Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time: 14:00-16:00pm, 7 Dec
Moderator: Ou Ning
Guests: Liu xiaodu, Wang shu, Atelier Zhanglei, Zhu xiaofeng, Liu jiakun, Zhang ke, Shen Keyi, Hon Lai-chu, Lu Nei, Ching-yueh Roan, Hu shuwen, Han dong, Zhu wen
Chief Curator Ou Ning chooses nine representative architectures from the buildings that were built up in China during the last decade. Nine famous writers are invited to conduct field surveys of these 9 architectures. According to their experiences and imagination, they write nine fictions telling stories between people and architectures.
Fictions that are written based on architectures, city space or architects are called Architectural Fiction. As an existing literary and film genre, Architectural Fiction has already produced many well-known works, such as Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. It can be considered as a collective attempt at Architectural Fiction that nine Chinese writers of different generations create fictions on nine architectures.
Odyssey: Architecture and Literature is both a publishing project and a tourism project. In addition to reading these fictions and architectures’ information both on books and biennale’s website, audience can also join the tours launched by szhk biennale in which related architects will explain their designs in person. This is a parallel odyssey. Audience will traverse the forest composed of words by the writers, experience different geographical features, and visit the fantastic spaces created by the architects. The odyssey will lead people to the sites of China’s contemporary architecture: an historical moment that is currently happening, some architectural experiments that cannot be defined, and a popular phenomena that needs to be dissected.
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Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：14:00-16:00， Dec 9, 2009
Moderator: Laurence Liauw
Guests: Zhu Tao, Wang Wenjen, Bai Xiaoci, Feng Yuan, Steve Ching
The intricate relationship between the two cities of Shenzhen and Hong Kong grew out from strategic economic planning and close physical proximity. But how these two cities have evolved into an interdependent relationship that extends far beyond mere economic ties is yet another story. How can cities become dependent on one another and what are the ways in which this manifests itself? This will be a discussion around the porous nature of borders, the particular conditions of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and the merging of cities into one another.
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Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：10:00-12:00, 8 Dec
Moderator：Doreen Liu，Jeffrey Johnson
Guests：Dan Wood，David Gianotten，Joseph Grima，Urbanus (Meng Yan)，Eric Schuldenfrei，Feng Yuan, Jiang Jun,Li Xiangning, Xu Li, Fabrizio Gallanti
When urban forms and conditions are determined by a unidirectional—‘top-down’—process, it will always encounter an opposition that attempts to resist it. This opposition survives through multiple adaptations and in many forms, and even strives to make-the-most-of-it, boldly and openly. Ultimately, we must accept this condition and exploit it as a viable and vital counterpoint urbanism. This is an urban reality in Shenzhen, and perhaps throughout the rest of the Pearl River Delta, that grew out from the bottom and continues to thrive. It is an urbanism that is Southern, open, tolerant and spirited.
The forum takes place at such moment in time, and in such a place of urban reality, that we hope to take advantage of an opportunity to promote alternative urban scenarios for post-generic cities like Shenzhen and elsewhere in the PRD.
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Location: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：14:00-16:00
Moderator: Pauline J. Yao
Guests: Ou Ning, Tirdad Zolghadr, Gao Shiming, Manray Hsu, Kayoko Ota，Beatrice Galilee
This panel discussion invites curators of art and architecture biennales to discuss the increasing overlap and merging in practices of the two disciplines once kept at a distance. Since its inception, the Venice Architectural Biennale has always been scheduled in alternating years with the Art Biennale, as if the two disciplines were so distinct as to warrant wholly different audiences and intellectual interests. As art biennales become increasingly replaced by art fairs and architectural practices are more like being merged with other artistic practices, how can the biennale model be re-invented and repurposed with respect to the two disciplines? What are the ways in which curators handle the task of ‘curating architecture’ vs. ‘curating art’?
Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time: 10:00-12:00 7th Dec
Moderator: Adrian Hornsby
Guests: Urbanus (Wang Hui, Wu Wenyi), MAD (Ma Yansong, Dang Qun), Urban China (Jiang Jun), BAU (James Brearley, Fang Qun), School of Architecture, Tsinghua University (Zhu Wenyi, Alex Camprubi), MVRDV (Winy Maas, Paul Kroese), ZUS (Elma van Boxel, Kristian Koreman ), Rocksteady Design (Brend Koolhaas, Femke Bijlsma, Reinier Suurenbroek), Powerhouse (Nanne de Ru, Charles Bessard), Dynamic City Foundation (Neville Mars, Alain Fouraux, Liu Jiafeng)
● Should we accept urban life as it has evolved in the global centers?
● Are congestion, pollution and monotony the ultimate parameters of the modern metropolis?
● Will technological creep keep us complacent?
● Or, are some bold designers capable of conceiving an alternative future?
PROJECT B.A.R.C. – Beyond Architectural Regulations in China
BARC is an ambitious collaborative design-research project initiated by the Dynamic City Foundation. BARC aims to deliver a holistic planning model for green cities. The project brings together ten teams from Holland and China in a two-tiered compressed study to conceive fundamentally new concepts that look beyond the realm of engineering and design. Phase I is a workshop that maps our ultimate desires for green living in the future. Results will be presented at the forum ‘Green From Scratch’ at the HKSZ Biennale 2009. Phase II is an actual urban proposal presented at the Shanghai World Expo that simulates a longterm development for Caofeidian Eco-city. Ten teams planning on top of each other for five year periods until 2060 will reveal the possibilities of evolutionary green planning.
More information:http://burb.tv/
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Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：8th, Dec 16:30-18:30
Moderator：Ole Bouman
Guests：Bert de Muynck，Brendon McGetrick，Zhu Pei，Zhu Xiaofeng，Zhang Ke，Alexander Sverdlov
In collaboration with NAi, SZHKB presents a brief lecture by Ole Bouman to be followed by a conversation between international architects on NAi’s exhibition ‘Architecture of Consequence’. Taking this project–which addresses a variety of themes ranging from alternative means of food production and energy policy to the need for social cohesion and the recalibration of economic value–as its departure point, the conversation will focus on the turn from spatial to social tasks and examines the potential for architecture’s value and role in resolving societal issues.
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Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：Dec 6th 14:00-15:30
Mr. Ito was born in 1941. After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Department of Architecture in 1965, he worked for the Metabolist architect Kiyonori Kikutake until 1969. In 1971 he opened his own office, Urban Robot (URBOT), which was renamed to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects in 1979. He has taught at the University of Tokyo as a visiting lecturer (1988~89), at Columbia University (1991) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1999) as a visiting professor, at Kyoto University as a visiting lecturer (2002~07) and at Tama Art University as a guest professor (2002~). He also has been a commissioner of the Kumamoto Artpolis since 2005.
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Biennale Forum：“Agricultural China: Utopia of Ruralism”
Venue: Multi-function Hall, 1/F, Shenzhen Civic Center
Time：10:00 am -12:00 pm, Dec 9, 2009
Moderator：Lü Xing Yu，Ou Ning
Guests：Qiu Jiansheng, He Huili, Hsieh Ying-chun, Sheng-Yuan Huang, Wu Yinling, Yung-feng Chung
Over-urbanization has become a major social problem in Asia. It has broken the each feeding relationship between urban and rural areas in traditional Asian societies, leading to a large number fallow lands, ecological degradation, a dramatic drop in food production and the population imbalance. It also causes social stratification and group conflicts. Especially in today’s China, many urban problems, such as land acquisition demolition, villages in cities, slums, migrant workers and security, are actually caused by the upside-down relationship between urban and rural areas, and the unreasonable allocation of urban and rural resources. Urban studies are often traced back to the origin of rural areas. Urban and rural areas are two sides of the same coin. The inertia of urbanization in the new rural construction and the threat from agricultural capitalism have become increasingly serious. Through this conference, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture hopes to focus on the rural-urban relations in Asia and the urgent reality of capital globalization. We have proposed the idea of Ruralism, calling attention to the problems of arable land loss, agricultural crisis, loss of the rights for farmers and the downfall of tradition. By sharing the cultural practices and academic researches in rural areas that have been conducted by intellectuals throughout the country, we are dedicated to restoring the vitality of rural areas, reconstructing the each feeding relationship between urban and rural areas and providing deep reflections on urbanization.
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