Porosity Studio | Shanghai, September 25, 2009

On Friday September 25, POROSITY C8studio came to a conclusion with an exhibit of the students’ work. Entitled E-SCAPE the two week workshop was a partnership between Professor Richard Goodwin’s Porosity Studio, and the COLLABOR8 project (C8), in collaboration with Donghua University (Shanghai) and COFA (Sydney). No Utopia!

Porosity Studio | Shanghai, September 25, 2009

The Porosity Studio was established by Professor Richard Goodwin in 1996 and provides a potential component of a student’s major study in final years from a range of disciplines: Fine Art, Design, Media Studies, Architecture, Urban Design and Engineering. In it, a multi-disciplinary practice is explored and students are able to test their individual practices at the scale of architecture and the city. The studio builds on the practice and research of Goodwin who is both artist and architect. The relationship between the city and public space remain key concerns for the studio.

C8 is an eight-week long fully online education initiative hosted by The Omnium Research Group and COFA Online that establishes a basis for collaborative online art and design projects between universities in Australia and China. The project aims to create awareness about the importance of cross cultural design practice by challenging students to work together to design surface graphics for sustainable applications in the development of contemporary ceramics, textiles, products and environments.

With the theme of E-SCAPE the 2009 POROSITY C8studio explored Shanghai as a city to test the notion of a “scape”:

The studio is not looking for Utopian visions for Shanghai. It seeks your engagement within the laboratory of interdisciplinary design and Shanghai as a city. This engagement involves the selection of a site or scale at which to work and for you to write your own brief for an imagined project. This project should seek to find immediate solutions or ways forward for an existing problem or “scape”.

Porosity Studio | Shanghai, September 25, 2009

On the POROSITY studio Vimeo-site an archive of the studio is currently in work, while the POROSITY C8studio-website will soon feature updates as well. Overall the exhibition presented a set of intriguing engagements with contemporary Shanghai; from a mapping of winning Mahjong combinations and strategies, over the girl with the black balloon hair drifting under an elevated subway, to urban chopstick interventions, imaginary collections and a reflection on how to make instant friends in Shanghai.

Porosity Studio | Shanghai, September 25, 2009

As mentioned before, MovingCities gave a lecture on September 18, half-way through the studio. In it we talked about What Can We Learn from China?, ORDOS100, Urban China | Creative China and This Is My City 09.

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POROSITY C8studio | Shanghai exhibition

THIS IS MY CITY 09 我的城市!!! banner | Albergue SCM patio (source: +853)

After Friday’s city tour (part I & II), Saturday was the  TIMC09!!!-event second day devoted to the collaborative works on the Urban Panorama Workshop. After a full day of observation, a short day of interpretation and speculation. At the end of the day, a party at Macau’s Albergue showcasing artists from Hong Kong and Beijing.

Urban Panorama Workshop | Macau, July 4, 2009

Audio visual artist Cédric Maridet would present ‘Filipina Heterotopia’, followed by the ‘Hou Mun AV’ show by Dead J & CXW (made possible by 86/33 LINK) mixing visuals and visions created during our Macau Skyline Architectural Research. Unfortunately the rain scaled the planned outdoor party back to some subtler shelter scenographies.

Stay tuned for an overview of the proposals developed during the workshop!

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TIMC09 我的城市!!!

THIS IS MY CITY, this is my skyline!

Urban Panorama Workshop | Chen XiongWei aka CXW (86/33 LINK)

Urban Panorama Workshop | starting preparations for TIMC09 night event

Urban Panorama Workshop | Architects Carlos Marreiros & Nuno Soares (source: +853)

Urban Panorama Workshop | Chen XiongWei passes his video-works to the slide-show

Urban Panorama Workshop | naming design-visions: MAXI, M CLASS, MASHUP

Urban Panorama Workshop | last minute editions to slide-show

THIS IS MY CITY 09!!! live performances get canceled by rain | Dead J (86/33 LINK)

THIS IS MY CITY 09!!! 'live performances' | rainy night event (source: alive.tom.com/SioNg/)

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Urban Panorama | TIMC09!!! workshop, exhibit & party

Urban Panorama Workshop | Macau, July 3, 2009

The afternoon chapter of Macau’s rooftop expedition (see morning tour) brought us to the rooftop of a residential building at Av. Ouvidor Arriaga, another one at Artur Tamagnini Barbosa and to the lounge bar ‘The View’. From the last one, located in The Sands complex at NAPE, one could see what happens when Alvaro Siza Vieira’s 1983 Macau City Expansion Plan meets the generic demands of the city’s gaming industry. We concluded the day at Guia Hill, where astronomer Tânia Sales Marques gave a short presentation.

Urban Panorama Workshop | View from the View | Macau, July 3, 2009

In order to scan Macau’s skyline in the most effective way, the Urban Panorama Workshop modus movandi was one bus and several elevators. Navigating through the dense urban tissue, along the Chinese border and its gaming shore, we explored the intensity of the peninsula while escaping from it once we hit the elevators, opened doors and roamed the rooftops. From there sensations of vertigo and the amazement of the strange urban disorder became sources of pleasure. Where, in most architectural projects, the roofs are thought off as structure to enclose space, it shouldn’t be to difficult to write an essay/manifesto plotting out its opposite potentialities. A roof is a roof and not a roof. But also not exactly the fifth facade. They are there, above the heads, under the feet, defying our understanding of them as flat GoogleEarth surfaces. Some snapshots.

