The revitalisation of rural areas has been neglected for a long time not only in China, but also in Europe and worldwide, and has consequently given rise to big socioeconomic and political challenges. Aedes has identified built examples in Songyang (China) that provide fascinating impulses for the discussion regarding the improvement of rural regions also in Europe.
Partners: The People's Government of Songyang County; Songyang Cultural Bureau; Zhejiang Xinhu Foundation
Rural-Urban Transition: Strategies in Diversity
A conversation with the curators of the 2017 UABB - Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen: Cities, Grow in Difference (城市共生) exploring diverse visions and strategies of urban growth to face the challenges of excessive urban expansion and the uniformisation of social life.
Partners: UABB – Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, Hong Kong
The New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’. #2 Different Urbanisations
This second dialogue in the series focusses on the role and limits of import and export of knowledge, technology and urbanisation patterns between different regions of the world, and questions how 'culturally different' the processes of urbanisation are or should be. Partners:Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
The New Urban Agenda ‘on the ground’. #1 Overriding the Urban/Non-Urban Divide
This Lab Talk addresses new approaches that break with the idea of the bounded city in which the urban and the non-urban are opposed, and spaces are classified within an alleged urban-rural continuum. Partners:Katleen De Flander, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam
Mountains / Architecture / Tourism
The European Alps and the Himalayan Mountains have both a great natural beauty and an age-old tradition with their own characteristics. In both locations the questions of sustainability and the smart integration of tourist facilities to best serve the people are urgent issues.
ReTooling the Trades. #1 Region as City
The series’ kick-off Lab Talk explores spatial interdependencies beyond the city and presents the interim results of the Region as City project.
Partners: Leibniz Universität Hannover; Netherlands Embassy in Berlin
Regional City – Local Campus in the Metropolitan Fringe
ANCB and its partners explore the need for new working approaches and tools to understand and support the future of the Region as City. While urban areas receive significant attention, the periphery is often overlooked despite being home to a large population.
Partners: msa Münster School of Architecture; Leibniz Universität Hannover; HafenCity Universität Hamburg; TU Berlin; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, Erkner
