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Chinese Triptych. The Generic, the Network and the Green New Town
8 April - 18 June 2011
Exhibition at CASLa, Almere

INTI organizes in collaboration with CASLa: ’Chinese Triptych. The Generic, the Network and the Green New Town’.

The era when Europe had its heyday of demographic growth and industrialization and subsequently built dozen of new cities is over. Nowadays we find the economic power has shifted towards the east and it is there that New Towns spring up, especially in China.

But as much as the Chinese city is in the focus of our attention, it’s amazing to see how little we actually know about the Chinese city. Of course, the pictures of Chinese cities with their bustling street life and frantic vitality are published everywhere, and the western visitor stands in awe, if somewhat bewildered. But how do these cities come into being? How are they designed? What is the contemporary Chinese city really like?

For this exhibition, three Dutch offices (Go West, Dynamic City Foundation and Urban Language) were invited by INTI & Casla. They have all three emerged themselves completely in Chinese reality, inhabiting, studying, analyzing and commenting on Chinese cities, and also proposing alternative ways of working and planning. Their research and designs show clearly how there is no such thing as The Chinese New Town; different models exist next to each other and the development of new cities is dynamic. New insights, critique on existing practices and new ambitions in the field of sustainability shape the future Chinese City. In the exhibition the underlying principles of the present-day generation of New Towns will be unraveled; in addition to that also the future generation of New Towns is being addressed by design proposals for a future green city.



The exhibition can been seen from April 8 until June 18 at the Center for Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Almere (CASLa)
Weerwaterplein 3, 1324 EE Almere.
Opening times: Tuesday- Saturday 12.00-17.00

Programme:
 welcome by Ans van Berkum, Director CASLa
 introduction by Michelle Provoost, Director INTI
 explanation by Daan Roggeveen (Go West Project), Harry den Hartog (Urban Language) and Neville Mars (Dynamic City Foundation)
 official opening by Ben Scholten, Alderman Economy of Almere