D-TALK#15 | DAY1 Design Intelligence and Invention of Life Style

DAY1 

> 2020-12-19 15:00-17:20

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Design Intelligence and 

Invention of Life Style

15:05

    Prof. Li Linxue 

/ Natural and Social System of 

Future Urban Architecture

15:30

    > Prof. Philip F. Yuan 

/ The Digital Construction of 

Matter and Mind

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15:30  Prof. Philip F. Yuan

/ The Digital Construction of Matter and Mind

In his presentation, Prof. Yuan Feng will review the practice of his team from the perspective of matter and mind, focusing on the evolutionary journey of construction materials and design thinking. Yuan’s team has shifted their design methodology from geometrics-focused form searching towards intelligent-driven performing structure generation through their early projects, such as The Silk Wall and FabUnion Space. Meanwhile, their architectural approaches have also made leaps forward from prefab-dependent construction to machine-assisted building techniques. Through the journey, Yuan’s team has explored the possibilities of integrating digital construction techniques with traditional materials to deliver modernity while preserving the locality of their projects.

Prof. Philip F. Yuan

Professor, School of Architecture & Urban Planning, 

Tongji University

Philip F. Yuan is a tenured professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Tongji University, a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, 2019), and Thomas Jefferson professor at the University of Virginia (UVA, 2019). His research involves the implementations of prototypical methods and advanced manufacturing techniques and focuses on how digital tools offer the possibility of new authorship for today’s architects based on an understanding of culture, materials, and the built environment.

Philip F. Yuan has published more than 10 books on this field, including Building Robotics: Technology, Craft and Methodology (China Architecture & Building Press, 2020), Robotic Force Printing (Tongji UPress, 2019), Collaborative Laboratory (Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers, 2018). His projects have received many international awards, and have been published, exhibited worldwide such as Milan Triennial (2013), Shanghai Biennale (2014), Chicago Biennale (2017), Venice Architectural Biennale (2018), Shenzhen/Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2013, 2019) and have formed parts of several renowned museum collections including Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and M+ Museum in Hong Kong.

WORKS

In Bamboo  © 林边

Light of Internet Expo Center  ©  Schran Images

15:05  Liang Jie

/ Urban Design and Personal Choices

As economic globalization, life urbanization, and design intelligence evolve, two parallel but contradictory trends in people’s living patterns have occurred: on the one hand, an influx of people are migrating into cities; on the other, a reversed cohort is trying to move out of the city centers and stay in suburbs or even villages where they can enjoy more space and a better environment.

Professional practitioners have changed their roles from urban civilization critics to transformers who want to make changes. To this end, as professionals, we must bear in mind the following questions: What kind of urban planning, urban design and policy recommendations should we propose? As individuals, are we willing to live in a city like this? Why do practitioners always push the cities’ development towards the directions they do not favor once they are in power, which brings irreversible intensification or “involution”, leading to the inevitable destiny?

After years of efforts, mainstream economics has successfully developed the theory of urban economics based on the concept of marginal revenue increase. But only after individuals have to bear the implicit costs resulting from the deprivation caused by the marginal revenue increase can they effectively promote the reflection and criticism of ‘urban economics’.

Prof. Liang Jie

Professor, School of Economics, 

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

Liang Jie, Ph.D. in economics at Fudan University, postdoctoral research fellow in Monash University, Australia. Now he is teaching at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He also actively involves various academic intuitions such as inter-Asia school. His main interests include a history of economic thought, economic development, and Indian study. He had published dozens of papers both on domestic journals and international journals. His recent book Lectures on Western Economic Thought was published in 2019.

WORKS

Lectures on Western Economic Thought，2019

15:30  Li Hanwei

/ Liquid Life: Flowing in Images

Taking his Liquid Health series as a starting point, Li Hanwei will review the liquid conceptual graphic design that has gained popularity recently, visual arts that he is increasingly interested in, and the “neo-knockoff” concept that has been created in his works, so as to explore the possibility of establishing an image publicity system that corresponds to China’s current development.

Li Hanwei

New Media Artist

Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in 1994, Li Hanwei graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts in 2018, and currently lives and works in Shanghai. Li’s practice is based on adapting the forms of commercial advertisements and films as metaphors. Through the study of communication methods, the artist uses CG images to establish a worldview in the fictional world where counterfeit of the real world and science-fiction coexist, as a way to present the intersection of contemporary cultural forms and individual identities.

Li Hanwei has participated in exhibitions such as: “Sino-Wharf: from Chinatown to Red Internationalism”, OCAT, Shenzhen, China, 2020; “Recommendations of Institutions”, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen, China, 2020; “Wild Metropolis”, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Advent: Inventing Landscape, Producing the Earth”, Qianshao Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2019; “Extreme Mix”, Guangzhou Airport Biennale, Guangzhou, China, 2019; “The Variable and The Generating”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2019; “Liquid Health”, Goethe Open Space, Shanghai, 2019; “Hunting Cycle”, MadeIn Park, Shanghai, 2018; “Shanghai Hot the Beheaded Six”, Yell Space, Shanghai, 2018; Boundary, SIVA, Shanghai, China; BABEL7, Babelsberger Strasse 52, Berlin, 2018; "Diversity", École Nationale supérieure d'art de Nice – Villa Arson, Nice, 2016.

Li Hanwei also co-operates the online contemporary art space Slime Engine with Liu Shuzhen, Fang Yang and Shan Liang.

WORKS

《Strong Construction-01》2020, C-print  mounted on dibond，150 x 112 cm

《Liquid Health：We Believe in the Power of Civilization》2019, 4K CG, 1h 30 mins