Projects
Transdisciplinary Research on Creative Industries in Beijing (CIB), Mobile Research Laboratory | May - July, 2007
This project brings international and Chinese academics together with urban research organisations, artists, curators, media producers and policy-makers in order to undertake transdisciplinary research on Beijing’s creative industries. Through collaborative practices of self-organization, one of the primary aims is to create a ‘counter-mapping’ of creative industries in Beijing.
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Urban(s)Talking, 2007 - …
In 2004 hutong tours for visitors to China contributed four million yuan (€400,000) to the nation’s coffers. This will double in the coming years. The new urban explorers no longer hang out in hutongs, however. Their latest hot spot is Line 13, a 40.85-km-long light-rail line that connects the northeast and northwest corners of the second ring road and kisses the sixth ring road in the north. I suggested to the Olympic Committee that the marathon be organized beneath this line. I never got a reply. Well, forget about the hutongs and the pedi-cabs. Line 13 is the place to be. It lets passengers view over an hour of urban development for less than 3 yuan (€0.30).
read full version of A Letter from Beijing by Bert de Muynck, Published in Mark Magazine #09 July/August, 2007
City/State Workshop | February 2008
The City/State Unit at the Architecture Department of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jeruzalem, Israel) invited MovingCities to hold a one week workshop. Entitled “What can we learn from China?”, the workshop explored the mechanisms driving the development of the Chinese city and projected and adapted these to the Israeli urban context. February, 2008.
Line 13 superlinearity Workshop | May, 2008
From May 27 and May 31 MovingCities conducted together with Adrian Blackwell (Assistant Professor at Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto) a design workshop in Beijing. Together with Xu Jian (Professor of Art History, Sichuan Polytechnic University), we looked closer, through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, into the Beijing’s peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.
Take-Away China, Research | 2008-09
Currently we are setting up a project dealing with the Chinese presence in the Flemish Region, Belgium. This research project will be developed throughout 2008. In the mean time Urban China Magazine published “Take-Away China” in their ChinaTown-issue. Read the full text.
Jakarta, IAI Awards & Research | October, 2008
Bert de Muynck | MovingCities was invited by the Indonesian Institute of Architects (IAI) to be part of the jury for the IAI Awards 2008. In between visiting the entries, two lectures were given and an initial urban research set-up.
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