Shenzhen 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture
Project: The Unknown City
Author: Yu Chen, Yufan Xie, Yan Wu
Exhibition Time: 2019.12.22 – 2020.03.08
The project is series of 3d-printing based on fiction “9 City, Millions of Future” by Yan Wu. The fiction discribed a process of returning territory from city to nature, transitting the earth to a planet of nature. After several fascinating and upset seasons, we finally find a proper way of “returning” and ways to compress, transmit and expanding cities on new planets.
Though our story is short, the content is still a complex encyclopedia of urban and architectural space, presenting hundreds of unknown cities and creatures.
The unknown city is inspired by the sci-fi “9 City, Millions of Future”, explored 4 forms of super-city in the future – some are far beyond our phisical world, some dive into the deep earth, or the deep space, some are developed as a symbiotic system inside other creatures.
In our story, when the ending of earth – Crystal Season starts, artifacts of human era begin to shrink, fade and crystalize, and we human will also fade away. But this process is a new birth, instead of death – which creates new realtionship between human and nature, and new forms of city and architecture in new space.
The theme of 2019 UABB is “Urban Interactions”. The team of Chief Curators includes Architect and Director of MIT Senseable City Lab Carlo Ratti, CAE Academician Meng Jianmin, and famous curator and art critic Fabio Cavallucci. Academic Curator is the South China-Torino Lab (Politecnico di Torino – Michele Boino and SCUT – Sun Yimin). The exhibition consists of two sections, namely, “Eyes of the City” and “Ascending City”, which will explore the evolving relationship between urban space and technological innovation from different perspectives.
More than 140 works will be presented by over 280 participants from 24 countries and regions, among them some well-known international and domestic architects, artists and institutes, including MVRDV, Liam Young, Stefano Boeri, Sou Fujimoto, Thomas Heatherwick, Ryoji Ikeda, Google, Wang Shu, Yung-Ho Chang, Dominique Perrault, Philip Yuan, Liu Cixin, Academician Cui Kai, Academician Wang Jianguo, etc. A series of academic seminars and public events will be held during the opening week and throughout the exhibition period, to involve a wide range of visitors.
