EXHIBITION

UNI­VER­SITY OF STUTTGART
FOYER
AR­CHI­TEC­TURE-
BUILD­ING

Under the title "china in­for­mal", the study trip fo­cuses on tra­di­tional and con­tem­po­rary Chi­nese ar­chi­tec­ture and land­scape ar­chi­tec­ture as well as new forms of par­tic­i­pa­tion in pub­lic space.

As part of the ex­cur­sion to Bei­jing and Shang­hai, dif­fer­ent forms of deal­ing with pub­lic spaces are doc­u­mented. Se­lected lo­ca­tions were analysed using draw­ings and pho­tographs. In ad­di­tion, in­ter­views with par­tic­i­pants were also con­ducted.

Re­searchers and stu­dents from the CAFA Bei­jing (Cen­tral Acad­emy of Fine Arts, School of Ar­chi­tec­ture, De­part­ment of Land­scape Ar­chi­tec­ture) have sup­ported the se­lec­tion of suit­able lo­ca­tions, the in­clu­sion of plan­ning law is­sues and deal­ing with the au­thor­i­ties. The on-site in­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­ducted in mixed teams of Chi­nese and Ger­man stu­dents. The joint work pro­vides im­por­tant points of ref­er­ence for the sub­se­quent re­flec­tion and dis­cus­sion of the im­pres­sions gained to­gether.

The study is em­bed­ded in a frame­work pro­gramme that in­cludes im­por­tant urban spaces in Bei­jing and Shang­hai.

These in­clude tra­di­tional sites such as the For­bid­den City, the Sum­mer Palace and the Tem­ple of Heaven Park, but also con­tem­po­rary urban de­vel­op­ment pro­jects such as the Olympic Park, the 798 Art Dis­trict, the artists' colony of the artist Ai Wei Wei in Caochangdi and the San­l­i­tun busi­ness dis­trict. Site and pro­ject vis­its serve to deepen knowl­edge of the tra­di­tions and cul­ture of the host coun­try. At the same time, the im­pact of the rapid urban de­vel­op­ment of Bei­jing and Shang­hai can be bet­ter cat­e­gorised against this back­ground.

Over the course of the se­mes­ter, ana­logue and dig­i­tal work­ing tech­niques and their com­bi­na­tion were trained.

Lo­ca­tionStuttgart
Cat­e­goriesEx­hi­bi­tion, DIY