3 December: Double Rural Book Launch
Tuesday, 3 December we’re hosting the last event in our lecture series ‘Down to Earth’. We’re excited to finish the series with the launch of two (!) books with a focus on …
23 November: Seminar Excessive Urbanism
EXCESSIVE URBANISM Seminar, launch party of Scapegoat Magazine Saturday, 23 November 2013, 3pm HKU/Shanghai Study Centre Cities have become an extremely hostile environment to live in. Permanent urban transformation, pollution and a …
11 November: Lecture Huang Yinwu
Huang Yinwu graduated from the Department of Architecture of Southeast University in 1996. He later studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and the University of Hong Kong. He worked …
4 November: Lecture Wen Tiejun
Professor Wen Tiejun (Beijing, 1951) is a renowned expert on social-economic sustainable development and rural issues. Professor Wen serves as the Executive Dean at the Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability …
28 October: Lecture David Li
David Li has been contributing to open source since 1990. He is member of Free Software Foundation, committer to Apache projects and board of director of ObjectWeb. In the past 20 years, …
21 October: Lecture Huang Sheng-Yuan, Fieldoffice
Huang Sheng-Yuan (Taipei, Taiwan, 1963) graduated from Tunghai University Dept. of Architecture and received his M. Arch. with Honors from Yale University. In 1994 he settled down in Yilan, where he founded …
Lecture series ‘Down to Earth’
Until 1978, China was a rural society. With China quickly urbanizing, its urban rural balance has radically altered. The country has transformed into an urban society, with farmers moving into skyscrapers at …