EVENTS AND PROJECTS
YALE-CHINA/BUILDING BRIDGES SERVICE TRIP 2013
Organizers/Project Team: Yale Building Bridges, Yali High School, Yale-China Teaching Fellows
Local Collaborator: Shuyang No. 3 Middle School
Project Duration: March 2013
Project link: www.bb-usc.org
Summary: Students from Yale University, Yale-China Teaching Fellows based in Changsha, and their students from Yali High School traveled to the tulou to teach at the nearby Shuyang No. 3 Middle School as guest English instructors. For a week, they infused vocabulary into songs, dances, and games, and shared stories with the students in Shuyang. Outside of the classroom, they learned about the history of Qingxing Lou and the development of the tulou in urban settings.
MUENSTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDY VISIT
Organizer: URB (Urbanus Research Bureau)
Course link: Urban Prototype, Prototypical City
Project Duration: September 2012
Summary: A group of students from the School of Architecture in Munster (Germany) spent two days of visits in Fujian staying based at Qingxing Lou.They were in Shenzhen for a week of fieldwork within the context of the design course “urban prototype, prototypical city”. URB organized lectures, visits in the city, and an optional trip to the Fujian Tulou with the support of Friends of Tulou.
TULOU OPEN HOUSE 2012
Host: Friends of Tulou
Organizers: New Territories Studio, URB (Urbanus Research Bureau), Studio Yao Yao
Artists/Researchers-in-Residence: URB; HomeShop; Gao Ling, He Yida, TRYTOBEGOOD, Michael Leibenluft/Christopher Adams (Down to the Earth documentary theater project)
Project Duration: June 2012
Project link: tulouopenhouse.tumblr.com
Summary: The Tulou Open House Project is a site-specific creative experiment, collective residency, and cultural conference held at Qingxing Lou in June 2012. During this open-ended “expedition,” a diverse group of ~80 artists and scholars from around China explore the tulou in a number of modes that reflect its multi-faceted structure and history. In this project, the tulou is reconceived as a hub for research, a studio for creative practice, a context for interdisciplinary exchange, and a platform for an expansive dialogue about the nature of space, community, and change in contemporary China.
TULOU: TRADITIONAL AND URBAN
Project Team: Urbanus Research Bureau, Anna Laura Govoni, Cristina Peraino, Chris Gee, Na Fu
With Support From: DE.MO./MOVIN’UP PROJECT programme founded by the General Direction for landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary arts - Ministry for Assets and Cultural Activities and GAI – Association of the Circuit of Young Italian Artists for the video project, "Future Tulou: A Vision of Territoriam System in Pearl River Delta" by Anna Laura Govoni and Cristina Peraino with Urbanus Research Bureau of Urbanus Architecture & Design, Shenzhen.
Summary: The Tulou research project takes this building typology as a case for investigating community growth and the implications of design and space for communities. URB (=Researchers) has documented both the Urban Tulou and the traditional Fujian Tulou (using Qingxing Lou as a case study), with particular attention to the community’s uses of common areas and the networks that develop within the communities themselves.
FUJIAN TULOUS AND LOMBARDY FARMHOUSES
Project Team: Serena Mignani, Imago Orbis
Project Duration: Summer 2012-ongoing
Summary: Documentary film project based between China and Italy on traditional rural housing typology.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SUMMER FIELD STUDIO
Host: Ruoxi Zhang, Friends of Tulou (Fujian portion of studio)
Lead Instructor: Dan Abramson, University of Washington, College of Built Environments
Sponsors: CollinsWoerman, Zhangzhou Municipal Government
Project Duration: Summer 2011
Project link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/abramson/20566/126977
Summary: The UW summer studio (China Village Studio) stayed at Qingxing Lou for 3 weeks for research. Studio aims: Discover the inherently resilient qualities of traditional villages in China. Assist two villages in China to develop practical uses and designs for preservation and adaptation of vernacular buildings and cultural landscapes facing neglect in the process of migration and urbanization in Chinese society as a whole. These may include, among other strategies: living museums; weekend retreats; lineage-based activity centers; qiaoxiang (hometowns of overseas Chinese emigrants) village cultural and ecological education; ex-urban getaways; agritourism, "voluntourism" and other forms of low-impact tourism; etc. A larger objective is to develop new forms of translocal and transnational community participation in cultural heritage preservation, and new strategies for culturally and ecologically sustainable urban-rural integration and Socialist New Village Construction.
