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Public Lectures "Re-Thinking Shenzhen"
January 18, 2013

INTI organized a series of public lectures on January 18 entitled Rethinking Shenzhen in the Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau to discuss the urban challenges of Shenzhen and the first results of New New Towns.

Huang Weiwen (Director Shenzhen Center for Design), Juan Du (Director of Master of Architecture Program and Assistant Professor – Hong Kong University) and Mary Ann O’Donnell (Shenzhen Based Ethnographer) gave lectures about their long-term research on the planning history of Shenzhen. Ronald Wall (Economic Geographer – Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies) presented the first outcome of his research on the local, regional and global Investment networks of Shenzhen. Furthermore, Qu Lei (Researcher, Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy – Delft University of Technology) and Tat Lam (Director Urbanus Research Bureau) gave short presentations about the objectives and first proposals done by the students from the Delft University of Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong on the three research sites in Shenzhen.

A conference to conclude the first year of New New Towns in Shenzhen will take place on June 21 in the Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau.

The public lectures were generously supported by the City of Almere and OCT LOFT.

Date public lectures: January 18, 2013
Location: Shenzhen Urban Planning Bureau, Shenzhen
program:

14.10 – 14.20: Word of Welcome by Wang Youpeng (Deputy Secretary General of the Shenzhen Municipal Government)
14.20 – 14.30: Word of Welcome Michelle Provoost (Director International New Town Institute)
14.30 – 14.40: Introduction Linda Vlassenrood (Program Director New New Towns)

Moderator: Linda Vlassenrood

Rethinking Shenzhen

14.40 – 15.10: Huang Weiwen (Director Shenzhen Center for Design)
The Possibilities of Alternative City Making
15.10 – 15.20: Intermezzo: Statement Design Workshop Guangming New Town
15.20 – 15.50: Juan Du (Director of Master of Architecture Program and Assistant Professor – Hong Kong University)
Shenzhen: One Thousand Years of an "Instant City"
15.50 – 16.00: Intermezzo: Statement Tat Lam (Director Urbanus Research Bureau)
Design Studio Chinese University Hong Kong
16.00 – 16.15: Coffee break
16.15 – 16.45: Mary Ann O’Donnell (Shenzhen Based Ethnographer)
Repairing Modernity – Utopian Discourse in and around Shenzhen
16.45 – 16.55: Intermezzo: Statement Qu Lei (Researcher, Chair of Spatial Planning and Strategy – Delft University of Technology)
Design Studio Delft University of Technology
16.55 – 17.25: Ronald Wall (Economic Geographer – Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies)
Local, Regional and Global Investment Networks of Shenzhen
17.25 – 18.00: Summary / Discussion moderated by Huang Weiwen