2015 Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture (Shenzhen)
Friday, Dec 4, 20155:14 AM — Sunday, Feb 28, 20169:14 AMEDT
| Shenzhen, China
Shenzhen, ChinaRelated
The 2015 Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture (2015 UABB) (Shenzhen) will open on 4 December, featuring over 80 exhibitors from around the world that will together explore the topic “Re-living The City”. The world’s only biennale dedicated to the themes of urbanism and architecture, 2015 UABB will take over the former Dacheng Flour Factory in Shekou and run until 28 February 2016. The Xipu New Residence in the Longgang District will be the sub-venue. The sixth edition of UABB will explore the reimagining, repurposing, and remaking of our existing urban spaces and architecture, showing ways in which designers can work with people to make the city more useful, just, and sustainable. The biennale will take place at the former Dacheng Flour Factory, a declining factory complex built in the 1980s transformed into a multifaceted exhibition venue under the direction of the curatorial team and Shenzhen-based architecture office Node. Through its transformation which involves preservation of the industrial relic and introduction of additional programs, the Dacheng Flour Factory will become an important representation of the theme of this year’s Biennale, “Re-Living The City”. 2015 UABB will feature five primary exhibitions: “Collage City 3D” curated by Aaron Betsky will propose the selective reuse and recombination of worn materials and figural fragments in the city to create, either literally or metaphorically, modern collage art; “Pearl River Delta 2.0” curated by Doreen Heng Liu will advocate for a more balanced relation between people, technology, and the environment in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta; “Radical Urbanism” curated by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner will trace a brief history of the contributions of ordinary citizens in reshaping the urban fabric to their needs; “Maker Maker” curated by Benjamin Ward will explain how new tools of production are spurring a democratic renewal of craft, turning everyone into a potential maker; “Social City” curated by Renny Ramakers will create an online sharing platform and an installation that will merge the public with the personal, and the physical with the digital. 2015 UABB will also present 14 national, regional, and thematic pavilions. National and regional pavilions will feature exhibitors from Macau, Finland, Ireland, Russia and the Netherlands. The Macau Pavilion will present Macau Reframed: The City, Its People and their Trace; Finland will present WAY – sea WAY, rail WAY, bike WAY; Ireland will showcase Shenzhen: Reconnecting Shenzhen to Shannon; Russia will bring to UABB New Industries, Positive practices of urban development; and the Netherlands will present Domestic Affairs. Thematic pavilions will be presented by highlight institutions including: the Victoria and Albert Museum from the UK that will present Unidentified Acts of Design, which will seek out instances where design intelligence has occurred in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta outside of the conventional notion of the design studio; and the Shenzhen Institute of Interior Design that will present Household and City, which will look into how furniture defines a house as a “home”. Public outdoor installations, including a bamboo shelter by Hong Kong and Antwerp based architectural design and research practice LEAD, and a lighting installation with 72 headlights on 8 masts by Siegrun Appelt, will be on show at 2015 UABB. Collateral exhibitions will also take place at the Dacheng Flour Factory and different locations in Shenzhen. As part of UABB School, UABB’s education platform for public engagement, “Aformal Academy – RE: Learning the City” will launch on 6 December. It is a laboratory of collaborative learning curated by Jason Hilgefort and Merve Bedir and is joined by participants from both Shenzhen and abroad. “Aformal Academy – RE: Learning the City” will offer education events that will investigate and speculate the built future. Events will include a scholastic symposium on the theme of architecture and urbanism education on 6 December, as well as workshops, lectures, site-specific programs, online activities, and an open source exhibition that will span the three months of the biennale and open to public. Following the intensive three-month events, a publication will be released to summarize the ideology and explorations of “Aformal Academy – RE:Learning The City”. Apart from “Aformal Academy – RE:Learning The City”, UABB School will also feature public events including symposiums, conferences, and workshops. Collaborators will include the Art Center College of Design, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Architectural Digest, NAUTA, TED Talks, among others. The Xipu New Residence, a traditional Hakka round house in the Longgang District built in 1928, will be a sub-venue of 2015 UABB. Programs at the Xipu New Residence, curated by Shenzhen and Beijing based artist Yang Yong and his team, will explore the theme of “Sharing House”, featuring contemporary architectural space intervention and renovation practices, contemporary art exhibitions, interactive art activities, the “Architecture of Life” workshop, “Makers’ Design Clustering”, as well as site-specific contemporary opera and dance shows. At the affiliated venue, curators, exhibitors, performers, and visitors will together explore the possibilities of combining the city’s past and future to inspire the reuse of the urban spaces with uncertain purposes. Artist group See You Tomorrow will present a special documentary series, Nothing is Untellable, at the Longgang venue. Nothing is Untellable includes 20 short films that record the lives of the residents of the Xipu New Village over seven months. One film will be released each week during the three-month exhibition. See You Tomorrow will continue to document how residents and visitors interact with the films and the stories behind. At the 2015 UABB opening ceremony on 4 December, choreographers Liang Xing and Zhuoyan Mei will present a site-specific dance work. Lighting Forumula will bring to the Dacheng Flour Factory venue a 3D light show. The 2015 UABB exhibitions will open to the public from Saturday 5 December 2015. The Independent Jury Award will be announced on the same day to celebrate the best of the exhibitors of the year. Jury members include: Kristin Feireiss (Chair of Jury, Studio Lukas Feireiss), Peter Cook (Archigram), Paul Joseph Makovsky (Metropolis), Colin Fournier (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Aric Chen (M+). Public activities of the opening week will start from 4 December 2015. http://en.szhkbiennale.org/
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