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Biennale announces curators
    2018-10-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE Organizing Committee of the Bi-City Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture (UABB) (Shenzhen) has announced the chief curators for the 2019 event: Carlo Ratti, architect and director of MIT Senseable City Lab, CAE Academician Meng Jianmin and famous curator and art critic Fabio Cavallucci.

In addition to the three chief curators, the South China-Torino Collaboration Lab, a joint research center of Politecnico di Torino and South China University of Technology led by Sun Yimin and Michele Bonino, will join as academic curators.

The Science and Human Imagination Research Center of Southern University of Science and Technology led by Wu Yan and the Politecnico di Milano led by Adalberto del Bo, vice dean of the School of Architecture, will take part in the curatorial team as co-curators.

Since March 2018 when the call for curators of 2019 UABB (Shenzhen) was launched, the organizing committee has received dozens of excellent proposals from home and abroad. After careful deliberation, the organizing committee and the academic committee finalized the chief curators. Integrating top performers from such fields as urbanism, architecture, technology, contemporary art and science fiction, the curatorial team of 2019 UABB (Shenzhen) represents a remarkable cross-disciplinary combination that aims to present a highly pioneering, creative and inspiring biennale.

Ratti’s MIT Senseable City Lab explores new technologies’ impact on global urban life and design. He is also a founding partner of the world’s leading international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. He visited the first UABB (Shenzhen) in 2005 at the invitation of then curator Yung Ho Chung and has been following the biennale ever since.

Chinese architectural design master Meng is a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and chief architect at the Shenzhen General Institute of Architectural Design and Research Co. He is also one of the initiators of the first UABB (Shenzhen) and has served several times on the academic committee.

Cavallucci, one of the most important contemporary art critics and curators worldwide, has directed multiple European contemporary art centers and coordinated such world-renowned biennales as the European Biennial of Contemporary Art (Manifesta). He holds a keen interest in Shenzhen and the Pearl River Delta region for many years.

The theme of 2019 UABB (Shenzhen) is “Urban Space + Technological Innovation.” Shenzhen’s unique geopolitical status, rapid urbanization process and excellence in technological innovation have made it one of the most ideal carriers for discussing such topics as city, technology and future. 2019 UABB (Shenzhen) will explore the new phenomena brought about by digital revolution that has unfolded parallel with the urbanization process and directly confront the most relevant issues facing today’s cities.

During the biennale, thinkers and practitioners from different cultural fields and different disciplinary backgrounds such as architects, planners, artists, writers, philosophers and sociologists will meet for brainstorming and produce multi-perspective and brand-new creative works. It is tentatively decided that Liu Cixin, the famous science fiction writer and the author of “The Three-Body Problem,” and Wlodek Goldkorn, Polish journalist and writer, will act as special academic advisers and create original works for the biennale, and that China’s important contemporary artist Cai Guoqiang will also present a tailored work for 2019 UABB (Shenzhen).

UABB (Shenzhen) has made itself a global open platform of the Pearl River Delta for innovation and a popular cultural event for the general public. The eighth UABB (Shenzhen) will open in December 2019. Such details as the theme, venue and exhibition period will be announced in early 2019. (SD News)

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