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Urban Panorama Workshop | View from rooftop Av. Ouvidor Arriaga

+853 co-production | Clara making sure we are ready to hop to the next rooftop

+853 co-production | Icarus takes us up to the 24th floor

86/33 LINK event co-organizer | Leo de Boisgisson, Dead J & Chen XiongWei

Urban Panorama Workshop | View from rooftop Artur Tamagnini Barbosa

I. M. Pei's Macau Science Museum

Urban Panorama Workshop | View from 'The View' at Sands, NAPE

Urban Panorama Workshop | Twilight presentation at Guia Hill

THIS IS MY CITY 09!!! sound check at Albergue SCM | Dead J & Chen XiongWei (86/33 LINK)

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Urban Panorama Workshop | TIMC09!!! city tour (part II)

Urban Panorama Workshop | Macau, July 3, 2009

Last Friday, THIS IS MY CITY 09-event was launched with a full day field trip along a selection of scenic Macau’s skyline spots. The Urban Panorama Workshop, a collaboration between MovingCities and Nuno Soares, made possible by Cultural Association +853, explored Macau’s urban image by taking the rooftops as locales for observation and interpretation.

Conceptually, the workshop explored lines of research and urban investigation set out in Kevin Lynch’s crucial “The Image of the City“-publication (MIT Press, 1960). Almost half a century after him postulated a series of insights and propositions into the empirical reading of the city, it is more than relevant to reconsider these in the context of rapid developing cities. In search for the spatial characteristics of Macau we have been looking into its image, much alike the three components Lynch identified:

An environmental image may be analyzed into three components: identity, structure, and meaning. It is useful to abstract these for analysis, if it is remembered that in reality they always appear together. A workable image requires first the identification of an object, which implies its distinction from other things, its recognition as a separable entity. This is called identity, not in the sense of equality with something else, but with the meaning of individuality or oneness. Second, the image must include the spatial or pattern relation of the object to the observer and to other objects. Finally, this object must have some meaning for the observer, whether practical or emotional. Meaning is also a relation, but quite a different one from spatial or pattern relation.

View from Monte Fortress | Macau, July 3, 2009

The movement through Macau led to a first mental map which was both Kevin Lynch -isch and David Lynch -isch in nature; structures twisted and turned being at once dominant, at other times distant and as we toured we tried to deal with the perceptual and perpetual collision of different skylines in one single image. Needless to tell we tried to do the impossible, but along the way we collected evidence, the base material onto which to work further upon the next day.

Part I – the morning tour – started at Albergue SCM from where we walked to Tap Seac Square to catch our fandango-colored bus. First stop was the Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Center, the world’s 10th tallest free-standing tower featuring an 360º observation level, 223m above ground. Followed by a visit to the rooftop of a housing block in Penha, at Rua do Padre António, and ending at Monte Fortress, which was build in the early seventeenth century. Part II of the city tour will follow suit.

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TIMC09 我的城市!!!

THIS IS MY CITY, this is my skyline!

Urban Panorama Workshop | Bus tour

Urban Panorama Workshop | Macau Tower Convention and Entertainment Center

Urban Panorama Workshop | View from rooftop Rua do Padre António

Urban Panorama Workshop | View from Monte Fortress

Urban Panorama Workshop | Dead J & Chen XiongWei aka The MacauMixers

Urban Panorama Workshop | Lunch & coffee break

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Urban Panorama Workshop | TIMC09!!! city tour (part I)

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Urbanism, music & video from Macau/Hong Kong/Beijing
Saturday, 4 July @ Albergue SCM Macau | 7.30pm >> 11:00pm

TIMC09!!! LIVE PERFORMANCE: Hou Mun AV show by Dead J and CXW

Dead J & Chen Xiongwei (performance) | source: Shanghai eArts Festival 2008

DEAD J aka ShaoYanPeng is a Beijing Based producer. He started performing IDM and breakcore alongside Shanshui label founder Sulumi in the end of the 90’s. Since then he’s been composing soundscapes , dreamy electronica as well as straight up dark techno. He has released three albums on modern sky: Mental imagery, Mental Magic and Psychedelic Elephant, released last winter.

ChenXiongwei is a graphic designer and an image manipulator. He graduated from the Central academy of art and design in 1993 then worked in advertising in Guangzhou where has made his own visual digest of China. The result is a world populated with red font’s slogans and saturated inserts of mercantile culture, a realm made of giant cities and burlesque characters that he brilliantly puts into motion.

86/33 LINK | Music and Art from France, China, Europe, Planet Earth and soon Mars!

Performance of Dead J and Chen Xiongwei by 86/33 LINK | Leo de Boisgisson*:

For the occasion of TIMC09!!!, 86/33 LINK is happy to join forces with MovingCities and co-organize this event together with +853 in the beautiful site of Albergue. What started as a friendly trip to Macau with Monica last January , accompanied by a lot of black coffee and Portuguese pastries evolved into a substantial project where the ‘Urban Panorama workshop’ and the artists presented by 86/33 LINK will interact and create a lively documentation on the city /island/realm of Macau.
In the shape of a video piece and an audio-visual performance, electronica producer Dead J and visual artist Chen Xiongwei will utilize moving and still fragments extracted from the urban exploration.

*86/33 LINK is a non-profit organization registered in Paris linking up Asia and Europe by creating a platform for independent artists, mostly musicians but also new media artists and street artists and also by providing professional expertise to companies or institutions seeking information and guidance on Chinese cultural and music business.

