice liquor at the rice pairing installation at TCDC with Chutayaves Sinthuphan of Rice Hub.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Designing for street vendors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A regular at BDW, Chatchavan Suwansawat of Everyday Architects, has made yet another installation using the humble blue pipe found on every street. He reconfigured pipes into a device that can both stabilise the wheel of a cart on uneven ground while also acting as a \u2018grease trap\u2019 to stop oil going down drains. 
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architect Chatchavan Suwansawat with his grease trap prototype for food vendors. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Exploring Hualumphong Community<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The final weekend of February 23-24 you can still explore the sited dotted through the community flanking Hualumphong Station. Two installations address is now safe area\u2019s past notoriety, like station precincts worldwide, for hoodlums and prostitution. It\u2019s a multi-ethnic locale and one project rethinks how Chinese-Thai families could gather to honour ancestors without burning polluting votive papers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honouring the everyday workers of Hualumphong<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Beside a playground under an expressway is the most poignant site of all A-Way Home. A giant map links the area\u2019s \u201curban capillaries\u201d via strings to the home provinces of its resident migrants. A group of young urbanists and the NGO called RTUS have extended a project started by the Goethe-Institut that focuses on seven traders who provide vital roles in the poor local community. We learn about the professional lives of Nares the pork griller, Nit the ice-cream vendor, Wichai the tuk-tuk driver, the launderers Mhai and Mhon, and three other traders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such migrant workers had never thought of their humdrum tasks as creativity, but the profiles identify \u201csecret skills you never thought of,\u201d such as styling fruit, community relations management, fabric specialist, GPS brain or product R&D. As the researchers gained their confidence, they felt pride in being respected for their work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangkok\u2019s other recycling system<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They are visible in the vicinity, with the exhibition right opposite Chamnarn the trash picker. He and his wife operate out of a ramshackle outdoor office amid bales of plastic bottles and bamboo baskets of cans and broken machinery. Saleng carts trundle past with fresh pickings from the area\u2019s bins. His enterprise stands in messy contrast with official efforts to separate and recycle rubbish, which overlook how there is already an effective system operating citywide \u2013 below the sniffy noses of class-conscious Bangkokians. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Trash picker Chamnarn featured in a design week exhibition at Hualumphong community with urbanist Yanin Thunkijjanukij of the volunteer group RTUS.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cThe system is good \u2013 separating by colours like yellow, green, red \u2013 but the public is not disciplined,\u201d Chamnarn says with a sigh at how sloppily people contaminate the bins. By contrast, he\u2019s learned just what materials are recyclable and when to send them to the factories given the volatile price of plastics and especially metals (though paper remains stable). \u201cSome days it goes, up, some days down,\u201d he says, chuckling. \u201cIt\u2019s like a stock market.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Showcasing local goods in Neighbourmart<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over the past two decades, awareness of everyday popular culture has gone from overlooked to self-conscious, from taboo to must-have. Yet this year\u2019s design week reveals how a social gulf remains that leaves the street working public still overlooked, while their objects and accoutrements become pricier “authentic\u201d products. Inadvertently, it\u2019s a kind of gentrification \u2013 not of places, but of things.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Condiment tasting at the Neighbourmart x CEA store in TCDC.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Perhaps it\u2019s unavoidable that value-added design schemes to raise incomes and living standards will turn the mundane into treasure. TCDC\u2019s shop space has been revamped as an ongoing venture, Neighbourmart, which stocks charming everyday goods from the locale. The BDW brochure responsibly includes \u2018Guidelines on Respectful and Sustainable Visiting\u2019 for those roving the neighbourhood sois. As the slogan Design Up+Rising attests, design week deserves kudos for recognising the worth of grassroots Bangkokians and presenting their world so colourfully as a culture to cherish. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The market at TCDC.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Bangkok Design Week 2025 ends on 23rd February, but the Key Visual exhibition Design Up+Rising will continue until 30th March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This twice-monthly column, Very Thai, is syndicated by River Books, publisher of Philip Cornwel-Smith\u2019s bestselling books Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture and Very Bangkok: In the City of the Senses<\/em>, which has just been relaunched in a fully revised 2nd edition with an extra chapter.
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The views expressed by the author of this column are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Koktail magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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