Cultural Agents of Change - Urban Production and the Educational Turn
B-Side Festival Edition
Poster
B/Side Design is an international organization developing and implementing strategies of urban and social impact targeting untapped areas of economic development in the context of the People’s Republic of China.
By leveraging transectorial coalitions across public, private and corporate networks invested in the sustainability of future cities, it tailor-makes context-sensitive programs and contents for urban communities and stakeholders.
Speakers:
Antonie Angerer & Anna-Viktoria Eschbach, Rachele Mai, Ted Black, Daphne Xu
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Place of the Day – Urban Utopia and the Nostalgic Garden
by Weili Zhang
This essay discusses the titular terminologies (Utopia, Nostalgia, Garden and Place) in relation to each other, showing how various concepts are interlinked through a brief account of history and observations of contemporary Chinese society.
positions
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Stranger Than Science-Fiction?
by Samuel Kay and Muxia Liu
Urban Inequality, Density, and the Spatial Imaginaries of Beijing’s City Plan and Hao Jingfang’s Folding Beijing
residencyprojects
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Walls and WalnutsMar 10, 2020
An ongoing project in a collaboration with artists Zhangbolong Liu and Jialin Yang
research-grantsprojects
A Thousand-Year StageAugust 2019
A Thousand-Year Stage (2019) is an experimental non-fiction film that features local residents of Xiongan New Area, Chinaʼs most recently planned megacity, awaiting its transformation. By Daphne Xu.
exhibitionprojects
past talks
Talk No. 5: Seeing the OlympicsDec 7, 2019
Visual Communication and Image-Making.
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Talk No. 3: Ten Years afterDec 15th, 2019
In what way does the Beijing pre and post-Olympics Beijing differ? How are events like the Olympics utilized for a Chinese urbanization model?
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Talk No. 4: Green BeltNov 2, 2019
A common problem that cities all around the world are sharing is the growing urban pollution problem.
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