TIMC09!!! LIVE PERFORMANCE: Filipina Heterotopia by Cédric Maridet

Cédric Maridet | Mamori, Brazil 2008 (credit: Marc Behrens)

Filipina Heterotopia | Cédric Maridet

Cédric Maridet (1973, France) works and lives in Hong Kong since 1999 and is currently a full-time PhD candidate in media art in the School of Creative Media, HK’s City University. His research focuses on soundscape theories and on the paradigm between sound-event and sound-object. He founded electronic music label monème in June 2004 as the main platform to release his works [_habitus, 2006]. He has participated in performances in HK and exhibitions in HK, Macau, New York, Paris, London, Madrid and Berlin. He was awarded Prize of Excellence in the Hong Kong Art Biennial ‘05 for ‘Huangpu‘ (video), and was invited to be the artist in residence at HK’s Visual Art Centre. He is also a contributor as a “streamer” for the open microphones project of French-based research lab in audio art Locus Sonus. His works focus on field recording, audio-vision, the construction of altered sonorous spaces and architecture.

Filipina Heterotopia: (…) This piece is rooted in a socio-economic context, which can be witnessed in Hong Kong. Since the 1970’s, and the poor economic situation the government of Philippines has actively promoted and supported the migration in order to find work abroad. As a result, there is now a great number of Filipinas in Hong Kong, who came to find job as domestic helpers to take care of children, elderly, and of the household in general. As stated in their contract, they should live with their employees, and have a day of rest on Sunday usually. They usually gather on that day in open public spaces, outside their employee’s house. (…)

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THIS IS MY CITY 09!!! Live Performances Dead J & CXW + Cédric Maridet
Main organizer: Cultural Association +853
Co-organizer: Albergue SCM
Event co-producer: 86/33 LINK

• THIS IS MY CITY 09!!!  Macau event | MovingCities  Jun 26, 2009
• TIMC09!!! Urban Panorama Workshop call | MovingCities Jun 29, 2009

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THIS IS MY CITY 09!!! | live performances

TIMC09 Urban Panorama Workshop (click to download pdf) | Macau, 3-5 July 2009

In the Urban Panorama Workshop, part of THIS IS MY CITY 09 three-days event, MovingCities will collaborate with Nuno Soares, and explore Macau’s urban landscape by investigating the relation between the cultural/media imaginaries and the concrete conditions of the everyday. In order to do so we will hop from rooftop to rooftop, scanning Macau’s skyline. Starts this Friday, join us!

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Urbanism, music & video from Macau/Hong Kong/Beijing for a three days’ event

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URBAN PANORAMA WORKSHOP

Macau Skyline Architectural Research

Workshop by MovingCities [Mónica Carriço+Bert de Muynck] & Nuno Soares

Main organizer: Cultural Association +853
Co-organizer: Albergue SCM
Event co-producer: 86/33 LINK

THIS IS MY CITY, this is my skyline!

Workshop Main Objective

A two-day workshop explores Macau’s urban landscape by investigating the relation between the visual quality and the mental image of the city which is held by its citizens. Using strategies of experimental and empirical field research along Macau’s rooftops and sightseeing spots, a parcour will form the set-up for an intensified collaborative design workshop. By reading Macau “from within” its territory, landmarks and new building geographies will be identified, laying focus on three components of the city’s skyline (character, structure, and meaning).

Through research and design this workshop’s main objective is to understand the potentialities of bringing new types of architectural approaches onto its territory, by reading and interpreting the current state and by projecting speculative designs, so to transform, strengthen and discuss its urban features. The expected outcome will be a “what if” scenario based on a series of optical transformations of Macau’s skyline.

Workshop Approach

Contrary to common belief, a city does not have one fixed and single skyline, as the urban environment is not a stable entity that can be solely understood from one viewpoint only. A myriad of perspectives determines its image.

By exploring Macau from a unique set of locations, from atop rooftops to other vista points, the workshop investigates what a series of skylines tell about Macau’s urban complexion.

What can be read in its horizon, not from outside the city, but from within, and how does this shape the understanding of the city?
How do singled-out architectures dominate the view and act as point of references?

The analysis and effects of physical and perceptible architectural constructions are one of the foundations for city design. The workshop uncovers the role of form in the creation of the city’s image. Investigating in research and design the shifting perception of architectural forms, the participants will bring their findings and speculation in relation with the future development of Macau.

Workshop Day Plan

PART I  [Friday, July 03 | 09:30 – 20:00]

The first day of the workshop focuses on the visual quality of Macau. A tour along several rooftops, which aren’t commonly accessible, will offer a multi-perspective view from which design parameters will be distilled. Eight elevated outlooks, in the different boroughs of Macau Island, will form the locations to engage with Macau’s complex urban landscape. Impressions will be registered in the form of photography, video, sounds and sketching.

PART II  [Saturday, July 04 | 10:00 – 18:00]

The second day concentrates on the analysis and design exercise.
Starting with a discussion amongst the participants about their experience, an initial analysis will be made by processing the collected material. The afternoon will be reserved to make a sharper reading and analysis of the state of affairs of Macau and to test a speculative architectural approach to the skyline, focusing on the relation between background and foreground, notions of singularity, form simplicity, dominance, directional differentiation, visual scope and meaning.
During the evening’s THIS IS MY CITY09, organization selected works (only) from the participants will be included in the Urban Panorama Workshop exhibition to be open. Furthermore, the works will be also included in a live event (co-produced by 86/33 LINK), which will be handed over to Beijing sound-artist DEAD J and visual jockey Chen Xiongwei, who will remix it in order to explore additional interactive skyline scenario’s.

PART III  [Sunday, July 05 | 16:00 – 18:30]

The workshop will culminate on a third day encompassing a roundtable discussion with invited guests – including local architects, municipality actors, city-planners, artists – that are deeply intertwined with Macau’s future urban developments.
In this debate, formal dialogues amongst people that participate on the design of the city will be confronted and contrasted with the views and projections done by the workshop participants. The purpose is to trigger a creative debate about the contemporary image of Macau, based on uncovering future scenarios – stemming from empirical rooftop research and the new skyline scenarios developed during the workshop.

