Models of Twenty-first Century Urbanism in Shanghai
Time: Tuesday, 18 August, 2009 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm
Location: Hosted at the University of Hong Kong
Faculty of Architecture Study Centre, Shanghai
No. 298 North Suzhou Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai
Symposium
Architectural Association School of Architecture’s Shanghai Summer School 2009
Perhaps no other city other than Shanghai better represents the unique ambitions of China to model its expanding cities as having concurrently specific Chinese character as well as intensely global attributes. Shanghai’s status as a twenty-first century city provokes the questioning of models of urbanism.
1) What role might the complex history of Shanghai play in the formation of its future urbanism?
2) What is the status of Shanghai as a model of global urbanization?
3) Are Shanghai’s current architectural typologies and urban strategies adequate for the 21st century?
4) How will Shanghai continue to develop as an emblematic city of commerce and cosmopolitan culture?
5) What are the pitfalls of rapid urbanization and what lessons have been learnt in the last 20 years?
6) Can the population, environment, buildings and culture of Shanghai be sustained at its rate of growth?
7) What gets sacrificed in the pursuit of intensive growth?
Between the diverse urban models inherent to contemporary Shanghai, the above questions shall be examined in this Symposium, through the unraveling of the major cultural, economic, social and environmental forces driving contemporary urban change.
Presenters:
Defne Ayas, Curator and Director of Arthub Foundation, Shanghai
Mathieu Borysevicz, Architect, MABZ and writer
He Vivi Ying, Writer/Journalist; Curator, HKU SSC
Li Xiangning, Architect, Vice Dean, CAUP, Tongji University, Shanghai
Lin Wan, Urban Planner, Shanghai
Liu Yuyan, Architect, Shanghai
Su Yunsheng, Director, ETopia, Shanghai; CAUP, Tongji University, Shanghai
Round Table Discussion:
All Presenters and Lutz Dickmann, Yan Gao, Ercu Gorgul, Lydia Kim, Judith Klostermann, Bittor Sanchez de Monasterio, Eric Schuldenfrei, Andrew Tirta, Tom Verebes
Format: 10 minute presentations; Round table discussion moderated by Tom Verebes, AASH tutors with Architectural Association Visiting School