For nearly two months since its opening on 6 Dec, 2009, the ‘09 SZHKB has received approximately 60,000 visitors. More than 2,000 people attended the opening ceremony. Almost 4,000 people attended the conferences, forums, lectures and film screenings.

There are 63 participant projects in total, contributed by participants from 27 countries and regions around the world, working in the fields of architcture, art, design, sociology, filmmaking, literature and so on. More than half are from outside China.

Nominated by the curators first, then selected by the Academic Committee, the Shenzhen Biennale Organizer Committee presented the following awards for the participant works: Organizer Committee Award, Literature Award, Innovation Award and Public Choice Award.

The Organizer Committee also issued Special Contribution Award and Best Participation Award to sponsors and co-organizers. Volunteer teams and individuals are awarded for their excellency also. What’s worth mentioning is that the prize for the winners is actually made of the participant project “Built to Wear”, packed in boxes made out of recycled paper.

The Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Organizer Committee highly appreciate your support and participation. See you in 2011!

2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
Winners List

Organizer Committee Award

Project: Under the Sun: A Retrospective of Architect Hsia Chang-shi
Participants: Feng jiang, Xiao Yiqiang, Song Gang/China

Documents Award

Project: Shenzhen: My City (photographs)
Participant: He Huangyou/China

Project: Shenzhen in 1980(photographs)
Participant: Leroy W. Demery, Jr./USA

Project: The Wharf (novel, as part of the special project Odyssey: Architecture and Literature)
Participant: Zhu Wen/China

Innovation Award

Project: 100 Days of Stories (performance, research, record)
Participant: Go West Project/China

Project: Pale Vessel (installation)
Participant: Polit-Sheer-Form Office/China

Project: Built to Wear (installation)
Participant: Ball Nogues/USA

Public Choice Award

Project: Snow Bull Station (sculpture and installation)
Participant: Rigo 23/USA

Special Contribution Award

China Resources (Holdings) Group Shenzhen Co., Ltd.
Galaxy Group
Shenzhen Yitian Group
Excellence Group
Shenzhen Kingkey Group
Fantasia Holdings Group Co. Ltd.
China Lvgem Co. Ltd.
Horoy Group

Best Participation Award

The Organizing Committee Office of Nanshan Commerce and Culture Center
The Youth League of Shenzhen Municipal Planning And Land Resource Commission
Zhubo Architectural & Engineering Design Co.,Ltd
Guan Shanyue Art Museum
Modern Media Group
China Mobile Group Shenzhen Co.Ltd.
Shenzhen OCT Real Estate Co.Ltd.

Best Volunteer Team Award

The Volunteer Association of the Youth League of the School of Art and Design of Shenzhen Polytechnic
Shenzhen Volunteer Alliance

Best Individual Volunteer Award

Li Meng, Li Tao, Huang Tianming, Liu Yushu, Liang Xiaoqian, Zhou Jiaqi, Wang Danchun, Wang Yile, Zheng Jiawei, Xu Xiaoguang, Li Ting, Zhu Wentong, Li Di, Yu Ping, Wan Lei, Luo Weixiong

“Our contemporary life as it is would be completely different if the 20th
century had happened without the cinema […] the moving image
changed our way of thinking, moving around and seeing things”

—–by Wim Wenders

Echoing the Urbanism\Architecture Film Festival, the ‘09 SZHKB will invite Dr. Francois Penz, who is an expert both on architecture and moving pictures to give a lecture on the evolving genre of the City Symphonies – learning from the filmic spaces of the past in order to better anticipate the present but also the future.

In the 1920s, City Symphonies changed the way we perceive cities – they
metaphorised the emergence of the modern metropolis by eliciting crucial
links on the screen – City Symphonies gave space to the urban space,
allowed the city to play and come forward, becoming both character and
subject and provided us with the perceptual equipment to grasp the
complexity of the urban phenomena.

While the golden age of the City Symphonies was the 1920s and 1930s, they
are still being made today and the genre has permeated the world of music
videos, art work, fictions as well as documentaries, as if every new City
Symphony was reinventing the genre.

The lecture will provide an understanding of City Symphonies by tracing their
historical evolution and highlight their value and relevance to contemporary
arts & cultures as well as urban design practices.