All attendees will be awarded a certificate of participation on this workshop officiated by +853 Cultural Association, MovingCities and Albergue SCM.

Please click to download the application form and/or contact +853 [+853 28523869 / TIMC853(at)gmail(dot)com] for more information.

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Urban Panorama Workshop | TIMC09!!! call

THIS IS MY CITY 09 poster (click to enlarge) | Macau, 3-5 July 2009

Between July 3 and 5, MovingCities is invited by Macau’s Culture Association +853 to participate in this year  THIS IS MY CITY 我的城市!!! event.

TIMC IS A EVENT THAT AIMS TO CELEBRATE THE URBAN LIFE IN ITS DIVERSITY OF CULTURES AND PEOPLE. BY COMBINING MUSIC, VIDEO ART AND DESIGN THIS EVENT INVITES EVERYONE TO EXPERIENCE THE CITY OF MACAO IN A SOPHISTICATED AND CREATIVE WAY BY PRESENTING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CULTURAL EXPERIENCE.

Very soon, we will be making a series of posts, introducing Macau’s URBAN PANORAMA workshop*, and other relevant updates on this collaborative city happening.
Stay tuned!

*update: Urban Panorama Workshop [Macau TIMC09 event] call for participation!

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Urbanism, music & video from Macau/Hong Kong/Beijing for a three days’ event

The Albergue da Santa Casa da Misericórdia (澳門仁慈堂婆仔屋) will be holding on the next July 3 to 5, 2009, this year’s edition of the multidisciplinary event This Is My City (TIMC), which is an initiative from the Cultural Association +853, co-organized by Albergue and with the institutional support of the MSAR Cultural Institute and the Institute of European Studies of Macau.

The event, which has the aim of explore new ways of feeling the city, is divided in three moments: a workshop about urbanism, a round table to debate the questions to be raised throughout the workshop, and also a performance that will include music and video art.

Similarly to what happened last year, the main moments of TIMC will occur at Albergue, in São Lázaro Neighbourhood. And once again, artists and cultural agents from Macau and China will be together. The 2009 edition of TIMC will also count with the presence of an artist living in Hong Kong.

The Cultural Association +853 invited the project MovingCities, based in Beijing, to coordinate the URBAN PANORAMA workshop, which will be held during the three days of the event. Conceived by the architects Mónica Carriço and Bert de Muynck, with the local assistance of the architect Nuno Soares, the URBAN PANORAMA explores Macau’s urban landscape by investigating the relation between the cultural/media imaginaries and the concrete conditions of the everyday.

this is my city, this is my skyline!

On the first day of the workshop, the participants will do a research about the characteristics of the city on Macau’s rooftops and sightseeing spots. The collected material will then be analyzed and prepared in order to create an exhibition, which will be inaugurated on July 4, at 20:30, in the conference room of Albergue.

On July 5, 16:00, also at the conference room of Albergue, there will be a round table that will seat together the architects who held the workshop and several individualities experienced in urban management and design. All those interested in the subject are welcomed in the debate. The URBAN PANORAMA workshop is for people who want hands-on experiment and experience of the urban reality and that have some design and analytical skills: students, architects, urban planners, designers, artists, photographers, film-makers, practitioners, writers and all interested in debating the city.

TIMC is an invitation to feel and enjoy the city. Therefore, on the evening of July 4 there is a performance in Albergue with artists from Macau, Hong Kong and Beijing, which is co-produced by 86/33 LINK, a cultural association from the Chinese capital.

The performance starts with the opening of the exhibition URBAN PANORAMA. Then, Cedric Maridet will present his work, focused on field recordings, soundscape compositions, audio-vision and the construction of altered sonorous spaces. The French artist, who is living in Hong Kong, will bring to TIMC09 his approach about the Philippine community living in HKSAR.

After that, DEAD J will show what is being done in China in the electronic sounds’ field. Coming from Beijing, DEAD J is considered as one of the most interesting artists in the Chinese electronic music scene. During his performance, Chen Xiongwei, a VJ also from the Chinese metropolis, will manipulate images produced by the participants on the workshop URBAN PANORAMA.

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映像．音樂．都市風情：三日文化盛事串連京港澳

《我的城市！！！二○○九》在婆仔屋舉行

本年度的跨界別文化盛事《我的城市！！！》將於二○○九年七月三至五日假仁慈堂婆仔屋舉行，活動由+853文化協會主辦、仁慈堂婆仔屋協辦，並獲澳門特別行政區文化局及澳門歐洲研究協會支持。

今 年《我的城市！！！》將藉三項活動，探索如何以新鮮角度體驗澳門的城市風情。其中為期兩日的工作坊將探討澳門的都市景觀，緊接的圓桌會議並會深入議論澳門 的城市議題。一如去年，《我的城市！！！》的重頭戲將在「瘋堂」的婆仔屋上演，來自澳門、香港及北京的藝術家與文化界人士將濟濟一堂，以音樂與錄像勾劃三 地都市風貌。

+853文化協會今年邀請到來自北京的智庫組織移動城市（MovingCities）舉辦一連三日的「城市全景」工作坊（URBAN PANORAMA），來自北京的建築師伯德孟（Bert de Muynck）及莫妮卡·卡瑞苏（Mónica Carriço）將聯同澳門建築師Nuno Soares，帶領工作坊學員探討澳門人心目中的都市形象與視覺質素之間的聯繫，從而探索澳門的城市景觀。

