Across Chinese Cities. The Community: The Objects, Spaces and Rituals of the Collective

Beatrice Leanza, Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics, Territory and mobility

Architect’s role, Biennale, Built environment, China, Collective city, Collective identity, Contemporary society, Cultural agitator, Developing policies, development, Economy, Essay, Future development, Methodology, Programmatic coexistences, Society

Collateral Event of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia.
Texts by Beatrice Leanza, curator.

This third chapter of the Across Chinese Cities program is a continued exploration of the rapport between the built environment and socio-economic processes of change in the contemporary Chinese context. Across Chinese Cities – The Community explores approaches to planning linked to the development of ‘communities’ as mechanisms that create new systems of social, economic and spatial belonging. The exhibition offers an unprecedented look at over twenty case studies that draw upon the ‘’emancipating potentialities of commoning’’ (Stavros Stavrides, The City as Commons) through integrated design strategies which embody new notions of collective identity and thus novel interrelated norms of co-dependence, participation and inclusivity.