MARS + MORE have invited eight world renowned Chinese and international offices and experts, including OMA, McKinsey and Rockbund Art Museum, to work together on an integrated planning strategy. In live sessions starting tomorrow at BeijingDesign Week the eight proposals will be consolidated into a single future vision that integrates cultural and business management with architectural heritage and virtual technology: the first holistic approach for 798 and Chinese creative clusters at large.
CITY = MUSEUM AT BEIJING DESIGN WEEK
Friday 26 September, Gallery ALL, Beijing 1.30pm, Gallery ALL: 30×30
Consecutive 15-minute strategy presentations by 8 participating teams of architects and experts, including](Consecutive 15-minute strategy presentations by 8 participating teams of architects and experts, including OMA, McKinsey and CAFA | Moujiti.Saturday 27 September, Gallery ALL, Beijing 10am – 5pm: Live session ‘Planning as Relay!’
Clash of Minds…from 240 to 60 ideas in 420 minutes!5pm: Panel discussion ‘‘Planning as Relay!’ This debate will critically examine the viability of the common thread in Dutch collaborative planning projects ‘City = Museum’ and Beijing 2050. Moderated by Christine de Baan.
7pm: Magazine Launch Party! ‘798 and the Creative Cluster Conundrum’: Urban China Magazine no. 67, guest edited byMARS + MORE with photography by WassinkLundgren and Iwan Baan.
Sunday 28 September, UCCA, Beijing 3pm: Symposium CITY = MUSEUM Presentation discussing the holistic strategy for 798, followed by a public debate. Speakers include Inge Goudsmit & Daniel Hui (OMA), Fei Jun (CAFA), Liu Yingjiu (Rockbund Art Museum) and more. Moderated by MARS + MORE.
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