參與工作坊的學員第一日將登上 不同建築物的天台與觀光景點，考察並記錄澳門的城市特徵，學員的研調成果在加以分析及整理後，將在第二日晚上八時十五分起在婆仔屋的會議室公開展覽。三位 帶領工作坊的建築師，在第三日下午四時將回到婆仔屋會議室主持圓桌會議，與擁有豐富城市管治與設計經驗的業界人士一起討論澳門的城市規劃，並歡迎公眾人士 參與討論。

「城市全景」工作坊歡迎所有曾經親身體會都市現實生活、並具備基本設計與分析能力的公眾人士參與，無論是學生、建築師、城市規 劃師、設計師、藝術家、攝影師、錄像製作人、作家或其他有興趣議論本澳城市命題的市民，都歡迎登上網站http: //thisismycity853.blogspot.com以了解參加「城市全景」工作坊的詳情。

《我的城市！！！》邀請所有人感受 再享受澳門－－正因如此，婆仔屋七月四日晚上將會匯聚北京、香港和澳門的藝術家，出席由北京文化組織88/33 LINK統籌的藝術表演。當晚節目將由「城市全景」展覽的開幕禮拉開序幕，緊接將放映由居港法籍藝術家Cedric maridet創作的錄像作品，透過實地錄音、城市音景組曲、透聲幕等視聽元素，展現在香港的菲律賓群體的生活寫照。

錄像放映後，來自北 京的DEAD J （邵彦棚）將表演具獨特個人風格的電子音樂，他被視為中國電子音樂界中最令人感興趣的人物，觀眾藉演出能一窺內地樂壇多元前衛的一面。音樂之中，同樣來自 北京的視覺藝術家陳偉雄更會運用來自「城市全景」工作坊的圖片，讓一幕幕澳門風情畫與前銳的電子音樂結合串連，以把當晚節目推上高潮。

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Upcoming:
Urban Panorama Workshop | TIMC09!!! city tour (part I) [July, 2010]
Urban Panorama Workshop | TIMC09!!! city tour (part II) [July, 2010]

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THIS IS MY CITY 09!!! | Macau

Line 13 Redux | workshop area: Longze station, Badaling expressway and its surroundings

On June 19, three and a half weeks after MovingCities kickstarted research and design for Beijing’s short and intense two-day Line13 Redux-workshop, the students of the School of Architecture and Community Design (University of South Florida, Tampa) presented their first analysis and design proposals. An overview.

Line 13 Redux | by Stephanie Herring & Brennen Huller

Line 13 Redux | by Maryam Younes & Chablis Applewhite

After the Line13 Redux Fieldtrip and one and a half day show-us-the-instant-analysis workshop studio, the students participating in the USF ‘Summer Studio in China‘ continued throughout the past weeks further investigation. Under the guidance of Assistant Professor Shannon Bassett they developed site analysis, concepts and were asked to define their program of intervention. The “review” of June 19 was intended to discuss the first results produced so far.

Line13 Redux Workshop Review | June 19, 2009

Invitees included Professor Ann Bergren (B.A.S.E. / UCLA), Juliane Demel (CAUPD), Michelle Lin (FRAME magazine China) and Mónica Carriço+Bert de Muynck (MovingCities). For a full textual and visual overview of the Line13 Redux-workshop so far, check the below links. We’ll keep you in the Line13-loop about further developments.

Line 13 Redux | workshop pages

• Line13 Redux
• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 1): Beiyuan-Lishuiqiao
• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 2): Longze
• Line 13 Redux | Studio
• Line 13 Redux | Review
• Line 13 Redux | Students’ work (in progress)

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Line13 Redux | review & student works

Beijing Line 13 | Northern Section

Line 13 Redux workshop | Beijing, May 25-26, 2009

On May 25 and 26, 2009, MovingCities was invited by Shannon Bassett, Assistant Professor at School of Architecture and Community Design | University of South Florida, Tampa, to give a short design workshop. After dealing in last years’ ‘Line13 Superlinearity‘-workshop with the Northern section of Beijing’s elevated subway line, ‘Line13 Redux‘ focussed on the intersection of the Badaling Expressway and Line13 as the locale for research and intervention.

Line 13 Redux fieldtrip | Beijing, May 25, 2009

On Monday May 25, Line13 Redux kicked off with a fieldtrip on Line13. Departing from the Dongzhimen subway station we moved to the first stop on the Northern section of this subway line, the Beiyuan subway station. From here we walked along dusty roads, large construction sites and a large canal to the Lishuiqiao subway station. Half a year after our previous walk in this area – see ‘Looping Line13‘ (December 2008) – it wasn’t difficult to understand in which direction this area is currently developing: it seems that in-between the Beiyuan and Lishuiqiao subway station one of Beijing’s largest residential housing development is currently under construction.

For an extensive documentation of the present state of this area, check the images on Line13 Redux | Fieldtrip (Beiyuan-Lishuiqiao).

Line 13 Superlinearity fieldtrip | Beijing, May 27, 2008

Throughout the past years MovingCities developed a couple of self-initiated investigations around Beijing’s Line13 and has been fortunate to develop some of its findings further by giving the aforementioned workshops. Our interest can be summed up as follows:

Line13 is the mobility spine that makes Beijing move. It is an elevated subway line cutting through large parts of the modern city. With Beijing’s attempts to spread its urban growth into a polycentric model, Line13 re-organizes this ambition; connecting nodes of polycentric development. Surrounding the line are zones where economical, sociological and cultural tensions co-exist.

