{"id":76,"date":"2016-05-19T11:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acrosschinesecities.it\/2014\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2016-05-24T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T11:28:23","slug":"exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acrosschinesecities.it\/2014\/exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"EXHIBITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"myschedes\" ><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function fun_link1(a){   createEl('china house vision' , { 'dropable': true, 'id': 258, 'restyle':  {'cc':true , 'colore': '#2a2a28', 'ccc':true} ,'activcolor':  true , 'trasparenza': { 'activ' :false,  'cc':1} ,'border': {'activ':false } , 'iconscolore':  'bianche' , 'autor': '', 'aling': false, 'param' :{'width': 350, 'height': 450}, 'open':true, 'minimiza':true, 'close':true, 'left':{'n':315, 'in':'px'}, 'top':{'n':135, 'in':'px'} , 'content' : '<p>The House Vision project was started in Japan with a first study group in March 2011. Initiated and co-curated by designer Kenya Hara and architect Sadao Tsuchiya, House Vision explores the future of living by taking the \u2018house\u2019 as a prism for analysis and rethinking of the larger systems of production and dependency that traverse it, from environmental and energy consumption, to mobility, distribution and telecommunication. Architecture professionals and academics collaborate with experts in leading industrial sectors to generate research and thereof pragmatic solutions responsive to specific social and economic context, which are developed via symposia and public events and eventually presented in the shape of 1:1 pavilions for audiences to test and experience.<br \/>With the first expo realized in Tokyo in 2013, House Vision has over the years grown into an Asian platform with local study groups that so far include Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.<br \/>China House Vision was officially started in 2013 with a joint committee established by the Nippon Design Centre of Kenya Hara and Beijing Design Week, led by architect Yungho Chang and counting today 14 participants (architects). The process of the past two years also sealed partnerships with some of the most innovative and game-changing enterprises in the country from key developmental sectors \u2013 automotive\/transportation, digital communication \/ smartphone-manufacturing, real estate, furniture and household appliances.<br \/>The first publication about their research and outputs is to be launched in China by Sanlian in the fall of 2016.<br \/>The next Japan House Vision expo will open in August 2016 in Tokyo with the title \u2018Co-dividual\u2019.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house-vision.jp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"linkcsotolineati\">www.house-vision.jp<\/a><\/p>'});\t }\t jQuery(function($) {}); <\/script>\n<style>\n*{\ncolor:#E41B13;\n}\np{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"margin-top:20px;max-width:901px\">\n<p class=\"letterspace\" style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeueLTStdBd;text-align: justify;\">\nBeijing Design Week with the collaboration of Dontstop architettura presents Across Chinese Cities \u2013 Beijing an unprecedented investigation into the Chinese capital\u2019s spatial program woven into its \u2018otherly modern\u2019 project (Hay, Double Modernity, Para-Modernity, 2008) which situates its traces by taking the historical district of Dashilar as a case study. Over the centuries the strategic imagination of Chinese rulers has forged a policy culture privileging locality and flexibility, where decentralization and self-governance were encouraged as a conduit towards a system of controlled autonomies expanding from the centre outwards into the peripheries. Spatial devices informing administrative and economic scaling, from imperial times until nowadays, function so to allow a productive vacillation between centralizing and devolutionary forces to territorialize political directives with geo-cultural specificity \u2013 from regions and cities to urban districts. This seemingly dichotomous metaphor captured in the tiao\/kuai (vertical\/horizontal) expression, conjures a map of networked clusters of productivity and power whose relationship to the centre is shaped across both metaphorical and literal practices of border crossings. The project is a conversation between built forms and communities around an architecture of resilience and relationships unique to Beijing and the Dashilan area. The one square kilometre wide zone southwest of Tian\u2019anmen Square is a densely populated quarter of traditional courtyards and alleys (hutongs) where specialized craftsmanship, literature and performing arts once flourished so making it the commercial and cultural heart of the capital since the Ming Dynasty. Although retaining its architectural authenticity Dashilan has faced rapid degradation over the past decades. A timeline of city sections presents the