Main Exhibition
Site Projects
Joint Exhibitions
Main exhibition is scheduled to be inaugurated on October 15, 2017 and will last 3 months. The main exhibition venue will be at the silo of 80,000 tons along with the surrounding indoor and outdoor space, Minsheng Port, Pudong New Area, Shanghai.
“ThisCONNECTION：Sharing a Future Public Space", the similar pronunciation to and a pun on “disCONNECTION", has been put forward as the production of and reflection on the discontinuous urban space in Shanghai. Under this theme, we will discuss the future of public space in the process of urbanization, and the way to transform discontinuous public space into continuous, approachable, pleasant and high-quality open public space. The main exhibition will exhibit worldwide outstanding cases of waterfront area and public area regeneration to discuss the future of waterfront areas in Shanghai. The reconstruction of Minsheng Port, the main exhibition venue of "SUSAS 2017" and also a part of Shanghai waterfront areas, will serve as a specific case to present how to connect and reform the previously discontinuous urban space and will provide an open platform with the aim of authentically enhancing the potential value of the open space along the Huangpu River's riverside and connecting more similar discontinuous public space in the future.
From the first "SUSAS", well-known artists, architects and curators have already been gathered to support and enrich this magnificent event; an ideal communication platform has also been built among the public and the people mentioned above through diversified exhibitions. In “SUSAS 2017", we will continue to connect the public with professional workers in the fields of art, planning, architecture and so on through cross-domain and cross-disciplinary artistic presentation and a series of public participation cultural activities, and then jointly reshape and share the future of the public space at Minsheng Port, one of the historic landmarks of Shanghai.
Address
No.3 Minsheng Road
Holding Time
October 15th 2017 — January 15th 2018
10:30 — 17:00 on Tuesday-Sunday
Closed on Mondays(Except national holidays）
Last Entry at 16:30
Public Transportation
Waterway:
West bank of Huangpu River and Main Venue is connected by
Minsheng Rd (No.1 Minsheng Rd)，Dandong Rd (No.65 Dandong Rd) Line.
Land Transportation:
Metro: Pudong Avenue Station (Line 4) + 2.5 km’s walk;
Minsheng Road Station (Line 6) + 1.5 km’s walk
Bus: Line 81, 85, 313, 455, 610, 774, 794, 799, 971, 981, 983, 992,
Cailu Express, Pudong 15, Shangchuan Line, Xinchuan Line
Shuttle: During the exhibition, three short shuttle lines run between Century
Avenue Station (metro),
Pudong Avenue Station (metro) and the main venue at
Minsheng Port. Every thirty minutes. (every twenty minutes on weekends and )
holidays)
Parking: There is a public parking lot on Riverside Promenade, near Minsheng
Road.
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Stefano Boeri
Well-known architect, critic, educator and curator. He is now a professor of urban design at Politecnico di Milano, and he has ever given courses and lectures at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Columbia University, MIT and other architectural institutes.
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Li Xiangning
Vice dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University.He is a member of International Committee of architectural critic,and has served as the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale and the academic director, the Westbund Shanghai Biennale curator,as well as jury member of Spain International Architecture Award, Mies van der Rohe award the European Union Prize for contemporary architecture and other International Architecture Awards.
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Fang Zhenning
Independent curator, professor, art critic, and independent scholar in the fields of art and architecture. Curator of China Pavilion in the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, exhibitor of the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale 2014, and a member of curatorial committee of China Artists Association.
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Yao Weiwei
Design teacher and researcher, PhD candidate of college of architecture and urban planning, Tongji University. She was assistant curator of 2013 Westbund Shanghai Biennale, 2013 Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and architecture and also in the curator team of 2016 Harvard Contemporary Chinese architectural exhibition.
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Tian Weijia
Assistant professor of College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, PhD of Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Master of Politecnico di Milano.
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Mo Wanli
PhD candidate of College of Architecture and Urban Planning，Tongji University. Master of Architecture, Yale University.
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Mao Tiantian
Graduated from the school of architecture, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, assistant curator of FANGmedia, assistant curator of China Pavilion, Curitiba Biennale 2017.
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Wang Shu
Master of Fine Arts of Southwest Jiao Tong University.
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Xu Yibo
National first class registered architect, PhD of Politecnico di Milano, and coordinator of Future City Lab of Tongji University.
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Gao Changjun
Master of college of architecture and urban planning, Tongji University.
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Guo Xiaoyan
Vice-director of Beijing Minsheng Art Museum and chief operating officer of Minsheng Research Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Feng Lu
Well-known architect, scholar and curator. Principal architect of Wuyang Architecture. PhD in architecture at University of Sheffield.
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Zhang Li
Associate dean, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Architecture , Tsinghua University. Chief editor of the magazine World Architecture. Founder of TeamMinus architecture office.
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zhi wenjun
Chief editor of Time + Architecture. Professor of architectural faculty, Tongji University. Committee of The Architectural Society of China. Executive director of the Shanghai Institute of Architecture.
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Dai Chun
Founder of Urban Humble-Space Regeneration Plan and Let’s Talk academic forum. Managing editor and chief operating officer of Time + Architecture. Archiepos studio founder and principal.
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Tommaso Sacchi
Well-known Italian curator, professor and consultant in cultural and curatorial strategies fields. Head of the Cultural Department Secretariat of the City of Florence.
Topology
Today, the development of public space is pre¬senting new features because of new media, Internet and digital technologies and changes of lifestyle. Combination of new and tradition¬al public spaces will be the direction for future development. By applying topological chang¬es to the silo space as an elementary unity, we will study spatial changeability, and explore and express various forms of public space via diver¬sified ways of modes of spatial organizational construction.
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Heterogeneity
The attributes of urban space are closely related to the social and cultural environment where it belongs. Whether it’s a metropolis or a local city, urban space can be attractive with its unique social and cultural gene. The former benefits from the mutual stimulation of diversified cultures whereas the latter gains its identity from unique local resources. We will arrange for demonstration areas on the squares for varioustypes of concepts and international cultural expression,turning the place into a presentation platform of diversified social cultures, so as to motive active thinking in the process of Shanghai’s global-local urban construction.
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Infrastructure
New technological facilities are not only physical,but also program-based. New ways of utilizing traditional roadways and bridges, along with new transportation network and Internet-based technologies, have brought about fresh experience in the connection of space and time. In addition, we will also be demonstrating how today’sarchitecture has surpassed traditional mode of infrastructure in its understanding of space connection.Such superiority lies not only in innovation itself, but also in the attention paid to publicand community activities, as well as to people’s physical experience. Architecture has become the infrastructure serving the production of urban cultural space.
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Shanghai Sample
What is the logic of today’s “Shanghai Sample”? When the urban development model changes from “denotative” to “connotative”, city regeneration is undergoing a transition from the existing paradigm to a new one - a model combining top-down and bottom-up, instead of the traditional“top-down”. There comes the Waterfront Connection Program, promoted by the government, attempts to sew up the long-segregated urban space from the macro view of the entire city, also there are micro-regeneration attempts spring up from architects and citizens, intending to repair the network of community space through some more subtle breakpoints, by means of smallscale, low impact interventions. The renewal of urban space reflects changes in people’s lifestyle and urban development model. As long as the city exists, urban renewal is always in the process.
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