With: Neville Mars / Liu Xiaodu / David Gianotten / Michelle Provoost, & others. The ecocity is now firmly on the agenda the world over, yet for those regions where new cities are actually being built no viable model for its design seems to exist. In aggressive market environments in countries like China, current models fail to deliver both speed and flexibility. At the same time, these environments preeminently offer the laboratory conditions in which new ecocities have a chance to be developed and tested.
GREEN FROM SCRATCH 2
The ecocity is now firmly on the agenda the world over, yet for those regions where new cities are actually being built no viable model for its design seems to exist. In aggressive market environments in countries like China, current models fail to deliver both speed and flexibility. At the same time, these environments offer the laboratory conditions in which new ecocities have a chance to be developed and tested. In the forum ’Green From Scratch 2’ Chinese and Dutch architects and theorists discuss the contradictions between the fragmented conditions and short-cycle investment climate and the long-term integrated visions needed for urban sustainability. Time-based planning methods seem to offer hope to unlock a whole range of problems currently hampering progress in eco-planning.
NAi, 1 July 2011
The newly opened Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam will host part 2 of the DCF’s Chinese-Dutch twin forum Green From Scratch, which will focus on the challenges planners face putting green ambitions into practice. Three Chinese case studies by Dutch teams will introduce the different aspects of integrated, context specific and ecological planning that can be achieved through a time-based planning approach.
The event will follow the trademark DCF format of dynamic presentations, panel discussions and public debate of Green From Scratch I, and will bring together speakers from China, Hong Kong and Europe. Co-organized by DCF / INTI / NAi.
19:00 Welcome by Ole Bouman (NAI), Michelle Provoost (INTI), Neville Mars (DCF)
Case I: West Kowloon Cultural District
19:15 Presentation by David Gianotten (OMA)
19:25 Debate on socio?cultural integration
20:05 Break. Drinks
Case II: Genetic City Caofeidian
20:20 Presentation by Neville Mars (DCF),
20:30 Debate on evolutionary planning
Case III: Shenzhen Longgang Dutch?Sino Ecocity
21:10 Presentation by Margot Weijnen (NGI)
22:20 Debate on ecocities as a platform for broad societal progress in China
22:00 End. Drinks
Moderated by: Neville Mars (DCF) and Michelle Provoost (INTI)
REGISTER NOW at www.nai.nl/inschrijven
Speakers/ Panelists
Wang Hui, Liu Xiaodu and Meng Yan (URBANUS), David
Ginanotten (OMA), Paul Kroese (MVRD and T?F), Egbert Stolk (TU Delft), Kistrian Koreman and Elma van Boxel (ZUS), Margot Weijnen (NGI), Deborah Hauptmann (TU Delft), Wouter Vanstiphout (TU Delft, Crimson Architectural Historians), Barend Koolhaas, Su Yunsheng (Tongji Urban Planning & Design Research Institute), Alain Fouraux (Nervecorp), Thorsten Schuetze (TU Delft), Yusen Chen (TNO), Neville Mars (MARS Architects).
Movies, pictures, stories GREEN FROM SCRATCH 1 here:
http://burb.tv/view/B.A.R.C._-_Greening_the_Metropolis
