Academic Committee
Academic Committee
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.
Responsibility
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.
Presidents
Zheng Shiling, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wu Weishan, curator of the National Art Museum of China
Members
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.
Zheng Shiling (President)
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wu Weishan (President)
Curator of the National Art Museum of China
Barbara Fischer (Canada)
Executive director/chief curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House and interim director of the University of Toronto Art Centre
Fram Kitagawa (Japan)
International curator and initiator of Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
Cao Jiaming
President of the Architectural Society of Shanghai China
David Thompson (US)
Managing principal of SWA Group and fellow of American Society of Landscape Architecture
Li Lei
Deputy curator of China Art Museum, Shanghai
Li Xiangyang
Dean of Fine Art College, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art
Li Zhenyu
Dean of CAUP, Tongji University
Lu Xiaobo
Dean of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Mohsen Mostafavi
Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Shen Di
Deputy GeneralManager and general architect of Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design Group
Sun Wei
Deputy Director of Fudan Journalism college
Heng Chye Kiang
Professor of Architecture, National University of Singapore; Director of Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, NUS
Wang Dawei
Executive dean of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts
Wang Jianguo
Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering;Dean of School of Architecture, Southeast University; president of Research Institute of Urban Planning, Southeast University
Wang Lin
Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Wu Jiang
Deputy President of Tongji University
Yang Jingsong
Executive curator, Museum of Contemporary Art of CCA
Yang Qirui
Dean of the College of Public Art, China Academy of Art
Yin Xiaofeng
Deputy President of Art Committee, National Urban Sculpture Construction Guiding Committee
Yu Hai
MA Philosophy, sociology professor of Fudan University, and PhD supervisor
Yu Kongjian
Professor of Peking University, and Dean of College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Peking University
Zeng Chenggang
President of China Sculpture Institute
Zhang Jie
Deputy Dean of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University
Zhang Yonghe
Member of “the Thousand Talents Plan”, and professor of Tongji University
Zhang Yuxing
Major founder of Shenzhen Urbanism/Architecture Bi-city Biennale (UABB); PhD Architecture, Southeast University; professor-equivalent senior architect
Zhao Baojing
Deputy Director, Shanghai Urban Planning and Research Institute
Zheng Jiashi
Senior construction manager of urban sculptures
Zheng Peiguang
Deputy Director of Shanghai Sculpture Space
Zhu Ziyu
Deputy General Planner, China Academy of Urban Planning & Design