François Penz

Dr François Penz, an architect by training, teaches in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge where he is a Reader in Architecture and the Moving Image. He co-founded Cambridge University Moving Image Studio and more recently the Digital Studio for Research in Design, Visualization and Communication where he runs the PhD programme. He also contributes to the interdisciplinary University wide MPhil in Screen Media and Cultures. François is currently the Principal Investigator of a two-year research grant, Narrascape – Urban Environment as Narrative System in the
UK and China. He is a fellow of Darwin College and a founder of Screenspace.

Venue: Space E6, 2F, E6 Building, OCT LOFT, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Time: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm, Jan 23rd, 2010

Organizer: URBANUS (Liu Xiaodu, Meng Yan), Li Shiqiao
Moderator: Li Shiqiao
Guests: Esther Lorenz, Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Scott Lash and Andrew Benjamin

This panel discussion is organized by one of the SZHKB participants, URBANUS. Knowledge as Infrastructure is also the name of their participant project which gathers renowned architects and scholars to discuss the fundamental relationship between knowledge and the city through several conceptions of knowledge – its traditional methods of production and dissemination – which have become problematic for the contemporary city. Perhaps the most prominent symptom of the problematic relationship between knowledge and the city is the appearance of “university cities”. University cities are grounded in a classification of knowledge which has not been fundamentally questioned since the formulation of the 18th-century encyclopedia; they perpetuate, like its earlier form of the campus university, the notion of isolated “knowledge cities” which drastically separate intellect and labour; they provide opportunities for the privatization of knowledge which has been a distinct feature in the Chinese tradition of knowledge production. An alternatively conceived infrastructure of knowledge provides a chance to reformulate knowledge and the city, as well as relieves a tremendous pressure for education at all levels in Shenzhen. The symposium will engage with cultural, social, and philosophical implications of contemporary issues such as information, infrastructure, and urbanism in their specific manifestations in Shenzhen, and in their broadest intellectual formulation.

Founded in 1999, Under the leadership of partners LIU Xiaodu, MENG Yan and WANG Hui, URBANUS is now based in Beijing and Shenzhen, The completed works including Urban Tulou, Dafen Art Museum, OCT Loft Renovation, Tangshan Urban Planning Museum, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Maritime Museum of Art ,Tower of China Merchants Maritime & Logistics Ltd, Shenzhen Planning Building, Metro Tower etc. URBANUS has been exhibited internationally in prestigious shows and presented in prestigious newspapers and magazines, including New York Times. It was featured as one of the ten global “Design Vanguards” by Architectural Record in December, 2005, and has been awarded with many prestigious architecture prizes.

Moderator

Li Shiqiao is Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He studied architecture at Tsinghua University, AA and Birkbeck College. His research has been published in prestigious journals, and his books include Architecture and Modernization (Beijing, 2009) and Power and Virtue (London and New York, 2007). He practiced architecture in Hong Kong, and taught at AA and National University of Singapore.

Guests

Esther Lorenz is an Austrian Architect. She was educated at TU Graz and TU Delft, and obtained her concession for chartered practice in Austria. She has been working internationally in the areas of Architecture and Urban Design prior to coming to Hong Kong to join The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture. She has exhibited at the 2008 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale, and at the 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, 2008.

John W P Phillips is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at The National University of Singapore. He is the author of Contested Knowledge: A Guide To Critical Theory (London, 2000). He writes on philosophy, literature, critical theory, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, urbanism and military technology. He is editor, with Ryan Bishop and Wei-Wei Yeo, of Postcolonial Urbanism (New York, 2003) and Beyond Description (London, 2004). He has just completed a manuscript on Jacques Derrida and is currently researching a project on biotechnology and political philosophy.

Scott Lash is Director of Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London; he is also a Project Leader of Goldsmiths Media Research Programme. His recent books include Critique of Information (London, 2002), Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture (London, 2002), and Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things (Cambridge, 2005).

Andrew Benjamin is Professor of Critical Theory and Philosophical Aesthetics in the Centre. An internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory, he has been Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York and Visiting Critic at the Architectural Association in London. His recent books include: Philosophy’s Literature (2001) and Disclosing Spaces: On Painting (2004).