'BeijingCase' High-Speed Urbanism: Forum on the City

 Date: 2005/09/14~15

Time: 9:00~18:00

Venue: BeijingCubicArtCenter, at 798 Dashanzi Art District [See the map]

Forum language: Chinese & English [Simultaneous translation]

To register: bjcase@public3.bta.net.cn or call 6590-1977

[BeijingCase] is a fellowship program initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Peking, focusing on the topic of urban development in a “megacity”.

Beijing has been changing at unprecedented high-speed during the last decade. This urban change is highly complex and influenced by economical and political factors with an enormous impact on contemporary Chinese society. As part of the [BeijingCase] project, this Interdisciplinary Forum on the City will look at the different layers and facets of the rapid changes. Forum will bring speakers and participants from diverse fields as s social sciences, art, architecture, urban planning, philosophy, cultural policy making, as well as more direct narrators, such as taxi-driver, to discover and interpret the urban reality. The Forum will include brief screening for short-film, film footage, and art works. Each session will be powered by thematic speakers and presenters, followed by open-floor discussion.

BRIEF AGENDA:

September 14, Wednesday

09:00 Tea/coffee starter

09:30 Welcoming speech by Kulturstiftung des Bundes & Goethe-Institut Peking

10:00 Cross-Fire

12:00 Lunch break

13:30 Session I: Society & the City

17:30 End of Day I.

September 15, Thursday

09:00 Tea/coffee starter

09:15 Session II: City & the Space

12:30 Lunch break

14:00 Session III: Art & the City

18:00 End of Day II.

SPEAKERS & PRESENTERS INCLUDE:

 Akbar Abbas, professor at Hong KongUniversity

Thomas Bayrle, artist based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jasper Becker, journalist & writer; author of City of Heavenly Tranquility

Colin Chinnery, art officer of British Council Beijing

Han Linfei, associate professor of College of Architecture & Urban-planning, Beijing University of Technology

C. S. Kiang, professor & president of the Environmental Collage of Peking University

Beatric Leanza, writer on art

Li Lulu, professor of People University of China, Department of Social Sciences

Li Xiaodong, architect

Li Zhenhua, curator

Lu Jie, founder and director of Long March Foundation

Ou Ning, artist, designer & publisher based in Guangzhou, China

Wang Jun, journalist and author of City Record

Wang Min’an, China Institute of Social Sciences, author of The Limit of Michel Foucault, etc.

Shi Jian, architectural critic

Zhang Xianmin, associate professor of BeijingFilmAcademy

ZhuPei, architect

Film screening: A Hundred Flowers Deep, a short-film by Chen Kaige

Urban China magazine project presentation

Beijing case study by students from GraduateStudiesCenter for Architecture: Lu Xiang, Guo Fu, Liu Wenbao, Zang Feng, etc.

For further information on forum agenda, please visit the website: http://www.beijingcase.org or contact +86 (10) 6590-1977.

More: http://www.beijingcase.org Tel: +86 (10) 6590-1977

From: http://content.chinavisual.com/data/8/9/4d4b16186.htm