evolution of Beijing city over the past 100 years, while being interpolated with a relational archipelago of interdisciplinary design projects responsive to Dashilar\u2019s aging infrastructure, and endangered social and urban ecosystem. Across Chinese Cities \u2013 Beijing provides narrative disclosure to the developments of situated architectural knowledge across the Chinese capital while exposing transcultural and transdisciplinary dynamics of creative and social appropriation unique to Dashilar, where the street is a key site of public discourse and a minimal unit of architectural measure. The exhibition enmeshes visitors in an experiencing of Beijing\u2019s paradigmatic formation: a porous system of self-enclosed neighbourhoods that embody the dialectical interaction between control and informality that has informed practices of urban scaling over centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition expounds upon Rem Koolhaas\u2019 curatorial premise of an \u201cAbsorbing Modernity\u201d by perusing the productive vacillation of policing directives and social forces that shaped the urban history of Beijing over centuries, and are here set in dialogue throughout two juxtaposed sections: \u201cAcross City Sections\u201d and \u201cAcross Dashilar\u201d<br \/>\nThe spatial arrangement of the two components of the show elicits cross-references and counterpoints between the city\u2019s macro transformations of a seemingly modernistic evolvement along 100 years, and the micro change-agents that traversed the history of Dashilar ever since its foundation as the \u2018outer city\u2019 during the Yuan Dynasty.<br \/>\n\u201cAcross City Sections\u201d offers an overview of Beijing\u2019s urban mutation in an installation consisting of a map of the city and a linear timeline marking five crucial moments during its history, realized as five 7m-long, 3D printed models scaled 1:500. From within these spatial and temporal sections, the invariant core of the Forbidden City and the grand transformations of the urban fabric are set in contrast with the small-scale changes of Dashilar, attesting to its adaptive capacity across different historical thresholds:<br \/>\n1488 &#8211; Foundation of Dashilar<br \/>\n1914 &#8211; Construction of experimental Xiang Chang District<br \/>\n1958 &#8211; Inauguration of Tian\u2019anmen Square<br \/>\n1992 &#8211; Opening of Henderson Centre, first Shopping Mall<br \/>\n2014 &#8211; Beijing today<br \/>\nThe dialogue between the overall exhibition and the central installation designs both a unified and synchronous glance at the city of Beijing, and underlines styles, practices and elements of resilience that cut across ages, while re-establishing an intimate relationship between the human body and the built environment.<br \/>\nCountering the chronological linearity of this central portion of the show, \u201cAcross Dashilar\u201d draws a circular and explorative path complementing an historical excursus along four key temporal crossroads &#8211; the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing eras, the economic reforms of the 1980-90s, and the XXI century &#8211; with an anthropological journey into its history as a space of autonomous alterity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHIEF CURATORS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Leanza, creative director Beijing Design Week<br \/>\nMichele Brunello, architect and founder DONTSTOP architettura<\/p>\n<p><strong>EXHIBITION DESIGN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DONTSTOP architettura <\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"linkcsotolineati\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dontstopper.it\" target=\"_blank\">www.dontstopper.it<\/a><br \/>\nDONTSTOP is an architecture studio based in Milan, founded in 2011 by Michele Brunello and Marco Brega. With over 20 years\u2019 experience the studio covers all fields of planning and architectural coordination in the design process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Omri Revesz Design Studio <\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"linkcsotolineati\" href=\"http:\/\/www.omrirevesz.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.omrirevesz.com<\/a><br \/>\nOmri Revesz Design Studio works with cross-disciplinary teams to create platforms for human experience in the intersection of architecture, art and design.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of contributors and collaborators please check the dedicated <a class=\"linkcsotolineati\" href=\".\/credits\/\">CREDITS SECTION<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Design Week with the collaboration of Dontstop architettura presents Across Chinese Cities \u2013 Beijing an unprecedented investigation into the Chinese capital\u2019s spatial program woven into its \u2018otherly modern\u2019 project (Hay, Double Modernity, Para-Modernity, 2008) which situates its traces by taking the historical district of Dashilar as a case study. 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