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’City=Museum’ at UCCA
United Kingdom Architecture News - Sep 28, 2014 - 10:50 4775 views
Sunday 28 September, UCCA, Beijing
3pm: Symposium CITY = MUSEUM
Presentation discussing the holistic strategy for 798, followed by a public debate. Speakers include Inge Goudsmit & Daniel Hui (OMA), Fei Jun (CAFA), Liu Yingjiu (Rockbund Art Museum) and more.
Moderated by MARS + MORE.
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798 and the Creative Cluster Conundrum
Chinese cities face a new urgency: to move away from the mass production of built space, and instead nurture the rise of healthy, diverse and creative urban centers. To this end, creative clusters are a pivotal planning tool. Creative districts the world over have been able to assimilate into existing urban fabric and effectively reinvent themselves as unique and profitable destinations. However, 798, the first district to complete this cycle of gentrification in China, has become a victim of its own success. The area now has the resources to develop and densify, but has lost the involvement of the artistic community that would ensure new buildings contain and generate creative content. The challenge: ‘Can we plan what is essentially unplanned?’ The latest issue of Urban China Magazine “798 and the Creative Cluster Conundrum” guest edited by MARS + MORE now available.