The Future of Lingang Harbor City and the Public Space
Host
- Shanghai Bestknown Advertising Co., Ltd
Project Introduction
This exhibition is held at the Exhibition Centre of HARBOR CITY PLAZA, which is at the main area of Lingang New City. The 546,400 m2 urban complex enjoys the vantage location directly adjacent to Dishui Lake and the sea, and contains office, retail, accommodation, convention, art exhibition and residual. It fulfills a combination of functions, in high standard, of business, office work, culture, lifestyle, exhibition, residence and leisure.
Given the idea of “Culture Enriches City, Art Enlightens Space”, HARBOR CITY PLAZA has thrown a series of “COME ON 2020” events, including “Master Architects Forum on Public Space Art”, “Special Exhibition of Art Space Constructions”, “Joint Exhibition of Young Architects”. It aims to create a brand of urban space art event that is international, public and practical, and fulfill the object of “Bring Art to City, and Return Art to Life” through enhancing the quality of urban spaces and promote the charm of Shanghai. Guided by these concepts, Future of Lingang New City and Public Space, a joint project of SUSAS 2017, is hosted by Development and Construction Management Committee in Lingang Harbor City, Shanghai, organized by Shanghai Zhanbo Property Co., Ltd, and co-organized by Shanghai Gangcheng Development (Group) Co., Ltd, initiating a dialogue concerning the possibilities and expansibility of art spaces in Lingang New City.
Meanwhile, as a joint project, connection and interaction with the primary events are particularly highlighted.
Theme Interpretation
The topic of SUSAS 2017: thisConnectionSharing a future public space is how, in the process of urbanization, links broken for various reasons are transformed into continuous, open, comfortable and accessible public spaces in the future. Lingang New City is a satellite town geographically distant from the metropolitan, so the issue of shortening the distance, physically or conceptually with Shanghai is of particular interest concerning the future form of this area. We have invited a number of outstanding architectural teams, including Archi-Union &i-zou Technology, Naturalbuild and Rùn Atelier as partner exhibitors, and fill large-scale holes and ravines with small constructions, which function as “connections” in public spaces. What’s more, the design creates a model for comfortable, accessible public space of future, and interprets the multi-level interaction between human and context in future spaces. We also invited a number of young architects, such as ShuiYanfei& Ma Yuanrong& Su Yiqi (Naturalbuild), Fan Beilei& Kong Rui (genarchitects), Wang Yan (GOA) and Li Danfeng& Zhou Jianjia (YeAS), to distribute the more open ideas of space with which the younger generation depicts the landscape of future, in the form of models and documents. Besides, we will hold a forum on public art. A number of leading professionals around the world will be present, including Carme Pigem (RCR Arquitectes, Spain), Fernando Marquez Cecilia (editor of El Croquis, an architectural journal) and Zhang Yonghe (founder of Atelier FCJZ), discuss their diversified yet equally deep insights, and contribute their opinions on the future of Lingang New City and public spaces.
Events
Master Architects Forum on Public Space Art
Date: November 2017
Opening Ceremony of Special Exhibition of Art Space Constructions
Date: November 2017
Venue: Exhibition Centre, HARBOR CITY PLAZA, Lingang New City
Joint Exhibition of Young Architects
Date: November 2017
Venue: Exhibition Centre, HARBOR CITY PLAZA, Lingang New City
Curators
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Li Xiangning
Deputy director of CAUP, Tongji University, professor, PhD supervisor.
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Yao Weiwei
Design researcher and teacher. Recently, her practical and intellectual interest has shifted towards exhibition and urban issues. She is also attentive to the contemporary Chinese architectural practices and ideas.
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Fang Xin
Co-founder of Reeji Studio, a Shanghai-style typeface design office. Member of Shanghai Industrial Design Association (SIDA) and Shanghai Creative Industry Association (SHCIA).