Organizers/Project Team: Yale Building Bridges, Yali High School, Yale-China Teaching Fellows
Local Collaborator: Shuyang No. 3 Middle School
Project Duration: March 2013
Project link: www.bb-usc.org
Summary: Students from Yale University, Yale-China Teaching Fellows based in Changsha, and their students from Yali High School traveled to the tulou to teach at the nearby Shuyang No. 3 Middle School as guest English instructors. For a week, they infused vocabulary into songs, dances, and games, and shared stories with the students in Shuyang. Outside of the classroom, they learned about the history of Qingxing Lou and the development of the tulou in urban settings.
MUENSTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE STUDY VISIT
Organizer: URB (Urbanus Research Bureau)
Course link: Urban Prototype, Prototypical City
Project Duration: September 2012
Summary: A group of students from the School of Architecture in Munster (Germany) spent two days of visits in Fujian staying based at Qingxing Lou.They were in Shenzhen for a week of fieldwork within the context of the design course “urban prototype, prototypical city”. URB organized lectures, visits in the city, and an optional trip to the Fujian Tulou with the support of Friends of Tulou.
TULOU OPEN HOUSE 2012
Host: Friends of Tulou
Organizers: New Territories Studio, URB (Urbanus Research Bureau), Studio Yao Yao
Artists/Researchers-in-Residence: URB; HomeShop; Gao Ling, He Yida, TRYTOBEGOOD, Michael Leibenluft/Christopher Adams (Down to the Earth documentary theater project)
Project Duration: June 2012
Project link: tulouopenhouse.tumblr.com
Summary: The Tulou Open House Project is a site-specific creative experiment, collective residency, and cultural conference held at Qingxing Lou in June 2012. During this open-ended “expedition,” a diverse group of ~80 artists and scholars from around China explore the tulou in a number of modes that reflect its multi-faceted structure and history. In this project, the tulou is reconceived as a hub for research, a studio for creative practice, a context for interdisciplinary exchange, and a platform for an expansive dialogue about the nature of space, community, and change in contemporary China.
TULOU: TRADITIONAL AND URBAN
Project Team: Urbanus Research Bureau, Anna Laura Govoni, Cristina Peraino, Chris Gee, Na Fu
With Support From: DE.MO./MOVIN’UP PROJECT programme founded by the General Direction for landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary arts - Ministry for Assets and Cultural Activities and GAI – Association of the Circuit of Young Italian Artists for the video project, "Future Tulou: A Vision of Territoriam System in Pearl River Delta" by Anna Laura Govoni and Cristina Peraino with Urbanus Research Bureau of Urbanus Architecture & Design, Shenzhen.
Summary: The Tulou research project takes this building typology as a case for investigating community growth and the implications of design and space for communities. URB (=Researchers) has documented both the Urban Tulou and the traditional Fujian Tulou (using Qingxing Lou as a case study), with particular attention to the community’s uses of common areas and the networks that develop within the communities themselves.
FUJIAN TULOUS AND LOMBARDY FARMHOUSES
Project Team: Serena Mignani, Imago Orbis
Project Duration: Summer 2012-ongoing
Summary: Documentary film project based between China and Italy on traditional rural housing typology.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SUMMER FIELD STUDIO
Host: Ruoxi Zhang, Friends of Tulou (Fujian portion of studio)
Lead Instructor: Dan Abramson, University of Washington, College of Built Environments
Sponsors: CollinsWoerman, Zhangzhou Municipal Government
Project Duration: Summer 2011
Project link: https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/abramson/20566/126977
Summary: The UW summer studio (China Village Studio) stayed at Qingxing Lou for 3 weeks for research. Studio aims: Discover the inherently resilient qualities of traditional villages in China. Assist two villages in China to develop practical uses and designs for preservation and adaptation of vernacular buildings and cultural landscapes facing neglect in the process of migration and urbanization in Chinese society as a whole. These may include, among other strategies: living museums; weekend retreats; lineage-based activity centers; qiaoxiang (hometowns of overseas Chinese emigrants) village cultural and ecological education; ex-urban getaways; agritourism, "voluntourism" and other forms of low-impact tourism; etc. A larger objective is to develop new forms of translocal and transnational community participation in cultural heritage preservation, and new strategies for culturally and ecologically sustainable urban-rural integration and Socialist New Village Construction.