Street market panorama (source: Carlos Gil/USF - click to enlarge)

From Lishuiqiao we took Line13 to the most Western stop on the Northern section, Longze subway station. Here the subway line intersects with the Badaling Expressway, a 70 kilometer highway connecting Beijing with the Great Wall. Since its construction in 1996 (finished in 2001), the Badaling Expressway has acted as an important attractor for urban development in the North-Western part of Beijing. Around the Longze subway station, where the expressway meets the subway line, four distinct and programmatically autonomous areas can be discerned; a semi-legal and self-built migrant village, an area called ‘car city’, a low-rise residential area and a high-rise upscale residential area.

For an extensive documentation of the present state of this area, check the images on Line13 Redux | Fieldtrip (Longze).

Line 13 Redux fieldtrip | Beijing, May 25, 2009

In the afternoon we headed to the Crossboundaries studio where the workshop took off. In an upcoming post we will provide background and the outcome of this short and intense Line13 Redux-workshop. Stay tuned.

For now, have a look at our project pages:

• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Program
• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 1): Beiyuan-Lishuiqiao
• Line 13 Redux | Workshop Field Trip (part 2): Longze
• Line 13 Redux | Studio

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Line13 Redux | workshop field trip

Nikola Uzunovski | My Sunshine (Malmberget 2009)

With 38 participants hailing from 18 different countries, the City Move Interdesign Workshop attracted a wide variety of designers, architects, consultants, academics and artists from all stamps. A first introduction to the work of Gavin Baxter, Dia Batal, Tony Fry, Nikola Uzunovski, Aleksander Petrov and Lance Rake.

Gavin Baxter | City Move InterDesign Workshop

Gavin Baxter (Canada) was between 2006 and 2007 a student of the Institute Without Boundaries, which was founded in 2003 by George Brown College and Bruce Mau Design. There he was involved with the Institute’s World House Project which was about creating a global system of housing that focuses on sustainability and universal design, specifically by incorporating locally available materials and responding to local peoples’ needs. This led in 2007 to his involvement in the The World House Interdesign 2007, an international conference being hosted by George Brown College’s Institute Without Boundaries in partnership with the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), the Harbinger Foundation and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. The full report on the outcome of this workshop can be downloaded as pdf.

Dia Batal | Stockholm (April 2009)

Dia Batal | Mural in Bahrain with poems of Mahmoud Darwich

Dia Batal (Jordan, originally Palestine) obtained her BA in Interior Architecture from the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and recently completed her MA in Design (Critical Practice) at Goldsmiths College in London. In “Dia Batal’s Design World” she gives a short introduction to her contemporary work, influences and background.

Tony Fry | City Move InterDesign Workshop

Tony Fry (Australia) is Adjunct Professor to Griffith University, Queensland College of Art where since July 2008 he runs the new Design Futures Masters Program. At the same he is the director of Team D/E/S a company created to offer strategic design for sustainments:

A sustainment is something that has been designed to advance society’s ability to sustain the conditions of interdependence upon which the future depends. A sustainment might be a product, a policy, a work practice, a building or a built environment, or even a new industry. A sustainment is an incremental action taken now towards enhancing society’s ability to sustain itself and that with which it interacts and upon which it depends — including the relations between the natural and the artificial; the material and the immaterial; the economic and the cultural. ‘Sustainment’ is a concept alert to, and directive of, change and process. It is more aware of time than the more familiar idea of ‘sustainable development’.

Nikola Uzunovski | My Sunshine (Malmberget 2009)

Nikola Uzunovski (Macedonia) brought to the workshop his “My Sunshine”-project*, which will be the official Macedonian entry for the 2009 Venice Art Biennale. His work focuses on the conceptual and experiential analysis of natural and perceptive phenomena, paying great attention to the relationship established between subjects and their environment. The project is nothing less than tantalizing, inspiring and poetic:

I’m researching the possibilities of realising flying structure which will reflect the sunlight in the urban areas around the Arctic circle. (…) The results of the research can later be applied in different fields, like, sustainable architecture, alternative energy sources, aerial transport, etc. What will be visible as an end result will be a copy of the Sun itself, a copy so close it’ll be impossible to deferent it from the real sun.

*updated info: see ‘we make money not art‘ entry (2009/07)

Nikola Uzunovski | My Sunshine (Malmberget 2009)

Recently Abitare put focus on his work in an article called “How can a valley without sunshine be sunlit?” and with another participant, Aleksander Petrov (Macedonia), an architect involved with the recently established Studio Kolektiv, he is currently working on his entry for the 2009 Venice Art Biennale.

Aleksander Petrov | City Move InterDesign Workshop

Lance Rake | City Move InterDesign Workshop

From a different aviation angle, Lance Rake, Professor of Industrial Design at the University of Kansas, has been for a couple of decades involved in designing commercial and consumer products, transportation interiors, packaging and exhibits for companies around the world like Harley Davidson, IKEA and Polaris. Recently he helped developing the prototype of a flying car; the AirCar. Currently he is involved with leading a company called Infusion Design creatively.

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City Move Workshop | participants

The Sports Arena | Malmberget

The second week of the City Move Interdesign-workshop mainly consisted of fine-tuning and structuring the concepts around which each group were working. After a week in which some groups tried to find a common ground (which not seldom led to meta-discursive situations in which the prime question was “how to talk about what we want to talk about”), there were short presentations, visits from the local community, interviews for local newspapers and productive pop-up performance in front of the camera. At times the sports arena in Malmberget (where the City Move Interdesign workshop took place) had the feeling of a laboratory, a prison, a showroom and television studio.

At the same time there was still a lot of room for experiments, finding new methods of working that aspired to transcend the demanding democratic nature of creative collaboration and short scans of the city of Malmberget, the Ground Zero of the City Move Workshop. Our love for heights, our desire to hover above the horizon brought us to the roof of Malmbergets finest almost-modernistic housing slab.

