About
MovingCities is a Shanghai-based think-thank investigating the role that architecture and urbanism play in shaping the contemporary city.
Established in 2007 by Bert de Muynck [BE] and Mónica Carriço [PT], MovingCities publishes, collaborates, talks and walks, and operate as embedded architects.
After operating from Beijing [2007-2009], MovingCities moved in October 2009 to Shanghai.
MovingCities has set-up programs for the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi, China MatchMaking Program, 2009-…), Dutch Design Fashion and Architecture (DDFA, China Mapping Report Design and Fashion, 2011) and Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA, Snowball Architecture Seminar, 2010) in China. In December 2010, Bert de Muynck was invited by the UNESCO Creative Cities to moderate a discussion during the 2010 Shenzhen International Conference and UNESCO Creative Cities Network conference.
MovingCities has co-organized and participated in a series of workshop such as “What Can We Learn from China?” [co-organizers, Bezalel University, Jeruzalem, 2008], “Superlinearity Line13 Beijing” [co-organizers, University of Toronto, 2008], “Urban Panorama Workshop” [co-organizers, Macau, 2009] and “City-Move Interdesign Workshop” [participants, ICSID/SVID, Sweden, 2009].
More info: movingcities projects
Burj Dubai | Dubai, 2007
movingcities mini-manifesto*
For MovingCities studio studies are less challenging than work in the open urban air, where from minute to minute people, space, architecture and society vibrates and transforms. Attending to the ephemeral layers interacting between men and architecture, society and the city, MovingCities is about capturing the movements of time and vision about to be lost and to be emerging.
To understand the contemporary complexity and reality of cities we have to engage with them in a different way; not as fixed entities, stable places, but as organisms that can grow, shrink, think, perform and act accordingly to influences from the inside as well as from the outside.
MovingCities is not as interested in conditions of transition as such, but rather in processes of intensification, circulation, accumulation, formation and standardisation that this time of transition is provoking.
MovingCities is about understanding the role that architecture and urbanism are playing in shaping the future of the contemporary city.
*full of interesting observations, theories and comments on the state of urbanism
