cultural tourism
Eduard Kögel: Jinyun Quarries, in Architectural Practice 12/2022, p. 142–151.
Eduard Kögel: Jinyun Quarries, in Architectural Practice 12/2022, p. 142–151.
Eduard Kögel: Nadelstiche der Provokation: Songyang – ein neues lokales Selbstverständnis, in archithese 3.2022
September 2022
Catalogue Xu Tiantian, Jinyun Quarries, The Quarry as Stage, Aedes Berlin
The mountainous landscape of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China, has been shaped by the manual mining of natural stone. For the rugged and hard-to-access region, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her team were asked to develop strategies for new uses for nine of the over 3000 small, abandoned quarries, which now provide a stage for cultural and social activities, and simultaneously strive for ecological improvements and create new economic perspectives for the rural population. The pits, provided with new functions, have become part of a public infrastructure that puts historical aspects extending back over a thousand years as well as the everyday culture heritage in a new context. The exhibition, which reached us from Beijing by the most sustainable means of transport possible, namely by train, communicates the breath-taking sense of space in the stone quarries of Jinyun in a large-scale installation. Spacious, translucent models, photos, plans, and films visualize the complex structure of the spaces carved into the rock.
Exhibition 19 March – 5 May 2022
Opening Friday, 18 March 2022
The mountainous landscape of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China, has been shaped by the manual mining of natural stone. For the rugged and hard-to-access region, the Beijing architect Xu Tiantian and her team were asked to develop strategies for new uses for nine of the over 3000 small, abandoned quarries, which now provide a stage for cultural and social activities, and simultaneously strive for ecological improvements and create new economic perspectives for the rural population. The pits, provided with new functions, have become part of a public infrastructure that puts historical aspects extending back over a thousand years as well as the everyday culture heritage in a new context. The exhibition, which reached us from Beijing by the most sustainable means of transport possible, namely by train, communicates the breath-taking sense of space in the stone quarries of Jinyun in a large-scale installation. Spacious, translucent models, photos, plans, and films visualize the complex structure of the spaces carved into the rock.
Architectural acupuncture works: how architect Xu Tiantian’s interventions change communal life in rural China and what lessons can be learned from them
1st edition, 2020, Text in English, Hardcover, 272 pages, 139 color and 72 b/w illustrations and plans, 29.5 x 29.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-186-9
Online Discussion BIFT, Beijing
ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY FORUM SERIES 2020
TIME – SPACE RELATIONS : HOW TO APPROACH SPACE TIME?
4. JULY 2020
Ausstellungseröffnung, Vorträge, Diskussion
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Rural Moves – The Songyang Story“
Begrüßung: Angelika Fitz, Direktorin Az W; Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Direktor Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin
Einführung: Eduard Kögel, Kurator, Berlin; Liu Shouying, Rural Economist, Peking
Vorträge: Xu Tiantian, DnA_Design and Architecture, Peking; Roland Gruber, Landluft – Verein zur Förderung von Baukultur in ländlichen Räumen
Podiumsdiskussion: Roland Gruber, Eduard Kögel, Liu Shouying, Xu Tiantian
Eröffnung: Angelika Fitz, Direktorin Az W; Kristin Feireiss, Direktorin Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin; LI Xiaosi, Chinesischer Botschafter in Österreich
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.
Programme Manager, Berlin, Germany
Mexico
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