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Better Community, Better Life — Site Project of Pudong Colorful Community

Host
  • People’s Government of Pudong NewArea, Shanghai
Organizer
  • Pudong New Area Planning and Land Authority
Co-organizers
  • Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute
  • Pudong New Area Planning and Design Research Institute
  • Lujiazui Office of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Administration
  • Sub-district offices of Lujiazui, Weifang, Yangjing, Tangqiao, Huamu

Project Introduction

“Better Community, Better Life – Site Project of Pudong Colorful Community” is a site project based on the planning of Pudong Colorful Community, and is of great importance for autonomy, multi-governance, bottom-to-top and other urban revitalizing approaches which are closely related to the life of citizens. Targeted at “micro-revitalization” of five sub-district communities in Pudong New Area, the Colorful Community is a program led by the People’s Government of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, involving Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute and other art/design institutions. The five communities are: Lujiazui, Yangjing, Weifang, Tangqiao and Huamu. Nine events have been initiated under the guidance of professionals and authorities. The plan reflects the district government’s heartfelt concern for the welfare of citizens, improves the environment and context of and around the communities, and realizes the notion of “sharing” in the levels authorized according to laws and regulations.


Theme Interpretation

“Better Community, Better Life —Site Project of Pudong Colorful Community” is intended to showcase and promote the colorful community project. As the requirements on community planning increases gradually, the weakness of community development is getting apparent: lack of community sense and humane touch, poor quality of public space, insufficient public facilities, unsatisfying non-motorized traffic system, and silent city cultural activities, etc. The exhibition invites engagement of various parties, tries to connect people and community, in the hope that the activities will show the target of colorful community, “Meticulous design, Community Fusion, Lighting up Life”.


Exhibition

This exhibition includes 1 promotion clip、1 space art exhibition、Colorful Salon (one main forum + five sub-forums)，1 low-carbon theme event and 1 photography competition.
5 sub-district administrations and several other authorities combine their forces, imagining various expression forms to demonstrate the future of Colorful Community. All the events are free and welcome to all local residents, keeping them updated with the renovation plans. The organizers aim to create a primary window of the plans of Pudong Colorful Community, in the support of authorities of various levels.


Events

Theme Salon: Achievements and Planning of Colorful Community
Date: late October, 2017


Theme Event: Carbon-free Travelling
Date: late October, 2017


Serial Salons: Our Streets
Date: October – November, 2017


Photography Competition: Our Beautiful Home
Date: October – December, 2017


    Curators
  • Xi Wenqin

    Xi Wenqin, senior engineer, is the director at No. 2 planning Dept. and Historical Cultural and Public Space Art Center. She has participated in or led more than 200 planning, design or research projects, and won a number of national or municipal awards of planning or design. In recent years, she has focused on the work around the World Expo, the protection of people's livelihood, heritage culture. Her awarded projects include "The Bund Waterfront Building Detailed Planning" (2009 National Outstanding Planning and Design Award); "Hengshan Road – Fuxing Road Historical and Cultural Heritage Protection Plan" (first prize, Shanghai Municipal Planning and Design Award). She was the curator of Shanghai Special Exhibition, which was part of the main exhibition of SUSAS 2015.

  • Xu Jirong

    Xu Jirong, who graduated from Tongji University in 2013, acquired a master degree in Urban Planning, worked in Shanghai urban planning and Design Institute in September in the same year, now works at No. 2 planning Dept. She has participated in and led various planning, design and research projects, with experience as planner and designers. In 2010, she contributed to "The Old’s Happiness”, which won the first prize of National Outstanding Social Investigation Reportsof Urban Planning Students. She helped curating the Shanghai Special Exhibition, which was part of the main exhibition of SUSAS 2015.

  • Yang Fan

    Yang graduated from UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, acquired a master degree, and has been working in No.2 Planning Department, Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Institute since March 2013.

Venue
7/F, the silo of 80,000 tons MinSheng port (No.3, Minsheng Road)

Time
15 October, 2017 – 15 January, 2018

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.