点废成绿 Greening the Beige (GtB) is an eco-minded arts collective and not-for-profit community network dedicated to nurturing awareness of environmental issues. 点废成绿 GtB promotes and celebrates earth friendly artists and organizations in Beijing.
"Why are we being forced to choose between the economy and the environment? We tend to forget that without an environment we would not have an economy, as everything we consume and I mean everything comes from our environment."
~ Franke James (contemporary artist, photographer, writer)
Beijing's landfills are getting full fast! Reduce the "trash" you throw away by purchasing products with minimal packaging. Look for reusable, recyclable, and biodegrable items and remember to carry your reusable shopping bags!
# THE BIG CHANGE
Three projects explore how the city can go GREEN, GRASSROOTS and GENETIC!
Innovative forms of collective engagement, long-term integrated strategies and sheer computer power offer urban sustainability fresh opportunities.
This month's projects introduce incentives and ideas that start to break down the brutal top-down market-driven planning of the contemporary Chinese city.
The goal: a hybrid of large-scale and intricate development, of embedded technology and natural systems, of rigid green boundaries and continuously evolving urban spaces.
# REMINDER: 'URBAN BRAIN' STUDENT COMPETITION
Dear Chinese Design Student, you have 5 more days to enter the most engaging design competition around! Future Cities China invites you to design the campus of tomorrow right in the heart of Beijing. For phase 1 of the competition deliver a poster design with an abstract master plan. Deadline June 30.
Jury: Neville Mars (DCF), Lv Pinjing (CAFA), Hu Dawei (Aoyuan Property Group), Li Hu (Steven Holl Architects), Anna Kwong Sum-Yee (Hong Kong Institute of Architects), Philip Chmielewski (Seaver College of Science and Engineering).
Organized by CIBE, DCF, Bentley Systems.
Register now at http://www.futurecitieschina.com
学生大赛报名提示！
各位中国设计专业学生，您还有5天时间来报名参加最具吸引力的设计大赛！
中国未来城市设计大赛旨在邀请您参与设计位于北京市中心的未来城市脑园区。
竞赛第一阶段需提交一份介绍总体规划的海报。截止日期：6月30日。
立即注册：http://www.futurecitieschina.com
# FROM GENERIC TO GENETIC CITY
Following the exhibition opening 'GENETIC CITY' in the Dutch Culture Centre in Shanghai, DCF will host a day-long forum of 30 leading minds in the field of urban planning.
The exhibition presents the proposal for Caofeidian Ecocity for which DCF invited 10 prominent offices in collaboration. The result is a unique design simulating thirty years of sustainable urban expansion planned in relay, one on top of the other. The city as an accumulation of evolving ideas.
GREEN FROM SCRATCH is a debate responding to the proposals. In an eight hour discussion the forum traces this design process and debates how current policies should be adapted to embrace real urban sustainability.
August 15, 10am-6pm, Dutch Culture Centre, Changde Lu 800.
Details: http://www.adaptation.nu
Register now on the DCF Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=56601815450#/group.php?gid=2223920...
# CONFERENCE DESIGNING THE HYBRID CITY
Todays' cities are no longer limited to the experience of physical spaces. Media technologies influence the way city dwellers organise their everyday life as well as their social interactions. Consequently, cities are now understood as ‘Cybercities’, ‘Sentient Cities’, or ‘Hybrid Cities’. But how do we design for Hybrid Cities and lifestyles?
We invite all professionals involved in the shaping of the 21st-century city to join us on August 16-17th 2010 in Shanghai. Whether you are a city planner, architect, researcher, artist, or interface designer.
Keynotes include: Aaron Tan (Rad), MIT Senseable City Lab, Jack Qiu, Isaac Mao, Caroline Bos (UNStudio), Anne Nigten (The Patching Zone), Christian van 't Hof (Rathenau Institute), Li Zhenhua (Laboratory Art Beijing, Shanghai eArts), XML Architecture and Space&Matter Architects.
BY The MOBILE CITY and Virtueel Platform.
Monday 16 August 2010 - Tuesday 17 August 2010
http://www.adaptation.nu
http://www.themobilecity.nl/adaptation/
