2015 UABB Crash.Course: Aformal Academy - RE:Learning The City

To all interested in learning,

We would like to invite you to participate in 2015 UABB, as a member of the Crash.Course: Aformal Academy - RE:Learning The City. Join us, and come to Shenzhen for a 9-day intensive and interactive learning experience.

This is not a masterclass, but a collection of classes for one to master. This week-long intensive layered workshop will span the UABB Shenzhen and Hong Kong official openings and form the 9-day RE:Learning the City – Crash.Course. Participants will attend the lectures of, study with, and mingle with the exhibitors, international visitors, and local experts.

Guided and focused studies will be led by Mimi Zeiger, Sarah Green from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Marina Otero Verzier, and Liam Young on issues including architectural criticism in the information age, contemporary craftsmanship and emerging technologies, notions of floating population, identity and belonging, and the rethinking of the object within spatial design practice.

We invite students to apply to join in the Crash.Course. We will provide free workshop space within the UABB site in Shenzhen, supplies, links to local experts/topics, interaction with local students/schools, assistance with finding accommodation, and the opportunity to have your works exhibited at the 2015 UABB exhibition. Your work may also become part of the Aformal.Academy publication.

Please apply to be a part of the Crash.Course: Aformal Academy - RE:Learning The City at:
aformalacademy@szhkbiennale.org

Please include an expression of interest letter [no more than one page pdf], your CV [no more than one page pdf], and a portfolio [not more than 10 mb - pdf].

There is no fee to participate, but basic costs [flights, accommodation, etc.] will NOT be covered.

Applications are due November 13, 2015.

Background information:

RE:Learning
The notion of learning, like our comprehension of cities, is undergoing a massive transition. As opposed to the classical top-down, checking-boxes, fixed-systems, we need to REread and REform the process of acquiring knowledge. Often people’s defining educational moments are intense and dynamic moments or experiences at places out of the norm such as the “classroom” and the “school”. RELearning is a spatial and co-creational knowledge exchange, where professors, foreign and local students, lecturers, local craftsmen, in-town guests, local researchers, exhibitors, and citizens crash together in a free flowing information exchange, creating a process of multi-layered learning across disciplines for all.

Aformal Academy
The academy will start by questioning everything. We will REthink the object as the core manner of perceiving architecture and urbanism. It seeks frameworks that enhance the REinterpretation of buildings, the REmaking of our cities, and the REimagination of our daily lives. In the largest metropolitan region in the world, amongst some of the newest and oldest cities, in an area with an ongoing legacy of east/west co-engaging, we will learn by operating within an adapting building, on a transforming city, and amongst an ongoing Biennale. The Aformal Academy is not merely a series of educational workshops parallel to the Biennale; it is a hybrid of learning by making, exhibition, and social space; at once the public at large with the evolving library of provocations and spatial archive of explorations.

The curators of the Aformal Academy – RE:Learning The City are:

Jason Hilgefort is an urbanist/architect. He studied at the University of British Columbia and the University of Cincinnati. He has worked in New York, Rotterdam and Bombay. He has won Europan11-Vienna, and is part of the Future Urban Research group in the Netherlands. He has published in The Architecture of Knowledge and is regular contributor to Uncube.

Merve Bedir is an architect/researcher. She is a PhD candidate at TU Delft. She curated One Architecture Week, Vocabulary of Hospitality and produced the documentary film Agoraphobia. She is currently involved in the production of Bostan: A Refugee Garden+Community Kitchen. She has worked with the Netherlands Architecture Institute, INTI, Studio X Istanbul, EPFL, Archis, the African Centre for Cities, and has written for Volume, MONU, Failed Architecture, Zivot among other publications.

Jason and Merve are partners at Land+Civilization Compositions, a Rotterdam/Istanbul/Shenzhen based studio exploring issues at the ever expanding edge of urbanism that views city creation as an art.forum.

Aformal Academy – RE:Learning The City is curated in cooperation with Ljubo Georgiev and Hristo Stankushev.

If you and your school are interested, please apply to be part of the Crash.Course: Aformal.Academy at 2015 UABB in Shenzhen.

About UABB School
UABB School is an important education platform. UABB School will offer a range of courses and activities to the public during the preopening and exhibition period. During the exhibition period, the UABB School will publicly recruit programs and invite lecturers to plan a series of courses and events for the public. Aformal Academy: RE:Learning the City is a part of UABB School.

About UABB
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) is currently the only biennial exhibition in the world to be based exclusively on the set themes of urbanism and urbanization. Co-organized by the two neighboring and closely interacting cities of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, UABB situates itself within the regional context of the rapidly urbanizing Pearl River Delta, concerns itself with globally common urban issues, extensively communicates and interacts with the wider public, is presented using expressions of contemporary visual culture, and engages international, avant-garde dimensions as well as discourses of public interest. UABB is a forward-thinking biennale that focuses on the conceptual issues on urbanism and architecture. With around 770 exhibits and 310 activities since the biennale launched in 2005, UABB has attracted over 860,000 visitors worldwide. The past five editions of UABB(SZ) have investigated a range of themes including ‘Urban Village & Spontaneous City’, ‘City of Expiration and Regeneration’, ‘Public Space’, ‘Urban-rural Relationship and Agriculture’, and ‘Border/Edge’. The research, ideas and discussions have made a significant impact on the global discourse on architecture and urbanism as well as on Shenzhen, a “Vanguard” city.

Write to: aformalacademy@szhkbiennale.org
http://en.szhkbiennale.org/Uabb/

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