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Last Thursday (May 29) "Line13 Superlinearity" workshop visited China´s leading landscape architectural office: TURENSCAPE Design Institute. Alejandro Cabrera Camprubi invited the students to have their in-work findings/presentations and offered an insight into some of the strategies and design principles underlying TURENSCAPE´s projects. We took Line13, stopping at Shangdi station (Zhongguancun District) and, with a diverse range of transportation means available, headed towards the office.

Between May 27 and May 31 movingcities is invited by Adrian Blackwell, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto to give a design workshop in Beijing, hosted by Theatre in Motion's studio. We will be looking closer, through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, into the Beijing's peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.

On Thursday February 28, 2008 we concluded the "What can we learn from China?"-workshop. The final presentation consisted out of the presentation of the students' research, design and projection of the Chinese condition on the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area.

On Wednesday February 27, 2008 we concluded the second phase of the "What can we learn from China?"-workshop. The initial four groups of students were merged in two groups: Central Business District & Housing and Cultural and Creative Industries Clusters & Landscape Operations.

On Monday February 25, 2008 we concluded the first phase of the "What can we learn from China?"-workshop. Four groups of students were each investigating and researching the mechanism behind one urban operation: Central Business District, Cultural and Creative Industries Clusters, Housing and Landscape.