City Move Workshop | participants & setting

City Move Workshop | Malmberget from above

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City Move Workshop | part IV

The Green Group | road trip Gällivare - Kiruna

In search for a location where a new city could be build, the Green Group went exploring the area North of Malmberget. On March 27, a 250 kilometers road trip to the border of the Gällivare and Kiruna region ended in the a small city called Svappavaara where another LKAB mine was found. LKAB is an international high-tech minerals group, one of the world’s leading producers of upgraded iron ore products for the steel industry and a growing supplier of industrial minerals products to other sectors.

LKAB | Svappavaara

This is the same mining company that is responsible for the activities in, under and around the city of Malmberget, and has lead to some problems for which the City Move Interdesign-workshop is working on solutions and strategies to get out the stakeholders deadlock which keeps the local population in a state of insecurity about their present and future housing conditions. A solution to this problem could be complex and simple at the same time; to give up what doesn’t work and compensate the local population for their relocation. To understand who would be responsible for this to happen, one doesn’t need to be a genius; LKAB is wholly owned by the Swedish state and recently reported their 2008 record profit as follows (10 kronor = plus minus 1 euro):

LKAB’s operating income for the full year 2008 increased by 68 percent and amounted to 10,327 million kronor. This is the best result in the company’s history. The Board suggests that dividends paid to the owner, Swedish state, for the year 2008 will total 2,800 MSEK.

To deal with this situation where the Swedish state could have the amazing opportunity to grasp this opportunity of forced evacuation of Malmberget, to start a new type of city, based on a different mode of planning, organization and culture, the Green Group was working around the idea to make a new beginning, a fresh start, a new city located North of Malmberget. A couple of snapshots of our journey.

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Gällivare and Kiruna region Field Trip by The Green Group.
Part of the City Move Interdesign-workshop (March 22 – April 4, 2009)

The Green Group includes:

Hector de la Peña | Consultant urban design sustainable architecture, Mexico
Hanna Sandström | Student – Institute of design Umeå university, Sweden
Tomas Seo | Concept Designer – Phorecast, Sweden
Annevi Sjöberg | Developer and Ecodesigner – Development Office Dalénum, Sweden
Bert de Muynck | Architect, Writer – co-director MovingCities, China
Natalia Agudelo | Tutor Design Department – Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

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City Move Workshop | part III

The Pit | Malmberget

There is a hole in the city of Malmberget. Since a couple of decades the underground mining activity created an expanding crater in the heart of this small city. Due to its growth, some drastic measures have been taken in the past; the population that once lived around the pit had to be moved, but not only people moved, but also their houses. Snail-wise (both in speed of relocation, decision making as in the form houses being moved by trucks) this process has hollowed the sense of community in this once pioneering mining city.

Moving Houses | Malmberget

After spending the first day of the City Move Interdesign workshop in and around the mines, the second consisted of a collective introduction in which the participants were free to voice their interest in the project. After this the 40 participants were divided in 6 different groups and started defining their approach.

MovingCities was divided over two groups. The Green Group (which included Bert de Muynck) decided to spend their first day on location and conducted some field research in the area South of the Pit; interviewing the local residents who are facing relocation on a short term. The Dark Blue Group (which included Mónica Carriço) decided to stay inside, define their interests and went on the third day on a field to the neighboring city of Gällivare. A couple of snapshots.

City Move Workshop | Introduction

City Move Workshop | The Green Group Malmberget Fieldtrip

City Move Workshop | The Dark Blue Group Gällivare Fieldtrip

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City Move Workshop | part II

City-Move Workshop | visit to the open mine

On Monday March 23, the City Move Interdesign workshop was launched. On our first day we were informed about the workshop assignment and undertook our first fieldtrip. Destination was the city of Malmberget and the mines that are hollowing out the grounds underneath its territory.

Malmberget is a city that is located approximately 100 kilometers above the arctic circle, in the North of Sweden. During the last decades the territory is in a fierce deadlock, the result of different interests between the stakeholders (local municipality, the mining company and the Swedish government) that is forcing the local population in a state of insecurity which could easily summed up as the “should I stay or should I go?”-dilemma. Here, during the coming two weeks, the City Move Interdesign is taking place.

For now, a couple of snapshots of the first day which included a drive around Malmberget (advertising itself as the Mining Capital of Europe), a visit to the underground (the mine), another visit to the open pit mine (which is spread out on an area of about 28 km2) and a synopsis of the workshop assignment:

The town of Malmberget is a part of the Gällivare municipality and for nearly 40 years it has been involved in a drawn out and, at times, painful moving process as a result of the expansion of the mining industry. The current community is suffering as empty buildings and the gradual deterioration into a slum has negatively affected the quality of life.

increasingly residents of Malmberget are forced to move from their apartments and homes to other areas. It is difficult to say how long this process will continue. It is clear, however, that increasing numbers of residents will be affected in the coming years. Since the 1970s, the population has fallen by more than half and today Malmberget has about 600 residents.

City-Move Workshop | Malmberget

City-Move Workshop | visit to the underground mine

City-Move Workshop | visit to the open mine

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City Move Workshop | part I

Robin Edman | chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID)

On Sunday March 22, all participants for the City Move Interdesign workshop gathered in Stockholms’ Arlanda airport. After a short introduction by Robin Edman, chief executive of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID), the group entered a small airplane which took us from Stockholm Arlanda to Lapland Airport, the last one positioned close to the town of Gällivare. In this small city, located 100 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, we will during the coming weeks investigate and explore how to move a city. More updates on the workshop progress, content and participants, hailing from 18 different countries, will follow soon, for now a couple of snapshots.

