To guarantee that SUSAS is a professional, academic and international event, the academic committee is established to offer professional guides and evaluative opinions on various core tasks of the art season. Committee members, domestic and abroad, feature expertise, experiences and influence, and a considerable of them are internationally renowned figures. The committee is comprised of members from multiple disciplines, fully demonstrating SUSAS as a major urban public event that is both professional and open.
The responsibilities of academic committee include: organizing academic committee sessions at each stage where progress, curators and plans are discussed and evaluated; attending forums and seminars during the art season, giving keynote speeches and participating in academic dialogues; attending various key activities during the art season, etc.
Zheng Shiling, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wu Weishan, curator of the National Art Museum of China
The members of academic committee cover about 30 professionals in urban planning, architecture, landscape, public art, communication studies, art criticism, curation, sociology and press. The list is subject to moderate adjustment according to the requirements of each year.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Curator of the National Art Museum of China
Executive director/chief curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House and interim director of the University of Toronto Art Centre
International curator and initiator of Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
President of the Architectural Society of Shanghai China
Managing principal of SWA Group and fellow of American Society of Landscape Architecture
Deputy curator of China Art Museum, Shanghai
Dean of Fine Art College, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art
Dean of CAUP, Tongji University
Dean of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Deputy GeneralManager and general architect of Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design Group
Deputy Director of Fudan Journalism college
Professor of Architecture, National University of Singapore; Director of Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS
Executive dean of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts
Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering;Dean of School of Architecture, Southeast University; president of Research Institute of Urban Planning, Southeast University
Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Deputy President of Tongji University
Executive curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of CCA
Dean of the College of Public Art, China Academy of Art
Deputy President of Art Committee, National Urban Sculpture Construction Guiding Committee
MA Philosophy, sociology professor of Fudan University, and PhD supervisor
Professor of Peking University, and Dean of College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University
President of China Sculpture Institute
Deputy Dean of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
Member of “the Thousand Talents Plan”, and professor of Tongji University
Major founder of Shenzhen Urbanism/Architecture Bi-city Biennale (UABB); PhD Architecture, Southeast University; professor-equivalent senior architect
Deputy Director, Shanghai Urban Planning and Research Institute
Senior construction manager of urban sculptures
Deputy Director of Shanghai Sculpture Space
Deputy General Planner, China Academy of Urban Planning & Design