PMT Partners is a new design firm founded in 2016. Its core philosophy is to insist that design should be greater than "design" itself, to respond to the real problems of the society at any time, and to make timely responses based on every detail of life at present. Firm's core team has the service from the government and developers to private client experience, committed to the different scales of space design and research work, the project practice covers the old city transformation, rural construction and retrofit, large public buildings, small buildings, new retail space, landscape and art installation design of different scales and types of space. At the same time, the creative thinking of the core members allows the intervention in the design of a variety of means, from the traditional model making, drawing design, to experimental art photography and painting, so that "plus or minus" can provide a wide range of types of high-quality services.
Yinji: Young designers are the mainstay of design in the circle. How did you start your design path? What do you want for your future?
PMT: We believe that designers should have their own attitude towards everything around them, not just in design, but in all the trivial things around them. Because to the thing discriminates good and bad, to the thing perception beauty and ugliness, if not clear own attitude, also cannot express the subjectivity; Nor can we critically design our surroundings to express our hopes for the future.
Yinji: As a new designer in the industry, your works are innovative. Where do you get your inspiration from?
PMT: We try to connect some relationships in the design -- between the past and the future; Between business and academia; Between the public and the professional and so on, both the temple of the high but also the distance of rivers and lakes; The relationship between people in space is implicit here; The relationship between man and self; The relationship between man and matter. The source is not a fixed paradigm, it may be a business survey of the project's sophistication, it may be a professional academic discussion, it may be a feeling from Montmartre overlooking the whole of Paris, or it may be an unexpected game experience.
Yinji: How did you meet? What prompted you to create the add subtract think tank together? What's the special meaning of this name?
PMT: We met in an Australian architecture and design company, and we worked very well together. We Shared a lot of ideas and insights. Later, I hoped to have more time for self-expression and creation, so I decided to start a business together and set up PMT Partners. PMT Partners： + - thinktank, thinktank the meaning of Chinese translation is actually, we hope to provide much more than just a space design scheme, but use our from planning, architecture, landscape, interior, product, equipment and interdisciplinary design ideas, in-depth research into the social level or operating mechanism, and then to put forward a systematic solution. So the solutions we come up with tend to contain more problems than the design itself. And plus minus, as a sign, is itself something that can be understood in different ways. In physics, they represent plus or minus; In Chinese, they are called xi; In mathematics, they represent addition and subtraction. We hope that our design works are also like this "+-" symbol, which is not limited by a single definition, so that different people can see different aspects of us. Sometimes it's nice to add a little bit and subtract a little bit.
Yinji: How did studying abroad influence your current design career? Or what changes have you made in your thoughts and works?
PMT: There is no specific summary of the impact of the rules. It is a subtle process, and later in the expression, it will pop up and hit you back, that's all.
Yinji: Who are your favorite design masters? How did he influence your design?
PMT: Our favorite design masters may not agree, but we are all fascinated by the ideas that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s after Le Corbusier's death, especially the series of unachievable buildings on paper, which still have a profound influence on different disciplines. Among them, metabolism in Japan, ARCHIGRAM in the UK and SUPERSTUDIO in Italy are all the objects we often discuss, study and study together. They not only have a vision beyond the future in the field of cities and architecture, but also their films and texts have a power unmatched in our times. That was a great time in our eyes.
