Shanghai
international lecture-conference May 26th > 28th 2015 Badoer, aula Tafuri San Polo 2468 Venice, Italy organised by in collaboration with Scuola di Dottorato Istituto Confucio Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, Universitą Ca’ Foscari di Venezia abstract
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Program
Tuesday May 26
16 >
19 Projection of
Street Angel 馬路天使, Mǎlł tiānshǐ, 1937, by Yuan Muzhi
Queen of Sports 体育皇后, Tǐył Huįnghņu,
1934, by Sun Yu.
Wednesday May 27
Opening
9.30 >
9.40 greetings
Alberto Ferlenga, director
of Iuav School of Doctorate Studies >>
9.40 > 10 opening
Matteo Basso, Maria Francesca Piazzoni, Universitą Iuav di Venezia
Introducing
Shanghai, Between Past and Present
10 > 10.30
Shanghai Past and Present: Some Cultural
Reflections
Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong >>
10.30 > 11
Re-envisioning Shanghai: Urban DNA and the
digital lens
Christian Henriot, University
of Lyon >>
11 > 11.30
Shanghaied into the Future: the Asianization of
Future Metropolis in post-Blade Runner Cinema
Marco Ceresa, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice >>
11.30 > 12
Building Shanghai: Transformation of a Modern
City
Xiangning Li, Tongji
University, Shanghai >>
12 > 12.30
Q&A
12.30
> 13.45 Lunch break
Shanghai’s Future, a [Self]portrait
13.45 > 14.10 opening
Margherita Turvani and Maria Chiara Tosi, Universitą Iuav di Venezia
14.10 > 14.40
Commercial Development from Below: A Portrait
of Shanghai Through the Tianzifang Shopping Area,
Xiangming Chen, Trinity
College, Hartford >>
14.40 >
15.10
From Aliens to Neighbours: Foreigners in
Shanghai Society
Laura de Giorgi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice >>
15.10 >
15.40
Urban Regeneration in Shanghai as a Global City
Lan Wang, Tongji
University, Shanghai >>
15.40 > 16
Shanghai through Faces & Traces: the Swatch
Art Peace Hotel experience
Carlo Giordanetti, Swatch Ltd. Bern >>
16 > 16:10
Q&A
16.10
> 16.20 Break
16.20 > 16.40
Conservation, renovation, innovation: ten years
in Shanghai
Pietro Peyron, Kokai Studios, Shanghai
>>
16.40 >17.10
Becoming a Global City in 2050. Reshaping
Shanghai Spatial Structure to Connect People through Scales
Serge Salat, Urban
Morphology Institute, Paris >>
17.10 > 17.40
A Shanghai that never Existed: How Xiao Bai
Reshapes the 1931 Urban Scenario
Paolo Magagnin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice >>
17.40 > 17.50
Q&A
17.50 > 18
Conclusions
Thursday May 28
Graduate Symposium
10 > 10.15 Opening
Matteo Basso, Maria Francesca Piazzoni, Universitą Iuav di Venezia
10.15 > 10.40
Transition and Anxiety: A Case Study on
Historic Spatial Evolution of “the Socialistic Worker`s Village”(社会主义工人新村) in Shanghai
Qiaoqiao Zheng, Tongji
University, Shanghai >>
10.40 >
11.05
Shanghai at a Sustainability Turning Point.
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Assess Urban Sustainability
Angela Moriggi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice >>
11.05 >
11.30
Demystifying Smart City Development in
Shanghai: Fact or Fallacy?
Garfield Wayne Hunter, Tongji
University, Shanghai >>
11.30 > 11.50
Artist in residence in Shanghai: an experience
Claudio Beorchia, Universitą Iuav di Venezia >>
11.50 > 12.15
Shanghai: the narrative construction of a
metropolis
Ludovico Centis, Universitą Iuav di Venezia >>
12.15 >
12.35
Lessons Learnt From the Street: the Case of
Caoyang Village Public Spaces
Alex Pellizzer, Universitą Iuav di Venezia >>
12.35 >
12.45 Q&A
12.45 Lunch
Any
portrait results from a selection process that is operated by the author. A
self-portrait represents a particular case, as the author consciously selects
which components to emphasize when constructing the image of him/herself.
Shanghai, a [Self] Portrait intends to explore how the promotion of Shanghai as
a Global City is constructed by local actors, and how this promotion affects
the city itself.
During the
last three decades, P.R.C. has been competing to perform a dominant role in the
global economy. After forty years of heavy industrialization, Shanghai was
designated to become the symbol of the Chinese re-birth following the Tiananmen
Square events in 1989; by that time the days of glory – when the
“Paris of the West” became a major international trade center after
the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 – seemed far away. Through their declaration
of intents, Deng Xiaoping – on a national scale – and Shanghai
majors Jiang Zemin and Zhu Rongji personified the state desire of making
Shanghai an attractive, cultural, and business hub in both reality and
perception. Especially since the early 2000s, the direct participation of
government and the investment of foreigner capitals allowed Shanghai to become
China’s top corporate headquarters location; the city image playing a key
role in this process, by making globalization visible, experienced, and
purchasable. However, Shanghai reconfiguration did not come without high costs
in terms of social polarization, marginalization of vulnerable populations, and
environmental issues.
What
aspects of Shanghai are emphasized by the local actors, in order to globally
compete for the attraction of capital? What are the narratives through which
the image of Shanghai is branded on both, the international and national
markets? And, how the core topic of these narratives have shifted, depending on
political and economic global and local patterns? The one and a half day
lecture conference will investigate these questions through the lens of one
issue: how nostalgia is constructed and negotiated to enhance the marketization
of Shanghai. The promotion of Shanghai is embedded with the rhetoric on its
colonial past; the production of an authentic pastness in heritage
preservation, the massive construction of Western-like buildings, and the
promotion of cultural events explicitly linking the city to its past being
cases in point. The conference will bring together world-class scholars from
various disciplines (i.e. humanities, social sciences, architecture and
planning), offering a multi perspective portrait of one of the most
controversial cities of contemporary global society.