'Placing' Culture in Urban China
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:47:00 BST
Towards a Transdisciplinary Dialogue
UCL Urban Lab - Thursday 2 July 2015
Room G07, Pearson Building
M50 artists residences and studios, Shanghai, 2010. Photo by Ioanni Delsante
On Thursday 2nd July, Dr. Ioanni Delsante (University of Huddersfield) will speak about the role of the creative industry to re-activate urban spaces, with a special focus on the contemporary Chinese experiences of spatial transformations for artistic purposes.
The seminar is organised by the UCL Urban Lab and it seeks to initiate a dialogue concerning the reflexive relationship between culture and place in China from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Tianzifang creative district, 2010. Photo by Nadia Bertolino
Dr. Ioanni Delsante, with Dr. Nadia Bertolino from University of Sheffield, will introduce an overview of some relevant case-studies of creative district in Shanghai and Beijing, characterised by different spatial conditions. The case studies will include Tianzifang and 1933 Abbatoir as best practice of architectural and urban “recycle” through the delivery of a complex programme. The M50 in Shanghai and 798 in Beijing will be mentioned as samples of a different approach, mainly based on the urban transformation through the balance of existing and new spaces dedicated to creative purposes.
