Songyang-Regions on the Rise
Songyang-Regions on the Rise Conference
8–10. November 2018
Rethinking strategies for new rural developments is a pressing global challenge today. Dynamic urbanization processes shape large areas of the world – and China in particular – while the hinterland has long been a subject of neglect. To stimulate an international discussion, Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin presented the exhibition ‘Rural Moves – The Songyang Story’ this year, which led to the initiation of the conference ‘Regions on the Rise – Culture and Architecture as Drivers for Rural Development’ in Songyang County, China. The focus lies on the dualities and interrelations occurring in the relationship between the urban and the rural, always seeking to explore what culture and architecture can do in interplay with economy, spatial planning, infrastructure and ecology. This development might establish new concepts and therefore a new rural con dence and identity as well as economic progress and reliability as major incentives to make people stay or even return into the hinterland.
Words of Welcome and Introduction
Xiang Zhaolun Minister for Culture at the Central Government, Beijing, China
Kristin Feireiss Director Aedes Architecture Forum and Network Campus Berlin, Germany
Hu Haifeng Mayor of Lishui City, China
Key Lecture
Remy Sietchiping Leader, Regional and Metropolitan Planning, UN-HABITAT, Nairobi, Kenya
Introduction
Wang Jun Magistrate Songyang County, China
Hans-Jürgen Commerell Director Aedes Architecture Forum and Network Campus Berlin, Germany
Xu Tiantian Architect, Beijing, China
Eduard Kögel Architecture Historian, Berlin, Germany
Ten by Ten Impulse Statements
Experts from various elds and different countries report on their research and experiences on rural development made in their speci c region or institution.
- Zhang Ke Founding Principal, ZAO/standardarchitecture 标准营造, Beijing, China, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, USA
- Angel Luis Fernandez Head of Research Center for Urban Design, ESNE. School of Design, Innovation and Technology, Madrid, Spain
- Zhang Lei Professor, Founder & Chief Architect, Nanjing University, AZL architects, Nanjing, China
- Angelika Fitz Director, Austrian Architecture Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Miriam Mlecek Researcher, formerly Leibniz University Hanover / ANCB
Programme Manager, Berlin, Germany
- Zhang Yue Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Nuria Costa Leonardo Mexican Women’s Network, Civic Society, Morelos,
Mexico
- Huang Yung Sung Art Director, Han Sheng Magazine, Taiwan
- Adrian Iredale Director, Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects, Perth, Australia
- Zhu Jingxiang Professor, Hong Kong University, China
Panel ONE: Culture + Architecture
Moderator: Andreas Ruby Director, Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Li Xiangning Professor, Tongji University, Curator Chinese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2018, Shanghai, China
Hitoshi Abe Architecture and Urban Design Chair, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Sendai, Japan
Farrokh Derakhshani Director, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Geneva, Switzerland
Panel TWO: Ecology and Economy + Architecture
Moderator: Aric Chen Curator-at-large, M+, Hong Kong
Liu Shouying Economist, China
Erhard An-He Kinzelbach, Professor, Founder KNOWSPACE, Berlin, Germany
Juan Mayr, Foreign Office, Bogotá, Colombia
Lina Annab, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Amman, Jordan