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Stockholm >> Gällivare

City Move Interdesign Workshop

During the coming two weeks MovingCities will be participating in the City Move Interdesign workshop in Gällivare, Sweden. In a partnership with Icsid, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) and the community of Gellivare, City Move Interdesign will be the main activity in a project about relocating people and societies. The project will look at socially responsible design methods to create new spaces for people and is part of the Icsid Interdesign workshop series .

An interdesign is a two-week workshop where an international team of industrial designers and professionals from other disciplines come together to work collaboratively on a predetermined issue of regional and/or international significance. A host country identifies a particular problem specific to their country whose solution is applicable in other international contexts. Since the first interdesign workshop in 1971, Interdesign themes have ranged from being purely product design to opening discussions on general topics.

City Move Interdesign is not about moving houses…it’s about moving societies!

View Larger Map Gällivare

From our temporary location above the Arctic Circle (North Pole), we will be posting on the progress of the workshop. More information can be found on the website of the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation. The City Move Interdesign workshop will attempt “to develop creative solutions for a serious problem” with following objective:

In the northern part of Sweden the mining industry continues to expand and, in certain areas, the ground is crumbling under entire cities. This poses enormous challenges to the survival of such cities and may force their populations to relocate. But is it possible to relocate whilst safeguarding and transferring parts of, or entire societies? How can this be done effectively? This is the challenge set for City Move Interdesign.

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City Move Workshop | part I
City Move Workshop | part II
City Move Workshop | part III
City Move Workshop | part IV
City Move Workshop | participants I

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City Move Interdesign workshop | announcement

[bracket] | [architecture, landscape, urbanism, environment, digital culture]

The outcome of the ‘LINE 13 SUPERLINEARITY‘ workshop, in collaboration with Adrian Blackwell (Beijing, May 2008) was selected for the first issue of [bracket] publication.

[bracket] is a collaboration of Archinect and InfraNet Lab, and is composed of a collection of diverse editors and an open-source contributing membership.
[bracket] is an annual publication documenting issues overlooked yet central to our cultural milieu that have evolved out of the new disciplinary territory at the intersection of architecture, landscape, urbanism and, now, the internet. (…)
[bracket] is a publishing platform for ideas charting the complex overlap of the sphere of architecture and online social spheres. Seeking new voices and talent, [bracket] is structured around an open call for entries. The series will look at thematics in our age of globalization that are shaping the built environment in radically significant and yet unexpected ways.
Supported by the Graham Foundation.

In total, 39 Projects were selected by the jury – which consisted of Michael Speaks (Dean of the College of Design and Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky); Nathalie de Vries (principal architect/founder of MVRDV); Mason White (co-founder of Lateral Office); Fritz Haeg (Fritz Haeg Studio, Sundown Schoolhouse); Charles Waldheim (Associate Dean and Director of the Landscape Architecture program of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto). Publication Date: Winter 2009.

Superlinear Garden Hub | Joseph Yau | Line13 Superlinearity Workshop

[bracket] ISSUE #1: ON FARMING

Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. From terraforming to foodsheds to crowdsourcing, farming often involves the management of the natural mediated by the technologic. Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.

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LINE 13 SUPERLINEARITY project page

End of May 2008 movingcities was invited by Adrian Blackwell, Assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design | University of Toronto to give a design workshop in Beijing. Through a series of fieldtrips and programmatic interventions, we looked closer into the Beijing’s peri-urban condition along the Northern section of Line13.

Students participating on this workshop: Gary Chien, Maya Desai, Holly Jordan, Hayley Imerman, Safora Khoylou, Esmond Lee, Timothy Lee, Antoine Morris, Mariangela Piccione, Matthew Spremulli, Sando Thordarson, Sandy Wong, Joseph Yau.

[bracket] | LINE13 - SUPERLINEARITY

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[bracket] ON FARMING | publication

Line13 Superlinearity workshop presentation at TIMstudio | Beijing, May 31 2008

Workshop | analyses & conclusions

Line13 | Masterplan: Superimposing Programmatic Concepts

• Segment Analyses
• Program Analyses
• Programmatic Concepts
• Design Proposals
• Masterplan Proposals

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Line13 Superlinearity | Presentation

Workshop | Public Presentation | May 31, 2008

Adrian Blackwell and movingcities.org are pleased to invite you to the final presentation of the LINE 13 – SUPERLINEARITY workshop*, hosted at TIM/studio in Beijing.

The workshop took place between May 26 and May 31: a group of 13 architecture students from the University of Toronto researched, worked and designed around the Northern section of Line13 (from Xierqi till Beiyuan) dealing with the topics of New Forms of Work, Productive Landscapes and Transportation Networks.

Review will start at 17h00.
The students will present their findings, analyses and conclusion,
followed by drinks/discussion.

Location: Theatre in Motion/studio, Beijing
Beixinqiao Dongsi Beidajie, Dongsi Shisi Tiao 93 A 4th Floor
中国北京东城区100007东 四十四条93 A楼四层

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*In collaboration with Xu Jian (Professor of Art History, Sichuan Polytechnic University).
*Students participating on this workshop: Gary Chien, Maya Desai, Holly Jordan, Hayley Imerman, Safora Khoylou, Esmond Lee, Timothy Lee, Antoine Morris, Mariangela Piccione, Matthew Spremulli, Sando Thordarson, Sandy Wong, Joseph Yau.

*More information about the workshop: Line13 Superlinearity project page.

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Line13 Superlinearity | Invitation

Line13 Superlinearity workshop | Beijing, May 29 2008

Workshop | day 4 of 5

Line13 Superlinearity workshop at TIMstudio | Beijing, May 30 2008

• Line13 Superlinearity project page

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Line13 Superlinearity | In work