UABB hosted a traveling dialogue together with ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin with topics of “Rural-Urban Transition: Strategies in Diversity”on June 12th. They put forward the urgent question of how to invent different but relevant ideas and approaches for the future evolution of our urban life. The discussions argued that it was time to go beyond the top-down model of development and learn from the bottom-up creative initiatives of the people who inhabit this transitional reality—especially those in the “Global South”—and their strategies of resistance and invention. The traditional focued on the centre hasto shift towards the periphery and beyond to the regional exchange process, in order to include informal and new developments.
June 12, 7–8:30pm
ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory
Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany
The event will be in English. Admission is free. Please register at reply@ancb.de
Schedule
Welcome:
Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB
CHEN Ping, Cultural Councillor of the Chinese Embassy in Germany
Introduction:
Eduard Kögel, Programme Curator, ANCB
Doreen Heng LIU, Principal, NODE Architecture & Urbanism
LIU Lei, Architect; Director, Shenzhen Center for Design
Presentations:
HOU Hanru, Artistic Director, MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts; Curator, 2017 UABB (Shenzhen)
MENG Yan, Principal Architect and Co-Founder of URBANUS; Curator, 2017 UABB (Shenzhen)
YANG Yong, Co-Curator, 2017 UABB (Shenzhen); Artist; Founder of Shangqi Art
Panel Discussion:
Nikolaus Hirsch, Editor, e-flux Architecture
HOU Hanru, Artistic Director, MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts; Curator, 2017 UABB (Shenzhen)
MENG Yan, Principal Architect and Co-Founder of URBANUS; Curator, 2017 UABB (Shenzhen)
Doreen Heng LIU, Principal, NODE Architecture & Urbanism
Moderated By:
Eduard Kögel, Programme Curator, ANCB, Berlin
The Following Invited Peers will join the discussion:
Anh-Linh Ngo, Editor-in-Chief, ARCH+ Magazine
Jochen Becker, Curator, metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs / Chinafrika. under construction
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