China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms: Call for Contributions

15 June 2009
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Submissions accepted until August 30, 2009.



China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms: Call for Contributions


China Lab invites contributors to join us in collectively exploring the phenomenon of large-scale development in China and beyond. Superblocks are the basic unit of China’s urban development, but they are also spatial instruments with social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications, operating between the scales of architecture and the city. These redefined ‘Megablocks’ then become laboratories for the consequences, opportunities, and potential global proliferation of Chinese urban models, reconsidered through the filters of ecology, economics, and ethics. In the bi-lingual Guide to Megablock Urbanisms, China Lab aims to document and advance a wider conversation on the policies and collective experiences of large- scale development that are shaping China’s urban future.


The publication will include a collection of different media, and we welcome representationally and descriptively creative contributions.


SHORT ESSAYS directed at a particular question, manifestos, or personal perspectives.


ARTICLES with in-depth exploration of related topics (historical context, urbanism/planning, environment, society/culture/ethics, economy/real estate/policy, design and practice, architectural critique, and exportation/models outside China) (3000 words or less).


PROJECT DOCUMENTATION of realized or speculative works, from superblock projects to critiques of architectural scale, networks and systems, or urban strategy.


VISUALIZATIONS including photography, mapping, and statistical contexts.


Submissions due: August 30, 2009. Submissions may be edited for content and format. E-mail a brief description of the proposed contribution to info@china-lab.org.


SUPPORTED BY:
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts




中国实验室指南
超级街区城市主义
征集稿件启示


中国实验室诚邀社会各界人士与我们一起探讨有关中国的大型城市发展项目及其背后的意义。


“ 超级街区”是中国现代城市的基本单位。它是一种特定的城市空间载体，在社会，环境，文化及经济层面上都有着特殊的含义。其系统在建筑尺度和城市尺度之间运作。如果我们重新审视过往对环境、经济及道德的理解，并视“超级街区”这一概念为“实验室”，这将助我们进一步研究中国城市模型的价值、未来的机会和其概念蔓延的可能性。


在这本双语发行的“超级城区指南”中，我们旨在发起及记录有关对中国大型城市发展这一课题—包括在社会制度或日常生活等层面上—的讨论与对话。


我们不仅欢迎作品运用不同的传统媒体，更鼓励作者创新。
随笔: 针对某些城市现所提出的问题、宣言、或个人观点。
论文: 对相关题目的深入探讨 (6000字以下)。
(题目: 从新定义超级城区, 历史考究, 城市主义及规划, 环境, 社会及道德,
经济及房地产发展, 设计及操作, 建筑批评, "出口" 超级城区)
项目: 包括已建成项目、实验性项目、街区设计、建筑尺度设计、城市网络设计、系统和发展策略设计等等。
图像表达方式: 包括摄影相片、地图绘制、统计图表等。


请把作品的计划书电邮到 info@china-lab.org. 截至日期: 二○○九年八月三十日。稿件的内容和版式可编辑。


项目赞助:
哥伦比亚大学建筑，规划及历史保护研究院
哥伦比亚大学Weatherhead东亚学院　
格拉汉姆基金会(高级艺术研究)