Time flies—Maker Faire Shenzhen has already been hosted three times at Vanke Cloud City, where makers come together each year to exchange ideas and spark extraordinary energy.
Since 2012, MFSZ has explored more than eight diverse venues—from Bao’an Creative Park to OCT-LOFT Creative Park, from university campuses to bustling commercial centers. Among them, Vanke Cloud City has been our top choice for several consecutive years.
In 2019, Vanke Cloud City Design Commune and Chai Huo Maker Space co-hosted MFSZ at the park. We were fortunate to meet such a community partner, which led us to break the tradition of changing venues every year. In 2023, Maker Faire Shenzhen returned to Vanke Cloud City, once again showcasing the incredible creativity and power of the maker community. In 2024, global makers will gather at the Design Commune once again, and we believe this familiar place will inspire a brand-new experience.
So this year, we warmly invite each of you to come this Design Commune. Let’s open a new chapter together!
Vanke Cloud City: A Landmark Venue at Liuxiandong Headquarters Base
Vanke Cloud City is located at the core venue of Liuxiandong Headquarters Base. As an intelligent urban landmark, it integrates diverse functions including industrial offices, commercial spaces, apartments, and hotels. It is a miniature city that brings innovative industrial workplaces, green ecological leisure, diverse cultural experiences, and convenient living all together.
Vanke Cloud City Design Commune
Vanke Cloud City Design Commune, the venue for Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025, is located in the northern Green Corridor of Vanke Cloud City. With a focus on cultural and creative industries, design services, and digital creative industries, the area spans approximately 100,000 square meters. Its courtyard-style layout, low-density urban park, and open, interconnected three-zone structure have attracted over 100 renowned design institutions.
In early 2017, after an upgrade in positioning, Chaihuo Maker Space officially settled in the Design Commune. As a member of this community, we have always hoped to leverage Maker Faire Shenzhen, aiming to foster deeper exchanges and collaborations with fellow members, enterprises, and the wider ecosystem within the Commune.
At the same time, Design Commune’s vision of integrating the design industry and driving industry reconstruction aligns seamlessly with our concept of building an international innovation platform that provides a more in-depth services for industrial upgrading.
Furthermore, the successful collaborations in 2019, 2023, and 2024 have strengthened our resolve to continue hosting Maker Faire Shenzhen here. This year, through our partnership, we look forward to fostering deeper dialogue and stronger connections between the global maker community and the Design Commune ecosystem.”
If you want to showcase your innovative ideas and the impact you have on industry innovation, meet like-minded makers, and explore the specific applications of cutting-edge technologies in various industries at one of the largest maker innovation events in the world, we invite you to sign up by scanning the QR code below or clicking here. We look forward to seeing you there and sharing your journey of continuous innovation!
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Registration Period: May 21th, 2025 – September 30th, 2025
Over the past 12 years, the development trajectory of Maker Faire Shenzhen can be seen as a microcosm of the development of maker culture in China.
- 2012: “Gathering Small Wisdom, Journeying through the Great Future” – This was the first Mini Maker Faire in China, with less than 1000 attendees, and was more like a gathering within a small circle. But we saw the infinite possibilities emerging from the maker community.
- 2013: The slogan was absent, and the maker community was still small. – In the OCT Creative Park, there were cross-disciplinary exchanges among different creative communities, silently laying the foundation for cultural output.
- 2014: “Innovate with China” – the event was upgraded to the Featured level for the first time, with a significant increase in scale compared to previous years, and the beginning of professional independent forums. This year, makers began to enter the public’s view.
- 2015: “Everyone is a Maker, what are you waiting for?” – This year’s Shenzhen International Maker Week became one of the largest Maker Faires in the world. This year, the concept of “maker” was elevated to a national level, and the trend of “mass innovation, mass entrepreneurship” swept across the country.
- 2016: “My World, My Creation” – As the sub-venue of the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, the event was held for the first time in the commercial center area, experiencing unpredictable weather from typhoons to scorching heat. Many makers succeeded in your entrepreneurial endeavors this year, but it seemed like there were even more failures. The hype around entrepreneurship shifted towards rationality.
- 2017: “Makers, Go Pro” – The event took place at the university campus for the first time, focusing on Maker Pros and providing a platform for diverse innovators and makers to showcase themselves, presenting more possibilities for the growth path of makers to the entire community.
- 2018: “Co-making in the City” – The main venue of Shenzhen International Maker Week, where individuals and groups with shared visions and values gathered to showcase stories, projects, and explorations of collaboration among different communities and people.
- 2019: ” To the Heart of Community, To the Cluster of Industry” – The event was upgraded to the Maker Faire Shenzhen, attempting to attract professional audiences and focusing on pragmatic aspects such as solving the needs of industrial upgrading and co-developin. It aims to build a platform for innovation and industry dialogue and collaboration.
- 2023: “Where Are The Makers?”– Starting from our own mission and values, we aim to explore the future direction of makers and theapossibilities for commercialization. Though this question does not have a definitive answer, we do hope that through this event, we can communicate and share with every one of you, finding more ideas and directions together.
- 2024: “Enchant Everything With AI” – This year, we brought together over 120 exhibitors from around the world, attracting nearly 1,500 professional attendees from nearly 20 countries and over 20 provinces across China. The exhibition showcased a wide range of AI application projects and hosted 10 AI hardware-themed satellite events, alongside various workshops.
